Motorola MICOM-2ES/2RS/2TS ALE manual Address and Call Types, Individual Station Address

New ALE Features

In the following sections, “A,” “B,” “C” or “D” indicates any alphanumeric character other than “@” or “?”.

Note

MICOM 2 has the capacity to store and use 100 addresses of up to 15 characters each. MICOM 2 will reject addresses longer than 15 characters, and will notify you with an UFA WRONG message.

Address and Call Types

ALE stations, including the MICOM 2, have the capability and flexibility to link with one or many prearranged or as-needed single or multiple stations. There are three general addressing methods:

•Individual station addressing

•Multiple stations addressing, for example, net and group

•Special addressing modes, for example, AllCall, AnyCall, etc.

The following sections explain the addressing modes and how they can be used for various purposes.

Individual Station Address

The individual station address may contain 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 words. To enable using addresses that are not an integer multiple of 3 characters (for example, an address consisting of 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, …, etc. characters), stuffing can be used: with stuffing, the last address word includes one or two stuffing symbols in the last position(s) (see the “stuff-1” and “stuff-2” patterns in Table 1).

The wildcard symbol cannot be included in an individual station address, nor in a call request to an individual station.

	Table 1. Use of “@” Stuffing Symbol
Pattern	Interpretation
A B C	“Standard” 3-character address word, shown here for reference. Only the station
	with this address stops scanning and responds
A B @	“Stuff-1” reduced address field, used to add characters “A, B” at the end of the
	address
A @ @	“Stuff-2” reduced address field, used to add character “A” at the end of
	the address

@? @ “AllCall” global address (see also Table 2): all the stations stop and listen (unless this function is inhibited)

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