Connecting on VHF
Suppose you want to connect to KA5ZTX, a station monitored on VHF. First, be sure you
have the KAM Plus in Command mode. To do this, type a CONTROL-C and press return.
You should see a command prompt (cmd:). Since this station was monitored on VHF, you must
make sure your KAM Plus is ready to transmit packet on VHF. Type the vertical bar ( I ) and
then the letter "an. This will set the KAM Plus to transmit on the A stream of the VHF port.
Now use the CONNECT command to start the connection.
'Th connect to KA5ZTX, simply type
CONNECT KA5ZTX and press return, just as you did in the sample connect to your mailbox.
In some cases you may need to use a relay station, called a digipeater, to contact another
station. This is similar to using a voice repeater when the station you want to talk to is out of
simplex range. To connect to a station using digipeaters, you still use the CONNECT command,
but you must also specify the callsigns (or aliases) of the digipeaters that must be used. For
instance, if you need to use two digipeaters with Callsigns ofW0XI and WD0EMR in order to
connect to KA5ZTX, you enter the connect command as:
CONNECT KA5ZTX VIA W0XI,WD0EMR
Once the connection has been made, you'll receive a message back on your screen from the
KAM Plus that says
*** CONNECTED to KA5ZTX (or *** CONNECTED to KA5ZTX via
W0XI,WD0EMR). At that point, you are ready to start talking to the other station since
the KAM Plus automatically switched into the Convers mode.
After you have completed your conversation, simply press CONTROL-C to return your RAM
Plus to the Command mode (cmd: appears) and then instruct your RAM Plus to disconnect
as you did above with the mailbox.
Connecting on HF
Ifthe station you want to connect to is on HF (indicated by the IH in the monitored data) you
must first switch your KAM Plus to transmit on HF packet. To do this, type the tilde character
(-) and then the letter "an. This sets the KAM Plus to transmit packet on the A stream ofthe
HF port. Once this is done, you would then connect just as you did above, using the CONNECT
command. Normally it is not necessary to use digipeaters on HF. After the conversation, you
disconnect exactly as you did above.
Note that the vertical bar
(I) and the tilde (-) are the streamswitch characters defined in the
RAM Plus, with the vertical bar indicating VHF and the tilde indicating HF. You switch back
and forth between the two by simply typing the streamswitch character followed by the letter
of the stream you want to use. The KAM Plus defaults to ten (10) streams for HF and ten for
VHF, identified by the letters A-J.
Operating Modes other than Packet
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This section of the manual describes how to use the KAM Plus to operate in the non-packet
modes. All ofthese modes use the HF connector on the back of your RAM Plus, and therefore
will normally be used with your HF radio. It is NOT necessary to streamswitch to the HF port
(see above) when selecting these modes, as the RAM Plus automatically selects the HF port
when you enter a non-packet mode.
To operate a non-packet mode, you must first be sure the KAM Plus is in the Command mode.
Type CONTROL-C and then return. You will see the command prompt (cmd:) and you can now
enter the command for the mode you wish to operate.
KAM Plus April 15, 1993
© Copyright 1993, Kantronics Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Duplication of this manual or the firmware without permission of Kantronics Co., Inc. is prohibited.
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