PK-232 – MBX OPERATING MANUAL COMMAND SUMMARY
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The following special Morse characters are available as receive only and are used in non-English
Morse alphabets.
Morse Receive
---- ch
-·-·· c
·-··- e
--··- z
--·-- ñ
In response to requests from European customers, the "national' ITA#2 characters unassigned in
the US have been made available for both transmission and reception. FIGS-F, FIGS-G and FIGS-H
have been assigned characters according to standard use and are shown below. Note that some
national alphabets use these characters for accented letters not appearing in English.
Baudot ITA #2 U.S.
Character CODE 0 CODE 1
FIGS-F ! !
FIGS-G } &
FIGS-H } #
3rd-Q q
CODE 1: US Teleprinter
In Morse, this has no effect; the unit will use the International Morse Code and NOT the American
Morse code. In Baudot and AMTOR, the US teleprinter character set shown below is used. Users of
CODE I should be aware of the following:
The US teleprinter code (CODE 1) makes the "1", "$", "," and "#" characters available in Baudot
and AMTOR. The WRU character, "=" and the "+" characters are lost when CODE is set to 1. Since
there is no "+" character in the CODE 1 character set there should be no way to turn over the AM-
TOR link and change from ISS to the IRS. To avoid this problem, the PK-232 sends a FIGS-Z when
the "+" key is pressed in AMTOR and responds to the reception of the "FIGS-Z" "?" sequence so
the direction of traffic can be reversed.
US Teleprinter character set.
LOWER CASE SET UPPER CASE SET
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - ! # $ & ( )
Q W E R T Y U I 0 P Q W E R T Y U I 0 P
A S D F G H J K L ; ' A S D F G H J K L : '
Z X C V B N M ' . / Z X C V B N M , . ?
The differences between ITA 02 and US teleprinter codes are listed below:
Baudot ITA #2 U.S.
Character CODE 0 CODE 1
FIGS-D WRU $
FIGS-F | !
FIGS-G { &
FIGS-H } #
FIGS-I BELL '
FIGS-S ' BELL
FIGS-V = ;
FIGS-Z + "
3rd-Q q
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