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7.3 Preparing Programs for Automatic Message
Transmission

This section shows you how to prepare the programs necessary for
automatic message transmission. The programs, which you can
save to a floppy disk for future use, enable unattended automatic
transmission.

The program for automatic transmission is called a macrofile. You
will need several types of macrofiles depending on the MARITEX
service to be utilized.

Commands

The tables which follow describe the commands for automatic trans-
mission.

Table 7-2 describes the commands processed by the DP-6.

Table 7-2 Commands processed by the DP-6

Command
(prefixed with @)

Parameter

Content

CALL

S: Station Name
I: ID

Calling station name and ID on assigned
parameter

FREE (support
command for CALL)

Two digits
0?99 min.

Free-signal searching time according to
assigned parameter (default setting: 10 min.)

RETRY (support
command for CALL)

Two digits
0?99 min.

Calling according to assigned parameter
(default setting: 10 min.)

CASE

Text

For receving a message (designanted by
parameter) transmitted by coast station

TIMEOUT (support

command for CASE)

Two digits
0?99 min.

Time alloted for reception of message by
CASE command

SEND

Text

Text transmitted according to assigned
parameters

B:file name

Send a file from floppy disk

WRU
HR
OVER
BREAK

None

Function keys [F7] ? [F10]

DISPLAY

Text

Text of message appears

INPUT

None

Waiting for keyboard input
Transmit keyboard input message