Arq-n, Ascii – Wavecom W-SPECTRA (Automatic Monitoring System) V1.1.0 User Manual

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Transmission Modes

WAVECOM Monitoring System W-SPECTRA, W-SPEED Manual V1.1.0

Full-duplex systems send a repeat request (RQ) character to the remote station if a character error has
been detected or the distortion or fading becomes excessive. This results in the re-transmission of the last
3 or 7 characters preceded by the RQ request control character.

According to the CCITT recommendation, the repetition cycle may span 4 or 8 characters, as is the case
with ARQ-E. The longer RQ-cycle of 8 characters has never been monitored.

In addition to the time multiplexing of several channels (division channels); each division channel may be
further subdivided into sub-channels resulting in a multitude of possible modes of operation. At present
however no transmissions with sub-channel division are known. Systems employing sub-channel division
may be recognized by the rhythmic blinking of the Error indication (system state) in the decoder status
bar.

ARQ-N

ARQ-N uses the ARQ-1A alphabet (as does ARQ-E). Character inversion (as in the case of ARQ-E or ARQ-
E3) is not defined for ARQ-N. The lack of inversion makes it impossible to automatically determine the
length of the RQ cycle. However, known systems operate exclusively with a single RQ character and three
repeated characters.

Parameter

Value

Frequency range

Operation modes

Duplex ARQ

Modulation

FSK

Symbol rate

48, 64, 72 86, 96 and 192 Bd, variable 30-650 Bd

Receiver settings

DATA, CW, LSB or USB

Input format(s)

AF, IF

Additional Info

ITA-2 with parity and identification bit

Known ARQ-N systems operate exclusively at a symbol rate of 96 Bd on the radio link.

The synchronization phase for the ARQ-N mode of operation may be initiated via the AUTO function or by
manual selection of the baud rate.

Signal polarity (USB or LSB sidebands) is automatically detected.

Full-duplex systems transmit the RQ character after having detected an erroneous character or in the
presence of excessive signal distortions. The remote station subsequently repeats the last three characters
preceded by the RQ character.

To maintain synchronization between the two stations both transmitters operate continuously and send
the idle bit pattern if no traffic data is transmitted.

ASCII

The ASCII code, which is internationally adapted as the CCITT ITA-5 alphabet, is used in all kinds of data
transfer of information between computers or computer based equipment. Only the 7-bit values 0 – 127
are internationally defined and standardized. For asynchronous transmissions, the code consists of a start
bit, 7 or 8 data bits, one parity bit (optional) and 1 or 2 stop bits.