Rice Lake MSI-9850 CellScale RF Digital Indicator - Operator Manual - Manual (Page 87)

MSI CellScale ® System • 9850 User Guide Page 87
MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL
Firmware Version 5-XX for 2450 Modems
9850 TO HOST MESSAGES
Once a sent message is observed by the 9850 user, pushing any key will clear the message and return the 9850
to the last display mode. An acknowledgment string is automatically sent back to the modem that generated the
message. The acknowledgment string is programmed in the Comm Port Setup menu. The string defaults to the
ASCII “ACK” character but can be modified in the “Enter/Edit Strings” choice of the Comm Port Setup menu.
The acknowledgment string includes the address of the 9850 in this form:
57:t t t t t t where “t t t t t” is the acknowledgment string.
9850 User Entered Message Reply
A function key can be designated to reply to Host messages in addition to the automatic acknowledgement. This
allows the 9850 user to text message a reply or new message to any host computer. The 9850 can text message
the host at any time, and can send to the last host that it received a message from. More than 1 Function key can
be designated for messages and the user can choose to send to a specific CellScale RF or direct port or set it to
reply to the last modem that sent a message.
To set up the 9850 to output a message:
1) Press Setup followed by “Function Keys”
[1] .
2) Select an unassigned or unneeded function key to program from the menu
( 1-6 ).
3) The “SELECT FOR Fx FROM” menu appears.
4) Select “Text Messaging”
[6] .
5) The next menu allows you to designate where the message should go. To
send a message to the CellScale Comm 1 select [1] . To send a message
to all connected comm ports (direct and RF) on the CellScale, select [2] .
To send messages to Virtual RF connected Comm Ports 3, 4, or 5, select
[3] , [4] , or [5] . To reply to the specific host port that last sent a message,
select [6] .
If more than 1 modem is attached to a single virtual host comm port (3, 4, or 5), the message will be sent
to all modems on the message origin port.
6) Return to normal scale operation by pushing ESC twice.
CHANGE F4 TO
1 Send Message to 1
2 Send Message All
3 Send Message to 3
4 Send Message to 4
5 Send Message to 5
6 Reply Last Message
CHANGE F4 TO
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