Research Concepts RC2000A User Manual

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RC2000A Dual Axis Antenna Controller

Appendix E

Communications Protocol

RC 2000. The program runs on an IBM PC (or compatible - running
DOS) and was designed to aid the software developer who is writing
programs to control the RC 2000. All of the commands listed above
can be sent to the controller. The program features three
windows. In the top window the user is prompted for commands to
send to the controller. In the middle window, the command strings
sent to the controller are displayed. The bottom window displays
all characters received from the controller. The source code is
included with the program and a developer may examine and freely
use any of the routines. A disk containing this program is
included with each controller. */

/* MESSAGE DELIMITERS **

Here are the delimiters used with SA bus messages, along with
their value in hex and decimal.

ASCII name hex value decimal value

STX 2 2
ETX 3 3
ACK 6 6
NAK 15 21 */

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