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appropriate DVR track is played to the repeater output. DVR tracks may be mixed with CW, repeater
speech, and repeater courtesy tones. Also, there are two special track numbers that can be used to
interrogate the status of the mail box (for ID bulletins, tail messages, etc...). These track numbers are as
follows:
track#
Description
100
List all active headers. There is no response if there are no active slots in the mailbox .
101
If there are active mail slots, a play of track#101 responds with system track#02
("messages waiting..."). Otherwise, there is no response.
The syntax for the [SPI] phrase is "[SPI] a t" where "a" is the DVR SPI address (6) and "t" is the track
number to be played. The following examples illustrate speech phrase command entry on the FF-800:
From the terminal interface:
>MES 0 [SPI] 6 7 [SPI] 6 101 [SPI] 6 100 [SPI] S
[SPI] 6 7 [SPI] 6 101 [SPI] 6 100 [SPI] S
>
This message would be suitable for an ID bulletin and would play track 7 first (which would contain a
recording of the repeater ID) and then play track#02 if any mail box slots are active followed by a list of
the active mail box headers. The "[SPI] S" speech macro is used to suppress the repeater ID that follows
all ID bulletins. If the user wants the ID to occur (i.e., there is no ID recorded in the DVR track) then this
phrase macro would be omitted.
A sequence suitable for a tail message is as follows:
>MES 10 [SPI] 6 101
[SPI] 6 101
>
This will play track#02 if there are any mail box messages and can be assigned to a tail message to provide
an additional alert to users of mail box traffic.
The formats are similar if the message is programmed via the DTMF text editor. From the word list the
user can note that the [SPI] phrase macro is word# 182, and this is the number used to enter the phrase
macro.
enter the control security command, followed by the config security command.
enter "
enter "182*6*7*182*6*101" -- response:"
enter "182*6*100*182*83*" -- response:"
Note: the code for "S" = 83, thus "182*83*" = the ID suppress macro. The parameter(s) following the
182 code must be entered in the same transmission of the text or they will not be parsed correctly. Also, if
there are no messages, or if the programmed track is not yet recorded, there will be no response for the
text interrogate functions.
Refer to the FF-800 manual for more information on text message entry and message management.
FF-8070 Command Examples
The FF-8070 is configured at the factory for the amount of memory installed, and the number of
mail box tracks is set to 3. The user may wish to modify the mail box assignments or change the
user defined command codes. The following examples illustrate how to modify the configuration