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Maintenance Port Antenna Commands
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Appendix D
Maintenance Port
Antenna Commands
The TracVision G8 system commands are parsed when the
system receives an ASCII carriage return (Hex 0D). An ASCII line
feed (Hex 0A) is permitted but is ignored in any transmitted
command. All system responses are terminated with an ASCII
carriage return followed by a line feed and ending with either an
acknowledge character (ASCII > (Hex 3E)) or a not-acknowledge
character (ASCII ? (Hex 3F)). The parser commands are shown
below in boldface capital letters but they are not case-sensitive. In
most cases, the command is responded to with an echo; that is, if
you type ZAP, for example, and press “ENTER” the response
will be the command you have entered. For other commands, the
response is specific for each command, such as VERSION,
STATUS or HELP.
D.1 System Commands
Software Version
Function: reports software revision, version, and system type
Command: VERSION
Argument: none
Response: KVH TVG8 Rev X - Version X.XX
System State
Function: reports antenna operational state
Command: STATE
Argument: none
Response: system state: Initializing, Searching, Tracking, Idle,
or Error
Initialize/Restart the System
Function: initializes the system (perform a soft reset)
Command: ZAP
Argument: none
Response: echoes the command, then reinitializes the system