AUTOSPEC

General Information

Autospec is a synchronous FEC system. This system was used by British coastal station for communication to oil rigs.

Usage:

§ Transfer of textual information over HF.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

FSK

 

Number of tones

2

 

Shift (Hz)

270

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

68.5

 

Alphabet

ITA-2

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

FSK 2 matched

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

68.5

 

SR tolerance (Bd)

1

 

Shift (Hz)

270

 

Shift tolerance (Hz)

10

 

Modem type

Synchronous

Features

Demodulation

yes

 

Recognition

yes

 

Decoding

yes

 

Automatic Polarity Adjustment

yes

 

Combination with other modems (modem list)

yes

Tuning

The tuning frequency is the center of the signal

Table 43: AUTOSPEC

Figure 16: AUTOSPEC Spectrogram