Coquelet-13

General Information

The Coquelet modes were designed for the communications of French customs and police authorities. They are similar to the British Piccolo modes.

Usage:

§ Transfer of textual information (mostly encrypted) over HF.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

MFSK

 

Number of tones

13

 

Shift (Hz)

30

 

Bandwidth (Hz)

500

 

Symbol rate (Baud)

13.3 / 20.0

 

Alphabet

ITA-2 / ATU-80

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

Multitone (MFSK)

 

Tone duration (ms)

75

 

TD tolerance (ms)

1

 

No. of tones

13

 

Tone position type

Equidistant frequencies

 

Tone distance (Hz)

30

Features

Demodulation

yes

 

Recognition

yes

 

Decoding

yes

 

Automatic Polarity Adjustment

no

 

Combination with other modems (modem list)

yes

Tuning

The tuning frequency is the center of the signal

Table 96: Coquelet-13

Figure 34: Coquelet-13 Spectrogram