G-TOR

General Information

G-TOR mode is a proprietary standard developed by Kantronics Inc. and is used by radio amateurs, military (Irish Air Corps/Navy, Mexican army) and governmental agencies (ICRC).

Usage:

§ Transfer of textual information over HF.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

FSK

 

Number of tones

2

 

Shift (Hz)

170

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

100 / 200 / 300

 

Coding

Golay code, Interleaving, CRC

 

Alphabet

ITA-5

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

FSK 2,3,4 discr.

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

300

 

SR tolerance (Bd)

5

 

Modulation order

2

 

Shift (Hz)

180

 

Shift tolerance (Hz)

20

 

Modem type

Synchronous

 

Min. burst length (s)

0.080

 

Max. burst length (s)

2.000

 

Min. pause length (s)

0.080

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 123: G-TOR

Figure 43: G-TOR Spectrogram