PACTOR I

General Information

Pactor-I mode is a proprietary standard developed by SCS GmbH & Co. KG, Hanau, Germany.

Usage:

§ Data communication over HF.

§ In successive standards Pactor-II and Pactor-III the mode Pactor-I is used during the call set-up.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation

FSK

 

Number of tones

2

 

Shift (Hz)

200

 

Bandwidth (Hz)

300

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

100 / 200

 

Coding

Huffman code

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

FSK 2 matched

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

200

 

SR tolerance (Bd)

5

 

Shift (Hz)

200

 

Shift tolerance (Hz)

10

 

Modem type

Multiple SR

 

Min. burst length (s)

0.120

 

Max. burst length (s)

1.000

 

Min. pause length (s)

0.170

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 153: PACTOR I

Figure 53: PACTOR I Spectrogram