General Information
Simplex Teletype over Radio (SITOR) is a mode for maritime
communications to exchange teletype-data over a radio channel in a robust
way.
SITOR-A is the ARQ variant.
Usage:
§ Basic maritime data communication over HF.
Mode Details
|
Item |
Value |
Standard |
Modulation |
FSK |
|
Number of tones |
2 |
|
Shift (Hz) |
170 |
|
Bandwidth (Hz) |
350 |
|
Symbol rate (Bd) |
100 |
|
Error correction |
ARQ |
|
Alphabet |
ITA-2 |
Demodulator Settings |
Demodulator |
FSK 2 matched |
|
Symbol rate (Bd) |
100 |
|
SR tolerance (Bd) |
5 |
|
Shift (Hz) |
170 |
|
Shift tolerance (Hz) |
10 |
|
Modem type |
Synchronous |
|
Min. burst length (s) |
0.065 |
|
Max. burst length (s) |
0.290 |
|
Min. pause length (s) |
0.200 |
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 195: SITOR-A
Figure 67: SITOR-A Spectrogram