WAVECOM Decoder W74PC, W-PCI/e, W-CODE, W-CLOUD Manual V9.1.0 Transmission Modes
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LINK-11 (CLEW)
Link-11 (CLEW: Conventional Link Eleven Waveform), also known as TADIL-A, is a transmission mode
mostly in HF band, to run a tactical digital information network. This mode is specified by the US Depart-
ment of Defense (DoD) in MIL-STD-188-203-1A (8
th
January 1988).
This mode has 16 carriers: one Doppler tone at 605 Hz; 14 data carriers starting at 935 Hz with tone dis-
tance of 110 Hz and the 16
th
carrier at 2915 Hz is used for data and synchronization, see table below. Ex-
cept the Doppler tone, other carriers are DQPSK, modulated at the symbol rate of 75 or 45.45 Baud.
There are 5 frame formats:
ï‚· DNCS IM: Data Net Control Station Interrogation Message