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- Introduction.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Hello again.
- Much has happened since the release of SNARF!.TXT & SNARF2.TXT.
- I released a file called PAIRINFO.TXT, which provided information on the
- decoding procedure to be applied once the datastream had been recovered.
-
- The major purpose of this Tfile is to set some sort of ISO standard for
- snarfers, I will also include some additional information that may be
- useful to budding snarfer builders.
-
- DaVeX. July 1995.
-
- Proposals
- ~~~~~~~~~
-
- To enable software to be compatible with all snarfers, I propose the
- following:-
-
- 1} All data recovery to TTL including XOR to be done in hardware.
-
- 2} The interface to the PC to be CELLTRAK compatible.
-
- Pin 10 = clock
- Pin 15 = data
-
- This will allow hardware to be tested before the software
- is written. Run up CELLTRAK, and once monitoring of the
- forward channel is underway, remove the lead from the
- parallel port and plug in the snarfer hardware with the
- input tuned to a forward channel too, if normal paging
- info continues to scroll up the screen and the busy/idle
- flag on the status bar behaves normally, then you can be
- 99.9% sure your hardware is werking correctly.
-
- 3} Software must recognise inverted data and take the nescessary
- steps. ( See additional info (1) below.)
-
- 4} All snarfer builders following these guidelines pay 100 quid
- into my swiss bank acc. :-)
-
- This will achieve two results, hardware will be relatively simple to test,
- and it opens the door to all the ace coders without hardware to develop
- software for snarfing indepently of hardware builders.
-
- For those without PC's that are attempting to get snarfing, GO BUY A PC!
-
-
- Additional info
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This is just extra info that may or may not be useful whilst trying
- to build the hardware.
-
- 1} The ETACS and AMPS specifications define a NRZ encoded logic 1
- as a LOW to HIGH transition in the center of a databit period.
- The polarity of the demodulated datastream is dependent on the
- local oscillator in the receiver being used.
-
- 2} Clock recovery extracts an 8 or 10 kHz (ETACS or AMPS) phase
- locked clock signal from the Manchester encoded datastream.
-
- 3} Manchester decoding is achieved by exclusive ORing the
- recovered Manchester encoded data with the recovered clock.
-
- 4} The clock recovery PLL on the reverse control channel has
- 3.75ms of dotting (ETACS) and 3ms (AMPS) in which to lock,
- or wordsync will be missed.
-
- 5} A transmitted pair (along with the dross) takes 156ms to send.
- (ETACS). 125ms (AMPS).
-
- 6} Snarfing follows an exponetially square qubic variant of sods
- law, you either get loads or fuck all.
-
-
-
- Greets
- ~~~~~~
- Alphabetical.
-
- Atrocity
- Cherokee
- Eck
- Jono
- Maelstrom (long live the legend)
- MiniMaster
- Neuromancer
- Phantasm
- Pulse
- TuRBo
- Vladimir
-
-
- C00l B0ards
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1066
- AlmostDead
- DockMaster
- Duk&Cover
- The Sprawl
- Unauthorised Access
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