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BTW, does anyone know the meaning of 'order wire mode' in the context of a crypto broadcast? This mode is found in the KWR-37 online crypto receiver. Please send all photo requests or responses via private E-mail.

If it means the same thing as in the telecom industry, its an out-of-band (often analof) channel between two locations connected by wide-band (e.g., T1) facilities. Its primary purpose is to provide service personnel, at each end point, the ability to converse with one another while performing work on that link.

I would also guess it might be something similar to the orderwire in the telecom industry. I am more familiar with digital orderwire systems, but orderwires are generally all similar. You have a communications link, and some overhead on that link is dedicated to providing a voice channel for communications between sites so that people working on the line can communicate with each other. In a crypto system - I could see that the orderwire might be a in-the-clear transmission as part of the overhead so that people at each end of a hop can figure out why the data (i.e. encrypted) portion isn't getting through. Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Oelke Alcatel Network Systems droelke@aud.alcatel.com Richardson, TX