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A real example of e-mail over HF (via FTP) using STANAG-5066 and MS188-110A

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in this recording two stations run STANAG-5066 with BFTP protocol client (a File Transfer Protocol) in order to exchange e-mails using the MS188-110A serial waveform. Note that the E-mail delivery does not happen here using STANAG-5066 HMTP client but rather by FTP_ingthe email file (containing all the SMTP headers and fields) ready to be processed by common e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook. 
It is worth mentioning thatBFTP (Basic File Transfer Protocol) client is defined by  STANAG-5066 Annex F.10.2.2, that same Annex also defines the Compressed File Transfer Protocol client (CFTP) that provides the most bandwidth-efficient exchange of data just using BFTP (MIL-STD-188-141B Notice 1 APP.E).
Talk about e-mail and file-transport protocols go beyond the purpose of the blogso I preferto have an HF approach, keeping in mind that STANAG-5066 is designed for running IP applications over HF and that the stuff (in this sample) is arranged as in pic. 1.


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As said above, the heard waveform is a standard MS-188-110A serial, as can be verified by SA (pic. 2) although a little shift of the sub-carrier from the nominal 1800 Hz. Since at this stage the signal is coming directly from the USB demodulator, we face Over The Air (OTA) symbols. The structure of the MS188-110 frame is recognizable from the bitstream returned by the SA phase-plane demodulator after its conversion (pic. 3).

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pic.3 - OTA bitstream after demodulation performed by SA
In order to dig the signal we need de-scramble and de-interleave it and then  remove the extra bits added by the FEC encoder: a basic decoder will do the job returning the bitstream after the MS188-110 removal. Once detected the presence of STANAG-5066 as "secondary" protocol, we need to remove also its encapsulation so to get  the email message that have been transferred by BFTP protocol at sender side. Note that the name of FTPprotocol is HBFTP, as it appearsin the output window of the analyzer(pic.4). 

pic.4 - the bits trasferred by HBFTP after removed STANAG-5066 and MS188-110A
The acronym HBFTP could stand for HF-BFTP and is suggested to be the Harris implementation of this protocol,available inmail-gateway as the HARRIS RF-6760W Wireless Message Terminalor RF-6750W Wireless Gateway.
The contents of 000_HBFTP--3  can be saved to a file and Windows assigns the .eml extesion sincethe file exhibits all the features as it was received from a conventional SMTP server via an Internet connection (pic.5).  The file can be  opened and processed by Microsoft Outlook w/out problems: Outlook simply does not care where and how this file has arrived (pic. 6). For reasons of confidentiality the email addresses have been deliberately blackened.

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