db> Fucked by design?  ;-)  

Poor, not fucked.  Failure to autobaud is fucked.

db> I guess they decided since you'd never be *setting* 
db> the receive level, and reading the transmit level is available through 
db> AT&V, that putting both rx/tx levels into the one AT command was
"okay"...

Having to go through hoops to extract the data is poor.  Ok, I didn't
know about the &V to find the xmit level, that's what I was looking for.
BFN.  Paul.
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