Table of Contents
Table of Contents ....................................................................................................... 2
Change History .......................................................................................................... 3
Introduction............................................................................................................... 4
Hardware Overview..................................................................................................... 5
PCB Variants ............................................................................................................. 7
Mechanical Design...................................................................................................... 8
Functional Specification .............................................................................................. 9
Connector Pin outs................................................................................................... 11
J1 Aux Power Out ............................................................................................................ 11
J2 Power Input................................................................................................................. 11
J3 RS485 Serial Data Port ................................................................................................ 11
J4 Power to D550 Encoder ............................................................................................... 11
J5 1W Amplifier Power and Enable................................................................................... 12
J6 RF Output.................................................................................................................... 12
J7 RS232 Serial Control ................................................................................................... 12
J8 BDM/JTAG (Reserved)................................................................................................. 12
J9 RS232 to control D550 Encoder................................................................................... 12
J10 Talkback Audio connections...................................................................................... 12
J11 Connections to D550 Encoder ................................................................................... 13
J12 RS232 External Serial Data Ports............................................................................... 13
J13 RTC Battery connector .............................................................................................. 13
J14 External 10/100 Base-T Ethernet Port......................................................................... 13
J15 External Secondary 10/100 Base-T Ethernet Port....................................................... 13
J16 USB connector (Not currently used) .......................................................................... 14
J17 LED Drive .................................................................................................................. 14
J18 Power over Ethernet.................................................................................................. 14
J19 Antenna B (Rx 1)........................................................................................................ 14
J20 SD Card Management................................................................................................ 14
J21 (not on board)............................................................................................................ 15
J22 Antenna A (Tx Rx 0)................................................................................................... 15
J23 (not on board)............................................................................................................ 15
J24 RF Out....................................................................................................................... 15
Mounting Considerations........................................................................................... 16
Heat sinking..................................................................................................................... 16
Connector clearance........................................................................................................ 16
Turning On the System.............................................................................................. 17
1. Test Setup............................................................................................................... 17
2. Initial Setup............................................................................................................. 17
2.1 Setting unit type ............................................................................................17
2.2 Software updates...........................................................................................18
3. Verify the RF RX performance ................................................................................. 18
4. Verify the RF TX performance.................................................................................. 21
5. Spectrum Verification.............................................................................................. 22
6. Set RTC Clock......................................................................................................... 22
7. Ethernet Video Streaming........................................................................................ 23
8. Recording and Playback.......................................................................................... 23
9. Direct connection to PC........................................................................................... 24
10. Serial RS232 Control........................................................................................... 24
RS232 Control –General Principles ............................................................................24
Command Packet Structure........................................................................................24
Reply Packet Structure ...............................................................................................24
Control Commands................................................................................................... 26