Codan 3112 User manual

HF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS
USER GUIDE
HF Data Modem
3112

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© Copyright 2007 Codan Limited.
Codan part number 15-04147-EN Issue 1, June 2007
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The English version takes precedence over any translated
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Table of contents
Introduction
Overview of this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1Overview
The 3112 HF Data Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2 Installation and setup
Unpacking the equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
System requirements for a 3112 data station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing the 3112 HF Data Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting the modem to the transceiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Connecting the modem to the PC via the Ethernet ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting the modem directly to the PC using a crossover
CAT5 Ethernet cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting the modem indirectly to the PC (via an Ethernet
switch) using a straight CAT5 Ethernet cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connecting the modem to the PC via an asynchronous port . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Connecting the modem to the PC via a synchronous port . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Testing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Testing communication between two nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3 Operating the modem
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Menu structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Using the navigation buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Operating the modem using controlling software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Selecting a waveform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Saving a user profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Loading a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Resetting to factory defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Using the on-board help in the modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Appendix A—Menu structures for waveforms
MIL-STD-188-110A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
MIL-STD-188-110B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
STANAG 4539 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
STANAG 4415 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Appendix B—Connectors
Transceiver Control connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Modem Control connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Transceiver connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Sync/Async Data connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Ethernet connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Appendix C—Specifications
Appendix D—Factory-default settings
Appendix E—Compliance
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
European R&TTE Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Electromagnetic compatibility and safety notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
FCC compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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Appendix F—Definitions
Standards and icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Acronyms and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Unit multipliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
About this issue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

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List of figures
Figure 1: Typical system layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Figure 2: Typical system layout using the Codan STANAG
5066 Stack with HF Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Figure 3: Front panel of the 3112. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Figure 4: Rear panel of the 3112 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 5: Connecting the modem directly to the PC via the
Ethernet ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Figure 6: Connecting the modem indirectly to the PC via an
Ethernet switch with DHCP server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Figure 7: Connecting the modem to the PC via an
asynchronous port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Figure 8: Connecting the modem to the PC via a
synchronous port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Figure 9: Layout of the status screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Figure 10: Layout of a menu screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 11: Screen during data transmission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 12: Screen during data reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Figure 13: Top-level menu structure for the modem . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Figure 14: Menu structure for MIL-STD-188-110A
waveform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Figure 15: Menu structure for MIL-STD-188-110B
waveform (serial tone) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Figure 16: Menu structure for MIL-STD-188-110B
waveform (39Tone) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Figure 17: Menu structure for STANAG 4539 waveform. . . . . . . . 71
Figure 18: Menu structure for STANAG 4415 waveform. . . . . . . . 73
Figure 19: Front view of the Transceiver Control connector. . . . . . 76
Figure 20: Front view of the Modem Control connector . . . . . . . . . 77
Figure 21: Front view of the Transceiver connector . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Figure 22: Front view of the Sync/Async Data connector. . . . . . . . 80
Figure 23: Front view of the Ethernet connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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List of tables
Table 1: Navigation buttons and their function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Table 2: Available waveforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Table 3: Typical data rates, SNR and channel quality . . . . . . . . . 61
Table 4: Waveform, data rate and interleaver
relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Table 5: Pinouts for the Transceiver Control connector. . . . . . . . 76
Table 6: Pinouts for the Modem Control connector . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Table 7: Pinouts for the Transceiver connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Table 8: Pinouts for the Sync/Async Data
connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Table 9: Pinouts for the Ethernet connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Table 10: Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Table 11: Factory-default settings for the modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Table 12: Factory-default settings for the STANAG 4539
waveform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Table 13: Earth symbol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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