Codan 3212 User manual

HF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS
USER GUIDE
HF Data Modem
3212

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Codan part number 15-04146-EN Issue 1, December 2008
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Table of contents
Introduction
Overview of this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1Overview
The 3212 HF Data Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 Installation and setup
Unpacking the equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
System requirements for a 3212 data station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
General assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing the 3212 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting the 3212 to the transceiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Setting up the transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Connecting the 3212 to the PC via the Data connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Setting up the Ethernet interface using the serial connection. . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting the 3212 to the PC via the Ethernet ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connecting the 3212 directly to the PC using a crossover
Ethernet cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connecting the 3212 indirectly to the PC (via an Ethernet
switch) using a straight-through Ethernet cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Setting up the PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Testing communication between the 3212 and PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Setting up the 3212 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Testing basic communication between two nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Testing communication between the 3212 and transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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3 Operating the 3212
General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
LED indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Modes of operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Controlling the 3212 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Operating the 3212 using AT commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Switching to local command mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Returning to on-line mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Operating the 3212 using HF-specific application software . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Making a manual data call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Making a data call using a specific channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Making a data call in an ALE/CALM network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Resetting to factory defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using the on-line help in the 3212. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Appendix A—AT command set
Appendix B—Connectors
Data connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Service connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Transceiver connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Ethernet connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Appendix C—Specifications
Appendix D—Factory-default settings
Appendix E—Initialisation strings
UUPlus© . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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Appendix F—Compliance
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
European R&TTE Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
EMC and safety notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
FCC compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Appendix G—Definitions
Standards and icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Acronyms and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Unit multipliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
About this issue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Index

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List of figures
Figure 1: Typical NGT data station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Figure 2: Typical 2110 data station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Figure 3: Front panel of the 3212. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Figure 4: Rear panel of the 3212 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Figure 5: Installation and setup process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Figure 6: NGT SRx or MR (2012 RF Unit) to 3212. . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Figure 7: NGT AR, SR, or ASR (2010 RF Unit and 2030
Junction Box) to 3212 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 8: 2110/2110M Manpack Transceiver and interface
adaptor to 3212 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 9: 2110/2110M Manpack Transceiver to 3212. . . . . . . . . . 20
Figure 10: Connecting the 3212 to the PC via the Data
connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Figure 11: Connecting the 3212 directly to the PC via the
Ethernet ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Figure 12: Connecting the 3212 indirectly to the PC via an
Ethernet switch (with or without a DHCP server) . . . . . 29
Figure 13: Front view of the Data connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Figure 14: Front view of the Service connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Figure 15: Front view of the Transceiver connector . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Figure 16: Front view of the Ethernet connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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List of tables
Table 1: LED indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Table 2: AT commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Table 3: AT S-register commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Table 4: Pinouts for the Data connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Table 5: Pinouts for the Service connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Table 6: Pinouts for the Transceiver connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Table 7: Pinouts for the Ethernet connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Table 8: Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Table 9: Factory-default settings for the 3212 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Table 10: Earth symbol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

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