sunair RCU-9310B User manual

TM-8129000504
REMOTE CONTROL UNIT
for
RT-90008 HF/SSB
TRANSCEIVER
RCU-93108
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
MANUAL
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TABLE of CONTENTS
Section Description
GENERAL INFORMATION
1.1 SCOPE OF MANUAL
1.2 PURPOSE OF EQUIPMENT
1.3 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1.4 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
1.5 ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS
1.6 EQUIPMENT SUPPLIED
1.7 OPTIONS AVAILABLE
II INSTALLATION
2.1 GENERAL
2.2 UNPACKING
AND INSPECTION
2.3 RETURN OF EQUIPMENT TO FACTORY
2.4 GENERAL INSTALLATION AND MOUNTING
INFORMATION
2.4.1 GENERAL INSTALLATION
2.4.2 BASE STATION INSTALLATION
2.4.3 RACK INSTALLATIONS
Ill OPERATION
3.1 GENERAL
3.2 PRIMARY OPERATIONS
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1-1
1-1
1-1
1-2
1-2
1-3
1-3
2-1
2-1
2-1
2-2
2-2
2-9
2-9
3-1
3-3
3.2.1 REMOTE TRANSCEIVER SET UP FOR MODE, AGC
AND TRANSMIT POWER 3-3
3.2.2 ESTABLISHING
AN OPERATING FREQUENCY 3-5
3.2.3 TRANSMIT TUNING 3-6
3.2.4 ANTENNA COUPLER TUNING 3-6
3.2.5 MANUAL TUNING 3-6
3.2.6 PANEL LIGHTING 3-7
3.2.7 OPERATING WITH PRESET CHANNELS 3-7
3.2.8 MANUAL CHANNEL SCANNING 3-8

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Section Description
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3.2.9 LOADING PRESET CHANNEL FREQUENCIES 3-10
3.2.10 BFO OPERATION 3-12
3.3 EQUIPMENT SET UP 3-13
3.3.1 BITE (Built in Test Equipment) 3-13
3.3.1.1 REMOTE CONTROL UNIT SELF-TEST (LOCAL BITE) 3-14
3.3.1.2 TRANSCEIVER TEST (REMOTE BITE)
3-15
3.3.2 METER FUNCTIONS 3-17
3.3.3 SPEAKER ON/OFF FUNCTION 3-19
3.3.4 'MHz' or 'kHz' FREQUENCY DISPLAY 3-20
3.3.5 TIME DISPLAY 3-20
3.3.6 'I/O' PORT SET UP 3-22
3.3.7 ADDRESS AND SOFTWARE REVISION LEVEL 3-25
3.3.8
'CW KEY AND FILTER OPTIONS 3-26
3.3.9 LINE AUDIO SELECTION 3-27
3.4 ADVANCED OPERATIONS 3-28 (
3.4.1 RECEIVER SCANNING 3-28
3.4.2 AUTOMATIC LINK ESTABLISHMENT (ALE)
PROGRAMMING
3-31
3.4.2.1 GENERAL
3-31
3.4.2.2 ESTABLISHING ALE-I D's
3-32
3.4.3 AUTOMATIC LINK ESTABLISHMENT (ALE)
OPERATION 3-36
3.4.4 SOUNDING
3-41
3.4.5
NET CALL 3-44
3.4.5.1 PLACING A NET-CALL
3-44
3.4.6 ALL CALL 3-46
3.4.7 BREAK LINK COMMAND 3-47
3.4.8 OPTIONS 3-48
3.4.8.1 L YNCOMPEX
3-48
3.4.8.2 DATA FILTER
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Section Description Page
3.4.8.3 RADIO SECURITY 3-49
3.4.8.4 PRE-SELECTOR 3-50
IV
THEORY OF OPERATION
4.1
REMOTE CONTROL UNIT-TRANSCEIVER INTERFACE
AND INTERACTION
4-1
4.2 REMOTE CONTROL UNIT
4-1
4.2.1 FRONT PANEL ASSEMBLY 3A1
4-3
4.2.2 CPU ASSEMBLY 3A2A1 4-3
4.2.2.1 GENERAL 4-3
4.2.2.2 MICROPROCESSOR U2 4-3
4.2.2.3 ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ-ONLY
MEMORY (EPROM) U13 and U14 4-3
4.2.2.4 ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ
ONLY MEMORY (EEPROM) US
4-4
4.2.2.5 STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (SRAM) U3 4-4
4.2.2.6 OPTIONAL SMART WATCH U14(A) 4-4
4.2.3 OPTOCOUPLER ASSEMBLY 3A2A 1A 1 4-4
4.2.4 AUDIO/REMOTE AUDIO ASSEMBLIES
3A2A2/3A2A4 4-4
4.2.5 1/0 ASSEMBLY 3A2A3 4-5
4.2.6 POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLIES 3A3, 3A3A 1,
and 3A3A2 4-6
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FAULT ISOLATION/MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR
5.1
GENERAL
5-1
5.2 DISASSEMBLY 5-1
5.2.1 TOP OR BOTTOM COVER REMOVAL
5-1
5.3 TEST
SETUP
5-1
5.3.1 PRELIMINARY
5-1
5.4 BITE 5-1
5.4.1 PRELIMINARY 5-1
5.4.2 COMMON MODULES 5-4
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5.4.2.1 FRONT PANEL FAULT 5-4
5.4.2.2 CPU FAULT 5-4
5.4.2.3 110 FAULT 5-5
5.4.2.4 AUDIO FAULT 5-5
5.4.2.5 POWER SUPPLY FAULT 5-6
5.5 TROUBLESHOOTING WITH SELF-SURVEILLANCE BITE 5-6
5.5.1 AC POWER SUPPLY 5-6
5.5.2 INSTALLATION OF NEW BACKLIGHTING DEVICES
FOR FRONT PANEL LCD'S 5-12
5.6 TEST EQUIPMENT REQUIRED OR EQUIVALENT 5-16
5.7 TEST AND ALIGNMENT 5-16
5.7.1 TRANSMIT REMOTE AUDIO 5-16
5.7.2 RECEIVE REMOTE AUDIO 5-20
5.7.3 SOFTWARE SWITCH SETTING CHECKS 5-23
5.8 SCHEMATICS AND PARTS LISTS 5-25 (
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TABLE of ABBREVIATIONS
ADDR Address
AGC Automatic Gain Control
ALC Automatic Level Control
AM Amplitude Modulation
AME Amplitude Modulation Equivalent
AMP/AMPL Amplifier
ARQ Automatic Request
AUD Audio
AUTO Automatic
AUX Auxiliary
BAUD A variable unij of data transmission speed (bits
per second)
BELL U.S. Telephone standards
BFO Beat Frequency Oscillator
BITE Built In Test Equipment
BAD Board
CH /CHAN /CHLJCHN Channel
CLR Clear
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPLR Coupler
CPU Computer
CW Carrier Wave
dB Decibel
dBm Decibels referred to 1 milliwatt across 600 ohms
DSBSC Double Sideband Suppressed Carrier
DSP Display
DUART Dual Asynchronous Receive/Transmit
EEPROM Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read
Only Memory
EPROM Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory
EMI Electromagnetic Radiation Interference
ENTR Enter
FAX Facsimile
FEC Forward Error Correction
FREQ Frequency
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FWD Forward
GAP Group
HF High Frequency
Hz Hertz
IC Integrated Circuit
IF Intermediate Frequency
1/0 lnpui/Output
IONCAP Ionospheric Communications Analysis
and Prediction
kHz Kilohertz
kW Kilowatt
ISB Independent Sideband
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCL Local
LED Light Emitting Diode
LK Link
LO Local Oscillator
LP/LPX Lincompex
LRU Lowest Repairable Unit
LSB Lower Sideband
LT Light
LVL Level
MAN Manual
M CH Manual Channel
MED Medium
MHz Megahertz
MIC Microphone
MIL-STD Milijary Standard
MNL Manual
ms Millisecond
MTTR Mean Time To Repair
MTR Meter
NAR Narrow
0.0. Olive Drab
PA Power Amplifier
PC Printed Circuit
PEP Peak Envelope Power
PLL Phase-Locked Loop
P/N Part Number
PNL Panel
POSTSL Post-Selector
PRESEL Pre-Selector
PTT Push-To-Talk
PWR Power
RCV/RX Receive
REFL Reflected
REV Revision
RF Radio Frequency
RFI Radio Frequency Interference
RFL Reflected
RMT Remote
RS232 Computer control, hardwired upto50feetmaximum
RS422 Computer control, hardwired up to 4000 feet
maximum
RS485 Computer control, hardwired for multiple users
RlTY Radio Teletype
SEL Select
SLO Slow
S MTR Signal Strength Meter
SPKR Speaker
SPLX Simplex
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SSB Single Sideband
TCXO Temperature Controlled Crystal Oscillator
TGC Transmit Gain Control
THO Total Harmonic Distortion
TTL Transistor Transistor Logic
TX/XMT Transmit
USB Upper Sideband
UTC Universal Time
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VHF Very High Frequency
VRMS Volts Root Mean Square
VSWR Voltage standing Wave Ratio
W Watt
WPM Words Per Minute
• Asterisk indicates function selected
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LISTING of FIGURES (
Section Description Page
II INSTALLATION
Figure 2.4.1.1 RCU-9310 Outline Dimensions and Connector
Locations. 2-4
Figure 2.4.1.2 Interconnection
of RCU-931 0 Remote Control
Unit and RT-9000 Transceiver. 2-5
Figure 2.4.1.3 FSK, RS-232, RS-422,
or RS-485
Wiring Diagrams. 2-6
Figure 2.4.1.4 RCU-9310 Remote Audio to RT-9000 Audio
Wiring Diagram. 2-7
Figure 2.4.1.5 RCU-9310 Audio to External Data Modems Wiring
Diagram. 2-8
Figure 2.4.3 Installation
of RCU-9310 in Equipment Rack. 2-9
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Figure 3.1.1 Front Panel Controls for the RCU-9310. 3-1
Figure 3.1.2 Operational Display Information Location. 3-2
Figure
3.2.1
RCU-9310 Remote Control Display Screens. 3-4
Figure 3.2.2 RCU-9310 Operating Controls. 3-5
Figure 3.2.5 RCU-9310 Operating Controls. 3-7
Figure 3.2.7 RCU-9310 Operating Controls. 3-8
Figure 3.2.8 RCU-931 0 Operational Controls. 3-9
Figure 3.2.9.1 RCU-9310 Channel Loading Controls. 3-10
Figure 3.2.9.2 RCU-931 0 'Feature Display'.
3-11
Figure 3.2.10 RCU-9310 Displays, with BFO Enabled. 3-12
Figure 3.3.1.1 RCU-9310 Feature Menu, BITE Selection. 3-13
Figure 3.3.1.2 RCU-9310 BITE Submenu. 3-14
Figure 3.3.2.1 RCU-9310 Operational Displays. 3-17
Figure 3.3.2.2 RCU-9310 Feature Menu Select Display. 3-17
Figure 3.3.2.3 RCU-9310 Feature Menu Select Display. 3-18 (
Figure 3.3.2.4 RCU-9310 Feature Menu Select Display. 3-18
Figure 3.3.3 RCU-9310 Feature Menu Select Display. 3-19
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