Base sta tions are ta ble or rack mount able. RTS® and Audiocom® are reg is tered trade marks of Telex Com mu ni ca tions, Inc. Clear-Com® is a reg is tered trade mark of Clear-Com In ter com Sys tems, Inc.
11. Lo cal Head set Con nec tor: Male XLR con nec tor for Telex units, Fe male XLR con nec tor for RTS units. A dy - namic or electret head set mi cro phone is au to mat i cally de - tected.
15. CAN Bus: RJ-45 con nec tors used to con nect a base sta - tion to a CAN type of com mu ni ca tions bus. Telex TELEX COMMUNICATIONS, INC. LOOP 4 WIRE THRU...
Con trols and Con nec tions - Top Panel 1. On/Off & Vol ume Con trol: Turns the beltpack power on and con trols head set vol ume. 2. BAT/O.M. Light: Bat tery Light flashes on power up Light on continuously Light does not flash or come on Overmodulation Light flashes on loud est speech Light flashes on all speech...
Push-to-Trans mit (PT TX): The trans mit ter and au - dio paths are off ex cept when the talk but ton is ac tive. 13. Head set Con nec tor: Male XLR con nec tor for Telex units, Fe male XLR con nec tor for RTS units.
Un pack ing Un pack your RadioCom™ sys tem. Be low are the items that should come with your base sta tion and each belt pack. Con - - tact the ship per or your dealer im me di ately if any thing is dam - - aged or miss ing.
Rack Mount ing The rack mount ing brack ets come with each BTR-1. These brack ets may be used to mount a sin gle base sta tion in a 19" wide rack or mount two base sta tions side by side in a rack. Fig ure 5-1 shows the three brack ets that come with a base sta - - tion.
Attaching Receive 1/2-Wave An tenna An tenna Po lar iza tion The Telex Wire less In ter com Sys tem is “Ver ti cally Po lar ized”. This means both the trans mit ting and re ceiv ing an ten nas should op er ate in the ver ti cal po si tion.
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You should be able to vis i bly lo cate the base sta tion an ten nas at all times for best per for - - mance. Telex 700 FEET Fig ure 5-8 Dis tance Be tween base sta tion and beltpack...
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2. Placing the BTR on top of a Telex Telex 1. Placing BTRs in a shelf or equip ment rack and us ing re - mote an ten nas is OK. CH 1 CH 1 CH 1 CH 1 CH 1...
Ba sic Op er a tional De scrip tion The BTR-1 is a full du plex (si mul ta neous talk and lis ten) base sta tion that works in con junc tion with a TR-1 beltpack. The base sta tion, via the beltpack, al lows com mu ni ca tion with other wire less or wired us ers.
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2 = PRIVATE OFF Telex BTR-1 MADE IN U.S.A. MADE IN U.S.A. TRAN TRAN PATENT NO. 6,373,951 B1 PATENT NO. 6,373,951 B1 TELEX COMMUNICATIONS, INC. TELEX COMMUNICATIONS, INC. CAN BUS CAN BUS LOOP LOOP 12-15V AC/DC 12-15V AC/DC RELAY RELAY...
RadioCom CAN BUS FM-1 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz SYSTEMS MANAGER P/N: 879830 S.N.: 0001 Telex Communications, Inc. Telex Communications, Inc. 8601 East Cornhusker Highway, Lincoln, NE 68507 Made in U.S.A. Made in U.S.A. 803995 TERMINATION POWER Telex BTR-1 MADE IN U.S.A.
ON/OFF SWITCH MENU AND SET BUTTONS Lo cal Head set The lo cal base sta tion head set al ways fol low ing the au dio se - - lec tion of the beltpack. It can not be set to in de pend ently select in ter com chan nels.
The sta tus screen may be changed to an al ter nate dis play by press ing <MENU> for 3 sec onds. The al ter nate dis play shows the base name and num ber in dou ble wide and dou ble tall char ac ters.
In ter com Type The base sta tion has the abil ity to in ter face to a va ri ety of wired in ter com sys tems. These in clude Telex (AudioCom), RTS 2W, ClearCom , Four Wire Systems and oth ers.
When ever the group, chan nels or fre quen cies are changed at the base, it will dis play the fol low ing screen: This will oc cur re gard less of a beltpack com mu ni ca tion to the base sta tion or not.
5. If talk is se lected the user will be asked to set the in ter - com in and out lev els. If Lis ten is se lected the user will be asked to set the lis ten level. Use th e <UP>/<DOWN>...
= In ter fer ence found on the re ceive chan nel dur ing the scan or no re ceive fre quency in that re ceive chan nel po si - - tion. Af ter a chan nel is de cided upon, press <SET> to se lect that chan nel ClearScan™...
Fig ure 7-1 Con trols and Con nec tions 3. En sure in ter com ports 1 and 2 are loaded via a Telex 4. Power-up the base sta tion. 5. Press <MENU> + <SET> + <UP> + <DOWN> on the 6.
Bat tery In stal la tion En sure that the On/Off vol ume con trol knob is turned off. Press down and hold down the bat tery re lease latch, slide the bat tery pack about 1/8 inch back, to ward the latch, un til it stops.
The head set con nec tor is a XLR type con nec tor. Four or five pin Telex or RTS head set con nec tors may be in stalled in the unit. See the “TR-1 Con trols and Con nec tions” sec tion for in - - for ma tion on the pinouts.
Re lease the <SET> but ton to ac cept the cur rently displayed setting. TALK LIGHT BAT/OM TALK BAT/OM TALK TALK TALK Telex Telex TALK BUTTON Fig ure 7-4 TR-1 Top Panel Controls Selectable Modes: A / B Selection Switch This rocker switch switches be tween A and B but ton base sta - - tion pre-sets.
Group and Chan nels The first LCD screen the beltpack dis plays af ter power-up is the group / chan nels screen. This screen shows the cur rently se lected group fol lowed by the receive and transmit chan nels where the unit is set.
Re ceive Fre quency This screen dis plays the fre quency in MHz of the beltpack re - - ceiver. The fre quency is not change able in fac tory de fined groups. The fre quency is change able in user groups. Ed it ing the RX Fre quency (User Groups Only) 1.
Mi cro phone Gain This screen dis plays the set ting of the mi cro phone gain of the beltpack. There are 16 pos si ble set tings. The num ber 0 in di - - cates no mi cro phone gain, the num ber 15 is max i mum gain. Each step is about 3 dB of au dio.
Se rial Num ber Code The base se rial num ber is re quired to be in put to the beltpack to al low com mu ni ca tion with that base sta tion. The num ber, like the en cryp tion code, is com posed of four hexidecimal dig - - its.
En ter ing ClearScan 1. Press and hold <MENU> + <SET> for 3 sec onds. The fol low ing screen will ap pear: C5 9P Scan Groups <DOWN> C5 ch Scan within a Group <DOWN> C5 bnd Scan Band <DOWN> Fig ure 7-8 ClearScan Menus 2.
Fre quency Bands The BTR-1 sys tem op er ates in TV chan nels 16 to 36 and 38 to 59. This is the fre quency range of 482 to 608 MHz and 614 MHz to 746 MHz. The band, TV chan nels and fre quen cies are shown in Ta ble 2.
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Fac tory Group Plan There are 50 fac tory de fined groups in a base sta tion and beltpack. These group are or ga nized in dif fer ent ways to pro vide flex i bil ity to the user on se lect ing fre quen cies. A group is com - - posed of intermodulation free fre quen cies, but a group is also or ga nized to be com posed of fre quen cies in dif fer ent com bi na tions of the TV...
Re read the sec tions of this man ual to make sure you have com pleted sys tem set-up prop erly. PROBLEM DIS TOR TION - Sys tem’s au dio qual ity seems dis torted at me dium to high in put lev els. HISS - Sys tem seems to pro duce a “hiss”...
Im proper bat tery se lec tion, use, in stal la tion and care are the cause of nu mer ous wire less sys tem fail ures. Al ka line Bat ter ies: Al ka line bat ter ies such as Mallory’s DURACELL®...
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Send: ...20kHz 100 Hz, 240 mVrms Re ceive: ...20kHz 800 Hz, 100 mVrms Power Volt age: ...28.0 VDC nom i nal AudioCom/Telex In put Im ped ance: ...300 Out put Level:...1.0 Vrms nom i nal Bridg ing Im ped ance: ...>10k Call Sig nal ing: Send: ...20kHz 100 Hz, 05 mVrms...
Com mis sion Part 74. Li cens ing of Telex equip ment is the User’s re spon si bil ity and licensibility de pends on the user’s clas si fi ca tion, us ers ap pli ca tion, and fre quency se lected. Telex strongly urges the user to con tact the ap pro pri ate tele com mu ni ca tions au thor ity for any de sired clar i fi ca tion.
IM POR TANT - Please red this doc u ment care fully be fore us ing this prod uct. THIS DOC U MENT STATES THE TERMS AND CON DI TIONS UPON WHICH TELEX COM MU NI CA - TIONS, INC. (the “COM PANY”) OF FERS TO LI CENSE THE IN STALLED SOFT WARE OR PRO GRAM (the “SOFT WARE”) FOR USE WITH THE PROD UCT IN WHICH IT WAS IN STALLED.
12 VDC, 1 AMP ...879963 BTR Power Cords U.S./Canada... 600092 Or der No. 71147000 BTR XLR In ter com Dummy Load Telex type ...878935 RTS type ...878990 TR LCD/ switch cover Loop Thru Patch Ca ble 2 Pin Re lay Con nec tor BP-700 TR Bat tery pack, al ka line Order No.