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Clear-Com WBS-680 Operating Instructions Manual

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WBS-680, WTR-680, WTR-682
Pro fes sional
Wire less
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  • Page 1 Op er ating In struc tions WBS-680, WTR-680, WTR-682 Pro fes sional Wire less In ter com Sys tem Intercom Systems...
  • Page 2 Clear-Com In ter com Systems would like to take this op por tu nity to thank you for choos ing the Clear-Com WBS-680 Pro fes sional Wire less In ter com Sys tem. Many of the fea tures in this prod uct are the re sult of years of de vel op ment work with many of the fea tures de vel oped from cus tomer feed back.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    WBS-680 Menu Struc ture ........
  • Page 4 Ta ble of Con tents (con tin ued) WTR-680 Beltpack Op er a tion ............. . . 7-11 Power/Lo cal Head set Vol ume.

  • Page 5: In Tro Duc Tion

    Base sta tion co mes with rack ears for easy rack mount ing. Clear-Com® and MA TRIX PLUS® are reg is tered trade marks of Clear-Com In ter com Sys tems, Inc. RTS® and Audiocom® are reg is tered trade marks of Telex Com mu ni ca tions, Inc.

  • Page 7: Wbs-680 Base Sta Tion

    WBS-680 Base Sta tion Con trols and Con nec tions - Front Panel 9 10 Clear-Com WBS-680 Menu 2-Wire 2-Wire Volume SCAN 4-Wire 4-Wire Gain Select Select On/off Down SELECT TALK BELTPACK CONNECT INTERCOM A INTERCOM B AUXILIARY Copy...

  • Page 8: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Rear Panel

    4. I/C Se lect Switch – Set to the ap pro pri ate 2-wire in ter com type be ing in ter faced to the unit. Set to ei ther Clear-Com, con nec tor and one 3-pin male XLR out put con nec tor.

  • Page 9: Wbs-680 Spec I Fi Ca Tions

    Four-Wire Out put ..........Level Ad just able (2 Vrms typ i cal) Clear-Com In ter com....In put/Out put Level Ad just able (1 Vrms typ i cal), Line Im ped ance 200 Telex In ter com.
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  • Page 11: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Top Panel

    ection WTR-680 Beltpack Con trols and Con nec tions - Top Panel BAT/OM TALK CHANNEL TALK Fig ure 4 WTR-680 Top Panel 1. On/Off & Vol ume Con trol – Turns the beltpack power 5. Bat/Overmod Light – Light will flash once when unit is on and con trols head set vol ume.

  • Page 12: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Rear Panel

    Con trols and Con nec tions - Rear Panel (4) Headphone (1) Microphone Low (-) Shield (-) (3) Headphone (2) Microphone High (+) Audio (+) Fig ure 6 Head set Jack Wiring Fig ure 5 WTR-680 Rear Panel/Con nec tor/An tennas 6.

  • Page 13: Wtr-680 Spec I Fi Ca Tions

    WTR-680 Spec i fi ca tions RF Fre quency Range ..... . 518 - 608 MHz, 614 - 740 MHz in 18 MHz TX and RX bands Power Re quire ments.
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  • Page 15: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Top Panel

    ection WTR-682 Beltpack Con trols and Con nec tions - Top Panel Bat/ TALK TALK Fig ure 7 WTR-682 Top Panel 1. On/Off and Vol ume Con trol - Turns beltpack power on 4. Talk But ton - Press to en able the au dio path to ei ther In - and con trols head set vol ume for In ter com Chan nels “A”...

  • Page 16: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Rear Panel

    Con trols and Con nec tions - Rear Panel (4) Headphone (1) Microphone Low (-) Shield (-) (3) Headphone (2) Microphone High (+) Audio (+) Fig ure 9 Fig ure 8 Head set Jack Wiring WTR-682 Rear Panel/Con nec tor/An tennas 6.

  • Page 17: Wtr-682 Spec I Fi Ca Tions

    WTR-682 Spec i fi ca tions RF Fre quency Range ..... . 470 - 608 MHz, 614 - 746 MHz in 18 MHz TX and RX bands Power Re quire ments.
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  • Page 19: Ini Tial Equip Ment Set-Up

    Ini tial Equip ment Set-Up Un packing Un pack your Clear-Com Sys tem. Be low are the items that Con tact the ship per or your dealer im me di ately if any thing is should come with your base sta tion and each belt pack.

  • Page 20: An Tenna Con Nec Tions

    An tenna Con nec tion The base sta tion is sup plied with two (2) an ten nas. One 1/2-wave an tenna for Trans mit and one 1/2-wave for Re ceive. Clear-Com Menu WBS-680 2-Wire 2-Wire Volume SCAN 4-Wire 4-Wire Gain The an ten nas have TNC male con nec tors.
  • Page 21 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. WTR-680 Menu WBS-680 Clear-Com 2-Wire 2-Wire Volume...

  • Page 22: Im Proving Re Cep Tion/In Creasing Range

    - of the WBS or the side of mote an ten nas is OK. the rack is BAD. Clear-Com Menu WBS-680 2-Wire 2-Wire Volume SCAN 4-Wire 4-Wire...

  • Page 23: Base Sta Tion Set-Up

    Base Sta tion Set-up INTERCOM INTERFACE POWER CONNECTION RECEIVE WBS-680 INTERCOM A INTERCOM B AUXILIARY AUDIO FCC ID: B5DM514 2-WIRE 2-WIRE 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz PUSH PUSH PUSH CANADA 1321231218A STAGE ANNOUNCE TRANSMIT BASE STATION 4-WIRE 4-WIRE POWER LINK RELAY...

  • Page 24: In Ter Nal Trans Mit Switches

    In ter nal Trans mit Switches In ter com Switch In ter nal to the WBS-680 are two trans mit switches which en - - The Clear-Com Wire less sys tem can be in ter faced to able a user to turn on or off the two trans mit ters in di vid u ally.

  • Page 25: Dual Lis Ten Func Tion Al Ity

    Dual Lis ten Func tion al ity The base sta tion’s main au dio board has the op tion of plac ing They will also have the abil ity to con trol the level of the mix ad di tional parts to en able dual lis ten. Dual lis ten al lows the (-4 dB to -24 dB down from main chan nel).

  • Page 26: Aux Il Iary In Put/Out Put

    B. How ever, there is an is avail able from Clear-Com for those who wish to mod ify the in ter nal switch to con trol the rout ing of the in put aux il iary au - - base sta tion so that aux il iary in put au dio is heard only lo cally;...

  • Page 27: Stage An Nounce /Re Lay Con Tacts

    AUXILIARY INTERFACE WBS-680 RECEIVE INTERCOM A INTERCOM B AUXILIARY AUDIO FCC ID: B5DM514 2-WIRE 2-WIRE PUSH PUSH PUSH 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz CANADA 1321231218A STAGE ANNOUNCE TRANSMIT BASE STATION 4-WIRE 4-WIRE POWER LINK RELAY CONTACT HIGH NORM TRANSMIT Intercom Systems...

  • Page 28: Base Sta Tion Link

    BASE STATION LINK WBS-680 RECEIVE INTERCOM A INTERCOM B AUXILIARY AUDIO FCC ID: B5DM514 2-WIRE 2-WIRE PUSH PUSH PUSH 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz CANADA 1321231218A STAGE ANNOUNCE TRANSMIT BASE STATION 4-WIRE 4-WIRE POWER LINK RELAY CONTACT HIGH NORM TRANSMIT Intercom Systems...

  • Page 29: Beltpack Set-Up

    Beltpack Set-up 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 latch, un til it stops. Then lift bat tery pack out.

  • Page 30: An Tenna Con Nec Tion

    MICROPHONE GAIN CONTROL TRANSMIT SWITCH HEADSET BATTERY CONNECTION RELEASE LATCH TRANSMIT RECEIVE ANTENNA ANTENNA Fig ure 29 WTR-680 Rear Panel Head set Con nec tion An tenna Con nec tion In sert the head set plug into the XLR con nec tor. A dy namic or The beltpack co mes with two de tach able, screw-type, electret head set mi cro phone is au to mat i cally de tected by the 1/4-wave an ten nas.

  • Page 31: Pre-Walk-Thru Check List

    ection Pre-Walk-Thru Check list Fol low ing the in struc tions fully to this point you have suc cess - - fully com pleted the fol low ing check list: Lo cated the base sta tion prop erly. Con nected head sets to base sta tions (if needed) and all beltpacks.
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  • Page 33: System Op Er A Tion

    Each chan nel rep re sents 4-wire for ma trix and stand-alone op er a tion. a unique fre quency. For ex am ple, one WBS-680 could be set 6. Place bat ter ies in the beltpacks.

  • Page 34: Base Sta Tion Op Er A Tion

    If the base sta tion is con nected to a 2-wire sys - - Set the base-station power switch to the on po si tion, by push - - tem, such as Clear-Com, RTS TW or AudioCom® ing the top of the switch. The in ter nal cool ing fan will start (Telex), set the in ter com to 2-wire.

  • Page 35: Dis Play Con Trast

    The con trast con trol is in ter - - nal to the WBS-680 unit near the front panel. The cover must be re moved for ac cess to this con trol. Please see Fig ure 30 for the lo ca tion.

  • Page 36: Main Screen Flowchart

    WBS-680 Menu Struc ture Main Screen Flowchart The fol low ing con tains the base sta tion menu struc ture and ref er ences the pages in which fur ther de tail of that menu may be found Power-Up Screen - Pg. 7-5...

  • Page 37: Power-Up Screen

    TA A&B = Beltpack Chan nel A and B Talk Around Ac tive (WTR-682 only) = Beltpack Stage An nounce Ac tive NOTE: Older ver sions of WBS-680 soft ware do not sup port the de tec tion of WTR-682 “Ch A&B” and “TA A&B” con trol tones.

  • Page 38: Group/Chan Nel Se Lect

    Group / Channel Select Group / Chan nel Se lect The Group/Chan nel se lect screen al lows the user to change the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of chan nels Group 14 Ch 01 on each re ceiver. Ch 02 Ch 03 •...

  • Page 39: Group/Fre Quency Se Lect

    Group / Fre quency Se lect Group / Frequency Select The Group/Fre quency se lect screen al lows a user to set the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of fre quen cies Group 15 715.000 on each re ceiver. Each fre quency dis played on the right half of 716.700 the screen corresponds to a chan nel num ber in the Group/Chan nel Screen.

  • Page 40: Fre Quency Edit

    Fre quency Edit Fre quency Edit (User-Programmed Groups Only) (User-Programmed Groups Only) This menu only oc curs for user-programmable groups or when copy ing to a user-programable group. The Fre quency Edit screen al lows the user to set the group trans mit fre quen cies and re ceive chan nel fre quen cies of a user-programmable group.

  • Page 41: Scan

    Scan Scan Scan per forms a fre quency scan of the fac tory-defined and any set-up user-programmable groups in or der to find the group with the high est num ber of clear re ceive chan nels. Af ter about 20-30 sec onds, the group with the high est num ber of clear re - - ceive chan nels will be dis played.

  • Page 42: Spe Cial Key Se Quences

    Spe cial Key Se quences Lock out Use De fault • • Press [UP]+[DOWN] for 3 sec onds to lock or un lock the Press [MENU] while turn ing on the base sta tion to en ter base sta tion. Pressing [MENU] will still func tion to view the 1 use de fault setup screen.

  • Page 43: Power/Lo Cal Head Set Vol Ume

    Beltpack Op er a tion WIRELESS POWER TALK AROUND BATTERY LOCAL HEADSET (WTA) CHECK VOLUME BAT/OM TALK WTR-680 TALK BUTTON CHANNEL TALK STAGE ANNOUNCE CHANNEL SELECT (SA) BUTTON WIRELESS STAGE ANNOUNCE TALK AROUND WTR-682 MICROPHONE (SA) (WTA) GAIN POWER/ POWER/ LOCAL LOCAL HEADSET...

  • Page 44: Wtr-680 Beltpack Menu Struc Ture

    WTR-680 Menu Struc ture Beltpack Menu Struc ture The fol low ing con tains the main beltpack menu struc ture and ref er - - ences the pages in which fur ther de tail of that menu may be found. All beltpack fea tures and spe cial key se quences can only be done from the group/channel screen.

  • Page 45: Power-Up Screens

    WTR-680 Menu Struc ture Power-Up Screens Power-Up Screens • The first screens dis played when the beltpack is pow ered up are the soft ware and chan nel map ver sion screens. S10001 • The 1 screen dis played in di cates the beltpack’s soft ware ver sion num ber.

  • Page 46: Group/Chan Nel Screen

    WTR-680 Menu Struc ture Group / Chan nel Screen Group / Chan nel Screen The Group/Chan nel screen al lows the user to change the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of trans mit chan nels. 03A 01 03A 01 •...

  • Page 47: Trans Mit Screen

    WTR-680 Menu Struc ture Trans mit Screen Trans mit Screen The Transmit screen al lows the user to set the beltpack trans - - mit fre quency. Fac tory-defined groups will al low only a set num ber of pre-defined fre quen cies to be se lected. User-programmable groups will al low the user to change the fre quency in 25kHz steps.

  • Page 48: Re Ceive 1 Screen

    WTR-680 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 1 Screen Re ceive 1 Screen The Receive 1 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re - - ceive 1 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans - - mit 1 fre quency.

  • Page 49: Re Ceive 2 Screen

    WTR-680 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 2 Screen Re ceive 2 Screen The Re ceive 2 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re - - ceive 2 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans - - mit 2 fre quency.
  • Page 50 WTR-680 Menu Struc ture Scan Scan Scan per forms a fre quency scan of the fac tory-defined and any set-up user-programmable groups in or der to find the clear est group. Af ter about 30 sec onds, the clear est group is dis played. A group is de fined by re ceive 1 and 2 fre quen cies.

  • Page 51: Wire Less Talk Around En Able/Disable

    WTR-680 Menu Struc ture HOLD [SET] AND PRESS [SA] Stage An nounce En able/Dis able • Press and hold [SET] then press the [SA] but ton to show the SA en able/dis able screen. The cur rent set ting of the fea ture is dis played on the LCD.

  • Page 52: Talk But Ton Latch On/Latch Off

    WTR-680 Menu Struc ture Disabling Audio Channel A Au dio Chan nel A or B Dis able/En able HOLD [SET] AND PRESS [CHAN] • Press and hold [SET] then press the [CHAN] but ton to show the chan nel en able/dis able screen. The cur rent set - ting of the fea ture is dis played on the LCD.

  • Page 53: Spe Cial Key Se Quences

    WTR-680 Menu Struc ture Spe cial Key Se quences Lock out • Press [UP]+[DOWN] for 3 sec onds to lock or un lock the beltpack. The words “Loc on” will be dis played when the fea ture is ac ti vated, “Loc oFF” will be dis played when the beltpack is un locked.

  • Page 54: Clearscan™

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Beltpack Menu Struc ture The fol low ing con tains the main beltpack menu struc ture and ref er - - ences the pages in which fur ther de tail of that menu may be found. All beltpack fea tures and spe cial key se quences can only be done from the group/channel screen.

  • Page 55: Power-Up Screens

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Power-Up Screens Power-Up Screens • The first screens dis played when the beltpack is pow ered up are the soft ware and chan nel map ver sion screens. S30001 • The 1 screen dis played in di cates the beltpack’s soft ware ver sion num ber.

  • Page 56: Group/Chan Nel Screen

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Group / Chan nel Screen Group / Chan nel Screen The Group/Chan nel screen al lows the user to change the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of trans mit chan nels. 03A 01 03A 01 •...

  • Page 57: Trans Mit Screen

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Trans mit Screen Trans mit Screen The Transmit screen al lows the user to set the beltpack trans - - mit fre quency. Fac tory-defined groups will al low only a set num ber of pre-defined fre quen cies to be se lected. User-programmable groups will al low the user to change the fre quency in 25kHz steps.

  • Page 58: Re Ceive 1 Screen

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 1 Screen Re ceive 1 Screen The Receive 1 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re - - ceive 1 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans - - mit 1 fre quency.

  • Page 59: Re Ceive 2 Screen

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 2 Screen Re ceive 2 Screen The Re ceive 2 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re - - ceive 2 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans - - mit 2 fre quency.

  • Page 60: Au Dio Output

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Au dio Output Au dio Output The Au dio Out put screen al lows the user to set the au dio out-put to Mono (Add) or Ste reo (SEP). This op tion only ap - - plies to beltpacks with 5 pin head set con nec tors.

  • Page 61: Scan

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Scan Scan Scan per forms a fre quency scan of the fac tory-defined and any set-up user-programmable groups in or der to find the clear est group. Af ter about 30 sec onds, the clear est group is dis played. A group is de fined by re ceive 1 and 2 fre quen cies.

  • Page 62: Stage An Nounce En Able/Disable

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Stage An nounce En able/Disable • Press and hold [SET] then press the [SA] but ton to show the SA en able/dis able screen. The cur rent set ting of the fea ture is dis played on the LCD display. CONTINUE TO HOLD [SET] AND PRESS [SA] •...

  • Page 63: Wire Less Talk Around

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture HOLD [SET] AND PRESS [WTA] Wire less Talk Around • Press and hold [SET] then press the [WTA] but ton to show the WTA menu screen. The cur rent set ting of the fea ture is dis played on the LCD dis play. The first screen CONTINUE TO HOLD [SET] AND PRESS [WTA] AGAIN to the right is cur rently set to a de fault of "A"...

  • Page 64: Au Dio Chan Nel A Options

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Au dio Chan nel A Options Au dio Chan nel A Options • HOLD [SET] AND PRESS [A] Press and hold [SET] then press the [A] but ton to show the chan nel "A" menu screen. The cur rent set ting of the button is dis played on the LCD dis play;...

  • Page 65: Au Dio Chan Nel B Op Tions

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Au dio Chan nel B Op tions Au dio Chan nel B Options HOLD [SET] AND PRESS [B] • Press and hold [SET] then press the [B] but ton to show the chan nel "B" menu screen. The cur rent set ting of the but ton is dis played on the LCD dis play;...

  • Page 66: Spe Cial Key Se Quences

    WTR-682 Menu Struc ture Spe cial Key Se quences Lock out • Press [UP]+[DOWN] for 3 sec onds to lock or un lock the beltpack. The words “Loc on” will be dis played when the fea ture is ac ti vated, “Loc oFF” will be dis played when the beltpack is un locked.

  • Page 67: Sys Tem Walk-Thru

    ection Sys tem Walk-Thru Now that you have suc cess fully “set-up” your Wire less In ter - - The “sys tem walk-thru” can de tect prob lem of weak sig nal com Sys tem and turned on any aux il iary equip ment, you are strength caused by: ready to test the over all per for mance by “Walking”...
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  • Page 69: Trou Ble Shooting

    ection Trou ble shooting Re read the sec tions of this man ual to make sure you have If you are un able to solve the prob lem, con tact the dealer from com pleted sys tem set-up prop erly. whom you pur chased the sys tem for as sis tance.
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  • Page 71: Tech Tips

    ection Tech Tips Fre quency In ter ac tion Un for tu nately, ra dio fre quency (RF) chan nels can not be ran - - Fig ure 33 dis plays the same gain set ting as in Fig ure 32 but domly se lected for use in ra dio de vices.
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  • Page 73: Bat Tery In For Ma Tion

    ection Bat tery In for ma tion Im proper bat tery se lec tion, use, in stal la tion and care are the Bat tery Life: cause of nu mer ous wire less sys tem fail ures. WTR-680 Al ka line Bat teries: Al ka line bat ter ies such as Mallory’s Al ka line, 12-14 Hours DURACELL®...
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  • Page 75 In ter com Sys tems Spec i fi ca tions COMMON Clear-Com In put Im ped ance: ..............200 POWER Out put Level:..........1.0 Vrms nom i nal Bridging Im ped ance: ............>10k Call Sig naling: Send:..............12 3 VDC AUDIO Re ceive: ..........4 VDC Min i mum Power Volt age: ..........30.0 VDC nom i nal...
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  • Page 77: Ac Ces Sories And Re Place Ment Parts

    ection Ac ces sories and Re place ment Parts Base Sta tion’s AN-680 ½ - Wave An tenna Part No. Band Color Fre quency AN-680/C 615-659.9 MHz AN-680/E Green 690-724.9 MHz AN-680/G Pink 515-548 MHz AN-680/H Brown 542-575 MHz AN-680/A Blue 520-564.9 MHz AN-680/D...
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  • Page 79 Non-Warranty Re pair Equip ment that is not un der Warranty must be sent pre paid to Clear-Com. If re quested, an es ti mate of re pair costs will be is sued prior to ser vice. Once re pair is ap proved and re pair of equip ment is com - pleted, the equip ment will be shipped freight col lect from the fac tory.
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  • Page 81 - lected. Clear-Com 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.
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  • Page 83: Limited Warranty

    The Clear-Com In ter com Sys tems Warranty does not cover any de fect, mal func tion, or fail ure caused be yond the con trol of Clear-Com, in clud ing un rea son able or neg li gent op er a tion, abuse, ac ci dent, fail ure to fol low in - struc tions in the man ual, de fec tive or im prop erly as so ci ated equip ment, at tempts at mod i fi ca tion and re pair not au tho rized by Clear-Com, and ship ping dam age.
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  • Page 86 Intercom Systems Clear-Com In ter com Sys tems 4065 Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA 94608-3505 • PN 803541Rev B FEB 2003 Made in U.S.A.

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