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  • Page 1 TitanSDR Receiver User Manual v.1.9e...
  • Page 2 Enablia S.r.l. (Italy) 2012 Before using the receiver, read carefully the Installation Manual and the User Manual. The symbol of the crossed out wheelie bin indicates that in the European Union this product, and all items marked with this symbol, cannot be disposed of as...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Recording of narrowband channels ............. 46 2.3.9 S-meter ....................... 48 2.3.10 Notch filter ....................48 3. Player Mode ................51 4. Advanced Operations .............. 55 4.1 Session saving and loading ..............55 4.1.1 Session saving .................... 56 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 4 4.5.4 Output Files Set ..................96 4.5.5 Storage ....................... 98 4.5.6 Session ......................99 5. Appendix .................. 100 5.1 Table of limiting wideband channels combinations ......100 5.2 Hotkeys to manage a narrowband channel ........101 TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    TitanSDR is an HF multi-channel receiver allowing up to four independent wideband channels within the 0-40MHz band and several narrowband channels (up to 8 and 40 in the TitanSDR and TitanSDR-Pro versions of the product, respectively), which can be tuned within wideband channels.

  • Page 6: User Interface Architecture

    On the Main Toolbar (Figure 3) there are a series of drop-down menus (File, Mode, NB List, Memory, Schedule, View, Options) that allow to access the features described in detail in Chapters 2, 3, 4 of this manual. Figure 3 - Main Toolbar TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 7 Figure 4 shows directions in which splitters can be dragged inside the user interface. Note the presence of splitters also within windows of Wideband and Narrowband Scope (see Chapter 1.2 for a detailed description). Figure 5 shows a screenshot of the user interface during typical operation. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 8: Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope And Narrowband Scope

    Waterfall Narrowband Scope Waterfall Vertical Slider Figure 5 - TitanSDR user interface Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope In this paragraph, the high-level structure of Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope is described. Panoramic Scope: It is composed of its own toolbar, a panoramic spectrum window and a reference bar representing the frequency axis.

  • Page 9: Software Startup

    (Figure 6). Figure 6 - View menu Software startup The user interface, shown in Figure 8, appears by double-clicking on the TitanSDR software icon (see Figure 7). Figure 7 - TitanSDR software icon TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 10 Figure 8 - User interface of TitanSDR TitanSDR can be operated in the following two modes:  Receiver Mode  Player Mode with the ability to switch between them without restarting the software. Receiver Mode: software allows to control the receiver and to manage all operations on radio channels (all of the functions of this mode are described in Chapter 2).

  • Page 11: Receiver Mode

    Figure 11 - USB button after connection Figure 12 - User interface after successful connection with receiver Panoramic Scope 2.1.1 Front End settings Receiver Front-end settings can be changed by the Front End controls group of the Panoramic Scope toolbar (Figure 13). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 12 RF attenuation can be set from 0dB to 30dB, in steps of 10 dB. Clicking on the second drop-down menu of the FrontEnd controls group, a list appears of attenuation values that can be selected (Figure 15). Default value is 0dB. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 13: Spectrum Settings

    Furthermore, in order to shift the displayed frequency interval, dragging of the frequency axis bar is also possible. Selection of windowing (for FFT) By clicking on the first drop-down menu of the Spectrum controls group, selection can be made of FFT windowing. (Figure 18). Default is “Blackman”. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 14 Zoom/dezoom aims to the frequency value corresponding to mouse cursor position on spectrum plot (Figure 20). Further click on zoom/dezoom buttons to disable the zoom function, restoring the standard mouse cursor. Figure 20 - Panoramic Scope spectrum TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 15 Panoramic Scope (Figure 24) and dragging it leftward or rightward, respectively. Figure 24 - Frequency axis bar of the Panoramic Scope TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 16: Management Of Wideband Channels

    Its position and frequency extent is represented by a colored shaded area on the Panoramic Scope spectrum (Figure 27), whilst its center frequency is indicated in the edit box of the WB Channels controls group (Figure 25). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 17 When more than one wideband channel has been allocated (Figure 28), a specific wideband channel can be selected by clicking on its name in the first drop-down menu of the WB Channels controls group (Figure 29). Figure 28 - Sample scenario with four wideband channels TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 18 The unit of measurement of the wideband channel center frequency can be selected by the second drop-down menu of the WB Channels controls group (Figure 31). Possible choices are: Hz, KHz or MHz . Figure 31 - Unit of measurement of WB channel center frequency TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 19: Wideband Scope

    By clicking on the drop-down menu of the Spectrum controls group, a list appears of possible averaging time periods that can be selected (Figure 34). Default setting is "NO AVG", meaning that spectra are plotted on the Wideband Scope without any averaging. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 20 Figure 35 - Wideband Scope spectrum and waterfall Buttons for frequency zoom/dezoom are shown in Figure 36 and are positioned within the Spectrum controls group of the Wideband Scope toolbar. Figure 36 - Zoom/dezoom buttons TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 21: Management Of Narrowband Channels

    The NB Channels controls group of the Wideband Scope toolbar (Figure 40) allows to perform the following operations:  allocation of a narrowband channel  selection of a previously allocated narrowband channel  deallocation (removal) of a narrowband channel. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 22 Wideband Scope spectrum (Figure 42), to the right of the yellow line, being USB the default mode. A narrowband channel allocation can also be directly achieved by mouse right clicking on Wideband Scope spectrum or waterfall in correspondence TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 23 Wideband Scope. Figure 43 - Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope. Rounded to whole hundres Hz, compare with Figure 41 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 24 A narrowband channel can be selected within the list of allocated channels, which appears (Figure 44) by clicking on the narrowband channels drop-down menu of the Wideband Scope toolbar (within the NB Channels controls group). Figure 44 - Narrowband channel selection by drop-down menu TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 25 Hz). Deallocation (removal) of narrowband channels The selected narrowband channel can be deallocated (removed) by clicking on the trash button of the NB Channels controls group (Figure 47). TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 26: Recording Of Wideband Channels

    50MB to 2GB (see par. 4.5.4 for details). Files names are assigned automatically (see par. 4.5.4 for details). TitanSDR provides the user the possibility of setting the upper limit to the filling of the hard disk. Ongoing recordings are stopped automatically when the available space set by the user is exceeded (see par.
  • Page 27 (see par. 4.5.5 for details). Figure 52 - Stop recording button TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 28: Narrowband Scope

    By selecting a narrowband channel (see par. 2.2.2 Selection of a narrowband channel), its spectrum and waterfall, as well as its controls, appear in the Narrowband Scope (Figure 54). Channel name is indicated at top left of window. Figure 54 - Narrowband Scope visualizing narrowband channel WB1-NB1 TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 29: Spectrum Settings

    The first drop-down menu of the Spectrum controls group allows to visualize the RF spectrum (before demodulation) or the spectrum of the demodulated audio signal (which results from the chosen mode/demodulator), by selecting “RF” or “Audio”, respectively (Figure 56). Figure 56 - RF/Audio selection TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 30 Figure 57 and Figure 58 show the Narrowband Scope for RF and Audio visualizations, respectively, after tuning of the narrowband channel to an AM transmission. Figure 57 - Narrowband Scope - RF visualization for an AM signal Figure 58 - Narrowband Scope - Audio visualization for an AM signal TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 31 Spectrum control group of the Narrowband Scope toolbar. Figure 60 – Zoom/dezoom buttons Figure 62 shows the Narrowband Scope after zooming the spectrum of Figure 61, by clicking on the zoom button (the one marked with a “+”). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 32 Figure 61 - Narrowband scope before zoom Figure 62 - Narrowband scope after zoom TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 33: Tuning Of Narrowband Channel

     Frequency shift buttons (of the Tuning controls group) Tuning by editing the carrier frequency The narrowband channel carrier frequency in the Edit box of Figure 64 can be edited and modified by keyboard. Figure 64 – Carrier frequency edit box TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 34 The unit of measurement of the narrowband channel carrier frequency can be selected by the drop-down menu of the Tuning controls group (Figure 67). Possible choices are: Hz, kHz or MHz . Figure 67 - Unit of measurement of narrowband channel carrier frequency TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 35: Demodulation Settings

    Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) g) Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) h) Extended Single Side Band Upper (eSSB-U) i) Extended Single Side Band Lower (eSSB-U) By clicking on button of Figure 68 is possible to select a specific mode. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 36 Enter or turning the mouse wheel up/down after selecting any one digit increasing/decreasing the bandwidth by (the frequency step of) a unitary increase/decrease of that digit. RF bandwidths for AM and NFM are bounded above by their audio sampling rate (see table above). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 37 Audio spectrum visualizations (the yellow line, representing the carrier in the RF spectrum, is indeed mapped to the 0 Hz value at the origin of Audio spectrum abscissa). Figure 69 - Audio spectrum visualization for USB mode TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 38 BFO Controls Group which appears when any of modes CW, FSK and DRM is selected (Figure 71);  Left clicking and dragging the grey shaded area of the Audio spectrum visualization. Figure 71 - BFO controls group BFO negative values are also supported. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 39: Listening Demodulated Audio

    2.3.6. After having chosen audio card, select the audio mode (Mono, Left or Right) by the drop-down menu of the Audio controls group ( Figure 75 Figure 75 – Audio mode selection TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 40: Gain Control

    Right audio mode for the second NB channel and play its audio.  2.3.5 Gain control The Gain controls group of the Narrowband Scope toolbar (Figure 79) appears by clicking on the expansion button shown in Figure 80 and allows to manage gain settings. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 41: Audio Streaming Through Virtual Audio Cables (Vac)

    Output controls group of the Narrowband Scope toolbar (Figure 82) appears by clicking on the expansion button shown in Figure 83 and allows to manage streaming of demodulated audio to other applications (e.g. software decoders) by VAC by clicking the VAC button. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 42 To start streaming, click on the play button (Figure 86). Figure 86 – Play button When streaming starts, the play button icon changes, symbolizing that streaming is on (Figure 87). Click again the same button to stop streaming. Figure 87 – Stop button TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 43: Audio Streaming By Lan

     Start and stop streaming on a TCP connection  Change parameters of an existing TCP connection  Remove a TCP connection  Configure Hoka CODE300 decoder based on an IP file  Request Hoka CODE300 decoder to generate an IP file TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 44 Start and stop streaming on a TCP connection To start streaming of the narrowband channel on a specific TCP connection, select the corresponding line of the table and click “Ok”. Figure 92 – Selection of a TCP connection TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 45 Figure 95 – Narrowband channel WB1-B1 on channel Left When streaming starts, the play button icon changes, symbolizing that streaming is on (Figure 96). Click again the same button to stop streaming. Figure 96 – Stop button TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 46: Recording Of Narrowband Channels

    (‘xyz’ being the logged user) or in user selected destination folder (see par. 4.5.4 for details). Files names are assigned automatically (see par. 4.5.4 for details). TitanSDR provides the user the possibility of setting the upper limit to the filling of the hard disk. Ongoing recordings are stopped automatically when the available space set by the user is exceeded (see par.
  • Page 47 If the user selected destination folder to record the narrowband channels is not detected at record button click a popup appears (Figure 100) warning that recording is ongoing in default folder “…\Documents\TitanSDR Archives\Wav” Figure 100 - Narrowband channel recording: warning popup for destination folder...

  • Page 48: S-Meter

    Notch 1 and Notch 2 control group (Figure 104) contains controls dedicated to the notch filter function: a checkbox to activate/deactivate the filter and two Edit box for bandwidth and center frequency both expressed in kHz. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 49 (the frequency step of) a unitary increase/decrease of that digit Center frequency can also be adjusted by mouse dragging In following the effect of notch filtering is shown on spectrum Figure 105 Figure 106 and waterfall TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 50 Figure 105 – Notch 1 activated and filtering tone at 5990 kHz Figure 106 – Notch 1 and Notch 2 activated and filtering tones at 5990 kHz and 6000 kHz, respectively TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 51: Player Mode

    Par. 2.2.3 describes how (in Receiver Mode) TitanSDR can record wideband channels into binary files (proprietary format) with extension .bin. As anticipated in par. 1.3, TitanSDR can be operated also in Player Mode, which allows to playback a wideband recording and to allocate narrowband channels on that recording, working with them as in Receiver Mode.
  • Page 52 C:\Users\xyz\Documents\TitanSDR Archives\WBChannels (‘xyz’ being the logged user name) or in user defined destination folder. Playback of recording split among several files can be started from any chunk and goes on until the last one (chunks pertaining to the same recording have the same name but the suffix “^000”...
  • Page 53 (Figure 113), the name of file played back, time elapsed and recording duration. Figure 113 – Wideband recording playback At this point, narrowband channels can be allocated performing the same steps taken in Receiver Mode (Figure 114). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 54 Clicking rightward/leftward double-arrow the recording playback continues/starts from the beginning of the next/previous chunck. Figure 115 – Double-arrow button to jump to the next/previous chunk TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 55: Advanced Operations

    4. Advanced Operations Session saving and loading In Receiver mode, TitanSDR allows to save session settings of receiver Front End, wideband channels and narrowband channels into session files, with extension .ssn. A session file includes:  receiver Front-End settings (see par. 2.1.1): selected preselection filter, input attenuation value and receiver input (HF or IF);...

  • Page 56: Session Saving

    Main Toolbar (Figure 116). Figure 116 – Session save selection In the browse window that opens, enter the session file name (default folder is C:\Users\xyz\Documents\TitanSDR\Sessions, ‘xyz’ being the logged user name) and click “Save” (Figure 117). Figure 117 – Browse window Whenever software disconnects from the receiver (e.g.

  • Page 57: Session Loading

    Main Toolbar (Figure 120). Figure 120 – Session selection In the browse window that opens, select session file to load (default folder is C:\Users\xyz\Documents\TitanSDR\Sessions, ‘xyz’ being the logged user name) and click “Open” (Figure 121). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 58 If not all VAC listed in session file are allocated the warning message of Figure 122 listing the missing ones appears: only installing them before click “Continue…” button allow the audio streaming through VAC of the relevant NB channels. Figure 122 -List of VAC not found by session TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 59: Nb Channels List

    By selecting a line, the Narrowband Scope switches to the corresponding narrowband channel, showing its controls and its spectrum/waterfall displays. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 60 Narrowband Scope. Each line of the NB Channels List contains the following fields:  Name (of narrowband channel)  Frequency (of carrier expressed in kHz)  Bandwidth (of channel expressed in kHz)  Mode (type of demodulator) TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 61: Memory Of Narrowband Channels

    Each row of the Memory List (Figure 127) contains the following fields:  Memory (name of)  Name (of narrowband channel, if allocated)  Frequency (of carrier expressed in kHz)  Bandwidth (of channel expressed in kHz)  Mode (type of demodulator) TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 62: Memorization

    First select or create a new group to which add the new memory than click Store button on Memory List window to open Store Frequency window (Figure 128) containing fields configuring narrowband channel to memorize: Frequency and Mode are fields to fill mandatory. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 63 (TitanSDR in Player mode and USB dongle plugged into USB a port – see chapter 3) or the receiver connected with software (TitanSDR in Receiver mode and USB button on Panoramic Scope clicked - see chapter 2).
  • Page 64 “Add” button pops-up the currently selected memory group (/Root in Figure 130) where the narrowband channel will be stored: to change the memory group open Memory List window and click on the desired group-node of tree structure. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 65 In order to memorize the other fields (Callsign, ITU, Station, User Description), click the “Set Info” button of the Memory controls group, edit them in the window that shows up (Figure 132) and click “Close”. Figure 132 – Setting of additional info TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 66: Allocation Of Memorized Channels

    By selecting whatever record (line) of the Memory List, a vertical yellow line appears on the Panoramic Scope spectrum window, in correspondence with the carrier frequency of the memorized channel (Figure 134). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 67 By dragging a wideband channel shaded area over the same yellow line, the corresponding line of the Memory List is rewritten with bold characters, meaning that the memorized channel can be allocated (Figure 135). Figure 135 – Wideband channel including Mem009 TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 68: Memory Settings Modifications

    Opening Memory List window, selecting a record (line) and clicking on Edit button (see Figure 136) pops up Edit Frequency window with all fields filled with memorized settings. Figure 136 – Record selection to modify memory settings TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 69 (TitanSDR in Player mode and USB dongle plugged into USB a port – see chapter 3) or the receiver connected with software (TitanSDR in Receiver mode and USB button on Panoramic Scope clicked - see chapter 2).

  • Page 70: Removal Of Memorized Channels

    New Group”. Selecting “Store…” opens “Store Frequency” window (Figure 128) the same that would open clicking “Store” button on “Memory List” window. Selecting “Add New Group” opens “New Group Naming” window (Figure 141) to assign a name to group added. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 71 Selecting a memory node and right clicking pops-up a menu in Figure 142:  “Edit…” – to change memory settings, analogous to “Edit…” button on “Memory List” window  “Remove” – to remove the selected memory, analogous to “Remove” button on “Memory List” window TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 72 (Figure 144). Clicking a record in the list highlight the corresponding memory node. Figure 143 – Memories listed by clicking SubGroup1_1 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 73 “Memory List” window. In 146-a,c is illustrated Mem007 and Figure Mem009 moving from SubGroup2 to Root Figure 145 – a – Mem007 and Mem009 selection Figure 146 – b – “Move memory…” opened clicking “Move to…” button TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 74: Scheduling Of Recordings

    Scheduling of recordings Both recording of wideband and narrowband channels can be scheduled. While TitanSDR takes care to start/stop recordings on scheduled channels, the other channels can be normally employed in parallel. This subject is divided in the following paragraphs: ...
  • Page 75 Figure 149 - Recording Schedule window In a similar way, to schedule recordings of a narrowband channel, click on the Schedule button (Figure 150) within the Rec controls group (of the expanded Narrowband Scope toolbar), to open its Recording Schedule window. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 76 Figure 151 - Task Editor window After entering all task’s data, click “Ok”: the new task is added to the Recording schedule window as a new line (Figure 152). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 77  If destination folder is not found (see par. 4.5.4 for details) recording takes place default folder C:\Users\xyz\Documents\TitanSDR Archives\WBChannels (‘xyz’ being the logged user name) for WB channel and in default folder C:\Users\xyz\Documents\TitanSDR Archives\Wav for NB channels TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 78: Task Editor Window

    In Example 2, the recording duration is 21 hours and start and stop are in consecutive days. Example 1: START DATE=14/11/2012 START TIME=8:00 STOP DATE=14/11/2012 STOP TIME=21:00 Duration: 13 hours DAY OF SCHEDULING: 03/11/2012 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 79 Figure 153 - Task Editor settings for Example 1 Example 2 START DATE=12/11/2012 START TIME=11:00 STOP DATE=13/11/2012 STOP TIME=06:00 Duration: 19 hours DAY OF SCHEDULING: 03/11/2012 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 80 Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 8:00 to 21:00 (Figure 155). Example 3: START DATE=10/11/2012 START TIME=8:00 STOP DATE=10/11/2012 STOP TIME=21:00 Duration: 13 hours TASK REPETITIONS ON: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday UNTIL DATE: 22/11/2012 DAY OF SCHEDULING: 03/11/2012 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 81 (not preceding the start day) which matches one of the days of week of interest (i.e. which are checked), that is Wednesday. The last day the task is executed is 22/11. Figure 155 - Task Editor settings for Example 3 TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 82: Managing Scheduled Channels

     Status (“Off” if channel is not allocated, “Enabled” if there are active tasks, “Disabled” if there aren’t active tasks) Scheduled recordings can be removed from the list by selecting them and clicking the “Remove” button. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 83 The settings of a task can be modified by the Task Editor window (see par. 4.4.2 for details), which shows up by selecting the task line on the Recording Schedule window and clicking the “Edit” button (Figure 158). Figure 158 - Task Editor window TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 84: Allocation Of Scheduled Channels

    In order to allocate a WB channel, select its line and click the “Allocate” button. Multiple selection of channels to allocate is also possible: they are allocated from the highest to the lowest of selection, until resources are available, after clicking the “Allocate” button once. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 85 (as expected), as well as the third line of Sch 006, meaning that for the allocation of this last channel there aren’t enough resources left (Figure 162). Figure 161 – Selection of second wideband channel TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 86 Channels window list, a blue vertical line appears on the Panoramic Scope spectrum in correspondence with its carrier frequency. This is the case of Sch 016 in Figure 163. Figure 163 – Selection of a scheduled narrowband channel TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 87 Sch 016. Figure 164 – Allocation and drag of a wideband channel To allocate the narrowband channel click the “Allocate” button. Figure 165 shows allocation of Sch 0016 of Figure 164. Figure 165 – Narrowband channel allocation TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 88: Options

    By selecting the Panoramic option, a list appears with the following items (Figure 167):  Labels  Centring  32 MHz  40 MHz Figure 167 – Items of Panoramic option Labels: by unchecking this item, the dB labels on the Panoramic Scope spectrum disappear. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 89: Wideband

    32MHz or 40MHz, respectively. 4.5.2 Wideband By selecting the Wideband option, a list appears with the following items (Figure 169):  Labels  Centring  Palette allowing to access the following submenu  Change  Setting  Range TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 90 “Bottom” slider set minimum signal level displayed keeping “Range” constant. Figure 170 - Wideband spectrum display set Palette Change: by selecting this item, a list appears of selectable palettes for the wideband waterfall display. TitanSDR provides a default set of 7 palettes. This set can extended user, putting *.pal...
  • Page 91 Figure 171 – Custom palette setting Palette Range: unchecking this item after having chosen the “Custom” palette setting, makes both the colors map and the horizontal yellow lines (marking the amplitude range between bottom and top palette colors) disappear. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 92: Narrowband

    Narrowband spectrum display. “Range” slider set the difference between maximum and minimum signal level displayed on Narrowband spectrum: slider mouse drag changes maximum displayed signal level keeping constant minimum level. “Bottom” slider set minimum signal level displayed keeping “Range” constant. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 93 Figure 173 - Narrowband spectrum display set Palette Change: by selecting this item, a list appears of selectable palettes for the narrowband waterfall display. TitanSDR provides a default set of 7 palettes. This set extended user, putting *.pal files within C:\Users\xyz\Documents\TitanSDR\pal (‘xyz’...
  • Page 94 (see par. 2.2.2) Set modes bandwidth: opens the window of Figure 175 to set the default values of the RF bandwidths for each mode. New settings only apply to narrowband channels allocated after closing “Modes Default Bandiwdth” window. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 95 Figure 175 - Set of default RF bandwidths Set default volume: opens the window in Figure 176 to set the default volume for audio and VAC to apply to each narrowband channel allocated. Figure 176 – Default audio and VAC volume setting TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 96: Output Files Set

    Files names (*.bin and *.wav for wideband and narrowband recordings, respectively) are assigned automatically and result from concatenation of various possible fields. Figure 177 - Output Files Customization window TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 97  carrier frequency in Hz (of narrowband channel)  mode (of demodulation)  BFO (frequency) Time of fields “start rec time” and “stop rec time” can be UTC or local time (of PC), based on corresponding selection. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 98: Storage

    Minimum percentage of hard disk size to be left free can be entered in the edit box. Ongoing (wideband and/or narrowband) recordings are automatically stopped if hard disk free space becomes lower than this minimum. Figure 178 - HD Space Limiting TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 99: Session

    Figure 179 – Save session message To circumvent the save session message, deselect “Ask for saving”, after choosing “Session” from the “Options” drop-down menu of the Main Toolbar (Figure 180). Figure 180 – Options drop-down menu TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 100: Appendix

    Table below provides possible combinations of WB channels, which make maximum use of resources (i.e. when these combinations are realized, no more WB channels can be allocated) No. of WB channel size (kHz) 312,5 625,5 937,5 1250 1562,5 1875 2187,5 TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 101: Hotkeys To Manage A Narrowband Channel

    Ctrl + ‘:’ Increase gain when AGC manual Ctrl + ‘;’ Decrease gain when AGC manual Ctrl + o Select Audio/VAC/LAN output Ctrl + x Widen/narrow Narrowband Scope panel Ctrl + s Click “Set” button in “Output” group TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 102 NABLIA Enablia S.r.l. Via Nicostene, 20 00124 – ROMA Tel. +39.06.7259.4065 E-Mail: enablia@enablia.com www.enablia.com TitanSDR – User Manual...

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