Wordclock/10 Mhz Sync Reference - Orban OPTIMOD-FM 8500S Operating Manual

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INSTALLATION

Wordclock/10 MHz Sync Reference

carriers) above 23 kHz. Below 5 kHz, sensitivity rolls off at 6 dB/octave to
suppress hum that might otherwise be introduced into the subcarrier in-
puts, which are unbalanced.
The subcarrier inputs are mixed into the 8500S's composite output in the
analog domain, after D/A conversion of the 8500S stereo encoder's out-
put. Rear-panel accessible PC-board-mounted trim pots allow the user to
adjust the sensitivities of the two SCA inputs from <100 mV p-p to >10 V
p-p to produce 10% injection with respect to 100% modulation = 4 V p-p
at the 8500S's composite outputs. (The factory setting is 4 V p-p to pro-
duce 10% injection.)
As shipped from the factory, the second SCA connector emits a stereo pilot tone
reference for RDS or RBDS subcarrier generators. If you wish to reconfigure it to ac-
cept an SCA signal, move the link on jumper J6 (on the Composite/SCA daughter-
board) from pins 3 and 4 to pins 1 and 2.
To access J6, remove the 8500S's top cover according to the instructions
in step 1 on page 4-2. The schematic showing J6 is on page 6-38.
Connect your subcarrier generator(s) to the 8500S's subcarrier input(s) with coaxial
cable terminated with BNC connectors.
The subcarrier inputs have greater than 600Ω load impedance and are
unbalanced. The sensitivity of both inputs is user-adjustable from <100
mV p-p to >10 V p-p to produce 10% injection with respect to 100%
modulation = 4 V p-p at the 8500S's composite outputs. (The factory set-
ting is 4 V p-p to produce 10% injection.)
VR1 and VR2 on the Composite/SCA daughterboard set the sensitivity of
SCA1 IN and SCA2 IN respectively and are accessible on the rear panel.
You can use the 19K R
erence output will be in-phase (0 DEG) with the pilot tone present in the composite
output or will lead it by 90 degrees (90 DEG). 0 DEG is correct for most installations.
Use 90 DEG only if your RDS/RBDS generator's 19 kHz reference input specifically re-
quires this phase relationship.
The sync reference input accepts a 1x 5V p-p squarewave wordclock signal or a
10 MHz sinewave or squarewave signal, 0.5 to 5 V peak. A menu item allows you to
synchronize the output sample frequency to the frequency present at the sync. The
connector is a female BNC with the shell grounded to chassis.
To permit daisy-chaining sync signals, the input impedance is greater than 1 KΩ. If
the 8500S is the last device driven by the sync coaxial cable, you should terminate it
by using a BNC Tee connector and a 75Ω BNC terminator. This will prevent perform-
ance-degrading reflections in the cable. This is required for both wordclock and
AES11id operation.
WARNING: Do not apply an AES3 or AES3id signal to this input. Doing so will even-
tually cause your Optimod to suffer a "communications board error."
control in Setup to determine whether the 19 kHz pilot ref-
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