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- Page 1 RBRX Encore REBROADCAST RECEIVER USERS MANUAL version 0.26 (rev 2) www.bwbroadcast.com...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Contents 1. The RBRX encore ................3 2. Warranty ................... 4 3. Safety ....................6 4. Front and rear panels ..............9 5. User Interface ................. 10 5.1 Navigating the menu ..................10 5.2 Editing a parameter ..................11 5.3 Editing a text field .................. -
Page 3: The Rbrx Encore
The RBRX encore The award winning RBRX1 was widely regarded as the best rebroadcast receiver on the market, so improving on it has been no easy task. The RBRX encore offers all the features of the RBRX1 - and then some. -
Page 4: Warranty
30 days of receipt of the product at BW Broadcast. If the product needs to be modified or adapted in order to comply with applicable technical or safety standards on a national or local level,... - Page 5 BW Broadcast. Claims for damages Failure of BW Broadcast to provide proper warranty service shall not entitle the buyer to claim (consequential) damages. In no event shall the liability of BW Broadcast exceed the invoiced value of the product.
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Page 6: Safety
Compliance PCS number WEE/P3438PR/ SCH and has been issued with WEE/FA0268RX as its unique producer ID by the appropriate environment agency. BW Broadcast Ltd full comply with it explicit responsibilities, subject to WEEE Collections Policy outlined in their General Terms and Conditions of Sale, when it sells Electrical and... - Page 7 This appliance been designed manufactured with high quality materials components that recycled reused. Electronic appliances are liable to contain parts that are necessary in order for the system to work properly but which can become a health and environmental hazard if they are not handled and disposed of in the proper way.
- Page 8 Cleaning: The appliance should be cleaned only as recommended by the manufacturer. Non-use Periods: The power cord of the appliance should be unplugged from the outlet when left unused for a long period of time. Object and Liquid Entry: Care should be taken so that objects do not fall and liquids are not spilled into the enclosure through openings.
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Page 9: Front And Rear Panels
Front and rear panels Rear panel: Analog audio Analog MPX inputs AES/EBU Digital GPIO Mains power inputs audio antenna input and output connector connector. Pin 1 0v outputs outputs inputs Pin 1 0v Ethernet (see 90-260v AC, 25w Pin 2 +ve Pin 1 0v Pin 2 +ve (LAN) -
Page 10: User Interface
User Interface 5.1 Navigating the menu encore has an intuitive interface based around six buttons and RBRX a pushable scroll knob. The knob is surrounded by a ring of LEDs. The buttons are ‘soft keys’, and perform various functions, denoted by icons shown adjacent to them in the displays;... -
Page 11: Editing A Parameter
While navigating the menus, if an ‘info’ help-text is available for that parameter, the ‘ ’ symbol will illuminate next to softkey 5. Pressing this softkey will show the info; pressing it again (or pressing ‘back’) will dismiss the info. encore boasts a unique feature, ‘Context Sensitive Metering’. -
Page 12: The Displays
5.4 The displays encore When the is powered up, the left screen will show the tuner RBRX status display: The frequency, signal strength, deviation level, pilot level and RDS PS information of the station(s) being received by the two internal tuners. Pressing the >... -
Page 13: Installation
Installation encore is extremely versatile, and be used in a number of RBRX ways: • Monitor receiver; • Rebroadcast receiver; • Stereo coder; • RDS generator; • A combination of these! Please see section 10 for a comprehensive routing diagram. -
Page 14: Quick Setup
6. Quick Setup 6.1 Configuring as a monitor receiver 1. From the home screen, highlight ‘presets’ and push the knob to enter the presets submenu. 2. Preset 1 will be highlighted, along with the frequency that tuner 1 is currently set to. Press the knob to enter the preset 1 submenu. 3. -
Page 15: Configuring As A Rebroadcast Receiver
6.2 Configuring as a rebroadcast receiver …with the received composite audio feeding the transmitter. 1. Carry out actions 1 through 3 in Section 6.2 above, to set tuner 1 to the frequency of the transmission you wish to rebroadcast. 2. From the home screen, enter the ‘system’ menu and navigate to the ‘audio i/o’... -
Page 16: Configuring As A Stereo Generator
Connect the rear-panel ‘mpx1 output’ socket to your transmitter, and connect a receive antenna to the rear panel ‘FM 1 IN’ connector. encore Of course, if you’re using the as a rebroadcast receiver, you RBRX can still configure it as a monitor at the same time. You could also configure the audio and/or headphone outputs to carry audio from tuner 2, which could be on another frequency, including the frequency you’re transmitting, so you can hear your transmitted audio! - Page 17 And that’s it. encore A more detailed description of the configuration of the RBRX follows:...
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Page 18: System Configuration
System Configuration The ‘system’ menu This menu contains all the fundamental unit configuration settings, and should encore be the first place you go after taking the out of its box! RBRX These settings are particular to the installation, perhaps the transmitter site itself, as opposed to the following ‘presets’... -
Page 19: Audio I/O
7.1 ‘audio i/o’ Within this there are two submenus – ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’. ‘inputs’ allows you to set the operating level of the unit when referenced to the rest of your installation. For both analog and digital reference level, please set these to your maximum normal operating level. For example, if you will be feeding analog audio into the unit that may reach but never exceed +12dBu, set the ‘analog ref level’... -
Page 20: Mpx Generator
pilot tone mpx 1 out level: 0dBu to +12dBu** mpx 2 source: none mpx in 1* tuner 1 mpx* tuner 2 mpx* mpx generator pilot tone mpx 2 out level: 0dBu to +12dBu** headphones source: none analog audio digital audio tuner 1 audio tuner 2 audio test tone... -
Page 21: Events
The audio clipper protects the mpx generator from peak excursions and overshoots in the source audio. It is distortion-cancelling and anti-aliased. Furthermore, there is an ‘overshoot compensator’ which handles any overshoots from the main clipper, and restricts the audio bandwidth to 15kHz. The mpx generator menu contains the following parameters: source: none... - Page 22 The system is designed in a very intuitive, conversational way. “When this happens, for this long, do these things. Then when it’s stopped for this long, do that.” In the ‘events’ menu, the first sub-menu is ‘GPO pin config’. In this section, with the ‘mode’...
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Page 23: Time
3. Then select what ‘condition’ should cause the trigger – more than, less than or in some cases equal to or not equal to. 4. Next, set the ‘value’ – the range here varies according to the trigger type. 5. Next is the time to wait after triggering before the event is activated (for example, wait for 15 seconds of silence before activating the event). -
Page 24: Users
time: Allows manual setting of date and time. ntp: off / on (whether to use ntp or not) update now: ‘run’ – pressing this forces an immediate update of system time via the ntp server. host: the ntp hostname, e.g pool.ntp.org or an IP address. - Page 25 01@stationname.com mail method: ‘bw’ to allow the unit to send emails via the BW Broadcast monitoring system; ‘smtp’ if you wish to send the emails via your own smtp server; (if ‘smtp’ is selected, further settings will appear allowing you to specify the name of this server, it’s authentication...
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Page 26: About
7.7 ‘about’ A display of unit details, serial number, hardware and software versions etc. This information may be requested by a BW Broadcast support technician if you need live assistance. 7.7.1 Restart and Factory Reset There is also a ‘restart’... - Page 27 – which should be left set to ‘auto’ unless otherwise advised by a BW Broadcast support technician. 7.8 easter egg ...see if you can find one!
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Page 28: Presets Configuration
Presets Configuration 8.1 The ‘presets’ menu This menu can be thought of the same way as a set of presets on a car radio or regular hifi tuner. These settings are particular to the stations or frequencies being received. From the home screen, highlight the ‘presets’ button, and press the knob. You will be presented with the following screen: This shows the list of presets –... -
Page 29: Loading A Preset
If multiple statuses are active, the priority is: A, S, *, In addition, in this screen, softkey 5 shows the symbol. Pressing this will display extra information about the highlighted preset, such as tuner 2 frequency, RDS station name (if available) and date/time the preset was created and last used. -
Page 30: Editing A Preset
8.1.2 Editing a preset To edit a preset, scroll to it and press the knob. This action will load the preset too – as the configuration is actually edited ‘live’. As soon as a preset is modified, an asterisk * appears in the status block, and softkey 6 displays the undo icon. -
Page 31: Tuner 1' And 'Tuner 2
second tuner is going to be used to receive a second frequency as a backup (obviously you’d only have to change the tuner’s frequency then). Diversity Sub-menu which contains ‘diversity active yes/no switch and the ability to adjust diversity weightings. Please see section 8.4, below, for a detailed explanation of this powerful feature. - Page 32 merely modifies stereo separation to mask the effects of the poor signal. Parameters are: time: Defines the weak signal handling for the level detector and noise/multipath detectors. mod: Enables modulation dependency and sets sensitivity. level: Sets level sensitivity and enables slow and fast timing. noise: Sets noise sensitivity and timing.
- Page 33 min: optionally defines the minimum amount of blend, as realised in good signal conditions. The ‘fmsi’ alternative introduces an advanced, multiband processing system for recovering good audio quality and stereo performance from weak or noisy signals. The parameters are: blend time: Defines the weak signal handling response times. blend gain: Defines the weak signal handling sensitivity for the four available audio bands.
- Page 34 Please note that since Stereo Improvement (fmsi) operates in the demodulated audio domain, its benefits are not available if you select ‘tuner mpx’ as a source for one of the mpx outputs. Even if you are using an mpx output to feed your transmitter, we recommend selecting ‘mpx generator’ as the source for the mpx output, and ‘tuner 1(or 2) audio’...
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Page 35: Rds
8.3 ‘rds’ This submenu allows you to set the RDS/RBDS parameters of the mpx/composite output signals. It’s very clever, in that it allows you, if you wish, to use some of the RDS parameters being received, and others locally generated. This means that you could, for example, set a slightly different PS (station name) for the rebroadcasted signal, so you can tell by looking at the radio’s display which particular transmitter you’re tuned to, or to alter the AF... - Page 36 pi source: local locally-specified PI code. rec’d received PI code. enter local PI code. ps source: local locally specify PS (station name). rec’d use received PS. enter local PS. stereo source: local locally specify ‘stereo’ setting. rec’d use received ‘stereo’ setting. stereo: off/on setting to use if ‘local’...
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Page 37: Diversity
rec’d use received ptyn setting. ptyn: ‘qwerty’ keyboard allows entry of more specific pty name. rt source: local locally specify Radio Text info. rec’d use received RT info. Radio Text info to use if ‘local’ selected. allows entry of alternative frequency list. 8.4 ‘diversity’... - Page 38 If you wish to use the diversity feature, please switch ‘diversity’ to ‘on’, in the menu at presets | preset x (see section 8.0), and select ‘diversity’ in the source selections for the mpx generator source and the audio output sources, as appropriate, as described in Section 7 of this manual.
- Page 39 This concludes the description of the ‘preset’ menu. Take a few moments rest, you’ve earned it! ..The next section shows the encore menu tree. RBRX...
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Page 40: Menu Tree
Menu Tree [Values in square brackets are the factory defaults.] system audio i/o inputs analog ref level (-18dBu to +12dBu) [4dBu] digital ref level (-30dBFS to -10dBFS) [-20dBFS] mpx1 in level (0 to +12dBu) [0dBu] outputs an output source (none/analog audio/digital audio/[tuner 1 audio]/tuner2 audio/diversity/test tone) an output level (-18dBµ... - Page 41 condition (equal to/not equal to) or (more than/less than) value (on/off) or (value appropriate to trigger) for this time (0 to 60s) revert (yes/no/delay) delay time (0 to 12s) load preset (F1 to F4 and U1 to U8) set/change (none/analog out src/digital out src/mp1 out src/mpx2 out src/mpx gen src) (dependent on choice above) set GPO pin...
- Page 42 snmp enable (off/on) port community read only (off/on) name description telnet active (off/on) port logging serial (on/off) file (on/off) filename/location (off/on) udpip udpport test logging run (command) RS232 active (yes/no) baudrate (9600/19200/57600/38400/115200) about product serial# bootloader hardware os ver media engine ver front panel ver power supply ver lock...
- Page 43 min bandwidth (56-114kHz) nominal bandwidth (151-311kHz) ctrl sensitivity (50-150%) ll sensitivity (50-150%) attack (150-440uS) boost on mod (50 to 100kHz) stereo blend time slow attack (60 to 2000mS) slow release (0.12s to 12.5s) fast attack (1 to 120mS) fast release (2 to 500mS) mode (off/on) start...
- Page 44 blend time attack (10 to 1000mS) decay (10 to 1000mS) blend gain band 1..4 (50-150%) blend bias band 1..4 (-25 to +25%) softmute time slow attack (0.06 to 2s) slow release (0.12 to 12.5s) fast attack (1 to 120mS) fast release (2 to 500mS) level mode (off/on)
- Page 45 min mode (off/on) min limit (30-500Hz) encoding rds/rbds source off/local/rec’d/custom pi source local/rec’d 0000 ps source local/rec’d stereo source local/rec’d artificial head source local/rec’d artificial head off/on compressed source local/rec’d compressed source off/on dynamic pty source local/rec’d dynamic pty off/on ta source local/rec’d off/on...
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Page 46: Routing Diagram
Routing Diagram Please see below for an audio, RF and RDS data routing diagram. encore! This can help you understand the enormous capabilities of the RBRX... -
Page 48: Technical Specification
Technical Specification FM TUNER (Dual) Inputs 2 x 50 ohm, BNC female Tuning range 65-108MHz in 50kHz or 100kHz steps IF bandwidth 56kHz - 311kHz dynamic or fixed De-emphasis 75µs, 50µs or Off SNR (Mono/Stereo) -79dB / -60dB THD (Mono/ Stereo) 0.011% / 0.16% Stereo Separation >50dB... - Page 49 This page intentionally left blank. You can write your shopping list here if you like.