Configuring The Rf Communications; Rf Channel Selection - Honeywell XYR 5000 Series User Manual

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5.

Configuring the RF Communications

Warning! If the Transmitters have been running for an extended
period of time with no signal from the Base Radio (the Base
Radio is off or not present), the Transmitters will only search for
the Base Radio every one hour or so. Turning the Transmitters
off and back on will cause them to begin searching
immediately.
5.1.
Rev 5
08/06
In order for the Transmitter and the Base Radio to communicate,
they must be on the same RF Channel and must be transmitting at
the same Baud Rate. While all Transmitters and Base Radios are
set to default configurations at the factory, if any configuration
differences are present, the Base Radio will not be able to
communicate with the Transmitters. The subsections are as follows:

5.1: RF Channel Selection

5.2: Baud Rate Selection
5.3: RF Identification Selection
RF Channel Selection
The RF Channel defines a set of frequencies on which
communication takes place between the Base Radio and the
Transmitter. Each RF Channel has a different set of frequencies,
thus allowing the user to have multiple different wireless networks
co-existing throughout the same facility.
All Base Radios and Transmitters can be set to one of 16 different
RF channels. The only Transmitters recognized by a particular Base
Radio are the units that are on the same RF Channel as that Base
Radio. This allows the user to decide which Transmitters
communicate with each Base Radio.
The RF Channel can be thought of as a set of walkie-talkies. If both
walkie-talkies are on channel one they can communicate. If a
walkie-talkie is on channel one and the other is on channel two, they
cannot communicate. Likewise, if two walkie-talkies are on channel
one and two other walkie-talkies are on channel two, the walkie-
talkies on channel one cannot hear what is being transmitted by the
walkie-talkies on channel two.
Each Transmitter comes from the factory with the RF Channel set to
OFF. This means the Transmitter will not communicate to any Base
Radio. To set the Transmitter for communication, first determine the
channel that you want to use. Then follow the Transmitter menu
map shown in Figure 5-1 to configure the RF Channel.
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