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P a g e Salcom Product Documentation This document is designed to familiarize you with Salcom products and guide you through the hardware, configuration, installation and overall system management. Salcom is an environmentally conscious company and in an effort to conserve paper no longer prints manuals with shipped products.
P a g e Warranty and Disclaimer Salcom products are warranted for a period of 12 months from the date of purchase against faulty materials and workmanship. Should any fault occur the unit should be returned to the vendor, freight pre-paid. Please include a description of the fault to assist with prompt return. Any unauthorised alterations or repairs will invalidate the warranty.
The 12-38-0000 has an on-board SD card which is used to store the configuration of a unit, this allows for ease of copying a configuration between units e.g. to replicate a system, the capturing of log files and storage of audio wave files.
Speaker / AV Out Output1 and 2 are Open Collector and Inputs 1, 2 and 3 are triggered by grounding the pins. 12-38-0000 VHF AND UHF TRANSCEIVER Product Manual Sea Air and Land Communications Ltd, 10 Vanadium Place, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand...
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;Tx Frequency set the Transit Frequency in Hz the command description ;+20=456675000 an example for the correct format +20=456675000 the actual parameter set 12-38-0000 VHF AND UHF TRANSCEIVER Product Manual Sea Air and Land Communications Ltd, 10 Vanadium Place, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand February 2019...
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It is also important to keep the deviation to ±4kHz to avoid getting into the compression range. Then press ‘Program’ in the ‘Configuration’ section to save the settings. 12-38-0000 VHF AND UHF TRANSCEIVER Product Manual Sea Air and Land Communications Ltd, 10 Vanadium Place, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand...
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P a g e Salcom Protocol Salcom protocol takes the basic form: PPXXXXXXXsLsMMMMMM<CR>, where: is either CA (512 baud alpha), CN (512 baud numeric), ca (1200 baud alpha), or cn (1200 baud numeric). is a 7 digit RIC code. is a space.
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Usage: SN?<CR> Description: Retrieve unit serial number and firmware revision Example: SN?<CR> Response: SALCOM 12-38-0000 VX.XX 5122345<CR><LF> 12-38-0000 VHF AND UHF TRANSCEIVER Product Manual Sea Air and Land Communications Ltd, 10 Vanadium Place, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand February 2019...
Poor supply voltage transmission RF interference (the unit will also report an error on the terminal port) 12-38-0000 VHF AND UHF TRANSCEIVER Product Manual Sea Air and Land Communications Ltd, 10 Vanadium Place, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand February 2019...
P a g e | 10 Technical Specification Technical Specification 12-38-0000 – VHF / UHF Transceiver Frequency Range 136 - 174MHz - VHF (Model No. 12-38-0150) 440 - 470MHz - UHF (Model No. 12-38-0450) Frequency Selection User configurable Power Supply +13.8V typical (11 to 15 VDC range)
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Extruded aluminium Colour Matt black Type Approvals AS/NZS 4295: 2004 (RF) AS/NZS 4769.1:2000 + Amendment 1:2002 (RF) 12-38-0000 VHF AND UHF TRANSCEIVER Product Manual Sea Air and Land Communications Ltd, 10 Vanadium Place, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand February 2019...
P a g e | 12 How to Contact Us Sea Air and Land Communications (Salcom) Ltd 10 Vanadium Place Addington Christchurch 8024 New Zealand +64 (0)3 379 2298 W: www.salcom.com support@salcom.com sales@salcom.com 12-38-0000 VHF AND UHF TRANSCEIVER Product Manual...