Contents The Encore Family The DSPXmpX Encore Warranty Safety Front & Rear Panels User Interface Installation & Operation System Configuration Presets Configuration Menu Structure Routing and Block Diagram Technical Specification...
About Encore Welcome to the Encore family! Encore is a modern, high-quality range of products designed around a common hardware and software platform. The Encore family includes: Audio processors § RDS coders § Stereo generators § Rebroadcast receivers § Audio backup devices §...
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All product-specific settings are contained within the ‘Presets’ menu – providing an automobile radio -like interface which works just as well for profiles in an RDS encoder as it does for settings in an audio processor, a modulation monitor or rebroadcast receiver. The web remote control interface is common across all products, as is the API and the internal language, so it’s simple to interface the whole Encore range of products with your common monitoring and telemetry system.
IP-delivered STL. Most standard stereo generators have a single MPX output connection socket. The DSPmpX Encore has two independent MPX outputs - one can be set to output just a pilot tone for synchronization purposes.
Broadcast shall, at its sole discretion, either repair or replace the product. If the warranty claim proves to be justified, the product will be returned to the user. The freight will be paid by BW Broadcast within the first 2 years, thereafter freight will be the responsibility of the customer. Warranty claims other than those indicated above are expressly excluded.
WEEE COMPLIANCE BW Broadcast Ltd is registered with Northern 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 Electronic Equipment (EEE) to B2B customers in the UK and EU.
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DETAILED SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS: All the safety and operation instructions should be read before the appliance is operated. Retain Instructions: The safety and operating instructions should be retained for future reference. Heed Warnings: All warnings on the appliance and in the operating instructions should be adhered to. Follow instructions: All operation and user instructions should be followed.
Front & Rear Panels The Encore range uses several versions of the front panel, each using similar components and featuring the same method of operation. Headphone OLED displays for Multicolour LED Scroll knob, LED ring and output for high matrixes for level menu system and buttons for control and quality audio...
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Note: Some connectors on the rear panel are non-functional where appropriate to the product 5 - 2...
User Interface NAVIGATING Encore products have an intuitive interface based around a pushable scroll knob, surrounded by a ring of LEDs, with a series of buttons. Some products have three buttons, some five and some six. The buttons can be ‘soft keys’, and perform various functions denoted by icons shown adjacent to them in the displays, or may be function-specific - in which case the buttons are illuminated with the following symbols: ONLINE...
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The icons that can be shown against the softkeys are as follows: If the ‘scroll screen left’ or ‘right’ icons are displayed, this indicates that there are additional screens available. Pressing these buttons slides the displays to and from these other screens. ‘Back’...
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EDITING A PARAMETER To edit a parameter, navigate to it in the menu using the knob - square brackets [ … ] will surround the currently highlighted parameter. Press the knob to select the parameter, then rotate the knob to change it. Changes happen immediately as you turn the knob;...
Installation & Operation DSPmpX Encore can be installed at your transmitter site, directly feeding the exciter: 7.1 QUICK SETUP Install the DSPmpX Encore into the rack; the unit should be mounted in a grounded, 19” (483mm) equipment rack. While the...
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The analog audio inputs and outputs are balanced XLR connectors (pin 2 +ve) and can range from peak levels of -10dBu to +24dBu. The menus in the DSPmpX Encore will be used to calibrate the audio levels to suit your facility.
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THE DISPLAYS When the DSPmpX Encore is powered up, the OLED screen will show the ‘home screen’: The three buttons available on the home screen are ‘system’, ‘sleep’ and ‘presets’. The ‘system’ and ‘presets’ menus are described sections 8 and 9 of this manuscript.
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OPERATION 7.3.1 Using DSPmpX Encore after a coded STL If the DSPmpX Encore is to be fed by a coded (compressed) STL system, which itself is fed by an audio processor, there are some things to be aware of. If you’re using clipping in the FM audio processor (which you almost certainly are), clipping products (harmonics) will alias in the encoder and will also cause the encoder to “waste bits”...
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If you drive it to 0dBfs, the overshoots will get clipped and will increase distortion. 7.3.2 The DSPmpX Encore and its processing structure The DSPmpX Encore stereo generator is intended to be used for FM radio broadcast. Input selection and conditioning: The DSPmpX Encore offers input selection –...
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THE SYSTEM MENU This menu contains all the fundamental unit configuration settings, and should be the first place you go after taking the Encore out of its box! These settings are peculiar to the installation, perhaps the transmitter site itself, as opposed to the following ‘Presets’...
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8.1 AUDIO I/O (Certain menu items are omitted in some products in the Encore range). 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.
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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 diversity Headphone level: 0 to 100% For convenience, the headphone source and headphone level settings are duplicated...
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Source: none analog audio digital audio tuner 1 audio tuner 2 audio diversity test tone Preemphasis: 50uS, 75uS, off. Pilot level: 0 to 12% in 0.1% increments RDS level: 0 to 5% in 0.1% increments Audio clip drive 0 to 12 O-sh compensate drv -3 to 9 (overshoot compensation drive)
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The other option available in this menu is ‘polarity’ – where you can set each pin to output either active Hi-Z (high impedance) or active low (i.e. connected to 0v). The Events and Triggers port pinouts are: Next is the list of the 8 available events, each of which can perform a variety of actions when triggered.
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both tuners, so in this case there’s no way the Encore can know when or if the event trigger has ended. When you’re happy with the event setup, return to the top of the event menu, and switch it to ‘active’. Exit from the ‘events’...
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Encore: Sender: the email address of the Encore, e.g encore- 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;...
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This submenu shows values of current hardware parameters: PSU voltage; PSU current; PSU power; fan voltage; fan state; temperature; plus fan speed control – which should be left set to ‘auto’ unless otherwise advised by a BW Broadcast support technician.
This menu can be thought of the same way as a set of presets on a car radio or standard hi-fi tuner. In the DSPmpX Encore, the presets allow you to store 8 full sets of data for the in-built RDS generator, which may be useful if you need to alter the transmitted RDS data for example, when playing commercials or if your station opts in and out of network programming.
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LOADING A PRESET To load a preset, scroll to it using the knob, when your desired preset is highlighted, press softkey 6 – which you may have noticed is now displaying a ‘tick’ icon. Or you can scroll to the preset and press the knob – this will load the preset and enter preset edit mode.
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Stereo: off/on Decoder mode; Artificial Head: off/on Decoder mode (usually off); Compressed: off/on Decoder mode (usually off); Dynamic pty: off/on Indicates whether pty changes (usually off); off/on Traffic announcement currently live; off/on Traffic Programs carried; music/speech Optional parameter; ptyrds: Program type for rds (non-US) standard; ptyrbds: Program type for rbds (US) standard;...
Menu Structure SYSTEM > DISPLAY MODE > l/r display mode (L/R / L+R/L-R) decoder source (MPX1/MPX2) AUDIO I/O > INPUTS > analog ref level (0 – 24dBU) digital ref level (-30dBFS to -0dBFS) mpx1 in level (0 to +12dBu) mpx2 in level (0 to +12dBu) OUTPUTS >...
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SYSTEM cont… > TIME > uptime (display of dd:hh:mm:ss) time set (hh: mm: ss: mm/dd/yyyy) (off/on) update now run [command] host [name or IP number] period (1hr/12hr/24hr) USER > ADMIN > password pass [default] email (email address) USER 1…3 > password pass (default) email...
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ABOUT > product serial# bootloader hardware SYSTEM > ABOUT cont…> os ver media engine ver front panel ver sleep timeout (15s to 5h) power supply ver STATUS > [displays of current psu statuses] psu voltage psu current psu power fan voltage fan state fan speed control (off/low/med/high/auto) temperature...
Routing & Block Diagram Please see below for an audio, RF and RDS data routing diagram. This can help you understand the enormous capabilities of the Encore family of products! 11 - 1...
Technical Specification Encore family specifications. Certain parameters are irrelevant in some products. 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)
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