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- Page 1 RV-M9 VHF-UHF GPS Transponder/Modem Tech n ic a l Man ua l Version D2 September 2012 Raveon Technologies Corporation 2320 Cousteau Court Vista, CA 92081 www.raveontech.com Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp.
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
LEDs ............................26 9.3. Error - Bootloader Telnet Command-Line Interface (CLI) ............27 9.4. Manual TFTP Transfer Using Button ................... 29 9.5. Final steps ........................... 29 Technical Information ................30 10.1. Device Addressing ........................30 Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. - Page 3 Reading the Diagnostic Information ..................... 37 11.3. Status and Statistics Command ....................37 RF-7800W Messages ................38 12.1. RGI Polled Remote Position ......................38 12.2. NMEA Type Messages ........................ 38 12.3. $PRAVE Raveon Proprietary Message, Location-Status ............39 Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp.
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Page 4: General Information About The Rf-7800W
1.2. NOTICE There are no user-serviceable points inside this transceiver. All service work must be referred to your Authorized Service Center or Raveon Technologies Service Department. 1.3. Safety / Warning Information WARNING - DO NOT operate theRF-7800W-U radio modem when bystanders are within 2 feet (.6 meters) of the antenna. -
Page 5: Fcc Compliance Information
OET-65C (01-01) when operated in accordance with the operation guidelines described in this manual. Proper operation of this radio device according to the instructions in this publication will result in user exposure substantially below the FCC recommended limits. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 6: Overview
The MODE command is used to read and set the System Mode. The table below shows the default parameters that are configured when a unit’s MODE is programmed with the MODE command. System Mode: TXRX P TXRX S Slot Number Position TX Able to receive Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 7: 10/100Base-T - Tcp/Ip Socket Connections
DATA The following table shows an example session combination used to communicate with user client applications: Session # Port Port Designator Role Session Mode PORT1 ADMIN Command PORT4 USER Command PORT5 DATA Communication Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 8: Roles
It will output over-the-air data or GPS information whenever the unit receives it. Arbitrary data may also be scheduled for transmission over-the-air by simply entering it via a telnet session operating in this mode. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 9: System Recovery
Do not attempt to login to the System Recovery IP address unless you want to erase all settings within the unit. After the unit has been running more than 30 seconds, the System Recovery IP address is disabled. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 10: Specifications
4.2. General All measurements made per TIA-603-B. Certain bands are for export only. Consult the specification sheet for you specific Raveon product for regulatory approval information......................450 – 480MHz Frequency Range: No-tune bandwidth: ........................ -
Page 11: Electrical Inputs And Outputs
Solid Green: Locked to the GPS signals and position acquired. 5.2. DC Power DC power for the modem comes from the Ethernet cable by way of the included Power over Ethernet feature. The Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) must be compliant with IEEE 802.3at. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 12: Configuring The Rf-7800W
ADMIN or USER telnet session. The modem will return the value followed by an “OK”. For example, if the user enters the command to read the RF-7800W’s destination address and its address was 1234, the user would issue the following command: ATDT<CR> and the modem will respond with: Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 13: Restoring Factory Defaults
“Factory Default” column. The only parameters that it does not restore to default are the radio calibration values R0-R9, and RA. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 14: Modem Commands
Range : 0 - 2 Select CD pin output signal – CD may be RF carrier 2 = Always assert CD ATR1 detect, or modem data detect. 1 = Data CD 0 = RF CD Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. - Page 15 Max Packet Size – Set the maximum number of bytes in an ATTT 1 - 512 over-the-air packet. Read DC input Voltage– Returns the DC input voltage ATVB none None reading, in mV (12500 = 12.5VDC input). Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp.
- Page 16 Set Prompt. Set/read the command-line text prompt. None SHOW Show/display an overview of the radio’s configuration. None ** indicates values that are calibrated in the factory and are unit-specific. If the “Radio Type” is changed, these will need to be re-calibrated. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp.
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Page 17: Gps Related Commands
(has not moved more than TRIGDX meters). Privacy Security Encryption Key Phrase. Set the privacy key for this device. It must be the same 2-16 key used on all other Raveon products in your ASCII “HARRIS” KEYPHRASE system. It secures radio transmissions from character unauthorized reception. - Page 18 Even if the unit is not moving, the GPS TXRATE 0 - 9999 periodically measures position and speed to determine if it has triggered a speed or position transmission. Set to TXRATE and IDLERATE both to 0 to totally disable position reporting. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp.
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Page 19: Ethernet Related Commands
Immediately following entry of each of these parameter change requests, the RF-7800W will respond with: Enter YES<CR> to confirm this configuration change, or NO<CR> to cancel it. Changes to these parameters may only be supported via the factory serial port interface. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 20: Factory - Default Settings
KEYPHRASE MODEL ADMINLOGIN USERLOGIN DATALOGIN ADMINPWD USERPWD DATAPWD IPADD IPGATEWAY TCPPORT ETHRATE IPMASK MODE TFTP TFTPIP TFTPFN Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 21: Setup And Initial Configuration
Out of the box, they will communicate on the default radio channel using the factory defaults. Raveon highly recommends that you test them first with the factory defaults and see how they work before reprogramming them. -
Page 22: Programming Channels And Frequencies
Example, enter ATFX 450.1 to set the channel frequency to 450.100MHz. \ 4. Review the frequency setting with the ATFX command. To see a list of all of the channels , enter ATF. 5. To change the radio channel, use the ATHP x. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 23: Position Transmission
Output 0 disable the device from outputting any message when a position report is received. $PRAVE Raveon Position & Satus. Output 1 This message is sent out of the RF- 7800W when it is operating in the GPS 2 mode. This message is used by third-party and PC applications for tracking location and status information. -
Page 24: 32-Character Hex String
OK to leave the factory- set phrase. If it is important that the RF-7800W transmissions and system be secure, Raveon suggest you program the KEYPHRASE to be a random sequence of letters and numbers at least 8 digits long. -
Page 25: Time Slots
The PWR led on the front will begin to blink every two seconds. After 10 to 60 seconds, depending upon the satellite strength, the red alternating blinking will stop. This indicates the internal GPS receiver is locked onto GPS satellite signals, and has a position fix. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 26: Tftp Bootloader
1, below (Red, Orange and Green). In this case, a Telnet session is initiated as described below in order to troubleshoot the issue. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 27: Error - Bootloader Telnet Command-Line Interface (Cli)
192.168.26.4. In order to see what is typed on the user side, local echo must be enabled in the Telnet terminal program; it’s not necessary but makes the process a little easier. After initiating this Telnet session, the user should see the following screen: Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. - Page 28 TFTP server. Then, the user shall set the filename with the set image command. Finally, use the set boot script command to set the bootloader to run the pre-programmed TFTP transfer script. An example of setting these three parameters is shown below. Figure 4: setting TFTP paramters Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp.
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Page 29: Manual Tftp Transfer Using Button
The user can then initiate a Telnet session with the old IP address and settings, or quickly reboot the radio and use the ‘reset to defaults’ function to reset the IP address to 192.168.26.4. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 30: Technical Information
ID of 12FF will be received by any modem with a unit ID Tech Note: The addresses are actually 0000-FFFF hex, allowing 64K addresses, but the TDMA transmission used in the M9 interprets them as decimal numbers, and ignores HEX characters. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 31: The Address Mask
Sending Destination Address = 3410 Receiving RF-7800W’s Unit Address = 3499 Receiving RF-7800W’s Address Mask = FF00 Result: Data will be received. FF00 means first two digits must match, and they do, so the units will receive each other. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 32: Tdma Overview
10.3. Configuring TDMA Operation Step 1. Determine your over-the-air baud rate. See section 11.3 for information on baud-rate selection. Raveon recommends 4800 baud for narrow-band and 9600 baud for wide-band radios. Step 2. Determine the position transmission time, in milliseconds. Again, review the table in section 11.3 to determine how long a position... -
Page 33: Debug Related Commands
1 = Random data transmit. 2 = Hop up/down one channel 3 = Force PLL to fast lock mode 4 = Transmit all 0s 5 = Transmit all 1s 6 = Enable the test points on the PCB. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. - Page 34 If it does, it answers with a response transmission, containing its ID and the signal strength of the reception. ATST Display statistics of how the modem is working. Display statistics of how the modem’s GPS is working. ATST 1 Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp.
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Page 35: Tune-Up And Alignment
2. Key the transmitter into a 50 ohm load using the ATTD 3 command. The unit will now transmit, and send a digital 0 continuously. This should be +2.0kHz in frequency for narrow-band radios (12.5kHz spaced channels) and +4.0kHz for wide-band (25kHz channels). Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 36: Tx Modulation Balance
4. If necessary, change the ATR9 setting so that the long data bit have the same amplitude and DC value as the shorter ones and that the transmit “eye” pattern is as wide as possible. Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 37: Rf-7800W Diagnostic Provisions
Compile date and time – Returns the data and the time that the firmware STAT3 Date and time was compiled. Run Time – Returns the amount of time that the modem has been Run time display STAT4 powered up and running. screen STAT9 Reset all statistics counters Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 38: Rf-7800W Messages
Status (0=no fix, 1-GPS, 2=GPS and WAAS) 12.2. NMEA Type Messages The RF-7800W sends and receives messages in the NMEA 0183 format. NMEA is a standard protocol, used by GPS receivers to transmit data. NMEA output is Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp. -
Page 39: Prave Raveon Proprietary Message, Location-Status
The RF-7800W supports the NMEA standard WPL, TLL, GGA, and GSV sentences. The Raveon proprietary PRAVE sentence is sent out of the RF-7800W in GPS mode 2. It is used by PC software programs to track RF-7800W transponders, and process their status information. - Page 40 It is not moving (0 speed). Its signal strength was -83dBm. Its altitude is 168 meters. $GPGLL,3308.7292,N,11713.7886,W,155803,A,*1C $GPVTG,0,T,,,0.00,N,0.00,K,*1F $GPGLL,3308.7284,N,11713.7882,W,155813,A,*1E $GPVTG,0,T,,,0.00,N,0.00,K,*1F $GPGLL,3308.7273,N,11713.7880,W,155823,A,*17 $GPVTG,28,T,,,1.08,N,2.00,K,*2E $GPGLL,3308.7226,N,11713.7896,W,155833,A,*11 $GPVTG,140,T,,,1.62,N,3.00,K,*1C $GPGLL,3308.7140,N,11713.7860,W,155843,A,*1C $GPVTG,260,T,,,1.62,N,3.00,K,*1D $GPGLL,3308.7134,N,11713.7998,W,155853,A,*18 Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp.
- Page 41 $GPVTG,266,T,,,3.24,N,6.00,K,*1E $GPGLL,3308.7145,N,11713.8037,W,155903,A,*19 $GPVTG,74,T,,,3.78,N,7.00,K,*27 $GPGLL,3308.7182,N,11713.7927,W,155913,A,*14 $GPVTG,56,T,,,2.70,N,5.00,K,*2C $GPGLL,3308.7224,N,11713.7891,W,155923,A,*14 $GPVTG,56,T,,,1.08,N,2.00,K,*27 $GPGLL,3308.7233,N,11713.7899,W,155933,A,*1B $GPVTG,0,T,,,0.00,N,0.00,K,*1F $GPGLL,3308.7219,N,11713.7902,W,155943,A,*17 $GPVTG,0,T,,,0.00,N,0.00,K,*1F Company Confidential Raveon Technologies Corp.
- Page 42 Limited One Year Warranty If within 12 months from date of purchase, this Product fails conforms to Raveon Technologies Corporation’s (the Company) published specifications for the model purchased due to a defect in material or workmanship, Raveon Technologies Corporation will repair or replace it, at Raveon’s sole discretion.
- Page 43 Warranty service is available by mailing postage prepaid to: Raveon Technologies Corporation 2320 Cousteau Court Vista, CA 92081- USA To obtain warranty service, include a copy of the original sales receipt or invoice showing the date, location, and price of purchase. Include a written description of the problem with the product, a phone number and name of person who may be contacted regarding the problem, and the address to where the product should be returned.