TRDS 4001 Table of Contents 1. Preliminary instructions 2. Warranty 3. First Aid 3.1 Treatment of electrical shocks 3.1.1 If victim is not responsive 3.1.2 If victim is responsive 3.2 Treatment of electrical Burns 3.2.1 Extensive burned and broken skin 3.2.2 Less severe burns (1st and 2nd degree)
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In this case can be requested to user to take the necessary measures. R.V.R. Elettronica SpA reserves the right to modify the design and/or the technical specifications of the product and this manual without notice. User Manual Rev.
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TRDS 4001 2. Warranty Any product of R.V.R. Elettronica is covered by a 12 (twelve) month warranty. For components like tubes for power amplifiers, the original manufacturer’s warranty applies. R.V.R. extends to the original end-user purchaser all original manufacturers warranties which are transferable and all claims are to be made directly to R.V.R.
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TRDS 4001 DO NOT RETURN UNITS WITHOUT OUR AUTHORIZATION AS THEY WILL BE REFUSED. a Be sure to enclose a written technical report where mention all the problems found and a copy of your original invoice establishing the starting date of the warranty.
TRDS 4001 3. First Aid The personnel employed in the installation, use and maintenance of the device, shall be familiar with theory and practice of first aid. 3.1 Treatment of electrical shocks 3.1.1 If victim is not responsive follow the A-B-C's of basic life support •...
TRDS 4001 3.1.2 If victim is responsive Keep them warm • Keep them as quiet as possible • • Loosen their clothing (a reclining position is recommended) Call for medical help as soon as possible • 3.2 Treatment of electrical Burns 3.2.1 Extensive burned and broken skin...
TRDS 4001 4. General Description 4.1 Introduction The necessity to immediately know the working parameters of several device in a system or to transmit with all the several units which have to manage a firm, is a more and more greater need in all circles.
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TRDS 4001 The registry of transmission is at packages of lenght 104 bits (87.6 ms) named GROUPS, each of them composed of 4 blocks of 26 bits. Every block is composed of 16 bits of information and of 10 bits of protection, which are properly studied to allow the recovery of an erroneous word with a maximum of 5 wrong bits.
TRDS 4001 To automatically change over from a station which doesn’t transmit traffic news; M/S - MUSIC/SPEECH SWITCH: it’s used to modify the music and the spoken volume one by one. PIN - PROGRAM- ITEM NUMBER: it’s used to plan the receiver to receive certain programs at preselected date and hour.
TRDS 4001 9 RDS OK green LED, when lit it indicates the correct generation of the RDS signal 10 LOCK green LED, when lit it indicates that the encoder is locked on the supplied pilot tone 11 ON mains switch 4.3.2 Rear panel...
TRDS 4001 4.5 Technical Specifications Electrical Specifications RDS Signal as in CENELEC EN 50067 specs Codification Differential at two levels Modulation DSB with suppressed carrier Frequency 57 Khz Range ±2.4 Khz MPX INPUT 0/+12 dBm on 600 Ohm OUTPUT MPX + RDS...
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TRDS 4001 5. Electrical Description 5.1 Introduction This chapter describes the TRDS4001 ENCODER function . For utility, the device is divided in subassemblies which will be deeply discussed in the following paragraph. 5.2 Power Supply The power supply section is composed from a 220 V transformer (double primary 110-110 V) which supplies a +12 V voltage for the analogical part and a +5 V voltage for the digital logical one.
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This chapter contains the useful information for the TRDS4001 installation and preliminary check-in. The R.V.R. ELETTRONICA S.p.A. supplies the following equipment: N. 1 19" 1U rack, which contains the TRDS4001 RDS codifier; N. 1 VDE cable for the A.C. supply of the system;...
Clean the system only with a dry and soft cloth in order to avoid finishings damages. In case of damages, switch off the system and contact directely the firm R.V.R. ELETTRONICA s.p.a. 6.4 Hardware Installation The TRDS4001 RDS encoder can be connected to an exciter basically in two ways: •...
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TRDS 4001 MPX in Exciter RF out Stereo coder Left Right MPX out Exciter 19 kHz RDS in RF out Left Right If all the connections have been right realized, the coder will be working in 2-3 seconds and sending the RDS messages.
TRDS 4001 6.5 Software Installation The supplied software has been planned in wise to simplify the use also by unpractised user; every performance is complete with a different available options list in order to reduce the difficult on setting. In case of, for any reason, on the screen are nonsense indications or the PC jams, we recommend to reset it and to repeat the procedure from the beginning.
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TRDS 4001 a) finger CD ENGLISH <INVIO> (program in italian language); b) finger RDS <INVIO> (to start the management program); On the screen you can see the followings presentation window: In this window we recommend to finger: to use serial port COM1...
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TRDS 4001 N.B. In the up-link sat encoders, before the chief menu, select the place (or the encoder) you desire to connect to. A) MAIN MENU The main menu allows the following functions: Identification code SET Transmissiona mode SET P.I.N. SET...
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TRDS 4001 B) IDENTIFICATION CODE SETTING It’s used to set or change the identification code of a broadcaster (PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION CODE - PI) which has to be univocal into the broadcaster covering area. It’s depends from the country of the braodcaster and from the same broadcaster covering areas.
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TRDS 4001 For the planning it’s necessary to select the sended programmes type, in the TRANSMISSION CLASS window (ex. command ENTER on VARIOUS or NOTICES) and to select the transmission type used in the TRANSMISSION TYPE window (ex. command ENTER on STEREO).
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TRDS 4001 ENTER when is lighting the screen-command UPDATE; they are neglected on pressing the ABORT screen-command. The "P.I.N. SET" shows as follows: E) ALTERNATIVE FREQUENCIES MANAGEMENT - AF - It’s used to set or change the broadcaster sinthony frequencies lists in its diffusion areas.
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TRDS 4001 For the alternative frequencies transmission, the program uses two methods: A (default selectioned) and B. The two methods use the following size: A METHOD: every station send a nearly frequencies list, after the contained frequencies number (max. 25);...
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TRDS 4001 a submenu: the user has to choose which messages he wants to modify (or to simply visualize); the new menu shows as follows: At this point, the user selects one of the 8 messages (ex. message number 1) and the current message contain appears.
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TRDS 4001 MODIFY or press RETURN on the screen command EXIT. On selecting the window "MODIFY", the new menu appears, which are listed the selectable message types in; the new menu is the following: The possible type are four: Message with Date and Time;...
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TRDS 4001 In case of "MESSAGE with DATE and TIME", the message will contain as first 2 words, of the 16 ones, the date and the hour. In case of "MESSAGE with DATE", the message will contain as first word, of the 16 ones, the data.
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TRDS 4001 To set/defuse a message it’s necessary to press the command SPACE on the keyboard when the cursor is connected with the message. The active messages are where appears a "X". To change place from the column ACTIVATION to the HOUR one, it’s necessary to press the command TAB.
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TRDS 4001 To ability the service "Radio Text" it’s necessary to place the cursor on the window "RTEXT ON/OFF" and to press the spacebar; if a "X" appears, the procedure is right. In order to take place into the text from a word to another one, it’s sufficient to use the command TAB;...
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TRDS 4001 At this point, the user selects one of the 16 items (ex. Network N. 1) and the new menu is the follows: In this menu the system asks the information about Network Program Identification. To plan, it’s necessary to select the country in the window COUNTRY SELECT (ex.
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TRDS 4001 In this menu it’s possible realize the following settings: Program types sended; Program-item number (P.I.N.); Program service (PS), at most of 8 characters; Abilitation of TP services (Traffic-Program Identification), and TA (Traffic-Announcement Identification). When all the choices are made, on continuing to realize the further ones, take place on the screen command "CONTINUE"...
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TRDS 4001 In this menu the user could set the syntony frequencies list of the broadcaster in its diffusion areas. Also in this case, as in the "Alternative Frequencies Management" one, the program is provided with two methods for the management of the frequencies list, the A, in default setted, and the B one, indicated for very long frequencies lists.
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TRDS 4001 The setted data within this moment are revised on the encoder only on pressing <ENTER> when appears the screen command UPDATE; they are neglected on pressing the screen command EXIT. L) TRANSPARENT CHANNEL MANAGEMENT - TDC - This option is used for the transmission of any type of data.
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TRDS 4001 To ability the service "IN House Application", it’s necessary to place the cursor on the window "HOUSE ON/OFF" and press the spacebar; if a “X” appears, the procedure is right. To take place into a text from a word to another one, use the command "TAB"; to take place into a word, use the directional arrows "RIGHT"...
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TRDS 4001 The TRDS4001/SAT Encoder version, in the chief menu, is provided with a further option, as follows: O) STATION SELECTION The RDS SAT version codifier provides the messages planning with a directely connected Pc and with a remote connection of the PC to the UP-LINK transmitter.
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TRDS 4001 This option allows to select 1,2,..N, all the encoders (identified by the station where they are placed in) to send the message to; if no encoder is selected, none of the other voices into the chief menu are setable.
Questa parte del manuale contiene i dettagli tecnici riguardanti la costruzione delle singole schede componenti il TRDS 4001. L’appendice è composta dalle seguenti sezioni: This part of the manual contains the technical details about the different boards of the TRDS 4001.
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