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Telex RadioCom BTR-800 Operating Instructions Manual

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Op er ating In struc tions
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BTR-800, TR-800, TR-825
Pro fes sional
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  • Page 1 Telex Op er ating In struc tions RadioCom ™ BTR-800, TR-800, TR-825 Pro fes sional Wire less In ter com Sys tem...
  • Page 3 Thank you for choos ing RadioCom Telex Com mu ni ca tions would like to take this op por tu nity to thank you for choos ing the RadioCom™ BTR-800 Pro fes sional Wire less In ter com Sys tem. Many of the fea tures in this prod uct are the re sult of years of de vel op - - ment work with many of the fea tures de vel oped from cus tomer feed back.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    BTR-800 Menu Struc ture........
  • Page 6 TR-800 Beltpack Op er a tion ..............7-11 Power/Lo cal Head set Vol ume.

  • Page 7: In Tro Duc Tion

    Base sta tion co mes with rack ears for easy rack mount ing. RTS® and Audiocom® are reg is tered trade marks of Telex Com mu ni ca tions, Inc. Clear-Com® is a reg is tered trade mark of Clear-Com In ter com Sys tems, Inc.

  • Page 9: Btr-800 Base Sta Tion

    14. Lo cal Head set Con nec tor – Male XLR con nec tor for Telex units, Fe male XLR con nec tor for RTS units. A dy - namic or electret head set mi cro phone is au to mat i cally de - tected.

  • Page 10: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Rear Panel

    3. Trans mit ON/OFF Switch – Turns the trans mit ters on or off. 4. I/C Se lect Switch – Set to the ap pro pri ate 2-wire in ter com type be ing in ter faced to the unit. Set to ei ther Telex, RTS or Clear-Com®.

  • Page 11: Btr-800 Spec I Fi Ca Tions

    Telex In ter com....In put/Out put Level Ad just able (1 Vrms typ i cal), Line im ped ance 300...
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  • Page 13: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Top Panel

    LED as well as the “TALK” LED, #6, when pressed. 4. Au dio Chan nel Se lect Button – Al lows user to se lect ei - ther au dio chan nel A or B. Telex BAT/OM TALK CHANNEL TALK...

  • Page 14: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Rear Panel

    WTA or SA but ton is pressed. 6. Head set Con nec tor – Male XLR con nec tor for Telex units, Fe male XLR con nec tor for RTS units. A dy namic or electret head set mi cro phone is au to mat i cally de tected by the beltpack and a bias volt age sup plied if needed.

  • Page 15: Tr-800 Spec I Fi Ca Tions

    TR-800 Spec i fi ca tions RF Fre quency Range ..... . 470 - 608 MHz, 614 - 740 MHz in 18 MHz TX and RX bands Power Re quire ments.
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  • Page 17: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Top Panel

    LED. BAT/OM TALK TALK Telex Fig ure 7 TR-825 Top Panel 4. Talk But ton - Press to en able the au dio path to ei ther In - ter com Chan nel “A” or “B” or “A + B”, from the lo cal head set mi cro phone.

  • Page 18: Con Trols And Con Nec Tions - Rear Panel

    WTA or SA but ton is pressed. 6. Head set Con nec tor – Male XLR con nec tor for Telex units, Fe male XLR con nec tor for RTS units. A dy namic or electret head set mi cro phone is au to mat i cally de tected by the beltpack and a bias volt age sup plied if needed.

  • Page 19: Tr-825 Spec I Fi Ca Tions

    TR-825 Spec i fi ca tions RF Fre quency Range ..... . 470 - 608 MHz, 614 - 740 MHz in 18 MHz TX and RX bands Power Re quire ments.
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  • Page 21: Ini Tial Equip Ment Set-Up

    Con tact the ship per or your dealer im me di ately if any thing is dam aged or miss ing. Fill out the reg is tra tion card and re turn it to Telex to reg is ter the unit. De scrip tion...

  • Page 22: An Tenna Con Nec Tions

    Attaching Re ceive 1/2-Wave An tenna An tenna Po lar iza tion The Telex Wire less In ter com Sys tem is “Ver ti cally Po lar ized”. This means both the trans mit ting and re ceiv ing an ten nas should op er ate in the ver ti cal po si tion.
  • Page 23 You should be able to vis i bly lo cate the base sta tion an ten nas at all times for best per for - - mance. 700 FEET 100 FEET MENU RadioCom ä BTR-800 2 WIRE 2 WIRE ClearScan 4 WIRE 4 WIRE SELECT SELECT...

  • Page 24: Im Proving Re Cep Tion/In Creasing Range

    1. Placing BTRs in a shelf or equip ment rack and us ing re - mote an ten nas is OK. elex MENU MENU RadioCom ä BTR-800 2 WIRE 2 WIRE 2 WIRE 2 WIRE ON/O.M. ON/O.M. VOLUME VOLUME TALK/O.M.

  • Page 25: Base Sta Tion Set-Up

    POWER CONNECTION AUXILIARY AUDIO 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz PUSH STAGE ANNOUNCE Telex Telex Communications, Inc. INPUT OUTPUT OUTPUT POWER TRANSMIT MADE IN USA...

  • Page 26: In Ter Nal Trans Mit Switches

    In ter nal Trans mit Switches In ter nal to the BTR-800 are two trans mit switches which en - - able a user to turn on or off the two trans mit ters in di vid u ally. See Fig ure 19 for the lo ca tion. The top cover of the base sta - - tion must be re moved for ac cess.
  • Page 27 LINK 4 WIRE RELAY CONTACT NORM NORM HIGH HIGH TELEX CLEARCOM BTR-800 TR-800’s TR-825’s Fig ure 21 AUXILIARY AUDIO 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz PUSH STAGE ANNOUNCE 4 WIRE Telex TRANSMIT Telex Communications, Inc. INPUT OUTPUT OUTPUT POWER MADE IN USA...

  • Page 28: Dual Lis Ten Func Tion Al Ity

    750541 does not have lo ca tions to place com po - - nents, how ever, mod i fi ca tion doc u ments may be ob tained from Telex Com mu ni ca tions for those who wish to mod ify older au dio boards for dual lis ten.

  • Page 29: Aux Il Iary In Put/Out Put

    A mod i fi ca tion doc u ment is avail able from Telex Communications for those who wish to mod ify the base sta tion so that aux il iary in put au dio is heard only lo cally;...

  • Page 30: Stage An Nounce /Re Lay Con Tacts

    PIN 1 PIN 2 5-10 AUXILIARY AUDIO 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz PUSH STAGE ANNOUNCE Telex Telex Communications, Inc. POWER INPUT OUTPUT OUTPUT STAGE ANNOUNCE STAGE ANNOUNCE LEVEL CONTROL BACK...

  • Page 31: Base Sta Tion Link

    CABLE LENGTH: KEEP AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE Fig ure 28 Base Sta tion Link Ca ble 5-11 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz STAGE ANNOUNCE Telex TRANSMIT Telex Communications, Inc. MADE IN USA OUTPUT OUTPUT POWER AUXILIARY AUDIO 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz PUSH...

  • Page 32: Beltpack Set-Up

    Beltpack Set-up Bat tery In stal la tion En sure that the On/Off vol ume con trol knob is turned off. Press down and hold down the bat tery re lease latch, slide the bat tery pack about 1/8 inch back, to ward the latch, un til it stops.

  • Page 33: An Tenna Con Nec Tion

    “TR-800/TR-825” beltpack con trols and con - - nec tions” sec tion if this is not a Telex head set. A dy namic or electret head set mi cro phone is au to mat i cally de tected by the beltpack and a bias volt age sup plied if needed.
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  • Page 35: Pre-Walk-Thru Check List

    Fol low ing the in struc tions fully to this point you have suc cess - - fully com pleted the fol low ing check list: Lo cated the base sta tion prop erly. Con nected power to base sta tion. Con nected the 1/2-wave an ten nas to the base sta tion.
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  • Page 37: System Op Er A Tion

    - - ceive chan nels from which to choose. Each chan nel rep re sents a unique fre quency. For ex am ple, one BTR-800 could be set on Group 02A and chan nels 01, 02, 03 and 04. The other BTR-800 could be set on Group 02B chan nels 05, 06, 07 and 08.

  • Page 38: Base Sta Tion Op Er A Tion

    LED will in di cate the cur rent mode of the in ter com chan nel. If the base sta tion is con nected to a 2-wire sys - - tem, such as Audiocom (Telex), RTS TW or Clear-Com®, set the in ter com to 2-wire. If it is con nected to a four-wire sys tem, such as RTS Ma trix, set the in ter com to 4-wire.

  • Page 39: Dis Play Con Trast

    The con trast con trol is in ter - - nal to the BTR-800 unit near the front panel. The cover must be re moved for ac cess to this con trol. Please see Fig ure 31 for the lo ca tion.

  • Page 40: Btr-800 Menu Structure

    BTR-800 Menu Structure Main Screen Flowchart The fol low ing con tains the base station menu struc ture and ref er ences the pages in which fur ther de tail of that menu may be found. Power-Up Screen - Pg. 7-5...

  • Page 41: Op Er Ating Screen

    TA A&B = Beltpack Chan nel A and B Talk Around Ac tive (TR-825 only) = Beltpack Stage An nounce Ac tive NOTE: Older ver sions of BTR-800 soft ware do not sup port the de tec tion of TR-825 “Ch A&B” and “TA A&B” con trol tones.

  • Page 42: Group/Chan Nel Se Lect

    Group / Chan nel Se lect The Group/Chan nel se lect screen al lows the user to change the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of chan nels on each re ceiver. • Hit [MENU] once to en ter the Group / Chan nel Se lect Screen from the op er at ing screen.

  • Page 43: Group/Fre Quency Se Lect

    Group / Fre quency Se lect The Group/Fre quency se lect screen al lows a user to set the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of fre quen cies on each re ceiver. Each fre quency dis played on the right half of the screen corresponds to a chan nel num ber in the Group/Chan nel Screen.

  • Page 44: Fre Quency Edit

    Fre quency Edit (User-Programmed Groups Only) This menu only oc curs for user-programmable groups or when copy ing to a user-programable group. The Fre quency Edit screen al lows the user to set the group trans mit fre quen cies and re ceive chan nel fre quen cies of a user-programmable group.

  • Page 45: Clearscan

    ClearScan™ ClearScan™ per forms a fre quency scan of the fac tory-defined and any set-up user-programmable groups in or der to find the group with the high est num ber of clear re ceive chan nels. Af ter about 20-30 sec onds, the group with the high est num ber of clear re ceive chan nels will be dis played.

  • Page 46: Spe Cial Key Se Quences

    Spe cial Key Se quences Lock out • Press [UP]+[DOWN] for 3 sec onds to lock or un lock the base sta tion. Pressing [MENU] will still func tion to view screens, but [SET] will no lon ger start any ed it ing. ClearScan™...

  • Page 47: Bat Tery Check

    ON/OFF and VOLUME CONTROL Telex On/Off and Vol ume Con trol Turn the beltpack power on by ro tat ing the knob CW. Ad just the vol ume to the head set by ro tat ing the vol ume con trol as re - - quired for a com fort able lis ten ing vol ume.

  • Page 48: Beltpack Menu Struc Ture

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture Beltpack Menu Struc ture The fol low ing con tains the main beltpack menu struc ture and ref er - - ences the pages in which fur ther de tail of that menu may be found. All beltpack fea tures and spe cial key se quences can only be done from the group/channel screen.

  • Page 49: Power-Up Screens

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture Power-Up Screens • The first screens dis played when the beltpack is pow ered up are the soft ware and chan nel map ver sion screens. • The 1 screen dis played in di cates the beltpack’s soft ware ver sion num ber.

  • Page 50: Group/Chan Nel Screen

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture Group / Chan nel Screen The Group/Chan nel screen al lows the user to change the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of trans mit chan nels. • The screen dis played af ter the beltpack pow er-up screens. •...

  • Page 51: Trans Mit Screen

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture Trans mit Screen The Transmit screen al lows the user to set the beltpack trans - - mit fre quency. Fac tory-defined groups will al low only a set num ber of pre-defined fre quen cies to be se lected. User-programmable groups will al low the user to change the fre quency in 25kHz steps.

  • Page 52: Re Ceive 1 Screen

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 1 Screen The Receive 1 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re - - ceive 1 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans - - mit 1 fre quency. In fac tory-defined groups re ceive 1 is not change able.

  • Page 53: Re Ceive 2 Screen

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 2 Screen The Re ceive 2 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re - - ceive 2 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans - - mit 2 fre quency.

  • Page 54: Clearscan

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture ClearScan™ ClearScan per forms a fre quency scan of the fac tory-defined and any set-up user-programmable groups in or der to find the clear est group. Af ter about 30 sec onds, the clear est group is dis played.

  • Page 55: Stage An Nounce En Able/Dis Able

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture Stage An nounce En able/Dis able • Press and hold [SET] then press the [SA] but ton to show the SA en able/dis able screen. The cur rent set ting of the fea ture is dis played on the LCD. •...

  • Page 56: Talk But Ton Latch On/Latch Off

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture Au dio Chan nel A or B Dis able/En able • Press and hold [SET] then press the [CHAN] but ton to show the chan nel en able/dis able screen. The cur rent set - ting of the fea ture is dis played on the LCD. •...

  • Page 57: Spe Cial Key Se Quences

    TR-800 Menu Struc ture Spe cial Key Se quences Lock out • Press [UP]+[DOWN] for 3 sec onds to lock or un lock the beltpack. The words “Loc on” will be dis played when the fea ture is ac ti vated, “Loc oFF” will be dis played when the beltpack is un locked.
  • Page 58 TR-825 Menu Struc ture Beltpack Menu Struc ture The fol low ing con tains the main beltpack menu struc ture and ref er - - ences the pages in which fur ther de tail of that menu may be found. All beltpack fea tures and spe cial key se quences can only be done from the group/channel screen.

  • Page 59: Power-Up Screens

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Power-Up Screens • The first screens dis played when the beltpack is pow ered up are the soft ware and chan nel map ver sion screens. • The 1 screen dis played in di cates the beltpack’s soft ware ver sion num ber.

  • Page 60: Group/Chan Nel Screen

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Group / Chan nel Screen The Group/Chan nel screen al lows the user to change the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of trans mit chan nels. • The screen dis played af ter the beltpack powered-up screens.

  • Page 61: Trans Mit Screen

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Trans mit Screen The Trans mit screen al lows the user to set the beltpack trans - - mit fre quency. Fac tory-defined groups will al low only a set num ber of pre-defined fre quen cies to be se lected. User-programmable groups will al low the user to change the fre quency in 25kHz steps.

  • Page 62: Re Ceive 1 Screen

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 1 Screen The Re ceive 1 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re - - ceiver 1 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans mit 1 fre quency. In fac tory-defined groups re ceiver 1 is not change able.
  • Page 63 TR-825 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 2 Screen The Re ceive 2 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re - - ceive 2 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans - - mit 2 fre quency.

  • Page 64: Au Dio Out Put

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Au dio Out put The Au dio Out put screen al lows the user to set the au dio out - - put to Mono (Add) or Ste reo (SEP). This op tion only ap plies to beltpacks with 5 pin head set con nec tors.

  • Page 65: Clearscan

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture ClearScan ClearScan per forms a fre quency scan of the fac tory-defined and any set-up user-programmable groups in or der to find the clear est group. Af ter about 30 sec onds, the clear est group is dis played.

  • Page 66: Stage An Nounce En Able/Disable

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Stage An nounce En able/Disable • Press and hold [SET] then press the [SA] but ton to show the SA en able/dis able screen. The cur rent set ting of the fea ture is dis played on the LCD dis play. •...

  • Page 67: Wire Less Talk Around

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Wire less Talk Around • Press and hold [SET] then press the [WTA] but ton to show the WTA menu screen. The cur rent set ting of the fea ture is dis played on the LCD dis play. The first screen to the right is cur rently set to a de fault of “A”...

  • Page 68: Au Dio Chan Nel A Op Tions

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Au dio Chan nel A Options • Press and hold [SET] then hit the [A] but ton to show the chan nel “A” menu screen. The cur rent set ting of the but - ton is dis played on the LCD dis play; Chan nel “A” “Talk-Latching Off”.

  • Page 69: Au Dio Chan Nel B Op Tions

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Au dio Chan nel B Op tions • Press and hold [SET] then hit the [B] but ton to show the chan nel “B” menu screen. The cur rent set ting of the but - ton is dis played on the LCD dis play; Chan nel “B” Talk-Latching Off.

  • Page 70: Spe Cial Key Se Quences

    TR-825 Menu Struc ture Spe cial Key Se quences Lock out • Press [UP]+[DOWN] for 3 sec onds to lock or un lock the beltpack. The words “Loc on” will be dis played when the fea ture is ac ti vated, “Loc oFF” will be dis played when the beltpack is un locked.

  • Page 71: Sys Tem Walk-Thru

    In 99% of all in stances you will set up your Telex Wire less In - - ter com Sys tem, walk it through the area of in ter est and achieve error-free per for mance.
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  • Page 73: Trou Ble Shooting

    Make sure that all the Telex beltpack(s) are on. If there are any unused receivers at the base, turn the audio off from those receivers by deselecting the appropriate “Portable Station Connect”...
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  • Page 75: Tech Tips

    RF de vices. The fac tory de fined fre quen cies (Groups 01A-24) se - - lected by Telex for this RadioCom™ sys tem are cho sen to min i mize pos si ble in ter fer ence.
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  • Page 77: Bat Tery Information

    Im proper bat tery se lec tion, use, in stal la tion and care are the cause of nu mer ous wire less sys tem fail ures. Al ka line Bat teries: Al ka line bat ter ies such as Mallory’s DURACELL®...
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  • Page 79 Call Sig naling: Send: ...20kHz 100 Hz, 240 mVrms Re ceive: ...20kHz ±800 Hz, 100 mVrms Power Volt age: ...28.0 VDC nom i nal AudioCom/Telex In put Im ped ance:...300 Out put Level:...1.0 Vrms nom i nal Bridging Im ped ance:...>10k Call Sig naling: Send: ...20kHz 100 Hz, 05 mVrms...
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  • Page 81: Ac Ces Sories And Re Place Ment Parts

    10 ft. of coax- PN 71138000 NorthAmerica ... 550024013 U.K..550024002 Eu ro pean ...550024000 Aus tra lian ...550024018 Telex type...PN 878935 RTS type ...PN 878990 (bat ter ies not in cluded)...PN 71315-000 Bat tery pack ...PN 71315-001 U.S./Canada ...71315400 Euro ...71315401 U.K.
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  • Page 83: Cus Tomer Ser Vice In For Ma Tion

    Telex re serves the right to make changes in de sign and im prove ment on its prod uct with out as sum ing any ob li ga tion to in stall the same on any of its prod ucts pre vi ously man u fac tured. Fur ther Telex re serves the right to ship new and/or im proved prod ucts which are sim i lar to the form, fit and func tion of prod - ucts orig i nally or dered.
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  • Page 85: Soft Ware Li Cense

    IM POR TANT - Please red this doc u ment care fully be fore us ing this prod uct. THIS DOC U MENT STATES THE TERMS AND CON DI TIONS UPON WHICH TELEX COM MU NI CA TIONS, INC. (the “COM PANY”) OF FERS TO LI CENSE THE IN STALLED SOFT WARE OR PRO GRAM (the “SOFT - WARE”) FOR USE WITH THE PRO DUCT IN WHICH IT WAS IN STALLED.
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  • Page 87: Fcc In For Ma Tion

    The Telex BTR-800, TR-800, and the TR-825 Trans mit ter/Re ceiver are Type Ac cepted un der United States Fed eral Com mu ni ca tions Com mis sion Part 74. Li censing of Telex equip ment is the User’s re spon si bil ity and licensibility de pends on the user’s clas si fi ca tion, us ers ap pli ca tion, and fre quency se lected.
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  • Page 89: Limited War Ranty

    1. De liv ery of the prod uct or parts post age pre paid to the Telex dealer, au tho rized ser vice fa cil ity or fac tory. 2. De ter mi na tion by Telex that a de fect ex ists and is cov ered by lim ited war ranty. De fects due to al ter ation, re pair by un -...
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  • Page 91 • TELEX COM MU NI CA TIONS, INC. 12000 Port land Ave. South, Burnsville, MN 55337. PN 803257-1 Rev. E MAY 2003 Made in U.S.A.

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