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  • Page 1 TitanSDR Receiver User Manual v.1.2e...
  • Page 2 Enablia S.r.l. (Italy) 2012 Before using the receiver, read carefully the Installation Manual and the User Manual. The symbol of the crossed out wheelie bin indicates that in the European Union this product, and all items marked with this symbol, cannot be disposed...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Recording of narrowband channels ............. 47 3. Player mode ................49 4. Advanced Operations .............. 52 4.1 Session saving and loading ..............52 4.1.1 Session saving .................... 52 4.1.2 Session loading ..................54 4.2 NB Channels List ..................55 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 4 4.5 Options ....................... 78 4.5.1 Independent View..................78 4.5.2 Panoramic ....................79 4.5.3 Wideband ....................79 4.5.4 Narrowband ....................81 4.5.5 Output Files Name ..................83 4.5.6 Storage ....................... 85 4.5.7 Session ......................86 5. Appendix ..................88 TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    1. Introduction This manual describes the TitanSDR user interface and its mode of use. Before using the product, make sure to have correctly performed all the steps in the Installation Manual. TitanSDR is an HF multi-channel receiver allowing up to four independent...

  • Page 6: User Interface Architecture

    On the Main Toolbar (Figure 3) there are a series of drop-down menus (File, Mode, NB List, Memory, Schedule, View, Options) that allow to access the features described in detail in Chapters 2, 3, 4 of this manual. Figure 3 - Main Toolbar TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 7 Figure 4 shows directions in which splitters can be dragged inside the user interface. Note the presence of splitters also within windows of Wideband and Narrowband Scope (see Chapter 1.2 for a detailed description). Figure 5 shows a screenshot of the user interface during typical operation. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 8: Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope And Narrowband Scope

    Figure 5 - TitanSDR user interface Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope In this paragraph, the high-level structure of Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope is described. Panoramic Scope: It is composed of its own toolbar, a panoramic spectrum window and a reference bar representing the frequency axis.

  • Page 9: Software Startup

    (Figure 6). Figure 6 - View menu Software startup The user interface, shown in Figure 8, appears by double-clicking on the TitanSDR software icon (see Figure 7). Figure 7 - TitanSDR software icon TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 10 Figure 8 - User interface of TitanSDR TitanSDR can be operated in the following two modes:  Receiver Mode  Player Mode with the ability to switch between them without restarting the software. Receiver Mode: software allows to control the receiver and to manage all operations on radio channels (all of the functions of this mode are described in Chapter 2).

  • Page 11: Receiver Mode

    If connection is successful, the button symbol changes color (from red to green, see Figure 11) and the input 0-32MHz spectrum appears on the Panoramic Scope (Figure 12). Figure 11 - USB button after connection Figure 12 - User interface after successful connection with receiver TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 12: Panoramic Scope

    The All Pass choice is also possible (default), causing the receiver to perform no preselection on RF input signal. Figure 14 - Preselection filters list TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 13: Spectrum Settings

    The actions that can be performed are: • selection of windowing (for FFT) • selection of spectrum averaging time period • spectrum zoom/dezoom Furthermore, in order to shift the displayed frequency interval, dragging of the frequency axis bar is also possible. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 14 Horizontal zoom/dezoom allows to halve/double the frequency spectrum span, aiming at a specific center frequency value, corresponding to a vertical white line which can be placed by left clicking on the wanted position (Figure 20). After TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 15 In order to perform also amplitude zoom/dezoom, it is necessary to make corresponding buttons visible in the Spectrum controls group. To this aim, click on the menu item "Centered zoom", after selecting “Panoramic” in the Main Toolbar “Options” menu (Figure 23). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 16 Figure 26 shows the Panoramic Scope after zooming the spectrum of Figure 24, by clicking on the vertical zoom button (the one marked with a “+” and a “V”). Figure 25 - Vertical zoom/dezoom buttons Figure 26 - Panoramic Scope after vertical zoom TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 17: Management Of Wideband Channels

    Figure 28 - WB Channels controls group Allocation of a wideband channel: By clicking on the "ADD" button of the WB Channels controls group, a list appears of available bandwidth sizes (Figure 29) for the new wideband channel to allocate (see Appendix). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 18 To facilitate identification of wideband channels and to distinguish them from one another, their shaded areas are assigned a color, based on the following color convention: - WB1: RED shaded area - WB2: GREEN shaded area TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 19 While dragging, the wideband channel center frequency is modified accordingly in the frequency edit box of the WB Channels controls group (Figure 33). TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 20: Wideband Scope

    (allocated) inside it (see par. 2.2.2). Wideband Scope 2.2.1 Spectrum settings The graphical settings of the Wideband Scope spectrum can be changed by the Spectrum controls group of the Wideband Scope toolbar (Figure 36). Figure 36 - Spectrum controls group TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 21 (Figure 38). After mouse click a hint label appears near the vertical line indicating the corresponding frequency. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 22 Spectrum controls group of the Wideband Scope toolbar. Figure 39 - Zoom/dezoom buttons Figure 40 shows the Wideband Scope after zooming the spectrum of Figure 38, by clicking on the zoom button (the one marked with a “+”). TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 23: Management Of Narrowband Channels

     selection of a previously allocated narrowband channel  tuning of a narrowband channel (by mouse dragging and dropping its shaded area)  deallocation (removal) of a narrowband channel Figure 42 - NB Channels controls group TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 24 After clicking, the narrowband shaded area appears on the Wideband Scope spectrum (Figure 44), to the right of the yellow line, being USB the default mode. Figure 44 - Allocated narrowband channel TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 25 Selection of a narrowband channel can be done in three ways:  Selecting it in the narrowband channels drop-down menu of the Wideband Scope toolbar (within the NB Channels controls group)  Left clicking on its shaded area (in the Wideband Scope spectrum) TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 26 Figure 46 - Narrowband channel selection by drop-down menu Selection by left clicking on shaded area: A narrowband channel can be selected by left clicking on its shaded area (Figure 47). Figure 47 - Narrowband channel selection by mouse click TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 27: Recording Of Wideband Channels

    (regardless of them being selected or not), click on the trash button labeled “ALL”. 2.2.3 Recording of wideband channels TitanSDR allows to record a wideband channel in a binary file (proprietary format) with extension .bin, which is accompanied with a file having the same name, but TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 28 Files names are assigned automatically (see par. 4.5.5 for details). TitanSDR provides the user the possibility of setting the upper limit to the filling of the hard disc. Ongoing recordings are stopped automatically when the available space set by the user is exceeded (see par.

  • Page 29: Narrowband Scope

    Default spectrum span of the Narrowband Scope is greater than the actual bandwidth of the narrowband channel, represented by its shaded area. This larger view helps in fine tuning and adjusting of the channel bandwidth (by filtering). TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 30: Spectrum Settings

    (which results from the chosen mode/demodulator), by selecting “RF” or “Audio”, respectively (Figure 56). Figure 56 - RF/Audio selection Figure 57 and Figure 58 show the Narrowband Scope for RF and Audio visualizations, respectively, after tuning of the narrowband channel to an AM transmission. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 31 Figure 57 - Narrowband Scope - RF visualization for an AM signal Figure 58 - Narrowband Scope - Audio visualization for an AM signal TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 32 Scope without any averaging. Figure 59 - Spectrum averaging time periods Frequency zoom/dezoom Zoom/dezoom allows to halve/double the frequency spectrum span, aiming at a center frequency value which corresponds to the vertical yellow line, representing the carrier (Figure 60). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 33 Spectrum control group of the Narrowband Scope toolbar. Figure 61 – Zoom/dezoom buttons Figure 62 shows the Narrowband Scope after zooming the spectrum of Figure 60, by clicking on the zoom button (the one marked with a “+”). TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 34: Tuning Of Narrowband Channel

     Frequency shift buttons (of the Tuning controls group) Tuning by editing the carrier frequency The narrowband channel carrier frequency in the Edit box of the Tuning controls group (Figure 63) can be edited and modified by keyboard. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 35 Figure 65 - Frequency shift arrow buttons The unit of measurement of the narrowband channel carrier frequency can be selected by the drop-down menu of the Tuning controls group (Figure 66). Possible choices are: Hz, kHz or MHz . TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 36: Demodulation Settings

    Extended Single Side Band Upper (eSSB-U) i) Extended Single Side Band Lower (eSSB-U) By clicking on the first drop-down menu of the Mode control group, a list appears of supported modes that can be selected by mouse left clicking (Figure 68). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 37 In the RF spectrum visualization (see par. 2.3.1), by selecting and dragging the shaded area edges b) In the Audio spectrum visualization (see par. 2.3.1): - by selecting and dragging each of the shaded area edges for modes USB, LSB, eUSB, eLSB, CW, FSK and DRM TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 38 Audio spectrum visualization. Those edges represent the lower and higher cutoff frequencies of bandpass limiting, whose filtering effect can be clearly noticed on the demodulated audio spectrum. Figure 69 - Audio spectrum visualization for USB mode TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 39: Listening Demodulated Audio

     Left clicking and dragging the grey shaded area of the Audio spectrum visualization. Figure 71 - BFO controls group 2.3.4 Listening demodulated audio The Audio controls group of the Narrowband Scope toolbar (Figure 72) allows to manage listening of demodulated audio by PC loudspeakers/headset. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 40 After having chosen audio card, select the audio mode (Mono, Left or Right) by the drop-down menu of the Audio controls group (Figure 74). Figure 74 – Audio mode selection The volume can be adjusted by dragging the vertical slider of the Volume menu (Figure 75). TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 41: Gain Control

    Figure 79 and allows to manage gain settings. Figure 78 – Gain controls group Figure 79 - Expansion button The drop-down menu of the Gain controls group (Figure 80) allows to choose among the following alternatives:  AGC Slow  AGC Fast TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 42: Audio Streaming Through Virtual Audio Cables (Vac)

    VAC. Figure 81 – VAC controls group Figure 82 - Expansion button By clicking on button “Set”, a window appears (Figure 83) with the list of installed VACs: choose one and click “Ok”. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 43: Audio Streaming By Lan

    2.3.7 Audio streaming by LAN Demulated audio can be forwarded by LAN to other applications (e.g. CODE300 Hoka decoders), running on the same PC (by the loopback address 127.0.0.1) or on other PCs of a network. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 44 The “Token” field may be edited to entry a name for the TCP connection. In order to edit a cell, click on the line first (to select it), then click on the cell. Figure 89 – Table of TCP connections TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 45 Left or Right field, it means that the left or right channel is being employed, respectively. If the name appears in both fields, the same streaming is being transferred by both channels (left and right). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 46 IP file. To this aim:  select the desired IP file from the browse window that opens after clicking the “Configure Decoder” button;  click “Open” on the browse window . TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 47: Recording Of Narrowband Channels

    C:\Archives\Wav. Files names are assigned automatically (see par. 4.5.5 for details). TitanSDR provides the user the possibility of setting the upper limit to the filling of the hard disc. Ongoing recordings are stopped automatically when the available space set by the user is exceeded (see par. 4.6.6 for details).
  • Page 48 Stop of recording implies closing the .wav file. If a new recording is started, a new .wav file is created (different from the previous one) . TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 49: Player Mode

    Par. 2.2.3 describes how (in Receiver Mode) TitanSDR can record wideband channels into binary files (proprietary format) with extension .bin. As anticipated in par. 1.3, TitanSDR can be operated also in Player Mode, which allows to playback a wideband recording and to allocate narrowband channels on that recording, working with them as in Receiver Mode.
  • Page 50 Wideband recordings are saved by default in folder C:\Archives. After selecting a file, click on the play button (Figure 103) to start playback. Figure 103 – Play button As a result, the Wideband Scope shows spectrum and waterfall representation of the recording (Figure 104). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 51 Figure 104 – Wideband recording playback At this point, narrowband channels can be allocated performing the same steps taken in Receiver Mode (Figure 105). Figure 105 – Narrowband channels allocated on a recording TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 52: Advanced Operations

    4. Advanced Operations Session saving and loading In Receiver mode, TitanSDR allows to save session settings of receiver Front End, wideband channels and narrowband channels into session files, with extension .ssn. A session file includes:  receiver Front-End settings (see par. 2.1.1): selected preselection filter, input attenuation value and receiver input (HF or IF);...
  • Page 53 In the browse window that opens, enter the session file name (default folder is TitanSDR\Session) and click “Save” (Figure 107). Figure 107 – Browse window Whenever software disconnects from the receiver (e.g. by clicking the USB button or by switching from Receiver Mode to Player Mode), the save session message in Figure 108 pops up automatically, asking whether to save the current session (into a .ssn session file) or not.

  • Page 54: Session Loading

    In order to load (restore) a previous session, select “Load session…” from the “File” drop-down menu of the Main Toolbar (Figure 110). Figure 110 – Session selection In the browse window that opens, select session file to load (default folder is TitanSDR\Session) and click “Open” (Figure 111). TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 55: Nb Channels List

    By selecting a line, the Narrowband Scope switches to the corresponding narrowband channel, showing its controls and its spectrum/waterfall displays. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 56  VAC (name of Virtual Audio Cable, if any, fed by demodulator output)  VAC Output (mono, left or right)  LAN (left, right, left+right: see par. 2.3.7)  Memory (memory number, if channel added to memory or allocated from memory) TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 57: Memory Of Narrowband Channels

     Date (of insertion in memory)  Callsign  ITU  Station  User Description Time format can be selected as UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) or local format (Figure 115). Figure 115 – Memory List window TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 58: Memorization

    Narrowband Scope window (note the string “Mem005” in Figure 117). By positioning the mouse cursor over the same frame, the narrowband channel name appears again. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 59 Figure 117 - Narrowband Scope after clicking “Add” In order to memorize the other fields (Callsign, ITU, Station, User Description), click the “Set Info” button of the Memory controls group, edit them in the window that shows up (Figure 118) and click “Close”. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 60 Figure 118 – Setting of additional info The new memory entry appears in the Memory List (note the last line in Figure 119, starting with “Mem005”). Figure 119 - Memory List after insertion of new record Mem005 TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 61: Allocation Of Memorized Channels

    (yellow line) By dragging a wideband channel shaded area over the same yellow line, the corresponding line of the Memory List is rewritten with bold characters, meaning that the memorized channel can be allocated (Figure 121). TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 62: Memory Settings Modifications

    4.3.3 Memory settings modifications The settings of a memorized channel which can be modified are listed below:  Frequency  Bandwidth  Mode (type of demodulator)  Callsign  ITU  Station TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 63: Removal Of Memorized Channels

    Narrowband Scope or the trash button of the NB Channels controls group (of the Wideband Scope). Figure 123 – Message for update of single memory 4.3.4 Removal of memorized channels To remove a record from the Memory List, select its line and click the “Remove” button. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 64: Scheduling Of Recordings

    Scheduling of recordings Both recording of wideband and narrowband channels can be scheduled. While TitanSDR takes care to start/stop recordings on scheduled channels, the other channels can be normally employed in parallel. This subject is divided in the following paragraphs: ...
  • Page 65 (see par. 4.4.2 for examples). In fact tasks can be periodic or not periodic. Not periodic tasks are executed once. Periodic tasks are those which have to be executed on specific days of the week. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 66 Active field cell is “Yes”). In order to deactivate/activate a task, left click on this cell. The following rules apply:  If two tasks have overlapping recording time intervals, the one which is executed is that with the earliest start time (the other one is not executed at all) TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 67: Task Editor Window

    In Example 2, the recording duration is 21 hours and start and stop are in consecutive days. Example 1: START DATE=14/11/2012 START TIME=8:00 STOP DATE=14/11/2012 STOP TIME=21:00 Duration: 13 hours DAY OF SCHEDULING: 03/11/2012 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 68 Figure 129- Task Editor settings for Example 1 Example 2 START DATE=12/11/2012 START TIME=11:00 STOP DATE=13/11/2012 STOP TIME=06:00 Duration: 19 hours DAY OF SCHEDULING: 03/11/2012 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 69 “Until” checkbox not checked, for unlimited task repetitions. Example 3 below refers to a periodic task, which has to be executed on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 8:00 to 21:00 (Figure 131). Example 3: START DATE=10/11/2012 START TIME=8:00 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 70 (not preceding the start day) which matches one of the days of week of interest (i.e. which are checked), that is Wednesday. The last day the task is executed is 22/11. TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 71: Managing Scheduled Channels

    “Schedule” menu of the Main Toolbar. For example, Figure 132 shows the Scheduled Channels window for two wideband channels (Sch 001, Sch 002) and seven narrowband channels (Sch 003, …, Sch 009). Figure 132 - Scheduled Channels window TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 72 The settings of a task can be modified by the Task Editor window (see par. 4.4.2 for details), which shows up by selecting the task line on the Recording Schedule window and clicking the “Edit” button (Figure 134). TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 73: Allocation Of Scheduled Channels

    Scheduled Channel window, meaning that there are sufficient resources available for its allocation. Figure 135 shows, for instance, the Scheduled Channel window with three wideband channels in bold characters. Therefore any of them can be allocated. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 74 For instance, Figure 136 shows the Scheduled Channels window after allocating the selected wideband channel in Figure 135, as WB1. The red shaded area of WB1 is also visible in the Panoramic Scope spectrum. TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 75 (as expected), as well as the third line of Sch 003, meaning that for the allocation of this last channel there aren’t enough resources left (Figure 138). Figure 137 – Selection of second wideband channel TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 76 Channels window list, a blue vertical line appears on the Panoramic Scope spectrum in correspondence with its carrier frequency. This is the case of Sch 005 in Figure 139. Figure 139 – Selection of a scheduled narrowband channel TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 77 Figure 140 for Sch 005. Figure 140 – Allocation and drag of a wideband channel To allocate the narrowband channel click the “Allocate” button. Figure 141 shows allocation of Sch 005 of Figure 140. Figure 141 – Narrowband channel allocation TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 78: Options

    By unchecking this option, narrowband channels can be visualized on the Narrowband Scope independently of wideband channels and vice versa. Figure 143 - Independent View item TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 79: Panoramic

    If “32MHz” or ”40MHz” is checked, the Panoramic Scope spectrum spans from 0Hz to 32MHz or 40MHz, respectively. 4.5.3 Wideband By selecting the Wideband option, a list appears with the following items (Figure 145):  Spectrum Labels  Palette Change  Palette Setting  Palette Range TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 80 Palette Change: by selecting this item, a list appears of selectable palettes for the wideband waterfall display. TitanSDR provides a default set of 7 palettes. This set can be extended by the user, by putting *.pal files within the C:\TitanSDR\pal folder.

  • Page 81: Narrowband

    4.5.4 Narrowband By selecting the Narrowband option, a list appears with the following items (Figure 147):  Spectrum Labels  Palette Change  Palette Setting  Palette Range Figure 147 - Items of Narrowband option TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 82 Palette Change: by selecting this item, a list appears of selectable palettes for the narrowband waterfall display. TitanSDR provides a default set of 7 palettes. This set can be extended by the user, by putting *.pal files within the C:\TitanSDR\pal folder.

  • Page 83: Output Files Name

    These fields can be specified in the “Output Files Customization” window, which appears by selecting option “Output Files Name”, from the Main Toolbar (Figure 149). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 84 The fields which can be concatenated to compose the names of *.bin files are listed below:  User Defined String (“mynameWB” in Figure 149)  date (year, month and day of recording, formatted as: YYYYMMDD)  start rec time (recording start time, formatted as: HHMMSS) TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 85: Storage

    The top editbox shows how concatenation of selected fields will result. 4.5.6 Storage To prevent PC hard disk from being completely filled up by recording of wideband/narrowband channels, it is possible to set the minimum hard disk space TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 86: Session

    Figure 151 pops up automatically asking whether to save the current session (into a .ssn session file) or not. Figure 151 – Save session message To circumvent the save session message, deselect “Ask for saving”, after choosing “Session” from the “Options” drop-down menu of the Main Toolbar (Figure 152). TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 87 Figure 152 – Options drop-down menu TitanSDR – User Manual...

  • Page 88: Appendix

    Table below provides possible combinations of WB channels, which make maximum use of resources (i.e. when these combinations are realized, no more WB channels can be allocated) No. of WB channel size (kHz) 312,5 625,5 937,5 1250 1562,5 1875 2187,5 TitanSDR – User Manual...
  • Page 89 NABLIA Enablia S.r.l. Via Nicostene, 20 00124 – ROMA Tel. +39.06.7259.4052 E-Mail: enablia@enablia.com www.enablia.com TitanSDR – User Manual...

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