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A brief explanation of the five main screen
edit items are as follows:
Environment
Contains operating parameters used by
hardware(circuitry) in the VXR-5000, includ-
ing 1st I.E selection, L.O. Injection Side, and
Channel Step information. This information
is hardware-specific for the repeater version-
type you have, and should not need to be
changed, except in the event of hardware or
version-type modification. Changing
envi~
ronment parameters requires the CE8 -P ex-
tension when booting the program.
Frequency
Contains channel data information. Up to
eight individual Tx and Rx channel frequen-
cies are edited here, and channels can also be
locked-out if so
desired.
Timer
Repeater Time-Out Timer, TX Hang-Timer
and Penalty Timers are edited from these se-
lections, time values in seconds or minutes
can be entered, while others preset values can
be toggled on-off.
Setup
System operating configuration and pa-
rameters such as simplex/ duplex operation,
power output on auxiliary DC power, Hi-
Temp power reduction, alarm beeper and TX
Hang-Time audio selection are selected and
edited here.
Opiinn
CTCSS Tone Encode/ Decode frequency
selection can be made. One of thirty-nine
EIA
standard CTCSS tones can
be
programmed
for each channel
(TX
&
RX),
CTCSS
operation
can also be disabled completely
for
individ-
ual or all channels.
Sub Help M
essages
In the box below the editing selection are
Sub-H
elp
Messages. These
briefly instruct
you how to select items, enter
channel
data,
toggle default settings on/off and accept
changes. New messages autom2,tically ap-
pear pertaining to the edit menu and edit
item currently selected. Instructions such as
frequency entry format, time-values and
Instruction 1l1anual
VXR-5000
ranges, and keys used to toggle or incre-
ment/ decrement a setting are given here.
Sub-Help Information
Function-Key Help Messages
At the bottom of the screen appears Func-
tion-Key selections and their corresponding
functions. While the Main Edit Item Screen is
selected, F1-Help, F2-Print, F3-Upload, F4-
Download, F5-Disk Load, F6-Disk Save, F7-
Dump and F10-Exit appear showing options
available for this screen. When individual
programming selection is done, only three
options (F1-Help, F2-Print and F10-Exit) are
available.
What to do First
Reading data from the Repeater
If you have the repeater connected to the
computer, first download the data from the
F
repeater and save it to disk before doing any-
'..If
'"
thing else. Press
the
-
own
Load key to do
this, and follow the prompts. If an error mes-
sage is displayed when attempting to down-
load data, check the VPL-1 connection cable
and connectors at both the computer and re-
peater. After downloading the data from the
repeater, save it to disk right away as de-
s-. : :
ribea next in "Saving Data to Disk".
Important
N ote!
Before entering new channel data from the
keyboard,
you
m
ust
either download frem
the repeater, or from a (valid) data file.
Some
EEPROM
data, su::::h as I.F. and refer-
ence frequencies, is specific to the
rep
eater
hardware, and
cannot
b~
changed w ithout
m
odifying
the
circuitry. This data is, how-
ever, read-from/written-to the
EEPROM.
If
it does not match the hardware for the
repeater to be programmed, the repeater
will not operate properly.
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