User's Manual

FreeWave Technologies Spread Spectrum Transceiver User Manual

900 MHz and 2.4 GHz

V5.0S

Table of Contents

QUICK START..................................................................................................... 1

QUICK START ON A MULTIPOINT SYSTEM.................................................... 2

TUNING TRANSCEIVER PERFORMANCE .......................................................3

OPERATION MODE SELECTIONS.................................................................... 6

(0) POINT-TO-POINT MASTER........................................................................... 6

(1) POINT-TO-POINT SLAVE.............................................................................. 6

(2) POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT MASTER.................................................................. 6

(3) POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT SLAVE..................................................................... 6

(4) POINT-TO-POINT SLAVE/REPEATER ............................................................6

(5) POINT-TO-POINT REPEATER ....................................................................... 7

(6) POINT-TO-POINT SLAVE/MASTER SWITCHABLE ........................................... 7

(7) POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT REPEATER ............................................................10

(F) ETHERNET OPTIONS .................................................................................10

MULTIPOINT OPERATION............................................................................... 11

THEORY OF OPERATION................................................................................. 11

INSTALLING MULTIPOINT SYSTEMS ................................................................. 11

OVERLAPPING MULTIPOINT SYSTEMS .............................................................12

(0) NUMBER REPEATERS ...............................................................................12

(1) MASTER PACKET REPEAT......................................................................... 12

MASTER PACKET REPEAT IN MULTIPOINT SYSTEMS WITH REPEATERS............. 14

(2) MAX SLAVE RETRY................................................................................... 15

(3) RETRY ODDS ........................................................................................... 15

(4) DTR CONNECT ........................................................................................ 15

(5) REPEATER FREQUENCY............................................................................ 15

(6) NETWORK ID........................................................................................... 16

(8) MULTIMASTER SYNCH.............................................................................. 16

(9) 1 PPS ENABLE/DELAY ............................................................................. 16

(A) SLAVE/REPEATER....................................................................................17

(B) DIAGNOSTICS .......................................................................................... 17

(D) RADIO ID................................................................................................. 20

BAUD RATE SELECTIONS .............................................................................. 21

(1) SET BAUD RATE...................................................................................... 21

(2) DATA WORD LENGTH AND PARITY ............................................................ 22

(3) MODBUS RTU ......................................................................................... 22

RS232/485................................................................................................... 22

SETUP PORT ................................................................................................. 23

TURNOFF DELAY............................................................................................ 23

FLOW CONTROL ............................................................................................ 24

CALL BOOK SELECTIONS.............................................................................. 25

ENTERING OR MODIFYING NUMBERS IN THE CALL BOOK .................................. 26

PROGRAMMING THE CALL BOOK TO USE 3 OR 4 REPEATERS .......................... 27

PROGRAMMING THE CALL BOOK IN MULTIPOINT SYSTEMS .............................. 28