User's Manual

545C Operations Manual

02/10/2012 Prerelease DCN 00001789-A

Table of Figures

Figure 1: MCC 545C Packet Data Radio ........................................ 2

Figure 2: FleetTrak™ network diagram ........................................ 3

Figure 3: MCC-545C outline drawing ........................................... 9

Figure 4:Exploded view of the MCC-545C ................................... 10

Figure 5:MCC-545C block diagram ............................................ 13

Figure 6: MCC-545C front panel LEDs ........................................ 19

Figure 7: Single dipole antenna ............................................... 24

Figure 8: 3-Element YAGI antenna ........................................... 24

Figure 9: Remote station antenna height for meteor burst .............. 25

Figure 10: Typical remote station with 3-element YAGI antenna ....... 27

Figure 11: MCC-545C cable connections ..................................... 28

Figure 12: MCC-545C power connector pins ................................ 29

Figure 13: MCC-545C I/O port cable ......................................... 30

Figure 14: Message flow and associated commands ....................... 65

Figure 15: Position report formats ........................................... 76

Figure 16: Event programming block diagram .............................. 99

Table of Tables

Table 1:MCC-545C general specifications ................................... 16

Table 2:MCC-545C receiver specifications .................................. 16

Table 3: MCC-545C transmitter specifications.............................. 17

Table 4:MCC-545C microprocessor specifications .......................... 17

Table 5: CO-AX cable loss (50 MHz) .......................................... 25

Table 6: Role-based operations ............................................... 43

Table 7: MCC-545C commands ............................................... 121

Acronyms

A/D

Analog

Digital

ACK

Acknowledgement