User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Hardware
- Installation
- Getting Started
- Inside the Excelsior
- Resizing the Application Window
- Drop-Down Menu Controls
- Tuning the Excelsior
- Receiver Selection
- Mode Selection
- Function Tabs
- Spectrum Scopes
- Recording Functions
- Attenuator
- Preamplifier
- S-meter
- Top Menu Bar
- File
- Options
- Auto-mute RX not in focus
- Enable second RX
- Filter Length
- Front Panel LED
- Display Offset
- Time
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- VSC Set-up
- Audio Buffering
- AMS Capture Range
- Audio Output
- Show Measurements
- Show Data Rates
- Of particular interest to many users will be the CPU load (excessive CPU load may cause sluggish behaviour or freezing of the computer), and Audio latency. Apart from DDC bandwidth, CPU load may be minimized by reducing the Demodulator filter length (...
- Note: When measuring sensitivity using SINAD, it is very important that the Audio Filter is enabled and the cut-off frequencies (and for FM measurements, also the de-emphasis) are set according to the specified test conditions. Proper audio filtering ...
- Show Waterfall Timestamps
- Calibration
- Hand-Off Receiver
- Color scheme
- Restore factory defaults
- Memory
- Scheduler
- Scanner
- Logger
- Plugins
- Power Switch
- Date and Time Display
- Appendix A – SDR and DDC Primer
- Appendix B – Troubleshooting
- Appendix C – USB Interface Diagnostics
- Appendix D – Dealing with Interference
- Appendix E – G39DDCi PCIe Card Connections
- Appendix F – Waterfall Spectrum Palettes
- Appendix G – Recording File Formats
- Appendix H – Compliance Declarations
- Appendix I – Safety Disposal
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The Peak and RMS buttons select between peak and RMS values. The AVG
button applies a floating average with a one second time interval to smooth the
S-meter movement.
The S-meter is very selective, and acts only upon signals within the selected
demodulator bandwidth (gray-shaded area in the demodulator spectrum
display).
Please note that the actions of both the attenuator and preamplifier are
compensated for by the S-meter. This means that the S-meter always
displays the true value of the signal strength at the antenna input, within
the available measurement range. If the range is exceeded, either
Overrange or Underrange indicators are displayed in the S-meter.
Top Menu Bar
The top menu bar contains numerous ancillary functions of the Excelsior:
File
The File menu includes functions associated with file operations.
Did you know?
The word "file" was used publicly in the context of computer storage as early as
February, 1950. In an RCA (Radio Corporation of America) advertisement in Popular
Science describing a new "memory" vacuum tube it had developed, RCA stated: "...the
results of countless computations can be kept ‘on file’ and taken out again. Such a ‘file’
now exists in a ‘memory’ tube developed at RCA Laboratories. Electronically it retains
figures fed into calculating machines, holds them in storage while it memorizes new
ones - speeds intelligent solutions through mazes of mathematics."