User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Installation and Operation Manual Draft in Progress
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Description
- 2 General Safety and Regulatory Information
- 3 Operation
- 4 Working with Base Stations from Your PC
- 4.1 PC Recommendations
- 4.2 Connecting Your PC to the Base Station
- 4.3 Working with the Web Interface
- 4.4 Basic Tasks
- 4.4.1 User Settings
- 4.4.2 Taking the Base Station Offline
- 4.4.3 Troubleshooting Alarms
- 4.4.4 Working with Configuration Files
- 4.4.5 Configuring Single Base Stations
- 4.4.6 Configuring Base Stations in a Channel Group
- 4.4.7 Setting Up Custom Alarms
- 4.4.8 Disabling the Front Panel Keypad
- 4.4.9 Preparing to Download Firmware
- 5 Installation
- 6 Maintenance
- 7 Troubleshooting
- 8 Replacing Modules
- Appendix A – Interface Pin Allocations
- Appendix B – Inter-Module Connections
- TaitNet P25 Glossary
- Tait Software License Agreement
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© Tait Electronics Limited September 2011
1.6 Licenses
Some operational functions of the base station are controlled by licenses.
These functions will not work unless you purchase the appropriate feature
license and enable the feature set controlled by that license. The feature sets
currently available are listed below.
P25 Common Air
Interface
Allows the base station to go into Online mode. Base stations are always
provided with this license.
P25 Trunking
Operation
Allows a base station to participate in a trunking system. Without this
feature, the base station cannot provide a control or a status connection to a
trunking site controller and it cannot function as a control or traffic channel.
Networking with
Centralized Voter
Allows the base station to act as a central voter within its channel group. This
feature also allows voice networking. Only base stations that will centrally
vote (normally the central voter and its backup) need this feature. The other
members of the channel group only need the networking with distributed
voter feature. A standard trunked base station (standalone without fill-in
repeaters or other channel group members) can function as a master or a
failsoft repeater without this license.
Simulcast
Transmitter
This feature is required in base stations that have transmitters and belong to
a simulcast network.
Simulcast
Modulation
Allows the base station to transmit using the LSM modulation scheme. This
scheme is designed to minimize performance degradation in simulcast
channels caused by delay spread.
Failsoft for P25
Trunking
Allows trunked channels that become isolated from a site controller to
perform simple conventional operation and to interface to a digital dispatch
system. If a trunked channel consists of several base stations in a channel
group, only the central voter (normally the master) needs this license. It is
then able to become the failsoft repeater for that channel group.
Phase 2 Operation
(not yet available)
This feature will allow the base station to operate in trunking mode using
two-slot TDMA as defined by the P25 Phase 2 standard.