User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Installation and Operation Manual
- 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
- Appendix C – Identifying Front Panels
- Glossary
- Tait Software License Agreement
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system control bus
Provides the following physical paths in a TB9400 base station:
■ I
2
C and RS-485 communications between the modules in the subrack
■ fan power from the PMU
■ power connections for the reciter and front panel.
TaitNet Brand name for a PMR network designed and manufactured by Tait
Limited.
Tait P25 network A set of Tait base stations interconnected by an IP network that can carry
voice and data traffic.
TB9400 Base
Station
A P25-compliant base station consisting of the equipment necessary to
receive and transmit on one channel. Generally, this means a reciter, a PA,
and a PMU. Often abbreviated to TB9400 or base station.
TCCP Trunking Channel Control Protocol. A proprietary protocol operating over
IP for the exchange of channel control messages between a base station and
a trunking site controller.
TCP Transmission Control Protocol. A complex protocol on top of IP for
sending reliable streams of data with flow control.
TELCO Telephone company.
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association
toggle Describes the switching between two states. If something is on, toggling it
turns it off. If it is off, toggling it turns it on.
tone A sound wave of a particular frequency.
TSBK A Trunking Signaling Block is an over-the-air message format used in
digital P25 mode for setting up trunked calls and for supplementary
services such as messaging and status updates.
Tx Transmitter.
UDP User Datagram Protocol. A simple protocol on top of IP for sending
streams of data.
uninhibit A control command that can be sent across the CAI to restore an inhibited
SU to normal functioning.