User's Manual

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ADL Vantage/ADL Vantage Pro Users Guide

The ADL Vantage and ADL Vantage Pro LCDs display radio parameters that are determined:

• In the factory: serial number, ﬁ rmware version, transmi er status (enabled/disabled)

• By the radio: ba ery status, signal strength and error codes

• By your dealer: channel tables (including frequency and bandwidth) and maximum transmit power

• In the oﬃ ce using the ADLCONF program (everything else)

In addi on, you may conﬁ gure the following parameters in the ﬁ eld using the ADL Vantage/Vantage Pro user interface:

• Channel number

• Data protocol

• Radio link rate

• Repeater Mode (called “Opera on Mode” when using a Trimble protocol)

• Sensi vity

• Transmit power

• RX LED meaning

• Serial baud rate

• CSMA (Note: It is illegal to transmit in the United States while CSMA is turned oﬀ . CSMA should be turned oﬀ

within the European Union.)

• Security Code

• Edit Conﬁ gura on

• Scrambling

• Forward Error Correc on

• Language of display (with ADL Vantage Pro only)

For the ﬁ eld-conﬁ gurable func ons, the available choices are displayed on the bo om row of the LCD. The currently

selected parameter is marked with an asterisk. To select a diﬀ erent choice for the displayed func on, scroll up or down

with the arrow bu ons and press the Enter bu on when the desired choice is displayed.

There are two ways to move to a diﬀ erent func on screen. When viewing a display-only func on such as Device Status

or Signal Strength, simply press the le or right arrow. When viewing a display-and-select func on such as Channel/Freq

or Data Protocol, ﬁ rst press the up/down arrows to display the currently selected parameter (marked with an asterisk) in

the second row. Then press either the le or right arrow to move to a new func on screen.

Note: if the currently selected parameter (shown with an asterisk) is not currently displayed on the LCD,

and the backlight is oﬀ , you have not pressed a bu on for more than 20 seconds), you can scroll directly to

the selected parameter by pressing the le or right arrow once. To move to a new func on screen, press

the le or right arrow a second

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To speed ﬁ eld conﬁ gura on and to prevent the selec on of unsupported radio conﬁ gura ons, the ADL Vantage/ADL

Vantage Pro user interface displays only those func on parameters that make sense based on the parameters chosen for

previously displayed func ons. What you choose for the data protocol determines your op ons for radio link rate and

repeater mode. For example, if your channel table is set to 12.5 kHz channel spacing, and you select TT450S (HW) on

the Data Protocol screen, you cannot select a radio link rate – in fact the Radio Link Rate screen does not even appear -

because the TT450S (HW) protocol works with 12.5 kHz channel spacing only at 4800 bps. And because TT450S (HW) is a

Trimble protocol, Trimble-speciﬁ c “Opera on Modes” (instead of “Repeater Modes”) are available for selec on. The ADL

Vantage/ADL Vantage Pro user interface remembers things like this so you don’t have to! If you decide to undo any of

these selec ons, simply press the le arrow to return to the Data Protocol screen and select a diﬀ erent protocol.

Although the ADL Vantage/ADL Vantage Pro radio modem supports both GMSK and 4FSK modula on, you cannot select

the modula on type with the user interface. The radio automa cally selects the appropriate modula on based on the

channel bandwidth of the radio’s channel table (displayed on the Device Status screen as “BW: 12.5 or 25 kHz”), the data