User's Manual

Paciﬁ c Crest

ADL Vantage/ADL Vantage Pro Users Guide

GPS RTK equipment is designed to func on with intermi ent gaps in the data. Heavy co-channel use may limit the ability

of the ADL Vantage/ADL Vantage Pro radio to transmit the required informa on. In areas of heavy co-channel usage, try

changing channels to a less used frequency.

Security Code

You can use the ADLCONF so ware program to conﬁ gure your ADL Vantage/ADL Vantage Pro to send and receive en-

crypted data. When the radio is programmed for encryp on, the second line of its Security Code screen will say On (with

an asterisk). Only radios that support Paciﬁ c Crest protocols (Transparent EOT, Transparent EOC, Packet Switched) and are

programmed with this code will be able to interpret data sent by any of the radios. To turn the security code feature oﬀ ,

press the Up or Down arrow to display the Oﬀ op on and press Enter. to turn the security feature back on, select the On

op on. If the radio has not been programmed by ADLCONF for data security, you will not be able to select the On op on.

Note: If you program a radio to use the Data Security feature, it will not be able to communicate with any

radio that is not set to use the same code. So when you enable this feature for one radio it is a good idea to

enable it for all the radios you will use in the same communica on network. ADL radios with bu on/LCD

interfaces can turn the Data Security feature on or oﬀ in the ﬁ eld, but all other Paciﬁ c Crest radios must be

returned to the oﬃ ce to disable the Data Security feature using the appropriate conﬁ gura on so ware.

Edit Conﬁ gura on

The ADL Vantage/ADL Vantage Pro LCD display includes an Edit Conﬁ g screen that indicates if conﬁ guring the radio with

the keypad is Enabled or Disabled. The current selec on is displayed with an asterisk on the second row of the Edit

Conﬁ g screen. To switch the selec on, press the down arrow to display the other op on and press the Enter bu on.

You are now instructed to input a passcode, which is 369369 for all ADL radios. To input this code, press the right arrow

to display a 3 on the second row. Then press the down arrow to display a 6 and the le arrow to display a 9. Press the

right, down and le bu ons a second  me in sequence. When you see 369369 displayed on the second row of the LCD,

press Enter and the keypad’s ability to conﬁ gure the radio is changed. You can also use ADLCONF to enable/disable the

Edit Conﬁ g func on in the ADL Vantage/ADL Vantage Pro by checking/unchecking the Enable ﬁ eld conﬁ gura on box on

the Serial Interface screen’s Advanced menu. The RX LED ﬂ ashes to indicate that the ADL Vantage/ADL Vantage Pro is

receiving signals from another radio or from a source of interference. The default is Signal received, but you can reset the

radio so that when its RX LED ﬂ ashes it means Data packets received. You can reset the meaning either through the user

interface or with ADLCONF conﬁ gura on so ware. During normal opera on, the RX LED will ﬂ ash at a once-per-second

rate indica ng the recep on of transmissions from the transmi ng radio. If the RX LED is on con nuously, then a source

of interference may be impac ng the ability of the ADL Vantage to receive data. Try reposi oning the antenna, or chang-

ing to another channel at both the transmi er and receiver to reduce or eliminate the interference, another radio or

from a source of interference. The default is Signal received, but you can reset the radio so that when its RX LED ﬂ ashes

it means Data packets received. You can reset the meaning either through the user interface or with ADLCONF conﬁ gu-

ra on so ware. During normal opera on, the RX LED will ﬂ ash at a once-per-second rate indica ng the recep on of

transmissions from the transmi ng radio. If the RX LED is on con nuously, then a source of interference may be impact-

ing the ability of the ADL Vantage to receive data. Try reposi

oning the antenna, or changing to another channel at both

the transmi er and receiver to reduce or eliminate the interference.

Scrambling

To demodulate a digital transmission, a receiver must synchronize itself with the transmi er. This can be hard to do when

the transmi er sends a long series of one’s or a long series of zeroes. But if every nth character in the transmission were

switched, a one to a zero or a zero to a one, and if the receiver was expec ng this, it could more quickly synchronize

itself with the transmission. This is essen ally what Scramble Control does and why we recommend you leave it on for

all radios. If you select a protocol type other than Transparent (EOT and EOC) or Packet Switched, Scrambling will auto-