User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Foreword
- PSG Limited Equipment Warranty for U.S. And Canadian Markets
- PSG Limited Equipment Warranty for NonU.S. and Non-Canadian Markets
- Introduction 1
- System Description 2
- The Wireless Messaging System Overview
- FLEX, ReFLEX and InFLEXion Messaging Protocol Overview
- RF-B! Transmitter Controller Functional Description
- RF-Baton! Transmitter Controller Specifications
- Preinstallation 3
- Installation 4
- Operation 5
- Maintenance 6
- Troubleshooting
- Data Path Diagnostics
- GPS Diagnostics
- Removal and Installation
- Assigning an RF-B! Transmitter Controller to a Multicast Group
- Remote Software Download from Choreographer! Network Manager
- Local Software Download Using the Front Panel
- Parameter Database Updating
- Abbreviations and Acronyms A
- Connector Pinouts B
- FIPS Action Commands and Parameter IDs C
- Alarms and Error Messages D
- Traces E
System Description RF-Baton! Transmitter Controller Installation and Operation
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Reviewing Responses
The system provides the following two ways for the message sender to review the response:
• Call Query—The message sender can call back to the system at a later time and use the
transaction ID to retrieve the response.
• Auto MESSAGE—If the message sender is also a subscriber in the system, the system can
be instructed to send the response directly to the message sender’s communicator.
Originating a Message
To originate a message, the subscriber selects the individual or group from a list of up-to-32
addresses stored in the communicator. Then, from a 64-message subset list of the subscriber’s
120-message master list, the subscriber selects a message and instructs the system to send it to
the selected address.
InFLEXion Messaging Protocol Features
The InFLEXion messaging protocol system provides for local frequency re-use based on
subchannel frequencies in the 50 kHz channel bandwidth. Up-to-seven subchannels are
available in a 50 kHz bandwidth for the InFLEXion messaging protocol, and the system is
configured with a cellular-like design. Individual transmitter sites can be active and
broadcasting on a given subchannel, while an adjacent transmitter is active and broadcasting
on a different subchannel. Properly spaced transmitters can be operating on the same
frequency, transmitting different messages at the same time.
In addition to registration and acknowledgment, InFLEXion voice messaging has support for
virtual storage. Although the communicator can store several minutes of voice messages,
when the memory becomes full, the communicator instructs the system to hold messages in
the terminal. The terminal acts as a buffer until space becomes available in the communicator.
When communicator memory becomes available, the queued messages are forwarded to the
communicator.
The InFLEXion voice technology has other benefits:
• The caller voice message stores directly in the terminal where the voice message
forwards to the subscriber communicator. This operation reduces the operational costs
normally associated with alphanumeric messaging.
• The actual voice of the caller conveys the message urgency. Voice messaging provides a
different level of communication than numeric or alphanumeric messaging.