Afar AR-24010E, Operator'S Manual

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pulsAR radio Operator's Manual
3 INSTALLATION AND SETUP
NOTE
Appendix E contains a quick set up diagrams showing the minimum configuration and commands
necessary to put up a point-to-point link and a point to multipoint network.
WARNING
Before you turn on a radio and initiate RF transmissions we recommend that you connect the RF
connector(s) to the appropriate antennas (or a load if testing in the bench). If you transmit full
power into an unterminated coaxial cable connected to the antenna port the radio power amplifier
may be permanently damaged.
3.1 Bench Check Out
It is recommended that an initial check be performed on the bench before a field installation.
For this bench check out you need two pulsAR units. Radio 1 will be configured as the hub and radio
2 will be configured as a remote. The first approach described below uses the “Ethernet Console
Program” to emulate the terminal across an Ethernet connection. The second approach uses two
terminals connected to the auxiliary port of the radios.
3.1.1 Using the radio Ethernet connection
In order to use the Ethernet connection you need the “Ethernet Console” (Econsole) utility provided
in the CD or at the Afar website. Refer to the separate Ethernet Console User's Manual for
installation instructions. Once Econsole is installed, perform the following steps.
1. Connect the “To LAN” connector of the Power Inserter Unit of radio 2 to your PC Ethernet port.
If the PC Ethernet is connected to a switch go to the switch instead. The radio auto-senses and
crosses the Ethernet lines if necessary.
2. Connect each radio Antenna A port (N type connector) to an appropriate 2.4 GHz band antenna
using an RF coaxial cable.
3. Connect each Power Inserter Unit “To Radio” connector to the respective pulsAR radio using the
special CAT 5 cable as defined in section 1.
4. Connect the two Power Inserter Units to a power outlet of the appropriate voltage.
5. At the PC open a DOS window and invoke the Econsole program by typing:
> econ
If you have multiple network ports in your PC the Econsole program will first ask you to select
the one connected to the Afar radio. If you don't know this information just try each one in turn
until you get a list of one or more Afar devices followed by the Econsole> prompt. At the prompt
type:
Econsole> connect 1 (to establish a connection to the first device on the list)
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