AR-IQ-III
Receiver control, I/Q recording & playback
for AR2300/AR5001D/AR6000 receivers
Operating manual
AOR Ltd.
Authority On Radio Communications
®
Page 1: ...AR IQ III Receiver control I Q recording playback for AR2300 AR5001D AR6000 receivers Operating manual AOR Ltd Authority On Radio Communications...
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Page 3: ...ctrum waterfall window 9 6 2 1 Wheel step 9 6 2 2 Frequency tuning by double click on spectrum 10 6 2 3 Frequency tuning by mouse drag on spectrum 10 6 2 4 Frequency tuning with center button ON 10 6...
Page 4: ...a time I Q allows you to store and playback a full 0 9MHz bandwidth with no loss of quality This 0 9MHz bandwidth can be anywhere within the receiving range of the receiver Off line you can listen an...
Page 5: ...to install One for the I Q output and one for the receiver control All following instructions and screenshots are based on the Windows 10 operating system Switch the receiver ON Depending on your Win...
Page 6: ...etected as an unknown device Right click it and select update driver Insert the supplied driver CD into your computer and select the corresponding drive Next will load and install the driver This is h...
Page 7: ...ver from the supplied CD The connection has been flagged with a yellow exclamation mark under Other devices Right click it and select update driver Insert the supplied driver CD into your computer and...
Page 8: ...ngle is unique and cannot be copied or backed up If you damage the USB license dongle a new one needs to be purchased Inside the USB dongle locate the software s executable ariq3 exe and double click...
Page 9: ...s say you are tuned to 101 756 MHz and you hover the mouse over the third digit 1 Then by scrolling up or down you will change the tuned frequency of 1 MHz for each scroll increment If you wish to tu...
Page 10: ...eded anymore 6 1 3 Frequency tuning by CF step Clicking on the buttons with the white triangle on either side of the main spectrum control bar does increment or decrement the frequency by the step siz...
Page 11: ...e frequency on the frequency panel do not change Convenient for co channel interference removal b Notch mode not active in WFM mode The notch function is effective for cycle noise on the receive signa...
Page 12: ...ency You can chose between spectrum view and waterfall view Main spectrum view Waterfall view 6 2 1 Wheel step This is the value by which the spectrum will be shifted by scrolling the mouse wheel when...
Page 13: ...your mouse inside the grayed out range of the IF filter until the mouse pointer changes to a horizontal double arrow then drag the mouse either left or right on to the spectrum while pressing the left...
Page 14: ...6 2 6 Span The span is the width of the main spectrum window You can chose between 900 9kHz 450 4kHz 225 2kHz 112 6kHz 56 3kHz 28 2kHz 14 1kHz 7 0kHz 3 5kHz Used in both live reception and playback P...
Page 15: ...minimum Freq offers the best performance at the expense of a slight degradation of the signal amplitude accuracy and refresh rate Time Selects the FFT algorithm of previous software versions FFT with...
Page 16: ...om the spectrum waterfall display Delta button This button changes the values from the markers 2 to 8 to delta values different from MRK 1 Labels button Activates a vertical scale at the left side of...
Page 17: ...assband tuning etc Javailable as in a live reception situation The software will automatically divide the recording into wav files of approx 2GB which corresponds to approx 4 minutes of recording Alth...
Page 18: ...back the whole series of files if required This playback should be continuous and flawless even during track file change During playback the software will display date and time in the same format as d...
Page 19: ...na socket 1 even though it s usually 2 when the receiver is used stand alone This is due to the fact that the receiver s internal antenna wiring is different when used stand alone vs controlled by sof...
Page 20: ...anker Care should be exercised when strong signals are present in the band where the receiver is tuned A too low NB threshold NB slider at or near its maximum position may affect the quality of the tu...
Page 21: ...lch auto mute Squelch and Auto Mute threshold levels can be controlled clicking the desired value in the S Meter bar with the left button of the mouse The Auto Mute function works in the opposite way...
Page 22: ...ton In this case the audio output level is controlled by the VOLUME slider When the AGC is off large input signals can cause the saturation of the audio output 8 12 AGC spike rejection The Spike Rejec...
Page 23: ...the software s Buffer Reads Interval to match your PC s specifications This parameter controls the amount of data that the software reads from its data queue in a given time interval If you increase...
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