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4 Hooking up your Bandmaster III.
1
Verify your radio configuration as per your manufacturer’s reference manual.
2
Configure the
Bandmaster III
according to your radio as per section 2.
3
Make our cable for your radio as per section 3.
4
Connect your
Bandmaster III
to your radio using the Radio connector (DB9M) according
to the connection option you selected in section 3.2.
5
Connect your
Bandmaster III
to your computer using the USB connector using a
standard USB cable (optional).
6
Connect
Bandmaster III
to the device(s) to be controlled (antenna switch, BPF, SixPak,
etc…) via the Relay connector.
7
Connect
Bandmaster III
to the 4-wire network for control of devices such as 8-Pak,
FilterMax III, etc.
8
Connect the 12 Volt DC power to the 4-wire connector on the
Bandmaster III
.
9
And you are done.
5 Operations
Once your radio is cabled correctly, apply power to the
Bandmaster III
. As you switch bands on
your radio or logging/control software, the
Bandmaster
will switch to your band of choice within
.25 to .5 seconds. This delay ignores transients and false signals from the radio which can cause
unwanted problems.
If using computer logging/control programs, the application should be configured to the computer
emulated COM port where the
Bandmaster III
is connected and
be sure the radio baud rate is
set to 9600
. The Logging/control programs will use the
Bandmaster III
as the
CAT
level
converter interface thus making the
Bandmaster III
transparent to the application.
Note: you can not run the
Bandmaster III
configuration application at the same time as a
logging/control program because you can not have two applications grabbing the same serial
port. Thus make certain your
Bandmaster III
configuration application if closed before running
any other application using your
Bandmaster III
.
