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FM / HD Radio Receiver  

Installation & User Guide 

 

September, 2016 - Rev. 1.0.0.0 Firmware 

 

www.inovonicsbroadcast.com 

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HD Radio Technology is manufactured under license 
from iBiquity Digital Corporation.  U.S. and Foreign 
Patents apply.  HD Radio™ and the HD and HD Radio 
logos are proprietary trademarks of iBiquity Digital 
Corporation.  iBiquity Digital software © 2003-2016 
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Summary of Contents for INO 639

Page 1: ... com 639 HD Radio Technology is manufactured under license from iBiquity Digital Corporation U S and Foreign Patents apply HD Radio and the HD and HD Radio logos are proprietary trademarks of iBiquity Digital Corporation iBiquity Digital software 2003 2016 iBiquity Digital Corporation All Rights Reserved ...

Page 2: ...trength and Alarm 10 Audio Muting 11 RF and HD Radio Signal Readouts 12 Signal to Noise and Multipath 12 The Audio Loss Alarm 12 FM Stereo Modes 13 Program Audio Levels 14 Headphone Volume 15 Line Output Levels 15 PI CL Time 16 PTY PTYN 17 PS and Radio Text 17 Radio Text Plus Tagging 18 HD Name 19 HD PTY and FCC ID 19 2 HD Artist 19 HD Title 19 HD Album 19 HD Genre 19 Hidden Menus 20 Section IV US...

Page 3: ...tion of the receiver s menu tree Direct display of RT tagging data Analog L R and AES digital program line outputs Front panel alarms with rear panel tallies for Carrier Loss Digital Program Loss and Audio Loss Accurate front panel program audio level display Front panel headphone jack 4 Product Specifications Tuning Range 87 5MHz 107 9MHz in 100kHz steps HD Radio Channels Selectable HD1 through H...

Page 4: ...ables so that two or three INOmini modules may share a single power supply 6 AC Mains Power All Inovonics INOmini modules are supplied with a brick switching type power supply compatible with international mains voltages The actual power consumed by the Receiv er is 230mA at 12 volts DC A second DC connector on the rear panel allows daisy chaining INOmini modules This means that two or more units ...

Page 5: ...nd remote alarm tallies respond to reception problems or errors These are individually detailed later in this section but you may encounter one or more of these as soon as you power up the receiver These alarms identify a problem and flash lighted blocks on the LCD display mak ing the alarm quite visible even across the room If the 639 has not yet been tuned to a station the LOW SIGNAL and or AUDI...

Page 6: ...e fin ished making changes 10 Setting the Frequency and Mode Menu Screen 1 When power is applied to the INOmini 639 a splash screen with the product ID pops up immediately on the LCD Within a few se conds this will revert to Menu Screen 1 shown here The top line of Menu Screen 1 displays the frequency of the station and whether it is broadcasting in FM S FM stereo FM B a blended noise reducing mod...

Page 7: ...ng of the loud hissing sound characteristic of an FM receiver when no signal is present To enable muting Push the knob and select either On or Off for this option 12 With this option set to Off a carrier loss will generally not initiate an audio loss alarm RF and HD Radio Signal Readouts Menu Screen 4 RF is redundant to the similar measurement on Menu Screen 2 a 0 to 75 numerical readout of the RF...

Page 8: ...roadcasts and FM M if the station is transmitting a monaural signal The graphic on the second line of FM Menu Screen 7 repre sents the wide soundstage that characterizes a normal ste 14 reo transmission When the stereo pilot is lost the display will collapse to the center Stereo FM suffers a theoretical noise disadvantage of about 20dB when compared with monaural broadcasts Push the knob and turn ...

Page 9: ... Radio program signals at 100 modulation Push the knob and ANA Out will start to blink Turn the knob to set the levels of the balanced left and right analog 16 outputs to any value between 15dBu and 15dBu in 0 2dB increments Push the knob again to set DIG Out the AES digital line output level Numbers reference dBFS or dB with refer ence to digital full scale The adjustment range is 30dBFS to 0dBFS...

Page 10: ...at is displayed on consumer receivers that have a TEXT or INFO button The INOmini 639 automatically scrolls the RT message to display all 64 characters 18 RT may be used to present the same artist and title data that is commonly scrolled in the PS field but is often re served for static information such as the station s telephone number web address or program promotion Radio Text Plus Tagging FM M...

Page 11: ...creen Hidden Menus Additional diagnostic data and infrequently used setup op tions are available on a series of hidden menus explained in order here To enter this mysterious realm simply hold down the knob for about 5 seconds until the 639 Firm ware menu screen appears The 639 Firmware screen will apprise you of what firm ware version is installed in your unit TX Gain and TX BCTL are active displa...

Page 12: ...sit at ground and go open for an alarm Push the knob to cycle through the three alarms and set the polarity accord ingly For example A G gives a ground when audio is lost A O an open circuit for dead air The Load Defaults Menu screen will reboot the INOmini 639 and reset all setup choices to factory default values Push and turn the knob to bring up Yes on the second line and push the knob again to...

Page 13: ...on Page 16 the call letters displayed in this pane are back calculated from the station s PI code In the screenshot the PI code is accurately derived from call let ters and the station is scrolling the PS field with the same artist and title information shown in the Radio Text field This station does include traffic announcements in their programming but they do not update time and date or uti liz...

Page 14: ...ttons at the bottom of the screen will indeed perform the indicated functions al lowing the screens to re populate and re accumulation the data 26 The HD Info Pane HD Radio PAD metadata is displayed here in much the same manner as is the decoded RDS data for the analog FM channel These fields were covered in a previous discussion see Page 19 Data Logging Various buttons at the bottom of the screen...

Page 15: ...n alongside the date time stamp for each log entry The two examples shown here were from a few minutes logging of the station displayed on the previous pages Note that the upper PS txt log shows fre quent updates This is because the PS message is dynamic or scrolling Scrolling PS essentially creates a new 8 charac ter display every few se conds The HD txt log on the other hand shows only three ent...

Page 16: ... more to do with features and their ad justment limits In that case the version number might bump from 1 0 0 8 up to 1 0 1 0 a change in this case of the last two digits A change of this magnitude would most likely purge all user setup information from the INOmini 639 The update would have an accompanying Changelog which will de scribe the update and urge you to jot down your settings 30 before in...

Page 17: ... For these reasons and also because of the small format of this manual we have elected to dispense with schematic dia grams servicing instructions and a listing of component parts Notwithstanding this decision our policy has always been one of full disclosure We feel that unless we are doing something nefarious or acting in the interest of national security there should never be a reason to hide i...

Page 18: ...has been removed or altered III TERMS OF WARRANTY Inovonics Inc products are warranted to be free from defects in materials and workmanship A Any discrepancies noted within THREE YEARS of the date of delivery will be repaired free of charge or the equipment will be replaced with a new or remanufactured product at Inovonics option B Parts and labor for factory repair required after the three year W...

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