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DESCRIPTION  2-22

MCC-545C PACKET DATA RADIO

12/2000

3.2

Equipment Installation

The MCC-545C operates over a temperature range from -30

°

C to 60

°

C and is housed in a

stainless steel enclosure, however, it is not waterproof.  A NEMA waterproof enclosure is
therefore recommended for outdoor installation when an environmentally controlled shelter is
not available.

To ensure proper operation, shielded cable is recommended for all connectors.  Also, use
adequate strain relief on all cables and a weatherproof seal at the entry point of the enclosure.

3.2.1

Antenna Installation

Antenna installation is very dependent on the site conditions and proper antenna placement can
make the difference between a system that works very well or one that works marginally.
Always consult with MCC’s engineering department for assistance if any questions arise with
respect to proper placement of the antennas.

Assembly instructions are included with each antenna.  Please refer to these for proper assembly
of all antenna elements.

3.2.2

Cable Connections

There are a maximum of four cable connections to be made to the MCC-545C as shown below:

I/O

DC

GPS Antenna

(Optional)

VHF

Summary of Contents for MCC-545C

Page 1: ...FCC ID BIB5450500101 EXHIBIT VIII OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE MCC 545C PACKET DATA RADIO...

Page 2: ...ENANCE OF THE MCC 545C PACKET DATA RADIO MAN OM 545C January 2001 Meteor Communications Corporation 8631 So 212th St Kent WA 98031 Tel 253 872 2521 Fax 253 872 7662 E mail mcc meteorcomm com 2000 by M...

Page 3: ...and treated by a doctor Components containing beryllium may only be machined cut abraded or heated above 400 C under strictly controlled conditions approved by the appropriate Safety Authority Dispos...

Page 4: ...ton International customers shall pay shipping costs to the MCC facility with Seattle as the point of U S entry MCC shall pay incoming U S duty fees MCC shall pay for shipping costs to return the equi...

Page 5: ...0500101 EXHIBIT VIII REVISION PAGE Document Title MCC 545C INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS Manual Document Number Revision Date Revision Redline 11 10 2000 Redline Release 01 03 2001 Initial Release A B C...

Page 6: ...TALLATION 3 1 3 1 Site Selection 3 1 3 1 1 External Noise Interference 3 1 3 1 2 Horizon Angle 3 3 3 1 3 Power Source 3 3 3 1 4 Site Dimensions 3 3 3 1 5 Antenna Considerations 3 3 3 2 Equipment Insta...

Page 7: ...15 4 3 5 Receiving Messages 4 16 4 3 6 Examining Revising Messages Queues 4 16 4 3 7 Examining Message Statistics 4 18 4 3 8 Entering Canned Messages 4 18 4 3 9 Printing Canned Messages 4 19 4 4 Data...

Page 8: ...0X Data Logger APPENDIX F Event Programming LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 2 1 MCC 545C Photograph 2 2 2 2 MCC 545C Block Diagram 2 5 2 3 MCC 545C Outline Drawing 2 6 3 1 Remote Station Antenna Height fo...

Page 9: ...DESCRIPTION 2 4 O M of the MCC 545C PACKET DATA RADIO 12 2000...

Page 10: ...tions The height of the trails 60 miles gives the system its 1 000 mile range 1 1 Presentation This manual is divided into five major sections Section 2 DESCRIPTION Discusses specifications of each mo...

Page 11: ...mand parameters are presented in lower case e g DEFINE id Optional parameters are enclosed in brackets e g TIME hh mm ss Names of terminal keys are capitalized and enclosed in square brackets when men...

Page 12: ...DESCRIPTION 2 7 O M of the MCC 545C PACKET DATA RADIO 12 2000...

Page 13: ...quencies The unit utilizes three phase locked frequency synthesizers to set the Tx and Rx frequencies The operator can set the frequency to any authorized frequency 10KHz steps within a 2 MHz band Aut...

Page 14: ...Data Loggers such as the Campbell Scientific CR10X or CR23 Data from these loggers can be collected stored and transmitted to a distant unit Refer to Appendix B and E for a description of data logger...

Page 15: ...y 6 months This battery should be removed if the unit is stored without power for extended periods of time 2 6 Hardware Organization and Layout The unit contains five printed circuit assemblies A 100...

Page 16: ...nthesizer 1 st and 2 nd local oscillator and transmit oscillator Reference Oscillator 12 8 MHz 2 5 PPM Tx phase lock loop 74 100 MHz output 20 KHz steps A divide by 2 circuit 37 50 MHz output 10 KHz s...

Page 17: ...2 VCO TCXO PHASE DC CTRL VCO LOCKED REF OSC Ft LO2 114 9 MHZ SP LOOP FREQ DEV 2400 HZ COMPARE CONN RAM 12 8 10 0 MHZ GMSK MODULATION 0 DBM 512K X 16 RX ENABLE PIC CONTROL DATA RATE 9600 BAUD 2 44 PIN...

Page 18: ...DESCRIPTION 2 13 O M of the MCC 545C PACKET DATA RADIO 12 2000 MCC 545C OUTLINE DRAWING FIGURE 2 3...

Page 19: ...n aluminum heat sink assembly 2 6 3 MCC 545C Microprocessor The microprocessor is a Motorola based embedded computer housed on a single PCB that contains 512K x 16 of non volatile flash memory for pro...

Page 20: ...4 VDC Standby 80 ma Continuous Transmit 25 Amps Nominal 100 msec TABLE 2 1 MCC 545C RECEIVER SPECIFICATIONS CHARACTERISTIC SPECIFICATION Frequency 37 50 MHz 0005 Synthesized 10KHz steps Modulation Typ...

Page 21: ...hutting down transmitter 20 will shut down the transmitter T R Switch Solid State Switching Time 100 microseconds I O MCC Standard Refer to Section 3 2 High VSWR Protection Withstands Infinite VSWR TA...

Page 22: ...DESCRIPTION 2 17 MCC 545C PACKET DATA RADIO 12 2000...

Page 23: ...s follows Cosmic Noise Power Line Noise Automobile Ignition Noise Computer Generated Interference External Signal Interference Cosmic Noise Cosmic noise is the limiting noise factor in a meteor burst...

Page 24: ...power lines to reduce noise Call your local utility in case of severe noise Automobile Ignition Noise Automobile ignition noise is generated by all gasoline engines and is a result of the high voltage...

Page 25: ...maximum performance from a meteor burst site the station must be set up on level flat ground The terrain in front of the antenna must be flat and free of buildings and other structures for a distance...

Page 26: ...e to minimize line losses Try to maintain a line loss between the antenna and the MCC 545C to less than 1 db A table of cable loss at 50 MHz for various types of co ax cable is given below for referen...

Page 27: ...bles and a weatherproof seal at the entry point of the enclosure 3 2 1 Antenna Installation Antenna installation is very dependent on the site conditions and proper antenna placement can make the diff...

Page 28: ...wer cable with lugs for connecting to a 3 8 battery post Part No 14001261 03 The power connector pins are as follows The voltage drop at pins 1 and 2 should not drop by more than 2VDC during transmiss...

Page 29: ...inal Use a standard RS 232 cable with a 9 pin male D connector OPERATOR PORT 9S Pin Signal 1 CD tied to pins 4 and 6 2 Tx Data from MCC 545C 3 Rx Data to MCC 545C 4 DTR tied to pins 1 and 6 5 Ground 6...

Page 30: ...ng to data loggers or other serial input devices DATA PORT 9S Pin Signal 1 Not Used 2 Tx Data from MCC 545C 3 Rx Data to MCC 545C 4 DTR to MCC 545C 5 Ground 6 DSR from MCC 545C 7 RTS to MCC 545C 8 CTS...

Page 31: ...ard These are for MCC test purposes and are not used at this time These pins will NOT interfere with a normal 3 wire RS 232 connector pins 2 3 and 5 3 2 2 4 4 Data I O Port The Data I O port is used a...

Page 32: ...ohm resistor 8 Optocoupled input 4 return 9 Ground 10 Relay Output 1 Normally Open 2Amp rating 11 Relay Output 1 Common 12 Relay Output 1 Normally Closed 2Amp rating 13 Relay Output 2 Normally Open 2A...

Page 33: ...power is applied 12 23 00 16 54 10 POWER SHUTDOWN FAIL OCCURRED 01 02 01 12 54 44 POWER HAS BEEN RESTORED RESUMING OPERATION If this message does not appear then the baud rate may not be set correctly...

Page 34: ...The MCC 545A is programmed by a factory trained technician to operate on a number of authorized frequency channels Once programmed these frequencies can be selected by the operator from a keyboard Yo...

Page 35: ...BB Reflected power in watts This should be less than 5 watts CCC Battery voltage under load while transmitting This should be greater than 10 6 VDC DDD Received signal strength in dbm This will normal...

Page 36: ...DESCRIPTION 2 31 MCC 545C PACKET DATA RADIO 12 2000...

Page 37: ...will print the system time For a description of printouts see Appendix A Before you begin you should familiarize yourself with the special editing functions that you can use when entering commands DE...

Page 38: ...Stations keeping all units in a network on the same time reference If the time of day received at a Remote Station differs by more than two minutes from the internal Remote clock the Remote will set...

Page 39: ...out loss of messages data or configuration even if power is randomly turned on and off Therefore the software is designed to operate continuously to save all operational information when power is off...

Page 40: ...TION Once the software is rebooted or restart due to a crash or failure of the battery backup RAM all changes will be lost unless they were previously saved in EEPROM Saving and Restoring the Configur...

Page 41: ...as either a Remote Station or as a Master Station Use the DEVICE command to select the mode you require For normal MCC 545C Remote Station operation enter DEVICE REMOTE For MCC 545C operation as a Ma...

Page 42: ...lt is 1 precedence information on changes in the connectivity table is given highest precedence automatic feature ETEAP End to end ACK message precedence default is 0 zero precedence the acknowledgmen...

Page 43: ...type MON d r The two optional parameters are designed to limit the printout The burst monitor generates two or three lines of printout for every burst This could conceivably create hundreds of pages o...

Page 44: ...hin a 24 hour time period the TIME trigger allows you to schedule a command to be invoked only once at a specified point within a 24 hour time period The command schedule list is restarted each time t...

Page 45: ...ation There is one programmable time limit for the I O port input on the MCC 545C MCC recommends using the pre programmed default timeout parameter If you choose to change the timeout the time limits...

Page 46: ...er Station When used in the relay mode the MCC 545C must be defined as a Master Station The relay will then receive MCC 550C sensor data GROUP reports see MCC 550C Operations Manual repackage them and...

Page 47: ...d translates the receiver calibration curves from detected RF in db to microvolts These are nonlinear and significantly different for the MCC 527 and MCC 543 receivers To apply the scaling factors the...

Page 48: ...d in this section SECTION OPERATIONS 4 3 1 Entering and Deleting Messages 4 3 2 Editing Messages 4 3 3 Sending Messages 4 3 4 Sending Commands 4 3 5 Sending Canned Messages 4 3 6 Receiving Messages 4...

Page 49: ...nd at a different priority level type MESSAGE R dest1 dest2 dest n where R is any priority level from A to Z A is the highest and Z is the lowest Dest is the numerical ID of the stations to which the...

Page 50: ...ter entered CTRL R Prints the current line of text on the next line down CTRL I Performs a fixed tab function Removes the current line from the edit buffer CR Performs a carriage return and line feed...

Page 51: ...CC 545C will purge the message from the Tx Queue and display the following message hh mm ss MESSAGE TIME TO LIVE EXPIRED MSG NO sss DESTN name You must then reenter the message Continued failure to su...

Page 52: ...ages in the queue falls below the minimum queue depth To enter an edited canned message enter CANMSG id where id is the neighboring station s ID After composing your message press the ESC key The MCC...

Page 53: ...3 8 Examining and Revising Message Queues There are two types of queues for transmitting and receiving messages QUEUE NAME DESCRIPTION TXQ Transmit Queue This queue is used for transmitting all messa...

Page 54: ...sss unlinked and deleted The and deleted text appears only if the message is not present in another queue When all messages have been deleted the terminal prints queue flushed To delete a specific me...

Page 55: ...YPE CONFIG CANMSG OFF CLOSE PORT SAVE HOURLIES COMPRESSION CONNECT SCALE MEM DEL MSG DATE SCHED MODE DQE RXQ DESTINATION SERIAL MON DQE TXQ DEVICE SET BAUD MONOFF FLUSH MSG DUTY CYCLE SNP NETMON FLUSH...

Page 56: ...ttings specified by these commands are stored in the EEPROM Changes specified by these commands take effect immediately but are lost when the unit is rebooted unless the SAVE command is issued to writ...

Page 57: ...C software by assigning control functions to ports with no devices attached or by turning off control functions For example if you turn off the Operator Port ASSIGN MNT OFF you will not be able to ent...

Page 58: ...imum queue depth Destination node must be a neighbor node CANMSG cannot contain more than 25 messages in its queue If the number of canned message in queue falls below minimum queue depth additional c...

Page 59: ...then clear link statistics see STAT COMPRESSION actio n Enable disable data compression on outbound messages data reports Intermediate nodes pass on the information in compressed form The destination...

Page 60: ...attern number ALL means recognize all patterns 1 8 CORPAT TX pppp ALWAYS Define Transmitter correlation pattern to send Pattern 1 is the default and is the only pattern recognized if no other specifie...

Page 61: ...group number from first sensor CR10X INTERVAL n Acquisition scan interval in seconds OFF disables acq scan n seconds 0 32767 CR10X MAXQ nnn Set maximum number of reports to queue for each scan of the...

Page 62: ...l units CR10X data scaled in Campbell Scientific floating point format CR10X SECURITY nnnn nnnn nnnn Enter CR10X Internal Security Codes See CR10X manual If CR10X program contains security codes this...

Page 63: ...cond and third sensors DATE mm dd yy Set system date If no parameters are given show current date If parameters are given DOS calendar will also be updated mm month dd day yy year 1 12 1 31 0 99 DEL M...

Page 64: ...emote 256 4095 sss msg serial number 1 4095 1 245 DUTY CYCLE percent Set transmitter duty cycle default is 10 Duty cycle increases in increments of 5 percent 1 100 1 100 FLASH Initiate flash memory do...

Page 65: ...requency Synthesizer must be enabled via the SYNTH ON command for FREQ UENCIES to have any effect This command is meaningless on an MCC 545C Tx Tx frequency in MHz times 100 Rx Rx frequency in MHz tim...

Page 66: ...ault 30 n milliseconds between idle probes 30 30 000 HELP command Display help information on specified command If no parameter entered all commands are sequentially displayed in alphabetical order co...

Page 67: ...n composite networks when host link is not available STOP stop transmitting if host connection lost CONTINUE keep transmitting if host connection lost but set bit flagging loss in probe OFF ignore hos...

Page 68: ...e considers connectivity established AUTO means no connectivity established FIXED Default means connect only with specified Master NOTE If command does not change the ID or Master Station the SAVE and...

Page 69: ...automatic 10 minute timeout for LOS role and 60 minute timeout for TRANSPOND role Logs you off disables ALL following operator commands except LOGON PENTM or SDATA LOGON password LOGON used to allow...

Page 70: ...ation p priority dest1 destn destination s name node name nnnn Station ID Master 1 245 Remote 256 4095 A Z 0 9 A Z 0 9 1 4095 MM Print current value of RF signal on Receiver MODE Print operating mode...

Page 71: ...isplay network routing table for all selected neighbors NET no neighbors NET1 2 1 2 etc neighbors NET all all neighbors NET STAT Display network statistics Statistics accumulate from the beginning of...

Page 72: ...e probe mode If no parameters are entered transmit single pulse probe Enter transmit single pulse probe Enter P to display current pulse probe mode settings Enter P xxx to send a single periodic probe...

Page 73: ...t of current Entek MDP configuration PENTM ALERTEVENTS mask Set bit mask indicating Entek MDP status bits regarding as alarms Status bits are checked against this mask on intercepted position reports...

Page 74: ...of poll retry retry count for failed polls 1 86400 1 59 1 10 1 99 POS interval format protocol Display initialize internal MCC 545C timing for reporting GPS position data Specify update period in seco...

Page 75: ...ol format of these reports action ON enable OFF disable DUPL ON enable duplicate filtering DUPL OFF disable duplicate filtering FORMAT LON G output report on two lines FORMAT SHO RT output report on o...

Page 76: ...n MCC Remote Emergency Device RED The entered ID code is used with RED messages generated by the MCC 545C using RED TEST or RED TX nn call sign prefix nnn call sign suffix 0 99 0 999 RED NUM n Set dea...

Page 77: ...atistics for all Remote Stations or for given IDs up to 12 nnnn Station ID Master 1 245 Remote 256 4095 1 4095 REMOTE TYPE aaaaa Display set communication characteristics of the unit Determines how ce...

Page 78: ...eteor burst or line of sight Thresholds are specified in idle probes per minute To prevent LOS operation altogether set the low threshold to 1000 if the unit s Master is half duplex or 5500 if it is f...

Page 79: ...the command string will be executed whenever the specified time interval elapses during the day If timeframe basis TIME the command string will be executed at the specified time The OFFSET option all...

Page 80: ...erial number 1 255 SET BAUD function rate flow Adjust baud rate and flow control of specified port When no parameters are entered this command displays I O configurations function user interface funct...

Page 81: ...and serial numbers of message packets in specified message list If parameter is not entered all message packet names and numbers are displayed nnnn destination Station ID Master 1 245 Remote 256 4095...

Page 82: ...time to live TTR time to retransmit N UP neighbor up N DOWN neighbor down R DOWN Remote down OTL outstanding text limit CONNP connectivity msg precedence ETEAP End to End ACK precedence HTO history f...

Page 83: ...xx Set interval in hours starting at midnight when MCC 545C automatically transmits statistics to Master Station xx interval 1 24 hours STATION TYPE aaaaa Display set special Station functionality De...

Page 84: ...orts to determine which one is currently active assuming the switch may have been manually controlled while it was off From then on it monitors the two Masters assuming the primary Master 1 is connect...

Page 85: ...no parameters are specified show current time If parameters are given DOS calendar will also be updated hh hours mm minutes ss seconds 0 23 0 59 0 59 TIMEZONE UTC sys Set local time zone offsets from...

Page 86: ...COMMANDS COMMAND DESCRIPTION PARAMETERS RANGE TYPE action nnn nnn nnnn Control auditing of messages entered at specified units and routed through the MCC 545C action ON enable OFF disable nnn units to...

Page 87: ...a read TX Read sensors and transmit data read TIME Set time of MCC 545C in logger TEST Operate a component in test mode ALERT FLOOD HORN GATE WARNING OUT Set output register BYTE BIT BITNU MBER BITS S...

Page 88: ...ter 1 245 Remote 256 4095 1 4095 WARNING TIMEOUT t Define display timeout period in seconds for a Flood Base Station to determine a communications failure t timeout in seconds 10 3600 WEATHER action E...

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