Orban OPTIMOD-FM 8600S, Operating Manual

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INSTALLATION ORBAN MODEL
always be set to
GROUND.
Even when its composite limiter is being used heavily, the 8600S will al-
ways protect the stereo pilot tone by at least 60 dB (

250Hz from 19 kHz)
and will protect the region from 55 kHz to 100 kHz by at least 75 dB (re
100% modulation). See
Figure 5-1 on page 5-4.
The subcarrier (SCA) inputs are provided for convenience in summing subcarriers
into the baseband prior to their presentation to the FM exciter.
The subcarrier inputs will accept any subcarrier (or combinations of sub-
carriers) above 23 kHz. Below 5 kHz, sensitivity rolls off at 6 dB/octave to
suppress hum that might otherwise be introduced into the subcarrier in-
puts, which are unbalanced.
The subcarrier inputs are mixed into the 8600S’s composite output in the
analog domain, after D/A conversion of the 8600S stereo encoder’s out-
put.
Rear-panel accessible PC-board-mounted trim pots allow the user to
adjust the sensitivities of the two SCA inputs from <100 mV p-p to >10 V
p-p to produce 10% injection with respect to 100% modulation = 4 V p-p
at the 8600S’s composite outputs. (The factory setting is 4 V p-p to pro-
duce 10% injection.)
As shipped from the factory, the second SCA connector emits a stereo pilot tone
reference for RDS or RBDS subcarrier generators. If you wish to reconfigure it to ac-
cept an SCA signal, move the link on jumper J6 (on the Composite/SCA daughter-
board) from pins 3 and 4 to pins 1 and 2.
To access J6, remove the 8600S’s top cover according to the instructions
in step 1 on page 4-2. The schematic showing J6 is on page 6-38.
Connect your subcarrier generator(s) to the 8600S’s subcarrier input(s) with coaxial
cable terminated with BNC connectors.
The subcarrier inputs have greater than 600

load impedance and are
unbalanced. The sensitivity of both inputs is user-adjustable from <100
mV p-p to >10 V p-p to produce 10% injection with respect to 100%
modulation = 4 V p-p at the 8600S’s composite outputs. (The factory set-
ting is 4 V p-p to produce 10% injection.)
VR1 and VR2 on the Composite/SCA daughterboard set the sensitivity of
SCA1 IN and SCA2 IN respectively and are accessible on the rear panel.
You can use the
19K R
EF
control in
Setup
to determine whether the 19 kHz pilot ref-
erence output will be in-phase (
0 DEG
) with the pilot tone present in the composite
output or will lead it by 90 degrees (
90 DEG
).
0 DEG
is correct for most installations.
Use
90 DEG
only if your RDS/RBDS generator’s 19 kHz reference input specifically re-
quires this phase relationship.
Wordclock/10 MHz Sync Reference
The sync reference input accepts a 1x 5V p-p squarewave wordclock signal or a
10 MHz sinewave or squarewave signal, 0.5 to 5 V peak. A menu item allows you to
synchronize the output sample frequency to the frequency present at the sync. The
connector is a female BNC with the shell grounded to chassis.