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Raveon Technologies Corp.

RV-M29 Mils-Spec GPS Transponder

VHF/UHF GPS Transponder/Modem

Technical Manual

Version C

February 2023

RV-M29

Raveon Technologies Corporation

2320 Cousteau Ct

Vista CA 92081

www.raveon.com

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Page 1: ...l 1 Raveon Technologies Corp RV M29 Mils Spec GPS Transponder VHF UHF GPS Transponder Modem Technical Manual Version C February 2023 RV M29 Raveon Technologies Corporation 2320 Cousteau Ct Vista CA 92...

Page 2: ...ommand Mode Overview 11 5 2 Setting a Parameter 12 5 3 Reading a Parameter 12 5 4 CONFIG Button 12 5 5 Restoring Factory Defaults 13 5 6 MODEM Commands 14 5 7 GPS Related Commands 18 5 8 Ethernet Rela...

Page 3: ...TX Deviation 32 TX Modulation Balance 33 10 RV M29 Diagnostic Provisions 34 10 1 Overview of Diagnostics 34 10 2 Reading the Diagnostic Information 34 10 3 Status and Statistics Command 34 11 Antenna...

Page 4: ...h blasting operations turn off this radio or remove the DC power when you are near electrical blasting caps in a blasting area or in areas posted Turn off two way radio Obey all signs and instructions...

Page 5: ...used by unauthorized modifications to this equipment Such modifications could void the user s authority to operate the equipment This product also complies with FCC Part 22 90 and Part 95 Subpart J of...

Page 6: ...1 Features Transmissions include ID position speed heading voltage temperature input output status UTC time and proximity Ultra fast 3mS TX RX switching and 4 level GFSK modem allows truly Real Time t...

Page 7: ...d this limit shall be rejected terminated and closed by the RV M29 By default all connection attempts require successful completion of a login authentication challenge sequence before an interactive s...

Page 8: ...urn where X X is the firmware version and xxx xxx xxx xxx is the quad dotted decimal IP address of the unit After three failed attempts to enter a correct username password combination the session wil...

Page 9: ...to which they could type Y to erase as prompted If a telnet session is initiated on the System Recovery IP address the unit will immediately revert back to factory defaults The passwords and login te...

Page 10: ...ns 5 Transceiver RF 50 ohm N female GPS Connection TNC female Power DC power input 10 15V 25 watts maximum power consumption POE 802 3at Class 4 Minimum DC input for start up 42V Operating Voltage Ran...

Page 11: ...F energy on the radio channel GPS LED GPS Off GPS off in a mode such as MODE RX that does not require use of GPS Red No GPS signal only active when GPS is used as in MODE TX or MODE TXRX Solid Green L...

Page 12: ...pace the corresponding parameter and then a carriage return For example to set the destination address of the RV M29 modem to 1234 enter the following command ATDT 1234 CR RV M29 radios automatically...

Page 13: ...e CONFIG button on the RV M29 is pressed the encryption KEYPHRASE is automatically erased and reset back to the factory default KEYPHRASE and all User Name and Password combinations are reset to facto...

Page 14: ...lid commands have been received via the serial port within this time period in milliseconds modem returns to normal operation mode from Command mode If the CONFIG button inside the RV M29 is pressed t...

Page 15: ...E or F Note FF is interpreted as a group See addressing section Range 0000 FFFF 0001 Y ATPE Packet Error Display Shows statistics to compute packet error rate Displays Packets Per Minute PPM and a ru...

Page 16: ...in When set to 2 the modem is forced into a low power mode disabling the receiver and transmitter When set to 4 the receiver is off but the transmitter will still transmit GPS positions and data Range...

Page 17: ...the upper frequency in MHz MODEL Read Model number Read the model number None PROMPT Set Prompt Set read the command line text prompt None SHOW Show display an overview of the radio s configuration No...

Page 18: ...ception Set it to 0 to disable security encryption of data 2 16 ASCII character s N MODE System Mode Macro Parameters TX RX TXRX P TXRX S Sets TX mode RX mode TXRX Primary or Secondary mode TX RX TXRX...

Page 19: ...is changed Set SLOTNUM to 1 to force the Slot Number to be automatically set to the MYID of the radio This is the factory default setting 1 1 9999 Decimal number not hex N A By default the Slot Number...

Page 20: ...nit ADMIN role password 1 to 10 ASCII characters admin USERLOGIN User Role Login Name Get or set the unit USER role login name 1 to 10 ASCII characters user USERPWD User Role Password Get or set the u...

Page 21: ...chnologies Corp 5 10 Factory Default Settings For the UHF RV M29 model the factory default settings are as shown in the command tables above and the list below Radio channel 1frequency 464 500 MHz GPS...

Page 22: ...n general the parameters you may want to modify will be ATFX Frequency for this channel Set to your frequency ATMY The individual ID of this unit Default is 0001 Number all of your RV M29 transponders...

Page 23: ...he same You may program any valid frequency into any channel number To program a channel perform the following steps 1 Connect your telnet client to the modem s port 23 and login using the ADMIN role...

Page 24: ...is information out all connected telnet sessions that are in the Communication Mode formatted as configured with the OUTPUT x command By default the output format is 0 no position message sent out The...

Page 25: ...tion and status information The security key phrase is case sensitive The security key phrase may be from 2 to 16 characters long The longer the phrase the more secure it is and the less likely anyone...

Page 26: ...our RV M29 to send its position and status data to RV M29 number 1 enter ATDT 1 enter To set your address mask to receive all messages from units with IDs 1 999 and exclude 1000 9999 enter ATMK F000 e...

Page 27: ...S mode 1 is the lowest power consumption mode 8 Technical Information 8 1 Device Addressing Addressing Basics One of the more powerful aspects of the RV M29 transponder is its addressing scheme Addres...

Page 28: ...ID of FF34 will be received by any modem with a unit ID of 0034 through FF34 The Address Mask Only in systems where some modems should only talk to certain other modems might you want to change the a...

Page 29: ...ety systems TDMA excels at allowing quick and reliable access to radio channels It allows 2 10 times more radios to share a radio channel than conventional carrier sense methods This allows 2 10 times...

Page 30: ...e repeater Step 4 Determine TDMA slot time required to send the position Slot times are programmed with the SLOTTIME command and are in 10mS increments Always add 10mS additional time for some margin...

Page 31: ...transmit 2 Hop up down one channel 3 Force PLL to fast lock mode 4 Transmit all 0s 5 Transmit all 1s 6 Enable the test points on the PCB 7 Transmit CW on center of channel 8 Transmit preamble 101010 p...

Page 32: ...tering a U for up or a D for down U or D will change the value by one Use this trick carefully because it modifies the last R register that was read and it is easy to unintentionally modify the wrong...

Page 33: ...an oscilloscope The frequency response of the demodulated FM signal must be greater than 10Hz to 5kHz without any de emphasis 2 Transmit random data with the RV M29 using the ATDT 1 command This comma...

Page 34: ...tion statistics that it maintains All statistics start counting at 0 The ATST 1 command can be used to reset all statistics back to 0 except the run time timers Other operation and configuration stati...

Page 35: ...RGI UTC LAT LAT DIR LON LON DIR ALTITUDE SPEED HEADING STAT Field Usage Comments 1 RGI Header for this message 2 UTC UTC time 3 LAT Ltitude 4 NS North south 5 LON Longitude 6 EW East West 7 ALT Altit...

Page 36: ...ce is typically used by marine radar plotters When the RV M29 is set to GPS 3 mode of operation it will output this message every time it receives a position report from another RV M29 transponder Wit...

Page 37: ...o 359 7 SNR Signal to noise ratio for this sat cks NMEA checksum 10 5 GPWPL Waypoint Location The waypoint location sentence is used by GPS receivers and plotters in different ways often to share wayp...

Page 38: ...WPL 4917 16 N 12310 64 W Car3 65 And on a GPS display connected to the RV M29 the waypoint will show up at the correct lat lon with the waypoint name Car3 In most all GPS receivers this waypoint will...

Page 39: ...peater it is the signal lever of the repeated message 14 Speed The speed of the device in km hour 0 255 15 Heading The heading of the device 0 360 degrees 16 Status Status flags received from the devi...

Page 40: ...1C GPVTG 260 T 1 62 N 3 00 K 1D GPGLL 3308 7134 N 11713 7998 W 155853 A 18 GPVTG 266 T 3 24 N 6 00 K 1E GPGLL 3308 7145 N 11713 8037 W 155903 A 19 GPVTG 74 T 3 78 N 7 00 K 27 GPGLL 3308 7182 N 11713...

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