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Company Confidential

 

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BioRapids 100608 

Raveon Technologies 

 

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T e c h n i c a l   M a n u a l  

Version C1 

February 2011 

 

RV-M7-UC-PL 

 

 

Raveon Technologies Corporation 

990 Park Center Drive, Suite C 

Vista, CA 92081 

www.ravtrack.com

  

Summary of Contents for RV-M7-UC-PL

Page 1: ...l 1 BioRapids 100608 Raveon Technologies ATLAS PL UHF Personal Locator Technical Manual Version C1 February 2011 RV M7 UC PL Raveon Technologies Corporation 990 Park Center Drive Suite C Vista CA 9208...

Page 2: ...nnector Type 13 4 6 I O Cable Options 14 5 Configuring the ATLAS PL 16 5 1 Overview 16 5 2 Command Mode 16 5 3 Setting a Parameter 17 5 4 Reading a Parameter 17 5 5 Configuration Commands 19 5 6 Addit...

Page 3: ...but no data is received 38 Symptom Long delay before transmitting 38 Symptom Cannot enter Command Mode 39 Symptom Repeater will not repeat 39 Symptom Transmits position but no data 39 12 Mechanical 4...

Page 4: ...ch areas Sparks in a potentially explosive atmosphere can cause an explosion or fire resulting in bodily injury or even death Note The areas with potentially explosive atmospheres referred to above in...

Page 5: ...This radio is restricted to occupational use work related operations only where the radio operator must have the knowledge to control the exposure conditions of its passengers and bystanders by maint...

Page 6: ...nce caused 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 Subpar...

Page 7: ...ate is 38400 and battery saving features are enabled As well as sending position and status the ATLAS PL also has a radio modem with integrated RS232 422 485 interface For privacy and security over th...

Page 8: ...9600bps in 12 5kHz Built in TDMA channel access allowing truly real time tracking 200 transmission in 10 seconds Very low current draw As low as 25mA average 16 bit addressing for up to 65 525 differe...

Page 9: ...0 baud Internal data buffers transmit and receive 2000 bytes Operating temperature range 10 C to 60 C Storage temperature range 20 C to 35 C Power on time to operational 500mS Internal fuse 3A Mini FC...

Page 10: ...or Hirose HR30 series 3 6 GPS and Transponder Specifications Number of channels 12 Horizontal accuracy 24 hour static 2 5m 50 5m 90 Acquisition 130dBm 50 40sec cold start 15sec hot start Sensitivity T...

Page 11: ...Company Confidential 11 BioRapids 100608 Raveon Technologies Sub Band Letter VHF RV M7 V UHF RV M7 U A 132 150MHz 403 434MHz B 150 174MHz 419 440MHz C 450 480MHz...

Page 12: ...to clear all alert conditions 4 2 LEDs The status LED visually show the current status of the radio Status LED This LED blinks green upon the reception of data or RF carrier If the GPS is not locked...

Page 13: ...ds to clear the alert which will turn the Alert LED off 4 3 DC Power DC power for the PL is connected to the 6 pin I O jack on the bottom side of the unit Use the supplied cable to connect the DC powe...

Page 14: ...any Confidential 14 BioRapids 100608 Raveon Technologies Front view of male pins on ATLAS PL 4 6 I O Cable Options There are 3 basic type of interface cables available for the ATLAS PL The are shown b...

Page 15: ...Company Confidential 15 BioRapids 100608 Raveon Technologies...

Page 16: ...port need not be connected to anything The internal GPS will initiate the transmissions of position and status There is also a Command Mode used to program and configure the ATLAS PL In the Command M...

Page 17: ...he destination address of the ATLAS PL modem to 1234 enter the following command ATDT 1234 CR Once a Parameter is changed the modem will begin using the new parameter If the new parameter was saved to...

Page 18: ...line help with a command enter the command and put a question mark in for the parameter For example to see what the ATDT command is used for type ATDT The modem will respond by listing a brief descrip...

Page 19: ...Enter in Hz or MHz The frequency will automatically be saved in non volatile memory flash for this current channel number Range See product data sheet For MURS products frequency cannot be changed Se...

Page 20: ...This will return a page of ASCII characters showing the main configuration parameters none None ATSM Power Savings Options When set to 0 the internal radio receiver will be ON When set to 4 default f...

Page 21: ...s configured for along with the upper and lower frequency in MHz BB is the band code lll is the lower frequency in MHz and uuu is the upper frequency in MHz None BB lll uuu CONFIG Show Configuration D...

Page 22: ...GPS parameters to factory defaults It does not erase frequency or other radio related parameters IDLERATE IDLE TX Interval Set the number of seconds between position transmissions when the unit is idl...

Page 23: ...9 10 TRIGBITS I O Change Reporting Which bits are used as transmission triggers This is a HEX number Bit 0 is IN0 bit 1 is IN1 IN2 is the serial data input so if the unit is used to send data do not s...

Page 24: ...s For the UHF ATLAS PL model RV M7 UC PL the factory defaults GPS settings are Radio channel 1 464 500 MHz GPS Mode 8 Serial port output message none Over the air baud rate 4800 baud 2 level Serial po...

Page 25: ...ault radio channel using the factory defaults Raveon highly recommends you test them first with the factory defaults and see how they work before reprogramming them In general the parameters you may w...

Page 26: ...nd Raveon s M7 series Remember that from the factory all ATLAS PL modems are configured to simply work Plug in power and connect to the serial port at 38400 baud and the modems will communicate on the...

Page 27: ...ery 5 minutes set the report rate to 300 seconds TXRATE 300 If you only want the ATLAS PL to report position and status when it is moving set the TXRATE xx to the desired time between position transmi...

Page 28: ...M7 PL Technical Manual 28 Raveon Technologies Corp ATLAS PL Transmission Trigger Diagram...

Page 29: ...of the modem or when there is a pause in the data the modem will automatically key its transmitter and send the data over the air when the unit s TDMA time slot is available The ATLAS PL will send po...

Page 30: ...NMEA GPS Position Fix Data This message is the standard position message from a GPS receiver NMEAOUT 1 GPGSV NMEA Satellites in view This message is the standard message to indicate the number of sat...

Page 31: ...d by your dealer or distributor If so it is labeled on the rear of the unit If it is not labeled with an ID the factory default ID is in it The default Address Mask is F000 which means the ATLAS PL wi...

Page 32: ...when the ID is changed 6 7 Local NMEA data from the internal GPS The Atlas PL personal locator may be configured to output standard NMEA 0183 GPS messages from its internal GPS receiver For GPS tracki...

Page 33: ...ng will stop This indicates the internal GPS receiver is locked onto GPS satellite signals and has a position fix The ATLAS PL will only transmit if it has GPS lock If the GPS antenna is broke or obsc...

Page 34: ...an go directly to http wireless fcc gov services ind bus In either case you will be shown the regulations and the information you will need to gather before you get started your desired operating freq...

Page 35: ...ional statistics Statistics overview screen ST1 GPS Statistics Statistics related to the GPS operation if installed GPS Statistics overview screen ST2 Low level internal statistics Returns various low...

Page 36: ...f packets this modem has transmitted over the air Retransmissions in the ARQ mode are not counted ACKs received nnn Number of ACK packets this modem received when ARQ was enabled ACKs transmitted nnn...

Page 37: ...s been powered up and running All of these timers restart a 0 upon power up Run time Years nnn number of years running Days nnn number of days running resets to 0 after one year Hours nnn number of ho...

Page 38: ...an receive a GPS signal Solution 2 Verify that the radio channel is clear or BCL is off The ATBC 1 command enables Busy Channel Lockout If BCL is on the modem will not transmit on a busy channel The A...

Page 39: ...eater than 60 seconds the unit may be put into a very deep sleep mode and will not enter the command mode You must firt turn the unit off and back on to put it into the command mode Symptom Repeater w...

Page 40: ...re all ASCII characters Each sentence begins with a dollar sign and ends with a carriage return linefeed CR LF Data is comma delimited All commas must be included as they act as markers Some GPS do no...

Page 41: ...ade Hhmmss format 7 Target Name The ID of the unit that transmitted its postion If a Prefix is programmed into the RV M7 the name will have the prefix charactors in front of the ID If additional param...

Page 42: ...report from another ATLAS PL transponder Within the WPL message is the latitude longitude and waypoint ID In the waypoint ID field the ATLAS PL puts the ID of the RV M7 that transmitted its position F...

Page 43: ...that uses this message must take this into account Following is a list of the fields sent in this message Field Usage Comments 1 PRAVE Raveon Proprietary Header 2 From ID The ID of the transponder tha...

Page 44: ...alerts P means a proximity alert M means man down alert A General alert usually due to pressing an alert button C Critical alert usually due to pressing and holding alert button I Impact alert V Vibra...

Page 45: ...S DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU THIS WARRANTY IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WAR...

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