TriCom TCR-L-50, Operator'S Manual

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1.3 EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION
The TCR-U/L-50 (Tricom PN: 11000-00927) is a bi-directional half duplex RF Power Amplifier
(PA) designed to enhance communications in vehicular, airborne, maritime, man-portable, or
fixed-station applications. Current military and commercial waveforms are supported including
Narrowband LOS (UHF FM and AM), Frequency Hopping, DAMA/IW SATCOM, Wideband
Networking and Special Communications Modes. Four individual receive band co-site filters
with high dynamic range low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are used to cover the UHF SATCOM,
UHF, L1, and L2 ranges to greatly improve reliable communications in high co-site installations.
Harmonic filters are used to control harmonic and spurious emissions. The L-Band Bypass mode
suppresses frequencies below 30 MHz. An intuitive menu driven user interface simplifies
operation of the PA and provides status to the operator.
1.3.1 MODES AND RECEIVE FILTER SELECTION
Listed below are the receive band filter ranges with the associated PA modes. The PA
modes are listed in the format that they are displayed. Mode selection is accomplished
using the TCR-U/L-50 front panel push buttons, further described in Section 2.3:
RCV FILTER MODES
UHF SATCOM SATCOM
UHF UHF FM, UHF AM, HQ (HAVEQUICK), WB
(WIDEBAND), and TW (TACTICAL WAVEFORMS)
L1 WB and TW
L2 WB and TW
BYPASS BYP L-BAND
1.3.2 TRANSMIT POWER LEVELS
The PA has 10, 15, 20, 35, and 50 Watt RF output power levels for UHF narrowband modes and
10, 25, and 50 Watt levels for WB and TW operations. Note, L-Band is limited to 25W output
power.