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ZK-SAM, ZK-SAMp,

ZK-MPS

User Manual

ZK Celltest, Inc.

256 Gibraltar Drive

Suite 109

Sunnyvale, CA 94089

(Tel) 408.752.0449 (Fax) 408.752.0477

Web: www.zk.com

e-mail: [email protected]

Release Version: 9.2

Log Format Version 6.16

Release Date: April 27, 2007

Summary of Contents for ZK-SAM

Page 1: ...S User Manual ZK Celltest Inc 256 Gibraltar Drive Suite 109 Sunnyvale CA 94089 Tel 408 752 0449 Fax 408 752 0477 Web www zk com e mail support zk com Release Version 9 2 Log Format Version 6 16 Releas...

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Page 3: ...ator 8 Markers 8 Time with GPS Available 8 Summary of Screens 9 Main Menu 10 SAM ALL Screens 11 CDMA Summary 11 Screen Elements 11 EvDO Summary Screen 13 CDMA EAMPS Handoff 14 EvDO Handoffs 15 CDMA Me...

Page 4: ...Dual Port Setup 39 Default Setup 40 Setting up the Retriever Phone PN Scanner 40 Setting up the Comarco HPN PN Scanner 42 Setting up a GSM Phone 43 Setting up a GSM phone for GPRS_EDGE Data Testing 45...

Page 5: ...Appendix A Cellsite File Format v4 2 1 A 1...

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Page 7: ...use from the vehicle fuse position you selected in Step 4 and insert it into the available fuse position in the mini fused lead Step 6 Insert the mini fused lead into the vehicle fuse position you sel...

Page 8: ...2 ZK Celltest Inc Step 9 Insert the mini fused lead into the vehicle fuse position you selected in Step 7 Step 10 Attach the Black lead of the Unit Power Assembly to a ground surface of the vehicle...

Page 9: ...compatible phones ZK SAM ZK SAMp ZK MPS Port 1 Y Y Y Port 2 Y Y Y Port 3 Y Y Y Port 4 N Y Y Port 5 N Y Y EAMPS Voice Y Y Y CDMA Voice Y Y Y GSM Voice Y Y Y iDEN Y Y Y CDMA 2000 Y Y Y EvDO RevO F F F...

Page 10: ...t SAM ALL and press ENTER Step 5 Use the arrow keys to change screens Data Call Testing To get up and running right away do the following Step 1 Securely install the Compact Flash memory card in the u...

Page 11: ...erface technologies phone based scanners internal 30KHz scanners and up to five phone connections The portability option adds two batteries and a carrying case allowing indoor walkaround measurements...

Page 12: ...eral information about the operation and the functionality of the screens Power On Off Volume Backlight Shift Key Speaker Arrow Escape Key Enter Key Keys Phone Port SATS Memory Time Function Keys Mark...

Page 13: ...WITH FAT 16 FORMATTING ARE SUP PORTED Phone 1 2 3 4 and 5 Indicators There is an indicator on some screens that allows the user to switch between phones When the indicator is displayed in the lower le...

Page 14: ...rst in first out FIFO basis The amount of data stored is dependent on the disk space of the compact flash card Typically up to 5MB of data per CDMA phone and up to 7MB per GSM phone can be stored per...

Page 15: ...Summary Additional ports Displays key data from multiple phones on a single screen GSM UMTS Hand off GSM Technology Serving channel and last 6 handoffs including strongest neighbor prior to handoff C...

Page 16: ...interference measuring Firmware Updates Information screen about software upgrade availability Configuration A list of menus to customize the configuration Utilities Screen for reformatting the Compac...

Page 17: ...ght text on a dark background Traffic channels are shown as normal video dark text on a light background The following values for the active channel appear in the zoom line from left to right Hyperban...

Page 18: ...ll is in progress FER Frame error rate of the downlink in percentages FER is calcu lated every 100 frames 2 seconds by taking the number of bad frames and dividing by 100 Displayed only when a call is...

Page 19: ...With the EvDO option an additional summary screen is available Since the EvDO phone is monitoriong both the CDMA channel and the EvDO chan nel an additional summary screen is provided EvDO channel PN...

Page 20: ...e is the last measured data just prior to the handoff The following describes the items in the columns mm ss the time in minutes seconds the handoff occurred Chan Carrier frequency of the channel just...

Page 21: ...le is the last measured data just prior to the handoff The following describes the items in the columns mm ss the time in minutes seconds the handoff occurred Chan Carrier frequency of the channel jus...

Page 22: ...messages Uplink and downlink messages are colored Voice channel messages are highlighted in yellow Parts of the Order messages are decoded All the messages are logged for further decoding and post pro...

Page 23: ...screen is dis played The CDMA EvDO message screen displays the over the air messages Uplink and downlink messages are colored Voice channel messages are highlighted in yellow All the messages are logg...

Page 24: ...e top row the Active Set information just below it and under that one in the lower row the Pilot Polluters and Missing Neighbors CDMA Data Testing Screen With the data testing option enabled the follo...

Page 25: ...est DRC Data Rate Control The fastest data rate that can be supported Indicator of the quality of the radio channel APPL TP Application Layer Throughput RLP DL TP Radio Link Protocol Downlink Throuput...

Page 26: ...ir Ec Io are displayed for each carrier The top 25 PNs are logged for each carrier If multiple PN Scanners are attached then each Scanner will be associated with its own screen The up down arrow keys...

Page 27: ...slot 0 A 7 G dBm RSSI Sub 92 BSIC Base Station Identifier Code 10 CID Cell Identity 8513 MAIO 2 PL Mobile Transmit Power 0 TA Timing Advance 1 RLT Radio Link Timeout 32 Q RxQUAL Sub Audio quality meas...

Page 28: ...g screen shows the measured data for GSM Summary 2 This screen displays the GSM serving channel and neighbors in tabular form including the user defined cellnames Serving channel data zoom line Servin...

Page 29: ...f column headings RSSI Received Signal Strength just prior to the handoff dRSSI delta in Received Signal Strength Rssi after minus Rssi before BSIC BSIC just prior to handoff N1 Strongest neighbor cha...

Page 30: ...elow Over the air GSM messages are displayed and logged The user can use the function keys to scroll and view the last 1001 mesages Paging channel is in white Traffic channel is in yellow Forward and...

Page 31: ...option to display The following screen displays the GSM scanning information The user can select to decode BSIC or not The BSIC will not be displayed if the user chooses not to decode the BSIC the us...

Page 32: ...es for the session are displayed and logged Below is a description of the displayed parameters FTP DL IP IP address of the phone under test RLC TP Radio Link Control Layer Throughput RLC Ret Radio Lin...

Page 33: ...ports cellsite names then the serving cell name will be displayed AMBIG indicates that no cell name file was imported or there are multiple cell names with the same channel number in the file AND the...

Page 34: ...28 ZK Celltest Inc iDEN Summary 1 Table An example of the iDEN Summary Graph screen is shown below Neighbors Channel SQE RSSI Cell Name Scroll down to see more neighbors...

Page 35: ...phone repre sented as 0 through 7 as defined in the EAMPS specification Hyperband Indicator A lower case p indicating the phone is on a PCS channel or a lower case c indicating the phone is on a cellu...

Page 36: ...a couple seconds The bottom row of the display will look like the following The data on the display will be paused at the time you pressed the Replay function key NOTE Real time data will continue to...

Page 37: ...indicates your current position in time rel ative to the amount of data stored In this case you are near the beginning of the data If the blue bar is filled then you would be near or at the end of the...

Page 38: ...rectly to the compact flash card in the directory zk logs Data is stored in 30 minute or one session length files whichever is less When the disk is full the oldest log file is deleted and replaced by...

Page 39: ...ete Log Files This function is used to clear the data on the Compact Flash card Device Setup In the Configuration menu select Device Setup to configure the ports This menu allows you to configure port...

Page 40: ...peating continuous or turned off When the mode is set for repeating the call length must be set When the unit is in the SAM ALL mode the phone will continue to make repeated calls The phone will stop...

Page 41: ...rly Alerts Setup When you select the Alerts Setup the following screen appears To change the thresholds highlight the parameter and press the ENT key Brackets appear around the selection Use the arrow...

Page 42: ...screen will appear Data Testing Data testing can be turned OFF or ON With data testing turned off the phone will still log voice data NOTE When this feature is turned on it overrides the Voice Auto D...

Page 43: ...re Addi tional access to the ZK servers must be purchased Users can set up their own FTP server however the FTP settings for the IP Address Username password and download file must match the settings...

Page 44: ...ed Users can set up their own HTTP server however the HTTP settings for the IP Address and download file must match the settings on the HTTP server Link Setup Allows the users to set up the wireless l...

Page 45: ...serial to USB cable for connecting a serial phone to the USB port on the ZK unit The first time you connect your data equipped phone to Port 1 you will need to enable the Dual Port Mode In order to es...

Page 46: ...appear There are two modes for the Retriever In Scan_Channel mode the Retriever scans all PNs in up to five user defined carrier channels The PN Increment can be any number from 1 to 15 This value sho...

Page 47: ...s stronger than the threshold it is displayed and logged as a Missing Neighbor T_DROP The unit obtains the value of T_DROP from the follow phone The T_DROP value is used as the Missing Neighbor thresh...

Page 48: ...PN scans all PNs in up to five user defined carrier channels The PN Increment can be any number from 1 to 15 This value should be equal to the PN Incre ment set in the infrastructure Typically this va...

Page 49: ...GSM phone as Phone Two The autodial can be set up and the phone number can be entered by the user In addition the user can choose to log over the air GSM messages HPN SCAN CHANNELS SETUP Channel 1 384...

Page 50: ...T key If it is in the ON position and an alert occurs a voice announcement will will be heard when in the SAM ALL realtime mode The alert threshold is compared to an average of the parameter over a 5...

Page 51: ...ata NOTE When this feature is turned on it overrides the Voice Auto Dial Set tings Auto Redial A single data test session consists of a FTP Upload FTP Download and an HTTP download With Auto redial tu...

Page 52: ...di tional access to the ZK servers must be purchased Users can set up their own FTP server however the FTP settings for the IP Address Username password and download file must match the settings on th...

Page 53: ...plays the following screen The unit ships with settings defaulted to the ZK HTTP servers Ninety days of service come free with the purchase of the data testing feature Addi tional usage time for the Z...

Page 54: ...network provider for the correct username Password This is the password required for the phone to log into the wireless data network Contact the network provider for the correct password APN The netwo...

Page 55: ...ogram the number of strongest RSSI channels to perform a BSIC decode NOTE Decoding the BSIC significantly reduces the scanning speed PHONE 3 SETUP Class None Phone Scanner Type Retriever GSM Scanner G...

Page 56: ...ult template to the export folder on the flash card Turn the unit off and remove the flash card and insert it into your PC and edit it with a text editor or Excel Save the file as a comma delimited AS...

Page 57: ...enu appears The autodial mode can be repeating continuous or turned off When the mode is set for repeating the call length must be set When the unit is in the SAM ALL mode the phone will continue to m...

Page 58: ...es are pre loaded For an example of the default cellsitee table This table can be transferred to a PC to use as a tem plate for editing and imported back into the unit The name of the cell or sector w...

Page 59: ...A the default cellnames consist of NAMEXXX where XXX is the PN Offset value By selecting iDEN in the Default Cell Site Names screen the following screen appears If iDEN 800 is selected then the defaul...

Page 60: ...sector ID characters will be displayed The cellsite table can be modified with a text editor and imported back into the unit When modifying the cellsite table on your PC it is recommended you use a n...

Page 61: ...Select Channel screens after the unit is powered on You can disable this by selecting Off Auto Keylock When enabled this feature turn off functionality of the keypad except the ESC key while in SAM AL...

Page 62: ...building Alternately switch back to YES by hitting the ENTER key Use the ENTER key to change to the number of minutes the unit may wait to obtain a GPS before automatically going into data collection...

Page 63: ...ed to contact ZK and provide your Purchase Order reference number and the serial number of your unit A ZK representative will send you a 9 digit number When you receive the 9 digit number select the f...

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Page 65: ...r G GC records cannot be mixed in one cell site file GC GSM Channel BCCH defined sector G GC records cannot be mixed in one cell site file I iDen A Analog Hyperband must be c 1 2 Sector ID B 1 4 char...

Page 66: ...1 yes If sector is blank then only SAT DCC are used for cellname look up Hyperband must be c 13 Color Code Tech nology Spe cific Cell Type C CDMA PN 501 decimal 0 511 no CDMA PN Cell Type T TDMA DVCC...

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