Bird Technologies Manual 7-9570-1-1
(Rough Draft)
08/19/16 Page 14
At the bottom of the page is a button labeled
“Locate Me”. When this button is clicked the remote
units ON LED, located on the font panel, will blink
rapidly for about 1 minute. This is a convenience
feature that helps to physically identify units in a
large installation.
On the right side of the overview screen area is
group of drop-down style menu items which allow
for detailed interaction with the board. Each band
(referred to as an RF Strip) that is found on the
board will have a menu item. In addition there are
menu items for Opto, Alarms, and Advanced. The
Opto selection allows the user to set the gain and
check the status of the optical link between the
remote unit and the master unit. Alarms provides a
listing of all current alarms and provides access to
an alarm log file which can hold up to 95 current
and past alarm events. The Advanced selection
allows the user to adjust network settings as well
as ver ify things like IP addresses and MAC
addresses.
When an RF Strip is selected for interaction a drop-
down list will be presented as shown in
Figure 7
. In
this example the RF Status menu item has been
selected and RF status information is presented on
the screen. This screen presents the current status
of all uplink and downlink signal paths in the band.
In this example there is a downlink and 1 uplink
path. The values presented are a static snap shot
taken at the time the screen was presented. To
update the information press the reload button at
the bottom of the screen. In addition, for conve-
nience the periodic button can be pressed which
will update the screen automatically at a periodic
rate.
When the RF Config menu item is selected a page
showing user configurable parameters is presented
as shown in
Figure 8
. User configurable parame-
ters include uplink and downlink gain value, uplink
and downlink ALC threshold setting, and turning
on/off an uplink test tone. Changes are made by
clicking on the radio buttons and entering new val-
ues into the highlighted boxes. To initiate changes
press the Submit button at the bottom of the
screen.
MASTER UNIT
The Master Unit consists of a 19 inch frame rack
(called a Master Frame Unit) with signal processing
Figure 7:
RF Status drop-down menu selection.
