A brief
explanation
of
the
five
main
screen
edit items are as follows:
Environment
Contains
operating
parameters
used
by
hardware(circuitry)
in
the VXR-5000, includ-
ing 1st I.E selection,
L.O. Injection Side,
and
Channel
Step information. This information
is hardware-specific for the repeater version-
type
you
have,
and
should
not
need
to
be
changed, except
in
the
event
of
hardware
or
version-type modification.
Changing
envi~
ronment
parameters
requires the CE8 -P ex-
tension
when
booting
the
program.
Frequency
Contains
channel
data
information.
Up
to
eight
individual
Tx
and
Rx channel frequen-
cies are
edited
here,
and
channels can also
be
locked-out if so desired.
Timer
Repeater Time-Out Timer,
TX
Hang-Timer
and
Penalty Timers are
edited
from these se-
lections,
time
values
in
seconds
or
minutes
can
be
entered,
while
others
preset values
can
be
toggled on-off.
Setup
System
operating
configuration
and
pa-
rameters
such
as
simplex/
duplex
operation,
power
output
on
auxiliary DC power, Hi-
Temp
power
reduction,
alarm
beeper
and
TX
Hang-Time
audio
selection are selected
and
edited here.
Opiinn
CTCSS T
one
E
ncode/
D
ecode
frequency
selection can
be
made.
One
of thirty-nine EIA
standard
CTCSS tones c
an
be
programmed
for
each
channel (
TX
&
RX
),
CTCSS o
perat
i
on
can also
be
disabled completely
fo
r individ-
ual
or
all channels.
Sub Help Messages
In
the box
below
the
editing
selection are
Sub-He
lp
Messages
.
Th
ese briefly instr
uct
you
how
to
select items,
en
t
er
ch
ann
el data,
toggle
default
settings
on/off
and
accept
changes.
New
messages autom2,tically ap-
pear
pertaining
to
the
edit
menu
and
edit
item
currently
selected. Instructions such as
frequency
entry
format,
time-values
and
Instruction
1l1anual
VXR-5000
ranges,
and
keys
used
to toggle
or
incre-
ment/
decrement
a
setting
are
given
here.
Sub-Help
Information
Function-Key Help Messages
At
the
bottom
of
the
screen
appears
Func-
tion-Key selections
and
their
corresponding
functions. While
the
Main
Edit
Item
Screen is
selected, F1-Help,
F2-Print, F3-Upload,
F4-
Download,
F5-Disk
Load,
F6-Disk Save,
F7-
Dump
and
F10-Exit
appear
showing
options
available for this screen.
When
individual
programming
selection is
done,
only
three
options (F1-Help,
F2-Print
and
F10-Exit) are
available.
Wh
at
to
do First
Reading
data
from
the
Repeater
If
you
have
the
repeater
connected
to the
computer, first
download
the
data
from the F
repeater
and
save
it
to
disk
before
doing
any-
'..If
'"
thing
else. Press
th
e -
own
Load
key to
do
this,
and
follow
the
prompts.
If
an
error
mes-
sage is
displayed
when
attempting
to
down-
load data, check
the
VPL-1 connection cable
and
connectors
at
both
the
computer
and
re-
peater. After
downloading
the
data
from the
repeater,
save
it
to
disk
right
away
as de-
s
-.::
ribea next
in
"Saving
Data
to
Disk".
Important
N
ote
!
Before enter
in
g
new
channel
data
f
rom
the
keyboard,
yo
u m
us
t eit
her
download
frem
the r
epea
ter,
or
from a (valid)
data
file.
So
me
EE
PROM
data,
su::::h
as
I.
F.
and
refer-
ence frequencies, is specific to the rep
eat
er
hard
ware
,
and
canno
t
b~
changed
wi
thout
modifying
th
e circ
ui
try. This
data
is,
how-
ev
e
r,
read-fr
om/written-to
the EEPR
OM
.
If
it does
not
match
the
hardware
for the
repeater to
be
programmed,
the repeater
will
not
operate
properly.
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