Fmx480 Digiplexer User's Manual
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FMX480 DIGIPLEXER USER’S MANUAL Date: 08/07 Navigator ® and AUDEMAT-AZTEC ® are registered trademarks of AUDEMAT-AZTEC Company. Audemat-Aztec SA – Audemat-Aztec INC WEB: www.audemat-aztec.com - e-mail: [email protected] Page 1 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................. 6 1.1 GENERAL INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................ 6 1.1.1 About Audemat-Aztec............................................................................................................................. 6 1.1.2 About RDS.............................................................................................................................................. 6 1.1.3 About FMX 480...................................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 BEFORE STARTING.......................................................................................................................................... 7 2. PRODUCT PRESENTATION ........................................................................................................................ 8 2.1 LIST OF INCLUDED ACCESSORIES ............................................................................................................... 8 2.2 GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS OF THE FMX480.............................................................................................. 8 2.3 FRONT PANEL ........................................................................................................................................... 13 2.4 REAR PANEL AND CONNECTIONS.............................................................................................................. 14 2.4 INTERNAL COMPOSITION OF THE FMX480............................................................................................... 20 2.6 FMX410 BOARD OF THE FMX480 : JUMPERS, ADJUSTMENT POINTS........................................................ 21 3. INSTALLATION AND INITIAL CONFIGURATION OF THE FMX480.............................................. 22 3.1 MAIN SUPPLY........................................................................................................................................... 22 3.2 GENERAL PHYSICAL INSTALLATION MEASURES FOR THE EQUIPMENT ...................................................... 22 3.3 WHERE TO CONNECT THE MPX OUTPUT OF THE DIGIPLEXER FMX 480 ? ............................................... 22 3.4 TO USE THE "BYPASS" FUNCTION............................................................................................................. 23 3.5 TO INSTALL THE DIGIPLEXER WITH AN EXTERNAL RDS ENCODER........................................................... 23 3.6 TO INSTALL THE DIGIPLEXER FMX 480 WITH AN EXTERNAL STEREOPHONIC ENCODER .......................... 24 3.7 TO INSTALL THE DIGIPLEXER WITH AN EXTERNAL COMPOSITE CLIPPER................................................... 24 3.8 TO INSTALL THE DIGIPLEXER AS A BACKUP FOR EXISTING EQUIPMENT.................................................... 25 3.9 TO CONNECT BACKUP EQUIPMENT TO THE DIGIPLEXER ........................................................................... 25 3.10 TO USE THE MPX INPUT TO INSERT AN SCA OR ADDITIONAL SIGNAL...................................................... 25 3.11 TO SYNCHRONISE THE DIGIPLEXER BY AN EXTERNAL CLOCK (19KHZ).................................................... 26 3.12 TO RECOVER OF THE CLOCK REFERENCE OF THE DIGIPLEXER (19KHZ).................................................... 26 4. TO CONTROL THE FM MULTIPLEX GENERATED BY THE FMX480 DIGIPLEXER ................. 27 4.1 COMPOSITION OF THE MULTIPLEX SIGNAL............................................................................................... 27 4.2 LEVELS AND UNITS USED TO DESCRIBE THE MULTIPLEX SIGNAL ............................................................. 28 4.3 DIGITAL SYNTHESIS PRINCIPLES OF THE MULTIPLEX COMPOSITE SIGNAL ................................................ 29 4.4 INTERESTS OF THE GLOBAL DIGITAL SYNTHESIS OF THE MULTIPLEX SIGNAL ........................................... 29 4.5 INSTANTANEOUS DEVIATION AND POWER RELATED TO MODULATION...................................................... 30 4.6 THE " MULTIPLEX LIMITER " OR " MULTIPLEX CLIPPER " FUNCTION ....................................................... 31 4.7 THE MULTIPLEX SIGNAL CONCENTRATION FUNCTION ............................................................................. 31 4.8 THE MPX LIMITER POWER FUNCTION............................................................................................ 31 4.8.1 Description of the new commands ....................................................................................................... 31 4.8.2 Activation of the MPX Power Limiter.................................................................................................. 32 4.9 SUB-CARRIER DEVIATION ........................................................................................................................ 32 4.10 19000 HZ "PILOT" SUB-CARRIER.............................................................................................................. 32 4.11 RDS SUB-CARRIER SIGNAL...................................................................................................................... 32 4.12 INCIDENCE OF THE SUB-CARRIER DEVIATION ON THE GLOBAL DEVIATION ............................................... 33 4.13 TO ADJUST THE NOMINAL OUTPUT LEVEL OF THE DIGIPLEXER................................................................. 34 4.14 TO VIEW THE MULTIPLEX SIGNAL LEVEL ................................................................................................. 34 Audemat-Aztec SA – Audemat-Aztec INC WEB: www.audemat-aztec.com - e-mail: [email protected] Page 2 4.15 TO VIEW THE PROJECTED DEVIATION (MULTIPLEX SIGNAL) ON A PC....................................................... 34 4.16 TO VIEW THE PROJECTED MULTIPLEX SIGNAL POWER.............................................................................. 35 4.17 TO SYNCHRONISE THE RDS SUB-CARRIERS WITH THE PILOT SIGNAL....................................................... 35 5. AUDIO OPERATION OF THE DIGIPLEXER......................................................................................... 36 5.1 ARRIVAL OF THE AUDIO SIGNAL IN ANALOGUE FORM .............................................................................. 36 5.2 ARRIVAL OF THE AUDIO SIGNAL IN DIGITAL FORM (AES/EBU)............................................................... 36 5.3 TO SET THE NOMINAL SENSITIVITY OF THE DIGIPLEXER'S AUDIO INPUTS ................................................. 37 5.4 TO ADJUST THE PRE-EMPHASIS................................................................................................................. 38 5.5 TO TRANSMIT IN STEREO ......................................................................................................................... 38 5.6 TO ADJUST THE PILOT SIGNAL LEVEL..................................................................................................... 38 5.7 TO TRANSMIT IN MONO ........................................................................................................................... 38 5.9 TO TRANSMIT TEST SIGNALS .................................................................................................................... 38 5.10 AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION PROCEDURE FOR THE ANALOGUE INPUTS....................................................... 40 6. TO USE THE AUDIO PROCESSES OF THE DIGIPLEXER.................................................................. 41 6.1 TO ACTIVATE THE AUDIO AND MULTIPLEX SIGNAL PROCESSING FUNCTIONS .......................................... 41 6.2 TO CONFIGURE THE AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL OF THE ANALOGUE AUDIO INPUTS................................. 41 6.3 TO VIEW THE ACTION OF THE AGC FUNCTION ......................................................................................... 42 6.4 TO IMPROVE THE SUBJECTIVE POWER OF THE SOUND WITH ADDPWR.................................................... 42 6.5 TO REDUCE OR INCREASE THE STEREOPHONIC EFFECT WITH SEFFECT................................................... 42 6.6 TO OPTIMISE THE PROCESSING OF DENSE SOUND SIGNALS APPLIED TO THE DIGIPLEXER.......................... 42 6.7 TO ENABLE AND CONFIGURE THE MULTIPLEX “CLIPPER” ........................................................................ 43 7. TO USE THE RDS SUB-CARRIER............................................................................................................. 44 8. TO USE RDS WITH THE FMX480 DIGIPLEXER................................................................................... 45 9. RDS IMPLEMENTATION AND CONFIGURATION OF THE FMX480.............................................. 55 9.1 UP AND DOWNLOADING OF ONE RDS CONFIGURATION ........................................................................... 55 9.2 PAGING.................................................................................................................................................... 55 9.3 OPEN DATA APPLICATIONS (ODA) ......................................................................................................... 56 9.4 RADIOTEXT.............................................................................................................................................