User's Manual

AR24027 Operator’s Manual (rev E)
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4 INSTALLATION AND SETUP
It is recommended that an initial check be performed on the bench before a field installation.
For this bench check out you need two AR24027 units. One of the radios will be configured to operate
as the “master” and the other as the “slave”. The first approach described below uses the “Ethernet
Console Program” to emulate the terminal across an Ethernet connection. The second approach uses
two terminals connected to the auxiliary port of the radios.
4.1 Bench Check Out (using radio Ethernet connection)
In order to use the Ethernet connection you need the “Ethernet Console Program” (Econsole)
provided in a floppy disk. See Appendix C for installation instructions for Econsole. Once Econsole
is installed, perform the following steps.
1. Connect the PC Ethernet port to the “To LAN” connector of the Power Inserter Unit of the master
radio. Use an Ethernet crossover cable if connecting the PC directly to the Power Inserter Unit,
or use a straight cable if connecting through a hub.
2. Connect each Power Inserter Unit to the respective AR24027 using a CAT 5 cable as defined in
section 2.
3. Connect each radio Antenna A port (N type connector) to an appropriate 2.4 GHz band antenna
using an RF coaxial cable.
4. Connect the two Power Inserter Units to a power outlet of the appropriate voltage.
5. At the PC open a DOS window and invoke the Econsole program by typing:
> econ
If only one radio is connected to the LAN, ECON will establish a connection with that radio. If
more than one radio are in the same LAN ECON provides a list of all radios found (see
Appendix C for more detailed instructions on the use of Econsole). Once a connection to the
radio is established, the radio outputs the prompt:
tdd-nnnnn #>
where nnnnn are the last five digits of the radio serial number (if the radio had previously been
configured the prompt will be the radio “name”).
6. Set the “slave” AR24027 to its factory default configuration by typing the commands:
> load factory
> save-configuration
7. Move the Ethernet cable from the slave power inserter to the power inserter connected to the
master radio. At the DOS window invoke once again the Econsole program. Configure the
second radio (defined as the “master”) by typing the commands:
> load factory
> tdd master
> save-configuration