Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Installation ............................................................1-1
Components............................................................. 1-1
Installation Sequence............................................... 1-1
Connecting the Base Station to a serial port............1-2
R/F Terminal Operation...........................................1-4
Installing the R/F Terminal Utilities Software........ 1-8
Chapter 2 RF System Setup..................................................2-1
RF Terminal Setup...................................................2-1
RF Terminal Setup Parameters................................2-5
Base and Relay Setup............................................ 2-23
Testing the RF link between base station and host.. .2 -24
Chapter 3 Operational Theory...............................................3-1
How the Two-Way RF System works..................... 3-1
How the One-Way RF System works..................... 3-3
How Site Testing works.......................................... 3-5
Chapter 4 Performance Issues............................................. 4-1
Evaluating your area of planned operation..............4-1
Is radio traffic contention likely?............................ 4-6
Chapter 5 Before you begin programming… ......................5-1
Failure Planning....................................................... 5-2
Chapter 6 Programming for the RF Terminal...................... 6-1
LOW Level ASCII sequences directly.................... 6-1
LOW Level ASCII Sequences using a DLL......... 6-12
PromptCOM/ActiveX............................................6-12
PromptNET TCP/IP Active X Controls................ 6-22
Portable Printers ....................................................6-32
Chapter 7 Voice Message Operations..................................7-1
Why Use Voice Messages and Prompts?................ 7-1
RF Terminal’s Voice Message Mapping.................7-2
Programming Voice Messages................................ 7-2
Chapter 8 Troubleshooting...................................................8-1
Appendix A Channel and Jumper Changes........................... A-1
Appendix B Adding Relays......................................................B-1
Appendix C R/F Serial Pin-outs...............................................C-1