ELAD FDM-SW1 USER MANUAL Ver. 1.0
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3. the Volume form is displayed www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 Sound Card 1 Sound Card 2 FM Squelch This form allows the user to set the volume of the two selected soundcards and the level of the FM squelch 2 10 Signal Control Display E In this area the DFM SW1 software displays the level of the input signal 2 11 Main Setting Buttons Button switches on off the demodulation Button opens the Setup Form Button opens the Station List Form Button opens the FDM SW1 Guide Refer this guide to know useful shortcut key functions Button opens the Windows dialog box to allows the user to select the file to play 3 Setup Form When the button is clicked FDM SW1 displays the Setup Form This form contains several settings that control the behavior of the software The Setup Form consists of 9 tabs Tuning Step Tab Tuning Bar Tab Audio Tab Graphics Tab Demod Settings Tab Advanced Tab Station Memory Tab Default Directory Tab About Tab LD CON On Un PS DO MA ta Le www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 3 1 Tuning Step Tab Setup n Step Use Default are tee Freq Demodulation E st NE Demodulation Attenuation Select with Left and Rigth arrow keys or TMate function buttons ddd IV Use Default Step Delete Enable all sort C Disable All
4. 1000 H BW Hz Enabled Cw 10 000Hz Default 500Hz CW SH Delta Freq H2 100 CW SH 500Hz2 Default 500Hz CW SH Default POH USB 2 500Hz Default 2 500Hz USB LSB Settings LSB 2 500Hz Default 2 500Hz 4M 5 000Hz Default 5 000H2 FM 3 000Hz Default 3 000Hz DRM 10 000Hz Default 10 000Hz SYNC AM 5 000Hz Default 5 000Hz DSB 5 000Hz Default 5 000Hz Filter start frequency Hz 0 H DC remove filter Tuning requency Filter start frequency Select with Z and X keys or TMate function buttons Add WB FM Settings Delete De emphasys time constant sous Sort Restore Default DK Apply Cancel The Graphics Tab allows the user to customize several parameters related to the demodulation algorithms In the Filter Bw Setting panel the software summarizes the current values of the filter s bandwidth for each type of demodulation mode a default value is displayed as suggestion 3 6 Advanced Tab Receiver Mode E Display aliasing frequencies Maximum LO Frequency 30MHz nouns dia Show HW Setup Form At Startup Remote control CAT TMate Enable CAT Enable Thate Control Serial Port com v Configuration Baudrate 115200 Knob Set L O Frequency F1 Step Preset F2 Step Preset F3 BW Pres
5. MEM o o mm 57 FDM SW1 LP30MHz Atten 2048 Notch BW Frequency I WE 7 000 468 EX uL Mode E Filter BW Gain lg Noise Reduction e Auto Notch si d LY j Ji du il jl OI aal ur i p N i Wi d Km M m Ml M m Schedule ime 3 19 2012 11 24 25 AM 19 2012 12 24 25 PM USER MANUAL Ver 1 0 ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 Index MEM POMON FOV Ja c 4 EE 1 9219 de nterface Gy TE 5 2 1 DIS RR 6 2 1 1 ge ez ed MIO NTC 6 2 1 2 CEE Red M DNA PNEU E 7 2 1 3 EI lee ee eee eee eee 7 2 1 4 M itum ue 7 2 1 5 RUE T UT m 7 2 1 6 Set Reset Reference S u 99 i P mM 8 2 1 7 IN De 8 2 2 LUI NS 8 2 3 Commands Panel tun eie mri E 9 2 4 Receiver Commands Panel 9 2 5 Bus m 10 2 6 SHEET 11 2 7 11 2 8 Pave MR EE 11 2 9 AUdIOZSQUelch COM e EE 11 210 SIAN Control DEPAY RR m 12 211 Main SLUMS inte tovt e 12 Die O n 12 3 1 NE oM
6. in the selected memory files HH ELAD www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 l AVI Aviano 390 000Hz un AUGE Et e e lf in frequency range a label containing the station info is displayed for each frequency included in the selected memory files that fall within the spectrum frequency range 371000 RIV Rivaito 420 000Hz Zagabria GS Pola 352 DOQ0HZ 41 7 Cat PLA Pola VGA Vicenza 332 D00Hz 408 NN PDA Padova CHI Chigggia H WM n V 0 AM JHH Nal SE jy 4 When the button is clicked FDM SW1 displays the Station List Form Double clicking on a line of the table implies that the L O is tuned at the selected frequency ELAD www eladit com 19 ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 Ctati r z zie 3 UND Y G PLA Pola ZAG Zagabria p Vrsar RIV Rivolto AVI Aviano CHI Chioggia VCA Vicenza 3 7 2 DX Cluster connection Select DX Cluster as Station Memory Source Select a cluster from the DXCluster combobox or insert manually the cluster settings The Station info display mode combobox displays the same options described in the previous paragraph Tuning Step Tuning Bar Audio Graphics Demod Settings Advanced Station memory Default Directory about Station Memory Source px Cluster File Enabled LoaaFie Unload File Edit File Ibs cc fer A Host Ter br Max Co
7. 0459 0758 Daily 13730 Pactfic 25 RNZI Engish Rangitaiki 0500 0530 Daily 17870 China 9 RRI Chinese Tiganesti Romania 0500 0700 Daily 1296 Europe E BBC WS English Orfordness Great Britain 0500 0800 Daily 3955 Europe 100 BBC WS English Skelton ue 0500 0900 Daily 9780 Europe 100 REE Spanish Noblejas Spain 0530 0600 Daily 6175 E Europe 9 RRI Russian Tiganesti Romania 0600 0630 Daily 9650 Europe 90 RRI French Galbeni Romania 0600 1000 Daily 11635 Europe 40 pp Taldom Russia 0630 0700 Daily 9600 Europe 90 RRI English Galbeni Romania 0700 0730 Daily 9450 Europe 30 RRI German Tiganesti Romania 0700 0800 Daily 5875 Europe 40 BBC WS English 0700 0800 n 6015 Europe e TDPradio English Issoudun France 0700 1610 TWTFS 1611 Europe 25 New Zealand Moosbrunn Austria Vatican Radio various Santa Maria Vatican 0759 1058 0800 0900 0800 0900 0800 0900 0800 1000 0300 1000 4 Daily po Daily Daily Daily W 9870 6015 5790 5875 7325 6015 Pacific Europe Europe Europe Europe Europe 25 RNZI e TDPradio BBC WS BBC WS VoR TDPradio www eladit com English English English English R English Rangitaiki Issoudun Skelton Woofferton Bolshakovo Issoudun New Zealand France Great Britain Great Britain Russia France ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 2 6 System Info Panel UTC Time 320 2012 Local time 3 20 2012 1
8. 2 FDM SW1 CPU Usage Tota CPU Usage This panel displays the system time UTC and local and the CPU usage 2 7 Status Bar The Status Bar displays the following information e Serial number of the connected Elad FDM Sx Receiver e LO Frequency e Selected demodulation mode and filter bandwidth e Status of the Noise Reducer and Auto Notch On or Off e Status of the Panadapter Mode f Panadapter Mode is activated the label is showed If Swap I Q option is selected the label is showed 2 8 Player Recorder Data Roaming ELAD ELAD FDMSVWV 1 1 0 0 0 Recordings TestRec wav Created 3 FDM SW1 embeds an advanced player recorder When the recorder is activated the IF input signal is stored in a wav file Some information regarding the settings used during the recording file creation date L O frequency demodulation frequency demodulation mode filter bandwidth is stored in the file s header When the file is played the stored information is loaded by the software When the playback is finished last demodulation settings demodulation frequency demodulation mode filter bandwidth are stored again in the wav header Six button function are available Sree rt Loop A B Rec Play Pause Stop 2 9 Audio Squelch Control Audio Speakers 4 USB Audio In this area the DFM SW1 software shows the name of the selected primary sound card Sound Card 1 Clicking on button
9. 4 Notch BW Frequency lal 400 000 000 Ir E Mode Filter BW dro AGC SLOW WI pum B Noise Reduction IT be This panel allows the user to e Switch On Off the anti aliasing filter 30 MHz Low Pass e Switch On Off the 20 dB attenuator e Switch On Off the two notch filters at IF stage and set their parameters frequency and bandwidth e Select the demodulation mode CW CW SH CW SH USB LSB DSB AM SAM FM WB FM Stereo DRM www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 Set the bandwidth of the demodulation filter Set the AGC type if AGC OFF is selected the user could adjust the AGC Gain manually if AGC OFF is selected the software displays a warning when audio clipping is detected Switch On Off the Noise Reducer and modify its velocity Switch On Off the Auto Notch reducer and modify its velocity 2 5 DRM Info Panel GOS IV ALL INDIA RADIO KHAMPUR inter 0 4s SDC 4 QAM Mode B Schedule If DRM is selected as demodulation mode the DRM Info Panel is activated It displays some information about the DRM transmission Clicking on available the software automatically downloads and displays the ud button if an internet connection is last DRM schedule from ftp 216 92 35 131 BEM aia H I StartStop TimeUTC Days Frequency Target Power Programme Language Site Country
10. dvanced Station Memory Defaut Directory About Station Memory Source rie File Enabled Load File Frequency Hz Name File H Documents and Settings Administrato H PDA Padova H Documents a Unload File H Documents and Settings Administrato PLA Pola H Documents a 7 Edit File d ZAG Zagabria H Documents a New File j VRS Vrsar H Documents a 3 RIV Rivolto H Documents a VEN Venezia H Documents a AV Aviano H Documents a T CHI Chioggia Documents a VCA Vicenza H XDocuments a GS Pola Hi Documents a DXCluster Y Host ik4icz dyndns org Max Contact Number 10 7 Port 8000 Expire Timeout v Station info display mode mouse position e 4 OK Apply Cancel The table on the right displays all the stations that are stored in the selected memory files The Station info display mode combobox allows the user to choose among 4 types of memories visualization on the spectrum graph e None e Mouse position a label containing the station info is displayed when the mouse is positioned over a frequency included in the selected memory files F nm WAA li hs LLLA H I y Ml UA dia WA E dh d T a V e LO Frequency a label containing the station info is displayed when the L O frequency corresponds to a frequency included
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12. et F4 BW Preset Panadapter Panadapter Mode E Swap iQ IF Hz 10 700 000 Offset dBm 0 0 OK Apply Cancel In this tab the user can select the advanced options of the software If the vemniorees ws checkbox is selected default the software operates in Receiver Mode and limits the maximum tunable frequency at the Nyquist frequency half of the ADC sampling rate If the Receiver Made checkbox is deselected 97 the software operates in Sampler Mode and unlocks the limitation If the Sampler Mode is activated the user can force the software to highlight the multiples of the Nyquist frequency on the spectrum by checking the checkbox E LAD www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 4 tts 1 I ii ur l UT Checking the 7 checkbox the FDM SW1 Hardware Setup Form is loaded at software startup 3 6 1 CAT When the CAT control is active the Tuning Commands Panel displays the I label In the CAT Panel the user can configure the serial communication settings The FDM SW1 implements the command set of the Yaesu Ft897 transceiver 3 6 2 Tmate If a Tmate is connected the Tmate Panel is activated In this panel the user can choose among the proposed configurations of Tmate s button functions When the Tmate control is active the Tuning Commands Panel displays the follo
13. ftware and Hardware 4 FDM SW1 Hardware Setup Form If the option 7 of the Advanced Tab is selected the FDM SW1 Hardware Setup Form is loaded at software startup ELAD FDM SWi HW Setup Ver 1 27 EES FDM S1 SN SCO848 0007 GO OFFLINE CONNECT TO SELECT AW SERVER CONFIG Press button to start the FDM SW1 Press Mahieu button to start the FDM SW1 in OFFLINE Mode Since the FDM SW1 is a general purpose software that works with the entire FDM Sx Receiver family the hardware configuration corresponding to the connected HW has to be selected This operation is accomplished by clicking the mam a Windows dialog box is opened to allow the user to select the hardware configuration file named ExtlO ELAD FDMSx yyy dll NOTE Please check out the latest update of your hardware related dll file at www eladit com a ES LU SES ELAD www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 5 Offline Mode If the button of the FDM SW1 Hardware Setup Form is pressed FDM SW1 starts in OFFLINE Mode In this case no connection with the hardware is established and only the playback of recorded files is available Meter WEEN Si P FDM SW1 Lev 103 1dBm Step 100Hz T a CF gt CL Q otc Vi Frequency 0 B Mode LSB X AGC OFF D EE Reduction 9 AGC Gain Auto Notch V lh d V y LN m i E jt FU Ny j rr TRENT j medien Sch
14. gt ss 0 00 00 0 00 00 Total CPU Usage Elad DFM SW1 is a SDR Software Defined Radio software that is intended to be used with the Elad FDM Sx Receiver family Please check out the latest update of this document at www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 2 Graphical User Interface GUI The screen shot below shows the main screen the cockpit of the Graphical User Interface The GUI consists of 11 parts Display Window Tuning Bars Tuning Commands Panel Receiver Commands Panel DRM Info Panel System Info Panel Status Bar Player Recorder Audio Squelch Control 10 Signal Control Display 11 Main Setting Buttons OO NAMA WNP ee www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 2 1 Display Window The Display Window displays the spectrum of input signal On the lower part information about the current setting of Span kHz Div and AVG is displayed When right click is performed on the Display Window the software displays a pop up menu that contains advanced graphic options Filter Spectrum Click Options Graphics Settings Marker on screen Layout Set Reference Frequency Calibration 2 1 1 Filter Spectrum Allows the user to select which information is displayed on the spectrum area Filter Spectrum Click Options View Matchl Graphics Settings View Notch Marker on screen Layout Set Reference Frequency Calibration tt ELAD www eladi
15. licazioniE LADXELAD FDMSW 111 0 Change Default station memory directory HnDocuments and Settings administratorDati applicazioniE LADELAD FDMSW 141 0 Change DK Apply Cancel The Default Directory Tab allows the user to configure the default directory for the recorded wav files and the xml memory files ELAD www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 3 9 About Tab Software Version ELAD FDM SW1 Ver 1 27 Hardware Model FDM S1 1 Serial Number SCOEP1 0013 Firmware Version 3 3 Di into ExtiO ELAD FDMS1 192k V1 12 41 SAM 3 61 44 MHz data acquisition frequency 192kHz 153 6kHz bandwidth FIR equi no DAC Ext IO support 6G 4 8 A 20 1 L 0 1 P 0 0 S 6 0 The ELAD FDM SW1 software uses a DRM channel decoding technology licensed by Fraunhofer IIS wiww iis fne de dab products drmreceiver and a DRM Audio coding technology licensed by Coding Technologies www codinetechnologies com Li Ch Fraunhofer un coding OV aacPlus Integrierte Schaltungen technologies This software is proprietary of ELAD S r l Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this software or any portion of it may result in severe penalties Portions of this software are patent pending Trademark of ELAD Sr L and ELAD logo are trademarks registered in Italy Copyright 2012 S r l All Rights Reserved www glad eu DK Apply Cancel The About Tab displays useful information about So
16. ntact Number 10 Port 8000 E Expire Timeout fio min Station info display made position OK Apply Cancel When the button is clicked FDM SW1 displays the DX Cluster Interface Form and the Contact Form ELAD www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 Le mid Contacts x DXCluster 7 015 100Hz Port s000 24 Connect Close Clear 24 896 OOOHz p 22 5 7 036 100Hz FSRHD P 24 321 400Hz CT1TFOG 24 341 1 5v 7Z 21 270 000Hz amp 35Y Z 24 920 000Hz UASMHN 10 02 16 069 OOOHz CTS DL3KYYR 10 02 14 195 800Hz UESSDRK Send w3sat V31TE 10 02 Host bbs cc ter hr or set qra mur home DX Cluster nil here 09537 JN3900 S D gt 1000200 e N4VN A3SYZ UP 10002 e B0 SATA 1000200 e FZYT 6 5RHD P dmf 59037 psk 31 1001200 X de PCZT Z M 6172 Igor 1001200 X de OHLFUS 245321 CTLFOQ RTTY ROD COIMBRA 09592 KPoO100 Press Lemme or 55 button of the DX Cluster Interface Form to open or close the link with the Cluster and use m to send the string entered in the Send area The Contacts Form displays the users connected to the cluster Double clicking on a line of the table implies that the L O is tuned at the selected frequency 3 8 Default Directory Tab Setup WE Default recording directory D Documents and Settings Administrator Dati app
17. set Reference disables the visualization of the reference curve 2 1 7 Frequency Calibration This option allows the user to modify the factory sampling frequency offset of the Elad FDM Sx Receiver family Normally this operation is not needed Insert a signal at the same frequency of the local oscillator then place the marker at the peak frequency Reset Offset SS As described in the pop up above a reference signal at the same frequency of the L O has to be provided at the antenna input of the receiver to perform the frequency calibration Then place the marker on the reference peak press and then 9 Clicking on button the software resets the sampling frequency offset to zero NOTE This operation will cause the loss of the factory calibration Perform this operation only if you are certain to accomplish the operation in the right way and be sure to use a precise frequency reference 2 2 Tuning Bars These innovative tuning bars Patent Pending allow the user to perform fast tuning over the whole receiver bandwidth Each bar is characterized by different frequency spans By performing drag and drop over the different bars the user can easily select the desired frequency using the lower bar to select the frequency band the middle bar to make a rough tuning and the higher bar to do fine positioning The span of the higher bar corresponds to the frequency range of the spectrum and can be modified using the zoom bu
18. t com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 2 1 2 Click Options Allows the user to select which kind of operation can be done when left click is performed on the spectrum area Filter Spectrum Click Options Set Tune Frequency Graphics Settings Set Marker Marker on screen Set Notch 1 Frequency Layout Set Notch 2 Frequency Set Reference Frequency Calibration 2 1 3 Graphics Settings When this option is selected the Graphics Setup form is displayed The Graphics Setup form allows the user to configure the parameters of the spectrum graph Graphics Setup Spectrum Plot Waterfall X Axis Min Value 140 25 dBm Default Hz Div 20 0005 Max Value 05 dBm Y Axis dB Diy Update Time Fast Divisions Auto Ref Level Plot Averaging Fill the region under the spectrum trace 2 1 4 Marker on screen This option enables the visualization of the marker on the spectrum The amplitude value dBm of the selected frequency is displayed on top right corner of the Display Window 2 1 5 Layout Allows the user to select the visualization mode ELAD www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 Filter Spectrum Click Options Graphics Settings Marker on screen Set Reference Spectrum Waterfall Frequency Calibration 2 1 6 Set Reset Reference When Set Reference is selected the software displays as a reference curve the input spectrum available at the moment of the selection Re
19. ttons in the Tuning Commands Panel be www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 The frequency step of the higher bar displayed in the Tuning Commands Panel can be changed using the gt arrows on the PC keyboard while 7 J keys increase or decrease the tuning frequency by one step respectively The yellow segment on the middle bar represents the portion of the spectrum displayed by the software in the Display Window 2 3 Tuning Commands Panel Step 1 0kHz Kai B Lock CF gt el RQ The main function of this panel is to display the tuning frequency Double click on the frequency display or press space bar EE to insert manually the desired value using the PC keyboard If the Lock checkbox is selected CEZIJ the tuning frequency corresponds to the center frequency of the spectrum that is the L O frequency otherwise BE its possible to select different demodulation frequencies by clicking on the desired point on the spectrum Clicking on button the software forces the L O frequency to be equal to the current demodulation frequency Use EE to enable disable the rounding of the tuning frequency at multiples of the frequency step 9 f implement zoom in zoom out and zoom reset respectively Moreover the Tuning Commands Panel shows the label IL when a Tmate is connected and the label BI when the CAT protocol is enabled 2 4 Receiver Commands Panel LP30MHz Atten 20
20. wing labels LES BEE Ca 3 6 3 Panadapter If Panadapter Mode is activated the Status Bar displays the LJ label the user can configure the IF frequency and the amplitude offset that allows the right visualization Moreover the flip of the spectrum can be selected the Status Bar displays the va Swap label Ht ELAD www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 3 7 Station Memory Tab Setup Station Memory Source rie TUN BSEC TR EH Edit File New File DXCluster Host ikdicz dyndns org Max Contact Number 4 Port 8000 Expire Timeout 5 min Station info display mode Jas position OK Apply Cancel In the FDM SW1 two types of memory source are available e Xml memory file e DX Cluster Connection 3 7 4 Xml memory file Select File as Station Memory Source Press pl button to create a new memory file When a new file is created or when EES button is pressed FDM SW1 visualizes an Edit Form Memory file H Documents and Settings Administrator Dati applicazionp es x adinon Semer TR am GP Save Table Close Press or BS button to load or unload a memory file respectively more than one memory file can be loaded at the same time ELAD www eladit com ELAD FDM S1 User Manual Rev 1 00 Setup x Tuning Step Tuning Bar Audio Graphics Demod settings A
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