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TitanSDR Receiver

User Manual

v.1.2e

Enablia S.r.l. (Italy) 2012

Before using the receiver, read carefully the Installation Manual and the User

Manual.

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Index

1. Introduction.................................................................................. 5

1.1 User interface architecture....................................................................... 6

1.2 Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope ....... 8

1.3 Software startup.......................................................................................... 9

2. Receiver Mode .......................................................................... 11

2.1 Panoramic Scope .................................................................................... 12

2.1.1 Front End settings ...................................................................................... 12

2.1.2 Spectrum settings...................................................................................... 13

2.1.3 Management of wideband channels .................................................. 17

2.2 Wideband Scope ..................................................................................... 20

2.2.1 Spectrum settings...................................................................................... 20

2.2.2 Management of narrowband channels............................................... 23

2.2.3 Recording of wideband channels......................................................... 27

2.3 Narrowband Scope ................................................................................. 29

2.3.1 Spectrum settings...................................................................................... 30

2.3.2 Tuning of narrowband channel.............................................................. 34

2.3.3 Demodulation settings ............................................................................. 36

2.3.4 Listening demodulated audio ................................................................ 39

2.3.5 Gain control............................................................................................... 41

2.3.6 Audio streaming through Virtual Audio Cables (VAC) ....................... 42

2.3.7 Audio streaming by LAN .......................................................................... 43

2.3.8 Recording of narrowband channels ..................................................... 47

3. Player mode............................................................................... 49

4. Advanced Operations .............................................................. 52

4.1 Session saving and loading .................................................................... 52

4.1.1 Session saving ............................................................................................ 52

4.1.2 Session loading.......................................................................................... 54

4.2 NB Channels List........................................................................................ 55

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4.3 Memory of narrowband channels......................................................... 57

4.3.1 Memorization............................................................................................. 58

4.3.2 Allocation of memorized channels........................................................ 61

4.3.3 Memory settings modifications ............................................................... 62

4.3.4 Removal of memorized channels.......................................................... 63

4.4 Scheduling of recordings ........................................................................ 64

4.4.1 Scheduling of a new wideband\narrowband channel.................... 64

4.4.2 Task Editor window ................................................................................... 67

4.4.3 Managing scheduled channels............................................................ 71

4.4.4 Allocation of scheduled channels......................................................... 73

4.5 Options ....................................................................................................... 78

4.5.1 Independent View.................................................................................... 78

4.5.2 Panoramic ................................................................................................. 79

4.5.3 Wideband .................................................................................................. 79

4.5.4 Narrowband .............................................................................................. 81

4.5.5 Output Files Name .................................................................................... 83

4.5.6 Storage ....................................................................................................... 85

4.5.7 Session......................................................................................................... 86

5. Appendix.................................................................................... 88

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1. Introduction

This manual describes the TitanSDR user interface and its mode of use.

Before using the product, make sure to have correctly performed all the steps in

the Installation Manual.

TitanSDR is an HF multi-channel receiver allowing up to four independent

wideband channels within the 0-40MHz band and several narrowband channels

(up to 8, 16 and 40 in the TitanSDR_8, TitanSDR_16 and TitanSDR_40 versions of the

product, respectively), which can be tuned within wideband channels.

Each narrowband channel supports, at the same time, demodulation, recording

(onto WAV files) and streaming of demodulated signals to: VACs (Virtual Audio

Cables), sound cards and Hoka Electronic CODE300 decoders (via LAN).

Figure 1 exemplifies diagrammatically the operation described above.

Figure 1 - Functional diagram

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1.1 User interface architecture

Figure 2 shows schematically the user interface architecture.

Figure 2 - User interface architecture

The user interface is composed of:

Main Toolbar

Panoramic Scope

Wideband Scope

Narrowband Scope

On the Main Toolbar (Figure 3) there are a series of drop-down menus (File, Mode,

NB List, Memory, Schedule, View, Options) that allow to access the features

described in detail in Chapters 2, 3, 4 of this manual.

Figure 3 - Main Toolbar

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Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope are windows in

which visualization and control of panoramic spectrum, wideband channels and

narrowband channels, can be performed, respectively.

As illustrated in Figure 2, Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope are positioned

under the Panoramic Scope, which in turn is just under the Main Toolbar.

In order to make resize of windows possible, these are separated by splitters,

namely graphics draggable separators, which allow to increase (or decrease) the

size of the window of interest, to the detriment (or advantage) of the others.

Clicking on a splitter, its position can be moved by mouse dragging (with the left

mouse button hold down).

Figure 4 - Splitters drag directions

Figure 4 shows directions in which splitters can be dragged inside the user

interface.

Note the presence of splitters also within windows of Wideband and Narrowband

Scope (see Chapter 1.2 for a detailed description). Figure 5 shows a screenshot of

the user interface during typical operation.

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Figure 5 - TitanSDR user interface

1.2 Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope

In this paragraph, the high-level structure of Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope

and Narrowband Scope is described.

Panoramic Scope:

It is composed of its own toolbar, a panoramic spectrum window and a reference

bar representing the frequency axis. The toolbar contains commands that allow to:

• control front-end settings

• manage spectrum settings

• allocate and deallocate wideband channels

The panoramic spectrum window shows spectrum of the 0 - 32MHz band

managed by the receiver (see par. 4.5.2 to show up to 40MHz). The reference bar

is draggable horizontally, after at least one frequency zoom-in step (see Chapter

2.1.2).

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Wideband Scope:

The Wideband Scope shows the spectrum of the wideband channel which is

currently selected on the Panoramic Scope, at a higher resolution and its

“waterfall" representation. The frequency bar (placed below the spectrum plot) is

draggable horizontally after at least one frequency zoom-in step (see Chapter

2.2.1).

Spectrum plot and waterfall display are separated by a splitter, which allows to

vary the vertical dimension of the two windows (Figure 4).

Narrowband Scope:

The Narrowband Scope shows the spectrum of the narrowband channel which is

currently selected within the Wideband Scope, with a higher resolution and its

“waterfall” representation.

Spectrum plot and waterfall display are separated by a splitter, which allows to

vary the vertical dimension of the two windows (Figure 4).

Panoramic Scope, Wideband Scope and Narrowband Scope can be possibly

shown or hidden by selecting or deselecting the corresponding items of the "View"

drop-down menu on the main toolbar (Figure 6).

Figure 6 - View menu

1.3 Software startup

The user interface, shown in Figure 8, appears by double-clicking on the TitanSDR

software icon (see Figure 7).

Figure 7 - TitanSDR software icon

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Figure 8 - User interface of TitanSDR

TitanSDR can be operated in the following two modes:

Receiver Mode

Player Mode

with the ability to switch between them without restarting the software.

Receiver Mode: software allows to control the receiver and to manage all

operations on radio channels (all of the functions of this mode are described in

Chapter 2).

Player Mode: software allows to playback files (written in a proprietary format)

which resulted from previous recording of wideband channels in Receiver Mode

(see Section 2.2.3) and to perform the same operations allowed on wideband

channels in Receiver Mode (allocation and recording of narrowband channels,

demodulation, listening of demodulated audio, data streaming by VAC, LAN, ...).

All Player Mode functions are described in Chapter 3.

Mode choice is made through the menu "Mode" (Figure 9) on the Main Toolbar.

The default setting is Receiver Mode.

Figure 9 - Mode setting

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