AOR Hawk5000 User’s Manual
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AOR
Hawk 5000 User ’s Manual
© Simon Collings, G4SGI 1995
Software Published and Distributed by:
AOR (UK) LTD.,
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Bridgefoot,
Belper,
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... 3
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .................................... 4
INSTALLING THE PROGRAM ................................................ 4
COPY PROTECTION .............................................................. 4
TO INSTALL... ......................................................................... 6
GETTING STARTED ............................................................... 8
RS-232 CONNECTION ............................................................ 8
STARTING THE PROGRAM .................................................... 9
SETTING UP ........................................................................... 11
FRONT PANEL PUSH BUTTONS ............................................ 12
OBTAINING HELP ................................................................... 14
FILE MENU OPTIONS ............................................................. 14
NEW ....................................................................................... 14
OPEN... ................................................................................... 15
SAVE AS ................................................................................. 15
EXIT ........................................................................................ 15
SETUP MENU OPTIONS ......................................................... 16
COMMUNICATIONS... ............................................................. 16
CONFIGURATION... ................................................................ 16
CENTRE FREQUENCY... ......................................................... 16
MODE... .................................................................................. 17
STEP... .................................................................................... 18
ATTENUATOR... ...................................................................... 18
SPAN... .................................................................................... 19
RBW... ..................................................................................... 19
VIDEO MENU OPTIONS ......................................................... 20
REWIND .................................................................................. 20
FORWARD .............................................................................. 20
PLAY ....................................................................................... 20
STOP ...................................................................................... 20
PAUSE .................................................................................... 20
RECORD ................................................................................. 21
TOOLS MENU OPTIONS ........................................................ 21
SONOGRAM ........................................................................... 21
CLEAR .................................................................................... 22
THRESHOLD .......................................................................... 22
HISTORY ................................................................................ 22
NEA ......................................................................................... 23
MOVING COPY PROTECTION ............................................... 25
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to
analysis software package for the
your
AOR AR-3000A
has the following features and many more:
l Remote control of the
control of centre frequency, span, resolution bandwidth, attenuator
(
AR-3000A
page up and page down.
AOR
Hawk 5000 for
communications receiver (or compatible). The software
SDU5000
only), mode, step size, averaging, maximum hold, up, down,
Windows
AOR SDU5000
and radio using RS-232 commands for
TM
. This is a powerful control and
spectrum display unit and
l Spectrum display with frequency and level readout using your mouse.
l Centre frequency history listing
l Digital spectrum video recording and playback with pause and forward/
reverse controls.
l Wideband sonogram display with frequency and time readout using your
mouse.
l New energy analysis in which RF energy is channelised and may be
exported in PC-MANAGER format for interoperability with PC-MANAGER
for DOS, PC-MANAGER for
upgrade).
Windows
TM
and
AOR Searchlight
(may require
l On-line context sensitive help. You may obtain help from the main menu
and in all dialogs. Help is also available simply by pressing the F1 key.
You have purchased a “licence” to install and operate a maximum
of two copies of
protection tokens on the master disk. See the section on copy protection
for more details.
AOR
Hawk 5000 for
AOR
Windows
HAWK 5000 for
TM
. There are two copy
Windows
TM
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MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
l 80486 PC DX2/66 MHz (or higher) with fast colour graphics display
l
Microsoft
®
Windows
TM
3.x or
Windows
®
95 (
Windows
TM
NT is not currently
supported)
l 8M byte of system memory (640k bytes of base DOS memory)
l
Microsoft
®
mouse or equivalent (strongly recommended)
l At least 1M bytes of free hard disk space
l At least two RS-232 serial ports (one for mouse if used, highly recom-
mended)
l
AOR AR-3000A
with IF and AGC modifications or ICOM R7100, R7000,
R9000 (with the Icom CT-17 RS-232 interface). It is planned to support the
new AR5000 too.
l Option:
l Option:
l Option:
AOR
PC-MANAGER for DOS (version 2.2.1 or higher)
AOR
PC-MANAGER for
AOR Searchlight
Windows
(version 2.2.2 or higher)
TM
(version 1.7 or higher)
INST ALLING THE PROGRAM
In this manual, it is assumed that you are familiar with
3.x or
Windows
you need further information on using specific
your
Microsoft
®
95 and the hardware you are using with your computer. If
Windows
®
manuals.
Microsoft
TM
®
Windows
features, consult
TM
Copy Protection
AOR
Hawk 5000 for
Windows
does not use a dongle or other cumbersome devices, however, there are
a few simple points that you may need to refer to. Please read this
section carefully.
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is copy protected. The protection
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places a “token” on your hard disk when you install the program. The program
will only work on the hard disk you installed it to. There is no dongle or keydisk, so once installed the program runs completely normally and you will not
be inconvenienced (unlike other schemes).
Specific points to remember:
1. The distribution disk contains two tokens. This means that you can install
up to two complete copies of the software on separate machines at once. You
cannot transfer the program to another machine without first moving one of the
tokens back onto the original distribution disk then re-installing. The tokens
can easily be moved with the program that is provided. Contact your
distributor if you need additional copies of the software.
2. You should keep your original disk in a safe place away from strong
magnetic fields, high humidity or other environmental conditions that could
damage it. You will not be able to re-install the software or move it to another
machine without the distribution disk.
Windows
TM
is copy protected using a system which
AOR
3. Two hidden files are copied to a hidden subdirectory of the
5000 directory (SDU5000.CCC and CCONTROL.SYS) when you install the
software. These contain configuration information for the copy protection
scheme and are normal DOS format files. DO NOT DELETE THESE FILES
UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. If these files are deleted,
will not run.
4. If you are using a backup utility, make sure that the two hidden files are not
backed up. When restored, the copy protection scheme may not be able to
validate the installation and
utilities do not touch these files because they have the hidden, system and
read-only attributes set. The two copy protection files also do not have the
archive bit set, so you should be able to exclude them from backups by setting
up your backup software to ignore files without an archive bit. Remember, it is
not the backup but the restore that can cause problems.
5. The /d+ option of the PC-Kwik disk cache software from Multisoft
Corporation is not compatible with the copy protection scheme and should be
temporarily disabled when installing
HyperCache also affects the copy protection scheme in the same way because
of non-standard methods of accessing the floppy disk drive. Again, it should
be temporarily disabled, but both caches may be used at other times.
6. The copy protection scheme is compatible with disk drives compressed
with SuperStor, Stacker and DoubleSpace. However, you should temporarily
remove the token from the hard disk when installing one of these compression
utilities because the protection will appear invalid when the drives are
compressed. The disk compression utilities warn you of this in their manuals.
AOR
Hawk 5000 will not run. Most backup
AOR
Hawk 5000 or moving the token.
AOR
Hawk
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Hawk 5000
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7. The copy protection scheme is known to be compatible with the following
disk defragmenters: Central Point’s Compress, Digital Research’s Diskopt,
Stac’s Sdefrag and Microsoft’s Defrag.
8. The copy protection scheme is not currently compatible with
9. The copy protection scheme is not compatible with non-standard floppy
disk systems. At present (7/95) this includes the following PCs:
Evesham Vale Voyager laptop
Zeos Pentiums
It is possible to install onto a PC with a non-standard floppy disk (or no floppy
disk) using a networked standard drive. The easiest way to do this if you do
not already have a network is to use the INTERLNK or INTERSVR utilities
supplied with MS-DOS.
10. The copy protection scheme is compatible with Windows 95. However,
you can completely erase your tokens using Explorer to drag and drop the
AOR
Hawk 5000 directory onto the Recycle bin. Although the token files are
not deleted, they cannot be restored to their original positions on disk.
EXPLORER DOES NOT GIVE WARNINGS LIKE FILE MANAGER UNDER
WINDOWS 3.X!.
See the section of this manual entitled MOVING COPY PROTECTION for
instructions on using the utility for moving the copy protection token.
Windows
TM
NT.
To Install...
You will need to follow slightly different instructions depending on the operating
system you are using.
For
Microsoft
®
Windows
TM
3.x
Either...
Click on the File menu of program manger and select the Run... option.
Type “A:\INSTALL.EXE<ENTER>” into the dialog.
Or...
Use file manager to list the files on drive A and double-click on the line
with “INSTALL.EXE” on it.
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For
Windows
®
95
From the
Select the Run... option and type “A:\INSTALL.EXE” into the open
dialog.
Press <ENTER> or click on the OK button to proceed.
You should obtain the window shown below on your screen. This is the
installation utility which will copy and install the
hard disk:
button on the task bar...
AOR
Hawk 5000 files to your
Two push buttons are provided inside the window. You can abort the
installation by clicking on the “Quit” push button (or by pressing “Q”).
Alternatively, to decompress and copy the program files onto your hard disk,
click on the “Install...” push button (or press “I”). If you want to obtain help on
the installation program, you can click on the “Help” menu option in the top
right hand corner of the window.
If you are proceeding with the installation, you will now be asked to type in
the name of a directory on your hard disk for the program files (you will
need approximately 1M byte of space). The default directory name is
“C:\SDU5000”, but you can change it by typing in an alternative into the
dialog that is displayed.
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The dialog looks like that shown above. If you want to keep the default
directory for the
you want to change it, you can type in an alternative name and then click on
“OK” (if the directory does not already exist, it will be created).
AOR
Hawk 5000 files, just click on the “OK” push button. If
Once you have selected a directory for the
decompressed and copied onto your system in a few moments (the exact
amount of time required depends on your computer speed).
NOTE: The installation program does not alter your
initial settings files; it uses its own. The file is called “SDU5000.INI” and
is located in the
AOR
Hawk 5000 for
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Hawk 5000 files, they are
Windows
TM
directory.
Windows
TM
“.INI”
GETTING STARTED
RS-232 connection
You will need to setup a serial port on your PC before you can begin to use
AOR
Hawk 5000. The RS-232 connection between your computer and the
SDU5000
an RS-232 cable (not supplied) and link the radio to the
the “RX CONTROL” socket on the
the
which can be used with AOR or Icom radios). The “RF IN” connector goes to
the “IF OUT” connector on the radio.
is simple to set up. Connect your PC to the “PC I/F” connector using
SDU5000
AR-3000A
SDU5000
(a suitable cable is supplied with the spectrum display unit
unit to the “REMOTE” socket on
connecting
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The pin configuration of the
SDU5000
to PC cable is as follows:
SDU5000
2 (TX) 3 (RX)
3 (RX) 2 (TX)
8 (RTS) 5 (CTS)
7 (CTS) 4 (RTS)
5 (signal ground) 1, 7 (signal ground)
You must include the hardware flow control connections for correct
operation.
If you are using an Icom radio with a CT-17 interface, you will can use the
Icom supplied RS-232 cable (part no. OPC-159) to connect the CT-17 to the
PC and one of the Icom supplied cables with 3.5mm plugs on them to connect
your Icom radio to the CT-17 (consult the installation instructions that come
with the CT-17 unit for further details). You must also connect the
the CT-17 using the AOR supplied cable from the RX CONTROL socket to the
25-way RS-232C connector on the CT-17 unit.
9-way PC 25-way
SDU5000
to
Starting the program
To launch
If you are using
program group and double-click on the icon. If you are using
select the
bar and the application’s icon.
AOR
Hawk 5000 for
Microsoft
AOR
Hawk 5000 shortcut from the Programs menu option of task
®
Windows
Windows
TM
:
TM
3.x, select the
AOR
Hawk 5000
Windows
®
95,
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Windows
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