Teletics Wintercom Installation And User Manual

Teletics wintercom Installation and User Guide V2.0 (Mesh) February 20, 2018 Page 1

Warning !! – Hearing Protection Required !!

The wintercom produces sound levels high enough to possibly
create permanent hearing damage! This includes tones
generated at power up. Do not power up or operate these units
without wearing adequate hearing protection!

Teletics

Installation and
User Guide

Rev 2.1 – February 20, 2018

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Contents

Technical Support ..................................................................................................................................................... 3

Statement of Conformity ........................................................................................................................................ 3

Safety Notice ............................................................................................................................................................. 3

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................... 3

Using the Teletics wintercom ................................................................................................................................ 5

Recommended Enclosures, Accessories, Cabling and Antennas .................................................................. 7

Connections ............................................................................................................................................................... 9

Installation ................................................................................................................................................................ 10

Powering up ............................................................................................................................................................. 14

Indicators and Controls ........................................................................................................................................ 15

Instructions for Use ............................................................................................................................................... 16

Dial Plan .................................................................................................................................................................... 16

Troubleshooting ...................................................................................................................................................... 17

w*intercom 58 Specifications: ............................................................................................................................. 20

Warranty Statement: ............................................................................................................................................. 20

Teletics wintercom Installation and User Guide V2.0 (Mesh) February 20, 2018 Page 3

Warning !! – Hearing Protection Required !!

The wintercom produces sound levels high enough to possibly create
permanent hearing damage! This includes tones generated at power up.
Do not power up units without wearing ear protection!

Technical Support

For assistance with any Teletics product, please call us or visit our website.

Worldwide Technical Support [phone]

Website www.teletics.com/support

Statement of Conformity

Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device,
pursuant to part 15 of the FCC and ICES-003 Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in
accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the
user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense. Modifications not expressly

approved by the manufacturer could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment under FCC

rules.

This device complies with Industry Canada license exempt RSS standard(s). Operation is subject to the
following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause interference, and (2) this device must accept any
interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation of the device.

FCC ID: CTO-WINT

Industry Canada: 10253A

Safety Notice

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Introduction

The Teletics wintercom is a wireless Phone, Data, and Public Address system designed for use with
temporary or mobile camps, and other hostile environments. These situations require that basic on site
communications between buildings has to be set up quickly and reliably. The wintercom provides this
functionality without the need to run any wire or cable between buildings.

The wintercom system can be used on its own, or connected to other communications systems that
provide “backhaul” to the outside world, such as satellite communications, or cellular backhaul links.

Key wintercom features:

• Up to 20 phones can be supported on each radio channel.

• Fully Meshing Radio. All wintercoms act as repeaters to go around obstructions.

• 5 non-overlapping radio channels available.

• There is no limit to the number of calls that can occur simultaneously on a wintercom system.

• Each wintercom has an integrated 40WRMS PA amplifier, with preamp output, allowing direct

connection to a PA speaker, or third party amplifier if additional paging power is required.

• Each wintercom is a complete communications center, which includes connections for one

phone, one computer, and one PA speaker/amp and a NO or NC horn relay.

• Each system may be programmed with a unique system serial number, in order to prevent

similar systems being operated close together from communicating with each other.

• Optional Teletics Feature Server RM units can provide “dial 9” capabilities for outside calling

through satellite, cellular, landline,or other backhaul communications systems to 4 wintercom
stations. SIP trunks from VoIP providers can also be used for outside lines.

• Call Display, Page all, Night Ring, and Simple Conference Room features are standard.

• Camp wide Public Address feature when used with a Teletics Feature Server or Feature Server

RM unit.

• +24VDC operation.

• 5.8 GHz radios w/ 400 mW radio power output.

• Simple programming using Teletics TUtil wintercom programming software.

• Encrypted, spread spectrum radio technology provides security.

• Units can be added, removed, or moved from any system to another system with TUtil

wintercom programming software.

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Using the Teletics wintercom

Overview

Once the Teletics wintercom system is installed, you can call any other wintercom phone, the
computers connected to the wintercom can communicate with each other, and you can send Public
Address pages across all units, or individual units.

A typical installation has as many wintercom units as there are shacks or temporary structures or
trailers that need to have service, and a unit in each trailer. In turn, each wintercom unit has an
outdoor antenna and RF cable attached to it, plus a PA speaker (or PA amplifier), a phone and a
computer.

The system allows:

• any phone to call any other phone

• shared internet access across all computers

• any phone to page any or all phones. (See Teletics Feature Server or Feature Server RM manual)

• any or all users to join a conference call at the site (See Teletics Feature Server Manual)

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Telephone to Telephone

If you want to call another phone on the system, you simply pick up a phone on the system and dial the
two digit extension of the person you wish to call. wintercom extensions are two digits, numbered
from 11 to 30. If you are at extension 15, and you wish to call extension 20, you simply pick up your
phone and dial 20. You will hear a few seconds silence, then the familiar ringing tone when the phone
starts to ring at the other end. There are also optional 3 digit dial plans available from Teletics Support.

Meshing Radio Feature.

Any wintercom unit can act as a repeater. Since there is no “master” on the system, as long as the
wintercoms can “connect the dots” on a particular site, in a manner that allows a connection back to

wintercom 11, the site will have a working, reliable system. The key benefit of this is where there are
oil drilling rigs, or mechanical systems in the way of some radio paths, the remaining paths between
radios provide a stable connection. Routes are automatically updated, so if obstructions occur while the
system is operating, it simply routes around them, using other wintercoms in the mesh.

Outbound / Inbound Calling

If the system is equipped with a Feature Server RM unit, wintercom units from 11 through 14 can access
an outside line through adding a 9 digit at the beginning of the number being dialed. For instance, if you
wish to dial [phone], you would pick up your phone and dial 97135551212. Notice that you do
NOT dial 9 and then wait for a second dial tone. You need to enter the phone number completely,
including the leading 9 digit at one time.

Each of the 4 outside lines on the Feature Server RM is dedicated to one wintercom phone on the
system. When a wintercom phone 11,12,13, or 14 dials a number with a 9 prefix, its dedicated, Feature
Server RM phone line is used, and when the same Feature Server RM line rings on inbound calls, the call
will be directed only to that phone. There is a “one to one mapping” between the Feature Server RM
line ports and the wintercom unit it works with.

Connecting a PA amplifier or 8 ohm PA Speaker

Each wintercom has a 4 position barrier strip that allows you to connect to an amplifier via a 600 Ω
output, or directly to an 8 ohm PA speaker. You require one Teletics Feature Server in each system for
PA to work. The LINE OUT output is 600 ohm, 1 Vpp. The PA 8 Ω output is 40WRMS.

In order to send a PA message out across the entire system, you can pick up any handset in the system,
and dial *88 and after waiting for a few seconds for a connection, you can make your announcement.
You may page individual stations by dialing their respective station number, but with a star as the leading
digit. For example, picking up any phone in the system and dialing *15 would send a page to the PA
speaker attached to wintercom 15. *88 pages all wintercoms on the system EXCEPT the wintercom
making the call, to prevent feedback.