Advanced Telemetry Systems, Inc. R4500S Reference User Manual R05-11-A
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Screen 2
The number entered here should represent the range of pulse rates you are using in your study. The available
period range allowed to be entered is between 400ms to 6000ms.
The periods measured from signals that are outside the entered range will be thrown out.
Screen
3
(A = Store Rate
or
Log Period
,
see below
)
Time Out:
The amount of time the receiver will stay on a Frequency while attempting to
detect a transmitter. If no transmitter is detected in the Time Out period, the
receiver will advance to the next frequency in its frequency table. This feature
allows faster scanning by truncating the scan time if no transmitter is detected in
the Time Out period. The user defines the parameter (Range = 001 – 300
seconds). Refer to section
14.0
for information on setting the Time Out value.
Scan Time:
The amount of time to hold on a frequency and attempt to detect transmitters. The
Scan time will override the Time Out time, if a pulse has been detected during the
Time Out period. The Scan Time is set to whatever you need this set at (Range =
0000 – 1440 seconds). Refer to section
15.0
for information on setting the Scan
Time value.
A:
If Continual (1) was selected in screen 1 this will read
Store Rate
If Periodic (2) was selected in screen 1 this will read
Log Period
Store Rate:
This defines how often a transmitter’s detection will be stored for
each antenna (Range = 0000 – 1440 minutes). For example if the
Store Rate is set to 10 minutes and a scan time of 15 seconds, its
presence will only be recorded once during that 10 minute period.
The data stored will include the time stamp of the strongest signal
strength measured in one 15 second scan time during the 10
minute scan period. Stored with it will be a total number of pulses
that the receiver determined to be pulse rates during the 10 minute
store period along with the total number of pulses detected during
the Store Period.
Log Period:
This defines the time interval between the receiver cycles where
the R4500S performs one scan of the frequency table.
(Range = 0000 – 1440 minutes). If the scan of the frequency table
takes the entire log period, the receiver will never pause between
the end of a frequency table scan, and the start of the next one.
