NAL A3LA-R, General Description Manual

Page 1: ...PTION OF MODEL A3LA R Version 1 1 April 8th 2013 TN2013 12 V1 1 Copyright 2013 by NAL Research Corporation 9385 Discovery Boulevard Manassas Virginia 20109 USA Phone 703 392 1136 x203 E mail contact n...

Page 2: ...e performance or nonperformance of any products accessories facilities or services or information except as expressly stated in this guide and or the Product and or satellite service documentation Any...

Page 3: ...NTENNA CONNECTOR 10 5 0 SIM CARD INTERFACE 11 6 0 LED DISPLAY 11 7 0 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS 12 8 0 MODES OF OPERATION 12 9 0 MOUNTING RECOMMENDATIONS 13 10 0 TECHNICAL SUPPORT 13 APPENDIX A AT INTERFA...

Page 4: ...ubscriber Units Modems Phones Trackers LBT L Band Transceiver NIPRNET Non Secure Internet Protocol Router Network NOC Network Operation Center OFAC Office of Foreign Asset Controls PSTN Public Switch...

Page 5: ...Services supported include 1 Dial Up Data Switch 2 Direct Internet Connection or NIPRNET Connection 3 Direct Internet Connection using Apollo Emulator only for DoD EMSS Gateway 4 Short Message Service...

Page 6: ...l Specifications Operating Temperature Range 30o C to 70o C 22o F to 158o F Operating Humidity Range 75 RH Storage Temperature Range 40o C to 85o C 40o F to 185o F Storage Humidity Range 93 RH 2 5 Dat...

Page 7: ...ded this is an odd number of characters Normally this is set to in register S2 see Appendix A for details PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION INTERFACE 1 EXT_ON_OFF Power on off control input DC Power 2 12VDC Outp...

Page 8: ...les in which settings are stored and user can choose either as a default profile The relevant commands are Wn and Yn Wn stores the present configuration in profile n where n can be either 0 or 1 Yn de...

Page 9: ...ed Prior to turning the A3LA R off command AT P0 should be issued to ensure all memory write activity is completed When the A3LA R is powered off its internal power on reset circuit requires two secon...

Page 10: ...oth as a data modem and a satellite phone This setup as shown in Figure 3 can be an extremely useful developmental tool since the modem status can be seen on the handset LCD similar to a 9555 Iridium...

Page 11: ...time so units can lock to different signals 4 If the reading is near the decision threshold it would be easy to see a 1 bar difference 5 0 SIM CARD INTERFACE The A3LA R modem contains an integrated SI...

Page 12: ...ocations and are detailed in Appendix A 8 0 MODES OF OPERATION The A3LA R serial data port is always in one of three modes command mode SBD data mode or SBD session mode When the data port is in comma...

Page 13: ...DATIONS The A3LA R has four features on its bottom surface that can aid in its mounting see Appendix I These four features are pre drilled at a minimum depth of 0 25 inch to accept 6 32 thread type 10...

Page 14: ...ed in the same fashion as is with other modems but has no effect on the operation of the A3LA R since it has no meaning in the Iridium environment A 3 Extended Commands Extended commands perform actio...

Page 15: ...commands or parameters the high order bit is ignored Upper case characters are equivalent to lower case characters A 5 Command Entry An AT command is a string of characters sent by the DTE to the A3L...

Page 16: ...v gsn cmee cpbr 1 12 msvtr all lower case AT X 0 V GSN CMEE CPBR 1 12 MSVTR all upper case ATX 0 V GSN CMEE CPBR 1 12 MSVTR space omitted between AT and X ATX0 V GSN CMEE CPBR 1 12 MSVTR space omitted...

Page 17: ...cription A 8 1 AT Attention Code This is the prefix for all commands except A and When entered on its own the A3LA R will respond OK A 8 2 A Repeat Last Command Repeat the last command issued to the A...

Page 18: ...For all other Dn settings the following applies DTR must be ON during on hook command mode If DTR transitions from ON to OFF during on hook command mode operation will be locked after approximately 10...

Page 19: ...modes permitted Note The register is not updated right after the user requests new values because the requested values may or may not be what IRLP will use once a data call is established due to negot...

Page 20: ...mode no break sent to remote modem 1 Clear data buffers and send break to remote modem 2 Same as 0 3 Send break to remote modem immediately 4 Same as 0 5 Send break to remote modem in sequence with tr...

Page 21: ...MI Manufacturer Identification Exec Command CGMI Query A3LA R RF board manufacturer A 8 25 CGMM Model Identification Exec Command CGMM Query A3LA R RF board model A 8 26 CGMR Revision Exec Command CGM...

Page 22: ...oo long 27 invalid characters in dial string 28 number is SIM fixed dialing restricted 30 no network service 31 network timeout 32 emergency calls only 40 network personalization PIN required 41 netwo...

Page 23: ...reporting is enabled the intermediate result code CR serv is returned by the A3LA R serv can have one of the following values ASYNC asynchronous transparent SYNC synchronous transparent REL ASYNC asy...

Page 24: ...ht away this may give the user the impression that those values will be used during the data call but there is no guarantee that will be the case The real values will only be known once a data call is...

Page 25: ...message storage mem1 mem1 is the selected message storage from the CPMS command location index If deleting fails final result code CMS ERROR cms_err is returned An example of an error report is CMS E...

Page 26: ...195 invalid SME address 196 destination SME barred 197 SM rejected 208 SIM SMS storage full 209 no SMS storage capability in SIM 210 error in MS 211 memory capacity exceeded 255 unspecified error 300...

Page 27: ...messages with status value stat from message storage mem1 mem1 is the selected message storage from the CPMS command to the DTE If listing fails final result code CMS ERROR cms_err is returned Valid...

Page 28: ...at message alpha string type alphanumeric representation of TP destination address or TP originating address corresponding to the entry found in the phonebook optional field length in PDU mode this is...

Page 29: ...tele services that incorporate more than one basic service voice data fax within one call For the satellite modem only a single call is supported mode 0 single mode default Read Command CMOD Query th...

Page 30: ...RTs are routed to the DTE using unsolicited result code CDS length CR LF pdu PDU mode Valid values for bfr are 0 Buffer of unsolicited result codes defined within this command is flushed to the DTE wh...

Page 31: ...registration procedure when entered Read Command COPS Read command returns the current mode and will always respond with 000 for mode This is due to the continually enabled nature of the automatic reg...

Page 32: ...and returns location range supported by the current storage and the maximum lengths of number and text fields Response is in the form CPBR list of supported index s nlength tlength where nlength indic...

Page 33: ...it can be operated SIM Card PIN Code SIM PUK etc If no password request is pending no action is taken by the A3LA R If the password required is SIM PUK then newpin is required where newpin is the new...

Page 34: ...and mem3 are SM SIM message storage Response is in the form CPMS used1 total1 used2 total2 used3 total3 where used1 number of messages currently in mem1 total1 total number of message locations in me...

Page 35: ...the A3LA R Location information elements lac and ci are returned only when n 2 and A3LA R is registered in the network Response is in the form CREG n stat lac ci Test Command CREG Test command lists t...

Page 36: ...Service Set Command CSMS service Set command selects short messaging service service It returns the types of messages supported by the A3LA R mt for mobile terminated messages mo for mobile originated...

Page 37: ...n This command is similar to CGMR A 8 59 GSN Serial Number Exec Command GSN Query the A3LA R IMEI This command is similar to CGSN A 8 60 GCAP General Capabilities Exec Command GCAP Query the A3LA R ov...

Page 38: ...hn D mem n Originate call to phone number in memory mem entry location n available memories may be queried with Select Phonebook Storage test command CPBS mem can be one of the following FD SIM fixed...

Page 39: ...the current volume level settings The response is in the form CLVL level 0 Equivalent to level 0 displayed on a handset s volume indicator 1 Equivalent to level 1 displayed on a handset s volume indi...

Page 40: ...is in the form CR mode Test Command CRC List the supported result code settings The response is in the form CR supported mode s A 8 69 CVHU Voice Hangup Control Set Command CVHU mode Selects whether...

Page 41: ...with each string enclosed in square brackets The string parameter values are defined as follows tone specifies the string of tones to be played or generated The valid values are in ASCII 0 9 time spe...

Page 42: ...the form MSVLS mode Test Command MSVLS List the supported parameter settings The response is in the form MSVLS supported mode s Note DTMF generated with the MSVTS command is never played back locally...

Page 43: ...MSGEO x y z time_stamp x y z is a geolocation grid code from an earth centered Cartesian coordinate system using dimensions x y and z to specify location The coordinate system is aligned such that th...

Page 44: ...type sub address not supported by Iridium satype type of sub address not supported by Iridium time string containing number of seconds up to 30 in multiples of 5 When no reply is enabled or queried th...

Page 45: ...79 CSSSC Supplementary Services Short Code Exec Command CSSSC shortcode Execute the given shortcode If the shortcode fails a CME ERROR code is returned Otherwise OK is returned Note Shortcode functio...

Page 46: ...d to represent the maximum number of S frames that are used to acknowledge I frames at uplink direction A3LA R IWF and can take on the following values 1 10 Default is 10 t4 is used to supervise the r...

Page 47: ...Select DCE mode of operation tm can take the following values 0 IRLP test mode off default 1 IRLP test mode on Read Command WTM Query the current parameter setting The response is in the form WTM tm...

Page 48: ...transfer a binary SBD message from the DTE to the single mobile originated buffer in the A3LA R The mobile originated buffer can contain only one message at any one time Once the command is entered t...

Page 49: ...age length is 1890 bytes o The checksum is the least significant 2 bytes of the summation of the entire SBD message The high order byte will be sent first For example if the A3LA R were to send the wo...

Page 50: ...d successfully 1 An error occurred while clearing the buffer s A 8 89 SBDC Short Burst Data Clear SBD MOMSN Exec Command SBDC This command will clear set to 0 the mobile originated message sequence nu...

Page 51: ...Audio Output Control Set Command CAR n This command switches the type of audio output between analog digital and mute no audio output Valid values for n are as follows 0 mute 1 analog Codec port 2 dig...

Page 52: ...indicator 2 Equivalent to 2 bars displayed on the signal strength indicator 3 Equivalent to 3 bars displayed on the signal strength indicator 4 Equivalent to 4 bars displayed on the signal strength i...

Page 53: ...lert received Note It is valid for the A3LA R RM RGS to receive a telephony ring alert and an SBD ring alert at the same time Assertion of the RI signal indicates only the presence of an alert this co...

Page 54: ...er support unlock key 0000000000000000 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF a string of 16 hexadecimal digits While the A3LA R is locked it is unable to perform any SBD sessions Any attempts to start a session will retur...

Page 55: ...announcing network support for this feature This command controls the presentation of the Calling Line Identity of the calling party in a mobile terminated call via the CLIP unsolicited result code n...

Page 56: ...his requires CLIR to be provisioned in one of the temporary modes Note If the CLIR service is not provisioned and either invocation or suppression is requested for the next call the next call may be r...

Page 57: ...rface The message is terminated when a carriage return is entered Alternatively the text message may be entered separately Upon entering the command AT SBDWT the A3LA R will indicate to the DTE that i...

Page 58: ...sy unable to initiate call 36 Reserved but indicate failure if used This instructs the GSS to disable detach SBD ring alerts for the calling A3LA R Successful completion of the detach command implies...

Page 59: ...n sending a mobile originated message to the GSS This value is incremented each time an SBD session is successfully completed between the A3LA R to the GSS This wraparound counter can range from 0 to...

Page 60: ...ing Alert If this is not desired the SBDI command should be used The DTE should append an A to the command i e SBDIXA when the SBD session is in response to an SBD ring alert location has format DDMM...

Page 61: ...ence Number MOMSN is a value assigned by A3LA R when sending a mobile originated message to the GSS This value is incremented each time an SBD session is successfully completed between the A3LA R to t...

Page 62: ...or disable ring indications for SBD Ring Alerts status 0 Disable ring indication 1 Enable ring indication default When SBD ring indication is enabled the A3LA R asserts the RI line and issues the uns...

Page 63: ...onds to 52 degrees 12 483 minutes North 0 degrees 7 35 minutes West Command Response SBDREG status reg err where status indicates the resulting registration status of the A3LA R 0 Detached A3LA R is d...

Page 64: ...nt location and triggers an SBD auto registration when it determines that it has moved sufficiently far away from its last registered location Note that auto registration runs only while the A3LA R is...

Page 65: ...lure if used 35 A3LA R is busy unable to initiate call 36 Try later must wait 3 minutes since last registration 37 Reserved but indicate failure if used Read Command SBDAREG Query the current automati...

Page 66: ...X A in which the returned MT status indicates that no error occurred The value of the RA flag is stored in non volatile memory so it is preserved across power cycling of the A3LA R msg waiting The me...

Page 67: ...nal polling indicates that the antenna status has changed or on polling after WANTST has been received regardless of whether the state has changed or not An initial state of stowed can be assumed but...

Page 68: ...e A3LA R it may not yet be supported in the Iridium network Stand by for an Iridium Technical Bulletin announcing network support for this feature Command Possible Response s CCWA None command ignored...

Page 69: ...rvice for specified class es 2 query status of Call Waiting service for specified class es classx is a sum of integers each representing a class of information 1 voice 2 data 4 fax This parameter defa...

Page 70: ...tary Services SIM Fixed Dialling feature the SIM card PIN Code or to enable or disable the Phone Lock feature in the A3LA R A password code detailed below may be required depending on the action chose...

Page 71: ...2 88 4 clause 1 All Iridium calls are International so this facility should not be exercised by a user interface IR BIC Roam Bar Incoming Calls when Roaming outside the home country refer GSM 02 88 4...

Page 72: ...AB Call Barring password single password used for all call barring supplementary services Note AT CPWD SC oldpwd newpwd will return Error unless the SIM Card Pin Code is currently activated see AT com...

Page 73: ...ypad as described in GSM 02 30 5 subclause 4 5 5 This command is not abortable and finishes without waiting for a response from the network The interaction of this command with other commands based on...

Page 74: ...nd none Unsolicited Announcement XCSI overall call_state active call_state held_call state active index held index where overall call_state 0 Idle dialling possible 1 One single party call active 2 On...

Page 75: ...there is a non data call state change in the A3LA R internal Call Control MMICC state machines including during a voice call session possibly with multiple concurrent calls when any call becomes held...

Page 76: ...ansaction Id 254 CM Internal Error 255 RL Timeout Values up to 127 are defined by GSM for SMS PP Relay Layer messages and values 128 and above are internal codes introduced by Iridium A 8 123 GPSSTA C...

Page 77: ...oration TN2013 12 V1 1 77 This command returns the current GPS receiver state 1 enabled 0 disabled Test Command GPSSTA Test command returns a list of valid values Response is in the form GPSSTA list o...

Page 78: ...ue in the range 0 to 255 B 1 4 Referenced S Register Read Read the value of the current referenced S register The current referenced S register is that which was last acted upon by a direct reference...

Page 79: ...reflect the speaker volume setting bits 2 and 3 reflect the speaker on off setting and bits 4 5 and 6 reflect the Xn setting Yes S23 0 255 61 Bitmap register bit 0 autobaud setting bits 1 3 DTE baud r...

Page 80: ...d 2 Enable CARRIER XXXX 3 Enable PROTOCOL XXXX 5 Enable COMPRESSION XXXX Register Number Range Default Description Sr n Command Write Protected in SAC0201 S13 0 255 0 Bitmap register where bits 0 1 re...

Page 81: ...eflect NPI settings for dial string S51 0 255 0 V 42bis maximum codewords P1 high byte Yes S52 0 255 128 V 42bis maximum codewords P1 low byte S54 0 255 20 V 42bis maximum string size P2 S58 0 255 0 V...

Page 82: ...lue in 1000 ms unit S125 1 100 10 Dynamic link delay measurement delay tolerance WDLM dtl setting Value in unit S126 0 255 2 Bitmap register 0 Ignore Dn command specified reaction to DTR ON to OFF tra...

Page 83: ...ll connection established at 2400 bps 11 CONNECT 4800 Data call connection established at 4800 bps 12 CONNECT 9600 Data call connection established at 9600 bps 13 CONNECT 7200 Data call connection est...

Page 84: ...as verbose DR V42B Data call connected with V 42bis compression enabled on both transmit and receive direction Numeric V0 Verbose V1 Description as verbose CR ASYNC Asynchronous transparent data conne...

Page 85: ...umeric V0 Verbose V1 Description as verbose READY Ready to receive SBD binary message data from DTE as verbose AREG event reg error Auto registration event report as verbose CIEV sig value Indicator e...

Page 86: ...3LA R default configuration to no flow control SBD automatic notifications enabled D 3 Power on to Sending an SBD Message The DTE will power up the A3LA R wait for the A3LA R to acquire the network an...

Page 87: ...d in the default configuration OK CIEV 1 1 Wait for the A3LA R to acquire the network AT SBDWB 70 READY Transfer message to A3LA R binary transfer 0 AT SBDIX Perform SBD session SBDIX 0 23 0 1 0 0 AT...

Page 88: ...1 237 90 2 A3LA R informs DTE that a 90 byte message was successfully received with MTMSN 237 and that two further MT messages are queued at the GSS AT SBDRB DTE retrieves the received message from t...

Page 89: ...Call connected at DTE rate of 9600 ATS0 2 To automatically answer a call register 0 should be set to a non zero value RING Indicates arrival of call request CONNECT Call connected at DTE rate of 9600...

Page 90: ...a command aborts call command aborts call n a Ringing Voice CLCC 004 CPAS 003 CRING VOICE Ringing Data CLCC 004 CPAS 003 CRING DATA In call Voice CLCC 000 CPAS 000 or 003 n a In call Data CLCC 000 CPA...

Page 91: ...LA R 4 Keep the power cable between the A3LA R and the power source as short as possible 5 Use both power input pins on the multi interface connector Power consumption of the A3LA R can be divided int...

Page 92: ...Voltage DC 0 000 0 025 0 050 0 075 0 100 Current A 4 0V to 5 5V 5 0V to 32V Figure E1 Average current drawn during standby Figure E2 Average power consumption during standby 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Volt...

Page 93: ...DC 0 000 0 125 0 250 0 375 0 500 Current A 4 0V to 5 5V 5 0V to 32V Figure E3 Average current drawn during a data switch call Figure E4 Average power consumption during a data switch call 0 5 10 15 20...

Page 94: ...during an SBD transmission 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Voltage DC 0 000 0 125 0 250 0 375 0 500 Current A 4 0V to 5 5V 5 0V to 32V Figure E6 Average power consumption during and SBD transmission 0 5 10 15 2...

Page 95: ...during an SMS transmission 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Voltage DC 0 000 0 125 0 250 0 375 0 500 Current A 4 0V to 5 5V 5 0V to 32V Figure E8 Average power consumption during and SMS transmission 0 5 10 15 2...

Page 96: ...a voice call using DPL handset 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Voltage DC 0 000 0 375 0 750 1 125 1 500 Current A 4 0V to 5 5V 5 0V to 32V Figure E10 Average power consumption during a voice call using DPL han...

Page 97: ...te projects 48 beams on the surface of earth which may be viewed as providing coverage cells on the ground similar to terrestrial systems Each beam is approximately 600 km in diameter The 66 satellite...

Page 98: ...nd operates an Iridium gateway located in Hawaii United States Each gateway generates and controls all user information pertaining to its registered users such as user identity geo location and billin...

Page 99: ...e LAN or an Internet service provider as shown in Figure F2 The handshaking and protocols are established between the modems independent of the landline The Iridium dial up data service functions in m...

Page 100: ...ure B3 illustrates how Iridium Internet NIPRNet call is routed Direct Internet service can be enhanced using Windows based emulated point to point protocol PPP called the Apollo Emulator With the use...

Page 101: ...140 octet byte maximum message size SMS service is a store and forward method of transmitting messages to and from an Iridium modem The short message from the modem is stored in a central Short Messa...

Page 102: ...ay The Iridium network can locate an ISU to within 10 km only about 78 of the time The so called error ellipse can have a large eccentricity with the major axis oriented in the azimuth dimension and t...

Page 103: ...ance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment CE Compliance The 9523 when marked with the CE symbol complies with the European Community Council Directive for R TTE 99 5 EC provided th...

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