RLC-2 V4.26 Software * VERSION 4.26 CHANGES 1) ADDED A WATCH THAT WILL KEEP THE LARGE DVR POLITE MESSAGES FROM LOCKING UP THE CONTROLLER IF OLDER DVR SOFTWARE THAT DOES NOT SUPPORT POLITE CHECKING IS USED. 2) ADDED COMMAND 118. THIS COMMAND ALLOWS THE USER TO DIAL IN A DELAY FOR A LINK BEFORE THE VOICE SPEAKS. THE WAY FUNCTION WORKS IS WHEN THE TRANSMITTER IS NOT KEYED AND A VOICE MESSAGE IS ROUTED OUT THE TRANSMITTER, THE RLC-2 WILL INSERT ## NUMBER OF 'PAUSE' WORDS BEFORE THE MESSAGE BEGINS. THIS ALLOWS THE TRANSMITTERS TO KEYUP BEFORE THE MESSAGE IS SPOKEN. THE DELAY IS ONLY INSERTED WHEN NO OTHER VOICE DATA IS IN THE SPEAK QUE. WHEN A VOICE MESSAGE IS REQUESTED AND THE TRANSMITTER IS ACTIVE, 2 VOICE PAUSES ARE INSERTED AND <118> ## WHERE ## IS THE NUMBER OF PAUSES SPOKEN BEFORE THE VOICE MESSAGE IS SENT ## RANGES FROM 00..29 ## DEFAULTS TO 05 (2 SECOND DELAY) 3) CHANGED HOW THE HANG TIMER WORKS ON THE CONTROLLER. THE HANG TIMER WILL ONLY RUN WHEN THERE IS ACTIVITY ON THE PORT. IF A CONTROLLER INITIATED EVENT OCCURS (ROTATING ID, SCHEDULER SLOT...) WHEN THERE IS NO RECEIVER ACTIVITY, THE HANG TIMER AFTER THE MESSAGE IS SENT IS 100mS. WHEN ANY CONNECTED RECEIVER GOES ACTIVE, THE NORMAL HANG TIME IS USED. 4) ADDED WIND SPEED READING FACEPLATE. THIS ALLOWS A DIGITAL WIND SPEED SENSOR TO BE ATTACHED TO ANALOG INPUT #4. FACEPLATE 15 PROVIDES THE CONVERSION FROM WIND SPEED PULSES TO MILES PER HOUR. AN ANALOG LINE WAS USED BECAUSE THE USER NEEDS TO MONITOR THE HIGH/LOW SPEED AND MAY NEED TO HAVE A HIGH/LOW ALARM ON THE WIND INPUT. ONLY ANALOG 4 CAN BE USED FOR THE WIND SPEED. NO CALIBRATION SHOULD BE NEEDED. IF THERE IS NO WIND, THE FACEPLATE WILL RESPOND WITH THE WORD 'CALM'. 5) REMOVED THE SMALL DVR BACK-UP UTILITY WHILE RECORDING A MESSAGE AND THE MESSAGE TIMER EXPIRED. THE BACK-UP UTILITY WILL ONLY WORK WHEN A DTMF OR A RECEIVER DROP TERMINATES RECORDING. THIS MAXIMIZES THE RECORDING LENGTH ON THE SMALL DVR. 6) MODIFIED THE SMALL DVR PLAYBACK COMMAND TO ALLOW MULTIPLE MESSAGES TO BE PLAYED BACK. THE COMMAND FORMAT IS: <150> SS PLAY BACK 1 SLOT FROM 01..35 <150> SS EE PLAYBACK MESSAGE SLOTS BETWEEN SS AND EE 7) SLIGHTLY MODIFIED THE SMALL DVR RECORD COMMAND TO ALLOW MULTIPLE MESSAGES TO BE RECORDED. THE COMMAND FORMAT IS: <151> SS RECORD 1 SLOT FROM 01..35 <151> SS EE RECORD MESSAGE SLOTS BETWEEN SS AND EE 8) FIXED THE ERROR IN SPECIAL MESSAGE SLOTS 26-33. THESE SLOTS WERE TO BE ABLE TO HOLD A 4 WORD MESSAGE. THEY HAD MEMORY ONLY FOR 3 WORDS. FIXED THE ERROR HANDLER TO ONLY ALLOW 3 WORDS MAX IN THESE SLOTS 9) FORCED THE LARGE DVR TO ONLY ALLOW VALID DVR TRACKS WHEN PROGRAMMING WITH COMMAND 049. SEEMED TO CAUSE NON-STABLE OPERATION IF A INVALID MESSAGE SLOT WAS REQUESTED FOLLOWING CORRECT MESSAGE SLOTS. 10) FIXED THE BUG IN ERASING THE SMALL DVR SLOTS 11) FIXED THE SMALL DVR SLOT..SLOT OVER-RUN THAT COULD OCCUR IF YOU RECORDED THE PREVIOUS SLOT FOR THE MAX TIME. THE PREVIOUS SLOT COULD EFFECT THE FOLLOWING SLOTS PLAYBACK TIME. 12) REMOVED SMALL DVR SLOT 35. MAXIMIZED THE TIME ON THE OTHER 5 SECOND SLOTS. 13) FIXED THE LOCKUP BUG THAT OCCURRED WHEN A SMALL DVR IS INSTALLED AND THE USER REQUESTED COMMAND 068 (RECALL PUBLIC MAIL, A LARGE DVR COMMAND). THIS THE CONTROLLERS TX ON THE AIR AND COULD ONLY BE FIXED WITH THE RESET COMMAND (245). THE LOCKUP WAS DUE TO THE SMALL DVR PLAYING TRACTS THAT WERE NOT RECORDED. IF ALL OF YOUR SMALL DVR TRACTS WERE RECORDED THEN A LOCKUP WOULD NOT OCCUR. 14) A USER CAN NO LONGER TRY TO DIAL AN AUTODIAL SLOT THAT HAS NOT BEEN PROGRAMMED. 15) WHEN YOU RECALL AN AUTODIAL SLOT THAT HAS NOT BEEN PROGRAMMED, THE CONTROLLER WILL RESPOND WITH 'CLEAR' VOICE RESPONSE WHEN THE RECALL MESSAGE COMES TO THE PART WHERE THE NUMBER IS NORMALLY READ BACK. 16) ADDED A SPECIAL VOICE COMMAND EXECUTION CONTROL WORD. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REQUESTS TO SYNCRONIZE THE VOICE MESSAGE WITH CERTAIN COMMANDS BEING EXECUTED. WORD 602 HAS BEEN ADDED TO ALLOW COMMAND SYNCRONIZATION. THE FUNCTION OF THIS WORD IS AS FOLLOWS: 1) IN A VOICE MESSAGE WHEN WORD 602 IS ENCOUNTERED, THE FOLLOWING WORD INDICATES A COMMAND TO BE EXECUTED. THE COMMAND NUMBERS RANGE FROM 000..245. 2) NO ADDITIONAL DATA IS ALLOWED FOR THE COMMANDS BEING EXECUTED. IF A COMMAND REQUIRES ADDITIONAL DATA THEN PUT THE SEQUENCE IN A MACRO AND CALL THE MACRO INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL COMMAND. 3) NO VOICE RESPONSES WILL BE SPOKEN FROM THE EXECUTED COMMAND. THIS IS BECAUSE THE RESPONSE WOULD BE OUT OF ORDER FROM THE VOICE MESSAGE. THE RESPONSE WOULD BE THE LAST MESSAGE SPOKEN. THIS ALSO ALLOWS FOR A CLEANER MESSAGE TO BE SPOKEN 4) EXAMPLE: SPEAK '1 2 3', TURN ON OUT 1, SPEAK '4 5 6' TURN OFF OUT 1 045 001 002 003 602 086 004 005 006 602 087 OR RESULT: VOICE 1,2,3 'OUT 1 ON' VOICE 4,5,6 'OUT 1 OFF' 17) FIXED THE CONTROL RECEIVER GOING OUT THE PORT THE DVR IS PLAYING BUG. THIS PROBLEM ONLY OCCURRED WHILE THE DVR (SMALL AND LARGE) WERE PLAYING. WHEN PLAYING, THE CONTROL RECEIVERS AUDIO COULD BE HEARD ON-TOP OF THE DVR. 18) REMOVED THE 30 SECOND TIME-OUT TIMER WARINING ON ALL PORTS EXCEPT THE AUTOPATCH PORT. 19) CHANGED HOW THE POLITE INTERRUPTION WORKS. BEFORE THE ONLY SOURCE THAT COULD INTERRUPT A POLITE MESSAGE WAS THE PORT THE MESASGE WAS GOING OUT. NOW ANY CONNECTED RECEIVER TO THAT PORTS TRANSMITTER CAN INTERRUPT A POLITE MESSAGE. 20) FIXED THE BUG THAT OCCURRED WHEN A POLITE DVR (SMALL AND LARGE) WAS INTERRUPTED. PREVIOUSLY ONLY THE CURRENT DVR TRACK WAS CANCELED INSTEAD OF ALL DVR TRACKS. NOW THE POLITENESS WORKS THE SAME AS THE VOICE POLITENESS WORKS. 21) ADDED A COMMAND SEQUENCE, WHEN IN HF REMOTE BASE MODE, THAT ALLOWS AN EXTERNAL COMMAND TO BE EXECUTED. THE KEY SEQUENCE: <4> FOR EXAMPLE: I WANT TO CHECK THE TIME WHEN IN HF REMOTE BASE MODE. THE COMMANDS MUST BE ENTERED REFERENCE TO THE COMMAND NUMBER (3 DIGITS RANGING FROM 000..245). I ENTER THE SEQUENCE <1> <4> <054> <#> OR UNKEY. THE TIME WILL BE READ BACK. 22) NOTICED THE MANUAL DID NOT REFERENCE THE SPECIAL RADIO MODES FOR THE KENWOOD HF RADIOS. COMMAND 108 IS FOR SETTING THE RADIOS ADDRESS. THE MANUAL STATES THIS IS ONLY FOR ICOM RADIOS. WHEN THE KENWOOD EPROM IS INSTALLED, THE ADDRESS ALLOWS SPECIAL RADIOS DIFFERENT CODES. ADDRESS OF 00 - NEWER RADIOS, TS-450 AND NEWER ADDRESS OF 01 - TS-940 ONLY ADDRESS OF 02 - TS-440 AND EARLIER 23) FIXED THE VFO 'B' BUG IN THE HF REMOTE BASE FOR KENWOOD RADIOS. BEFORE YOU COULD NOT PROGRAM A FREQUENCY IN VFO 'B'. NOW YOU CAN 24) FIXED THE MEMORY WRITING BUG ON KENWOOD HF RADIOS. 25) FIXED THE MEMORY RECALLING BUG ON SOME KENWOOD HF RADIOS. 26) ADDED VERSION CONTROL IDENTIFICATION ON INITIALIZATION, RESET AND INTERROGATION. WHEN THE RESET MESSAGE IS SENT IT WILL IDENTIFY IF YOU ARE RUNNING RLC-2 OR RLC-2a SOFTWARE. RLC-2 CONTROLLERS HAVE THE EXTERNAL CROSSPOINT BOARD, AND THE VOICE TIME DAUGHTER BOARD. THE RLC-2a CONTROLLERS ARE A 4 LAYER SINGLE BOARD DESIGN. HF REMOTE BASE SOFTWARE TYPE IS SPOKEN WHEN YOU CHECK THE CONTROLLERS VERSION (COMMAND 048 00). IT WILL SPEAK 'HF REMOTE I,K,Y'. THIS INDICATES WHAT HF REMOTE SOFTWARE YOUR CONTROLLER IS SET-UP FOR. 'I,K,Y' STAND FOR 'I'COM, 'K'ENWOOD, 'Y'AESU. YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO RE-INITIALIZE YOUR CONTROLLER BETWEEN VERSION 4.25 AND VERSION 4.26. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory should contain the following files: readme this file eproms.zip the files needed to burn your own V4.26 eproms for the RLC-2 and RLC-2a. The newest manual can be found in the rlc2/manuals directory. The V4.26 manual may not be available right away. Notes: To install the update you need to unzip eproms.zip and burn two 27C512 eproms, one with the voice data and one for the main program rom. After installing the new roms, power up the controller while holding down the initialization button on the circuit board. This will set everything up for factory defaults. You can then begin programming. You may not have to reinitialize the controller if you are upgrading from a relatively recent version (4.00 or later). eproms.zip contains: voice401.bin - Binary file for the voice rom rlc2a425.icm - RLC2a Binary file for main rom with Icom HF interface rlc2a425.kwd - RLC2a Binary file for main rom with Kenwood HF interface rlc2a425.yas - RLC2a Binary file for main rom with Yaesu HF interface rlc2_425.icm - RLC2 Binary file for main rom with Icom HF interface rlc2_425.kwd - RLC2 Binary file for main rom with Kenwood HF interface rlc2_425.yas - RLC2 Binary file for main rom with Yaesu HF interface Note: if your controller serial number is 150 or later, it is an RLC-2a rather than a RLC-2. There is no functional difference, but the software is slightly different. PDF is Adobe's Portable Document Format. This is a format that can be viewed and/or printed from DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and Unix systems using the appropriate version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader. 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