RLC-2 V4.30 Software VERSION 4.29 CHANGES (Version 4.30 changes are listed below) 1) FIXED THE OCCURRENCE OF THE TRANSMITTER PTT BLIPPING WHEN PROGRAMMING FROM THE SERIAL PORT. THE ONLY OCCURRED WHEN COMMAND 118 VALUE WAS A NON-ZERO NUMBER. NOW THE SERIAL CAN WORK WITHOUT AFFECTING PORT 1'S PTT. 2) FIXED THE PROBLEM IN DECODING DTMF WHEN THE RECEIVER GOES INACTIVE. BEFORE THE CONTROLLER WOULD THROW AWAY THE DTMF RECEIVED IF THE RECEIVER WENT INACTIVE BEFORE THE DTMF WENT INACTIVE. 3) FIXED THE RESPONSE ASSOCIATED WITH COMMAND 074. THE RESPONSE NOW SAYS THE ANALOG LINE CORRECTLY. 4) FIXED THE PROBLEM THAT OCCURRED WHEN YOU WOULD RESET THE ANALOG H\L USING COMMAND 074. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS BY RESETTING THE H\L POINTS IT WOULD ALSO CHANGE SOME OF THE H\L ALARM POINTS. 5) FIXED THE PROBLEM ASSOCIATED WITH READING THE HIGH VALUE FOR THE WINDSPEED ANALOG FACEPLATE. BEFORE WHEN YOU READ THE WINDSPEED SENSOR'S HIGH READING YOU WOULD GET THE CURRENT WINDSPEED. NOW YOU GET THE WINDSPEED'S HIGHEST VALUE. 6) FIXED THE PROBLEMS IN THE ANALOG ALARM ROUTINES. WHEN A LINE WAS IN A HIGH ALARM, GOING INTO A LOW ALARM CONDITION DID NOT ALWAYS CAUSE A LOW ALARM EVENT TO OCCUR. THIS PROBLEM WAS COMMON TO ALL 4 ANALOG LINES. NOW A L->H, H->L, H->C,L->C, ALARM CONDITIONS WORK AS DESIGNED. 7) CHANGED THE TIME THE CLOCK SPEAKS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN ORDER TO MATCH ALL OF OUR OTHER CONTROLLERS THE POINT WHERE THE CLOCK CHANGES FROM AFTERNOON TO EVENING HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM 5:00 PM TO 6:00 PM. 8) ** NEW FEATURE ** CHANGED THE WAY YOU CAN ENTER THE DATE. THE NEW VERSION MAKES THE RLC-2 Y2K COMPLIANT. THE NEW WAY TO ENTER THE DATE IS: <059> MM DD YYYY D OR WHERE: MM IS THE MONTH DD IS THE DATE YYYY IS THE YEAR D IS THE DAY OF THE WEEK THE ONLY CHANGE IS YOU NOW MUST ENTER THE HUNDREDS DIGITS FOR THE YEAR 9) CHANGED HOW THE KERCHUNK FILTERS WORK. BEFORE WHENEVER THE RECEIVER WENT INACTIVE IT RE-ENABLED THE KERCHUNK FILTER FOR THAT RECEIVER. THAT PROVED TO BE CUMBERSOME. NOW WHILE THE PTT IS ACTIVE FOR THAT PORTS RECEIVER, THE KERCHUNK FILTER IS BYPASSED. THIS MEANS THAT THE FILTER WILL KEEP RECEIVER FROM ACCESSING THE CONTROLLER LIKE NORMAL, BUT ONCE THE TRANSMITTER IS ACTIVE THE KERCHUNK FILTER IS BYPASSED, UNTIL THE PTT GOES INACTIVE. 10) CHANGED PORT 5 (CONTROL RECEIVER) KERCHUNK TIMER FROM 34 TO 33. TIMER 34 IS USED LATER FOR THE DTMF FALSING TIMER. 11) REMOVED THE SERIAL DEBUGGING DATA THAT WAS SENT DURING AN RBI-1 OR RLC-ICM FREQUENCY UPDATE. 12) ** NEW FEATURE ** ADDED A DTMF VOICE FALSING TIMER. THIS TIMER IS STARTED WHEN THE A DTMF DIGIT IS RECEIVED AND THE DTMF MUTE COVER IS NOT YET RUNNING. IF A VOICE FALSE OCCURS THEN THIS TIMER WILL SLUG WHEN THE DTMF COVER WILL START. IF THE DTMF DIGIT (OR VOICE FALSED DTMF DIGIT) IS GONE BEFORE THIS TIMER EXPIRES THEN THE COVER MUTE\TONE WILL NOT START. THE DTMF DATA WILL BE ACCEPTED AS BEFORE BUT THE COVER TONE WILL BE DELAYED IN ITS RESPONSE. TIMER 34 (USED TO BE A KERCHUNK FILTER TIMER THAT WAS NOT USED) IS USED TO PROGRAM THE LENGTH OF THIS TIMER. YOU NOW CAN LEAVE YOUR DTMF DECODERS AS SENSITIVE AS YOU PLEASE, AND SET THIS TIMER TO ~50-100mS (005..010) AND YOUR VOICE FALSING PROBLEMS SHOULD NO LONGER HAUNT YOU. THIS TIMER IS PROGRAMMED IN 10mS INCREMENTS. THE DEFAULT, RE-INITIALIZED VALUE OF THIS TIMER IS 50mS. AGAIN YOU DO NOT NEED TO RE-INITIALIZE THE CONTROLLER FOR THIS UPDATE, BUT YOU WILL NEED TO PROGRAM TIMER 34 WITH THE COVER MUTE DELAY OF YOU CHOICE. 13) ** NEW FEATURE ** ADDED 24 HOUR CLOCK READING. THE CLOCK READ IS IN MALE SPEECH ONLY, BUT WILL CONVERT AM/PM TIME TO 24 HOUR MODE. ALL SCHEDULERS, AND CLOCK/TIME FEATURES WILL STILL BE SET IN AM/PM MODE. COMMAND 124 IS ASSIGNED TO CONVERT THE TIME INTO 24 HOUR READ. THE FORMAT IS: <124> THE VOICE WILL SPEAK HH:MM (NO AM/PM WILL BE SPOKEN) 14) ** NEW FEATURE ** ADDED VOICE WORD '603'. THIS WORD IS A POLITE WAIT WORD DESIGNED TO BE THE FIRST WORD IN VOICE MESSAGES THAT NEED TO WAIT FOR ALL RECEIVERS THAT WILL HEAR THE MESSAGE, TO GO INACTIVE BEFORE THE MESSAGE BEGINS. THE MAIN REASON FOR THIS WORD IS TO ALLOW HALF DUPLEX PORTS THAT REQUEST A VOICE MESSAGE, TO BE ALLOWED TO UNKEY BEFORE THE RLC-2 BEGINS SENDING THE MESSAGE. THIS CAN BE APPLIED TO LINK ON\OFF MESSAGES, AND LINK ID'S. IN A NUT SHELL THE 603 WAITS BEFORE SENDING THE VOICE MESSAGE. THE AUDIO ROUTING VARIABLE ASSIGNED TO THE MESSAGE DETERMINES WHAT RECEIVERS TO WATCH. ALL PORTS THAT RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE MUST BE INACTIVE BEFORE THE MESSAGE CAN BE SENT. 15) ** NEW FEATURE ** ADDED CW CHARACTER '42'. SEE THE ABOVE EXPLAINATION AS TO THE USE OF THIS WORD. 16) THERE HAVE BEEN A COUPLE OF BUG REPORTS WITH RESPECT TO THE AUTOPATCH REPEAT DIAL '**' COMMAND NOT SPEAKING THE MESSAGE REPEAT DIAL. WE COULD NOT REPRODUCE THIS BUG INHOUSE. IF THE PROBLEM SHOWS UP IN VERSION 4.29 THEN PLEASE CONTACT US AND WE WILL GET MORE INFO. FROM YOU. 17) FIXED THE VOICE RESPONSE ASSOCIATED WITH AUTODIAL SLOT 911. THE VOICE RESPONSE USE TO SAY AUTODIAL 200, NOT AUTODIAL 911. IT SPEAKS CORRECTLY NOW. 18) FIXED THE PROBLEMS WITH DIAL TONE GENERATION THAT OCCURRED WITH THE PREACCESS SYSTEM. BEFORE THE CONTROLLER WOULD GENERATE DIAL TONE, BUT WOULD NOT ALWAYS HOLD THE PTT ACTIVE FOR THE LENGTH OF THE DIAL TONE. NOW THE DIAL TONE PTT CORRESPONDS WITH THE LENGTH OF THE DIAL TONE. 19) FIXED THE PROBLEM OF THE REVERSE AUTOPATCH RING ANSWER NOT BEING CONSISTENT. THERE WERE REPORTS OF THE RING COUNTER NOT ALWAYS ANSWERING ON THE NUMBER OF PROGRAMMED RINGS. I BELIEVE THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN FIXED. IT WAS ONE THAT COULD NOT BE REPEATED IN HOUSE. IF IS STILL IS AN ISSUE THEN CONTACT LINK COMM. 20) ADDED AN ADDITIONAL AUDIO ROUTING VARIABLE FOR THE REVERSE AUTOPATCH TIME-OUT MESSAGE. COMMAND 007, SLOT 09 CAN NOW BE PROGRAMMED TO CONTAIN AN AUDIO ROUTING VARIABLE THAT WILL ROUTE THE 'AUTOPATCH, 30 SECONDS' MESSAGE OUT SELECTED PORTS, INCLUDING THE AUTOPATCH. THE DEFAULT CONDITION OF THIS VARIABLE IS THE AUTOPATCH. SO WHEN AN AUTOPATCH TIME-OUT TIMER MESSAGE IS SENT, AND IF YOU WANT IT SENT OUT THE AUTOPATCH PORT, ALONG WITH OTHER RADIO PORTS OTHER THAN THE PORT THAT DIALED UP THE AUTOAPATCH, THEN USE THIS AUDIO ROUTING VARIABLE LOCATION. FORMAT: <007> 09 ## WHERE ## IS A NUMBER FROM 00 TO 31. 00 SAYS THE TIME-OUT MESSAGE WILL ONLY BE ROUTED OUT THE PORT THAT DIALED THE AUTOPATCH. ==================================================================== VERSION 4.30 FIXES: 1) FIXED THE WRONG AM/PM RESPONSE WITH THE MALE CLOCK. THIS WAS NOT NOTICED ON THE FEMALE CLOCK, ONLY THE MALE. 2) THERE WAS A PTT POPPING THAT OCCURRED WHEN THE VOICE MESSAGE WAS SPOKEN. THE POPPING WAS NOTICED ON PORTS 2,3. THIS HAS BEEN FIXED. 3) WHEN IN PRE-ACCESS MODE, MADE THE DTMF MUTE COVER ONLY COVER DTMF THAT BEGIN WITH THE '*' LOCAL PREFIX. THE PTT IS THEN ISOLATED TO ALLOW REPEATER PREFIX CONTROL WITHOUT SENDING THE DATA DOWN THE LINK PORTS. ANY OTHER DTMF THAT IS RECEIVED, THAT DOES NOT BEGIN WITH THE '*' DIGIT ARE UNMUTED DOWN LINK PORTS. IF ANY OF THE CONNECTED PORTS ARE CONFIGURED AS REPEATERS THE MUTING FUNCTION REMAINS ACTIVE. THE LINK PORTS MUST BE CONFIGURED FOR DTMF MUTE ON IN ORDER TO MUTE THE '*' LOCAL ACCESS. (SEE COMMAND 020). THE MUTE BYPASS AFFECTS ONLY LINK PORTS. **** RE-INITIALIZATION IS NOT NEEDED IF UPDATING FROM VERSION 4.28 or 4.29 **** Eprom Check-Sums: RLC2a Icom HF $67B0 RLC2a Kenwood HF $19C5 RLC2a Yaesu HF $75EC RLC2 Icom HF $24E6 RLC2 Kenwood HF $C4E1 RLC2 Yaesu HF $2DB2 EPROM TYPE: 27C512 150nS OR FASTER ALL VERSION 4.XX SOFTWARE USES THE SAME VOICE ROM. TECHNICAL SUPPORT NUMBER: (406) 245-5002 EXT 103 (Allan) OR 102 (Steve) This readme file and the eprom files can be downloaded from the Internet at the following URL's: http://www.link-comm.com/ftp/rlc2/v430/readme.txt http://www.link-comm.com/ftp/rlc2/v430/eproms.zip ftp://ftp.link-comm.com