AOR AR-3000A User Manual

AOR SearchlightUser’s Manual© Simon Collings, G4SGI 1994~1999Software and Manual Distributed by:AOR (UK) Ltd.,4E East Mill,Bridgefoot,Belper,Derbys DE

Two push buttons are provided inside the window. You can abort the installation byclicking on the “Quit” push button (or by pressing <Q>). Alt

NOTE: The installation program does not alter your WindowsTM “.INI” initialsettings files; it uses its own. The file is called “SEARCH.INI” and is l

At the end of the installation process the new program group will be displayed inprogram manager. You can re-size the AOR Searchlight group window or

GETTING STARTEDRS-232 connectionYou must connect your radio to an RS-232 port of your computer before you canoperate the software. A screened cable w

PC 9w Female Radio 25w Male3 ————————————— 22 ————————————— 37 ————————————— 48 ————————————— 55 ————————————— 7 GND / SHIELDYou should match

Remote switchNow open the AOR Searchlight group using program manager and double-click on themain program icon (which looks like an AOR radio).The pro

AOR Searchlight will store these settings, for use next time the program is run, in the“SEARCH.INI” initial setting file which is maintained automatic

If the front panel window is focused (highlighted) it will also respond to keyboardcommands. Example: To tune to 90.8 MHzPress <9>, <0>, &

Enter an offset (in kHz) and click on OK. If the offset is negative, VFO B isoffset below VFO A. If positive, VFO B is above VFO A.NOTE: The VFO off

The topics that are available from the Help menu are shown below:The index contains a complete list of all the main help topics that are available. Y

Example: To find help on the Memory|Close Bank optionFirst select the Memory menu, then press <Up> and <Dn> to highlight the Close bank o

MEMORY MENU OPTIONSMemory data is organised by AOR Searchlight into banks of 400 channels. Eachbank is stored on disk in a file and is displayed on-s

New BankTo create a new (blank) memory bank, click on the New Bank menu option. You will see a memory bank window appear on screen inside the main AOR

Store... Add the current VFO to the highlighted channelRecall Transfer the highlighted memory channel to the VFOEdit... Edit the highlighted memory ch

NOTE: The Mark check box is checked by default. If you do notwant to include the channel in memory scans, you should uncheck thebox (as shown above)

NOTE: Memory channels are marked by default when storing,uploading or are added by a programmable band scan.Sorting the memory bankUse this push butt

Save Bank AsUse this memory menu option to save the focused (highlighted) memory bankunder a different name to that displayed on it’s title bar. NOTE:

A WindowsTM standard dialog is used to control printing:Upload Bank from RXThis option creates a new (blank) memory bank and uploads memory channel da

THE TIMING OF RS-232 COMMANDS USED FOR UPLOADING DATA FROMTHE RADIO IS CRITICAL. IT IS VITAL THAT NO OTHER PROGRAMS YOU MAYBE RUNNING INTERFERE WITH

Copy Bank from ClipboardThis memory menu option allows you to copy data back from WindowsTMClipboard into the currently focused memory bank. This fac

CONTENTSINTRODUCTION ... 1ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..

SETUP MENU OPTIONSThe Setup menu options allow you to configure AOR Searchlight so that it runscorrectly with your hardware. The four options that ar

S-meter readingsThis is the delay between S-meter commands being sent to the radio andthe program attempting to read the signal level. It gives the r

Sound RecordingFurther details of the requirements for sound recording are given in the SOUNDRECORDING section. NOTE: This setup menu option is greye

Not all WindowsTM compatible cards support 8 kHz sampling at 8-bits since this isnot a standard WindowsTM format, but it is included with AOR Searchli

SCANNING MENU OPTIONSA number of scanning functions are provided by the Scanning menu. Theoptions are shown below:Programmable Band ScanA programmabl

Once the PBS has started, a programmable band scan window and a new (blank)memory bank window are opened. Your main AOR Searchlight window should loo

If you stop the PBS, the programmable band scan window stays open and you canthen use the cursor to review channels. The radio is also tuned when you

Open PBSThis Scanning option lets you open a programmable band scan parameters fileand append new frequencies to a memory bank. The following dialog

Only memory channels marked with a * in each bank are included in thememory scan.Two other push buttons are provided in the memory scan setup dialog:C

Spectrum AnalysisYou can obtain a graphical display of signals in a portion of the radio spectrumusing this Scanning menu option. A spectrum analysis

SCANNING MENU OPTIONS ... 30Programmable Band Scan ...

The signal level detected at each step is displayed in the form of a graph as theradio scans, The range of frequencies is determined by the centre fr

TOOLS MENU OPTIONSThe Tools menu provides two radio monitoring tools and facilities for managingthe sound log. The menu options are:Offset Simplex Re

In the above picture, a pair of frequencies has been chosen and OSR started. Thedialog in the middle of the window is open while OSR is operating. T

You can enter the period (in minutes) between reports that contain simple analysesof channel activity. You can also direct reports to a file for exam

If you entered a file name into the SFW setup dialog, text reports are produced at regularintervals so that you can review a range of statistics over

The previous picture shows a typical Graphical Analysis obtained using a SingleFrequency Watch on 144.650 MHz. The following four push buttons are lo

PASS LIST MENU OPTIONSThe pass list is a list of 100 frequencies that are excluded from AOR Searchlightscans. You can maintain the list as you use th

NOTE: Most of these push buttons only operate on selected pass list entries.To select an entry, just click on it.Add Add the current active VFO (A o

The pass list frequency you highlighted is copied automatically into the dialog sothat you can edit it. Click on OK to finish modifying the entry.If

WINDOWS MENU OPTIONSThis menu option lets you arrange the windows you have open within AORSearchlight and helps you tidy up icons. The Windows menu o

INTRODUCTIONWelcome to AOR Searchlight, the control program for Microsoft® WindowsTM and AORcommunications receivers.This program uses an RS-232 seria

SOUND RECORDINGSound recording and playback is provided by WindowsTM using a Media ControlInterface (MCI) driver for a sound card (eg Creative Labs So

There is an option in the Setup menu or AOR Searchlight to use 8 kHz sampling with8-bit resolution. This is a format that is not supported by all sou

The push buttons inside the sound log window have the following functions:P_all Play all the entries in the sound log from the highlighted oneonwardsP

MEMORY DATA IN WINDOWSTM CLIPBOARDData from a memory bank window can be copied to, or from, WindowsTM Clipboard astext. This allows you to edit a mem

ADDENDUM TO AOR SEARCHLIGHT MANUALCopy Protection AOR Searchlight is now copy protected. The protection does not use a dongle orother cumbersome devi

7. The copy protection scheme is known to be compatible with the following disk defragmenters:Central Point’s Compress, Digital Research’s Diskopt, S

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F Single Frequency Watch. This includes graphical analysis showing fullstatistics compiled as the SFW is in progress and includes text based reportsa

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTACKNOWLEDGEMENTAOR Searchlight has been developed over a year using the Borland Turbo Pascal forWindowsTM development system. The resu

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTSF 25 MHz 80386 IBM PC compatible or aboveF 4 Mbytes of memory or moreF Microsoft® mouseF at least two RS-232 serial ports

INSTALLING THE PROGRAMIn these instructions, it is assumed that you are familiar with the way WindowsTMworks, so there are few details included about