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RBDS install update...

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BrokeEngineer

A while back I asked for tips, tricks, hints on an Encoder suggestion and ideas how to run it. The choice has been made and demo-ed and bugs worked out and here is what I went with.

An Inovonics model 713.
Here is how I am running it(2 of them actually).
From the studio site, I pieced together an old PII 350 and installed a com port extender giving me 4 extra com ports and 2 NIC's. Assigned the 2 NIC's a static IP each. We use SS-32 with dMarc so I needed to get the info from them to the encoder, that is why I picked a PC over just a serial to IP converter. I still had to hand off the info to the Moseley Starlink in a serial format so I picked up a copy of serial to IP converter software from www.TalTech.com. It gave me 2 seat lic. to work with for $250.
It took some playing with the serial cables to get the right combination and had to change the baud rate from 9600 to 4800 because the STL had to use a CTS (Clear to Send) and that messed everything up.

Here is the interesting thing, on one of my FM's, we have Muzac type of music on our sub's (67 and 92) and just enough injection of the RDS, we were able to shoehorn the RDS in without affecting the other 2 SCA's.

It took a few hours of adjusting and range testing and listening to get the proper combination.

I am still planning to use this same PC to get info from my 3 Sage Endecs and pass it off to a printer. Just haven't been able to find the proper software to do it. I can TelNet to the Endecs but it just will NOT pass off the info it gets until I disconnect. It will hold all the info and print fine after I disconnect. I have tried ever version of HyperTerminal and tried all combinations of settings. I will not be beat! LOL
 
> I am still planning to use this same PC to get info from my
> 3 Sage Endecs and pass it off to a printer. Just haven't
> been able to find the proper software to do it. I can TelNet
> to the Endecs but it just will NOT pass off the info it gets
> until I disconnect. It will hold all the info and print fine
> after I disconnect. I have tried ever version of
> HyperTerminal and tried all combinations of settings. I will
> not be beat! LOL

`mode com1: BAUD=9600 PARITY=N data=8 stop=1 xon=off`;
$_PRN = printer_open();
$_FP = fopen("com1:","w+");
while($_FP && is_resource($_FP) && !feof($_FP) &&
$_PRN && is_resource($_PRN))
{
$data = fgets($_FP,1024);
printer_write($_PRN,$data);
}

That'll be $3500, please.<P ID="signature">______________
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UMMMMMMMM, First off.....WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?????
and second, I never tried to charge you for snide remarks in the Ask Radio-Info.com area....LOL
I will give that code a shot on Monday. I never test new code or tubes on a Friday, Murphy's law kinda thing.
Thanks for the input brother, I appreciate it.
G
>
> `mode com1: BAUD=9600 PARITY=N data=8 stop=1 xon=off`;
> $_PRN = printer_open();
> $_FP = fopen("com1:","w+");
> while($_FP && is_resource($_FP) && !feof($_FP) &&
> $_PRN && is_resource($_PRN))
> {
> $data = fgets($_FP,1024);
> printer_write($_PRN,$data);
> }
>
> That'll be $3500, please.
>
 
It's PHP. Same stuff in which this site is coded.

It'll take a few more lines to get it working...like the "set_time_limit(0)" to allow for unlimited execution time...and you might have to set socket blocking, but since it's not done via fsockopen() it might handle that for you.

Regardless, put a Windows copy of PHP on the box and then run the script with "php -q script.php" (you CAN compile win32 executables but that's more complicated). The stuff in the backticks will execute and set the com parameters, the pecl printer extension lets you use the printer_* commands. You can do printer_open("My Printer Name") instead...leaving it blank will open the windows default printer. Obviously set it to a line printer. As long as the SAGE unit sends line breaks it'll just keep spitting it out...if not, use:

printer_write($_PRN,$data.
);

You can make it more complex, such as looking for start/end strings and queuing any output from other units until it's written with a timeout in case it takes a dump in the middle of the message.

You old people design circuits. I'll program :)<P ID="signature">______________
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Damn dude....

judging by the time stamp on your posts, when do you sleep? I thought I was bad by getting to bed at 1am and up at 7. Are you some sort of Angry Vampire????
 
Re: Damn dude....

> judging by the time stamp on your posts, when do you sleep?
> I thought I was bad by getting to bed at 1am and up at 7.
> Are you some sort of Angry Vampire????
>

Sleep? what's that? Since when does an Engineer get sleep?
 
Re: Damn dude....

> judging by the time stamp on your posts, when do you sleep?
> I thought I was bad by getting to bed at 1am and up at 7.
> Are you some sort of Angry Vampire????

Went to bed at like 2a and woke up at 8a.

I have the optimod on my mind...

And I just bought a house so I've been moving stuff around, drawing out a wiring plan to run cat-6 to some punch blocks in the basement to a patch panel, plotting out a garden because I'm not paying $3 per freaking pound for sweet red peppers...

AND working on pickup lines. Last one didn't go so well: Wanna stop by the Sam Buca Love Shack of Non-Ionizing Radiation? I'd love to impedence match our networks. Meet me at 40-11-34.0 N, 077-10-27.0 W at 2230 hours.

I didn't hear back.<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: Damn dude....

> AND working on pickup lines. Last one didn't go so well:
> Wanna stop by the Sam Buca Love Shack of Non-Ionizing
> Radiation? I'd love to impedence match our networks. Meet
> me at 40-11-34.0 N, 077-10-27.0 W at 2230 hours.
>

OK. LMAO for 30 minutes after reading this, Sam.

Bill H.
TV20 San Francisco
 
Re: Damn dude....

>
> Sleep? what's that? Since when does an Engineer get sleep?


I am lucky, I get 5 or 6 rough hours of sleep. Nice to have sleep apnia and be allergic to the mask. My chief is a morning person so he goes in before me and takes the stupid morning show questions...
 
Re: Damn dude....

Damm Aint that the Truth


> >
> > Sleep? what's that? Since when does an Engineer get sleep?
 
Re: Damn dude....

> > judging by the time stamp on your posts, when do you
> sleep?
> > I thought I was bad by getting to bed at 1am and up at 7.
> > Are you some sort of Angry Vampire????
> >
>
> Sleep? what's that? Since when does an Engineer get sleep?
>
Sleep for Broadcast Engineers:
That's what you do driving from Job A to Job B and back :)

George K
CBNT KG2KC
 
Re: Damn dude....

> Sleep for Broadcast Engineers:
> That's what you do driving from Job A to Job B and back :)

I hate how Pennsylvania put these rumble strip things on the shoulder of all the roads. Now if I doze off I'm rudely awakened by that awful noise.<P ID="signature">______________
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