CTI Products MCN RCD System Planner - Manual (Page 10)

Section 2. System Operation
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2.1.5 Controlling Receivers
You can use the MCN RCD program to control the receiver operation at your remote comparator. You
can manually FORCE VOTE a receiver from the PC and listen to its audio quality over your system.
You can also DISABLE a receiver that is defective or has a bad phone line. When the receiver or
phone line is repaired, you can re-enable the receiver from the PC. Receivers can be controlled with
either the mouse or keyboard.
2.1.6 Error Logging
The MCN RCD program can log system errors on a PC. The PC will log whenever a receiver fails or
becomes disabled. It will also log when the receiver returns to a normal condition. Logging entries
include a time and date stamp, the receiver status, the group, module, and receiver number, the receiver
name, and the comments for that receiver. The log entries are stored in an ASCII text format on the
disk. The error logging feature is available only when the PC is connected to the MCN system. No
error information is logged when the PC is off-line.
2.1.7 MCN RCD Software Configuration
The MCN Remote Comparator Display software includes a configuration program, MCNCFG.EXE,
which allows you to custom-configure your system. The configuration is a two-step process:
1. For each Group of 16 comparator I/O modules (CIBs and AIBs), enter the receiver names, channel
names, and comments for each receiver.
2. Build the screen by entering channel titles and then by placing the receivers that were previously
defined using a “point and shoot” selection method.
An MCN Group Configuration file (.GCF extension) contains all of the receiver information for a
particular set of MCN Comparator I/O Modules, all addressed into a single MCN Group.
MCN Screen Files (.MSF extension) contain a list of receivers to be displayed on the current CRT
screen and where they will appear on the screen. One MCN Screen File supports four different Group
Configuration Files so that receivers from four different MCN Groups can be monitored and controlled
from the same screen.
Up to 88 receivers can appear on the PC display. For many systems this will allow an operator to view
all of the receivers in a voting receiver system. On larger systems as many as 50 screens can be created
to display a system’s receivers.