Campbell Scientific RF450 Spread Spectrum Radio - Manual (Page 19)

RF450 Spread Spectrum Radio
3.6.11 Radio ID Setting
This setting allows a transceiver to be designated with an arbitrary, user-
selectable, 4-digit number which identifies the transceiver in diagnostics mode.
When used in conjunction with PakBus dataloggers, it is recommended that
this value be assigned the PakBus address of the station. This is because the
radio ID appears in the FreeWave diagnostics program, and allows the user to
associate a particular datalogger with its attached radio.
To further this association of the RF450 RF network with the PakBus network,
the dataloggers (CR1000, CR800, etc) read the serial number of the attached
radio and include this in the datalogger settings when the CS I/O SDC interface
is used. This serial number is the main radio identifier used by the FreeWave
Diagnostics program.
3.7 Master Radio
A multi-point network may only contain a single Master radio. Slave radios
communicate from and to the Master radio.
The Master RF450 must be connected to a PakBus router. A
PakBus router may be software such as LoggerNet or PC400 or a
datalogger configured as a router. NOTE
Selecting “Multi-Point Master” in the Radio Operation Mode designates the
transceiver as a Master in multi-point mode. This mode allows one Master
transceiver to simultaneously be in communication with numerous Slaves and
repeaters. A point-to-multipoint Master communicates only with other
transceivers designated as point-to-multipoint Slaves or point-to-multipoint
repeaters.
One setting, Low Power Mode, is not applicable to Master radios, thus is
greyed out in the Device Configuration Utility (see Figure 3.7-1).
FIGURE 3.7-1. DevConfig Screen Showing Settings for Multi-Point Master
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