Log_thr – Axesstel PST User Manual

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AXESSTEL Software User's Guide

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Dense-Pack and Standard DM format is that Dense-Pack uses a

condensed searcher packet instead of the normal DM format.

SCAN_CONFIG

Parameters

LOG_THR

When the Retriever Pilot Scanner is logging in Standard DM format,

the serial link is limited in the number of searches which can be

logged to an external device such as a DM or the Interface Tool. For

instance, in a commercial AXESSTEL phone, link bandwidth

limitations result in roughly a one-tenth undersampling during

search logging. That is, the external device can log only about

one-tenth of the actual number of searches the phone performs. In

Retriever, this effect is even more pronounced since Retriever uses

special hardware and software features to increase several fold its

average search scan rate over a conventional commercial phone.

To log only the most interesting searches Retriever Pilot Scanner

sees, a thresholding feature is provided, applicable only to

Standard-AXESSTEL logging mode. The log_thr parameter

controls what threshold is used. The choices are as follows:

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If log_thr=1, the Over-the-Air T_DROP threshold is used to

weed out searches. Retriever will not log searches whose energy

is below that threshold.

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If log_thr=2, the Over-the-Air T_ADD threshold (generally a

higher threshold than T_DROP) is used. Retriever will not log

searches whose energy is below that threshold.

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If log_thr=0, no thresholding will be performed. Retriever will

attempt to log all searches with the resultant undersampling.

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