Telex TR-800 - Manual

In tro duc tion Gen eral De scrip tion The Telex RadioCom™ BTR-800 UHF Syn the sized Wire lessi n t e r c o m s y s t e m s o f f e r t h e u l t i m a t e i n r e l i a b l e ,high-performance, high-fidelity full-duplex com mu ni ca tions. The BTR-800 sys tem in cludes the BTR-800 fre quency ag ile...

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BTR-800 Base Sta tion Con trols and Con nec tions - Front Panel 1. Power switch . 2. [Menu] and [Set] but tons – Used to se lect menus and set op tions on the LCD. 3. Backlit Graph ics LCD (Liq uid Crys tal Dis play). 4. [Up] and [Down] but tons – Used to se lect base sta tion op tions on the LCD. 5...

Con trols and Con nec tions - Rear Panel 1. Re ceive An tenna - Fe male “TNC” Con nec tor. Color band on an tenna must match color dot on base sta tion. 2. Trans mit Power Switch – HIGH = Trans mit ters at full power. NOR MAL = Trans mit ters 10dB be low full power. 3. Trans mit ON/OFF Switch – Turn...

2-3 BTR-800 Spec i fi ca tions Over all RF Fre quency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 - 608 MHz, 614 - 740 MHz in 18 MHz TX and RX bands Power Re quire ments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz, IEC re cep ta cle T...

TR-800 Beltpack Con trols and Con nec tions - Top Panel Fig ure 4 TR-800 Top Panel 1. On/Off & Vol ume Con trol – Turns the beltpack power on and con trols head set vol ume. 2. Wire less Talk Around (WTA) – When pressed, the user’s au dio is dis con nected from the wired in ter com, aux il iaryi...

Con trols and Con nec tions - Rear Panel Fig ure 5 TR-800 Rear Panel/Con nec tor/An tennas 1. [MENU] and [SET] but tons – Used to se lect menus and set op tions on the LCD. 2. LCD (Liq uid Crys tal Dis play) 3. [UP] and [DOWN] but tons – Used to se lect beltpack op - tions on the LCD. 4. Mi cro phon...

3-3 TR-800 Spec i fi ca tions RF Fre quency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 - 608 MHz, 614 - 740 MHz in 18 MHz TX and RX bands Power Re quire ments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 “AA” Cells Al ka line (NiMH op tional) Cur rent ...

TR-825 Beltpack Con trols and Con nec tions - Top Panel Fig ure 7 TR-825 Top Panel 1. On/Off and Vol ume Con trol - Turns beltpack power on and con trols head set vol ume for In ter com Chan nels “A”and “B”. Ei ther knob, “A” or “B”, turns the beltpack on.Both knobs must be off to turn the beltpack ...

Con trols and Con nec tions - Rear Panel Fig ure 8 TR-825 Rear Panel/Con nec tor/An tennas 1. [MENU] and [SET] but tons – Used to se lect menus and set op tions on the LCD. 2. LCD (Liq uid Crys tal Dis play) 3. [UP] and [DOWN] but tons – Used to se lect beltpack op - tions on the LCD. 4. Mi cro phon...

Ini tial Equip ment Set-Up Un packing Un pack your RadioCom™ Sys tem. Be low are the items thatshould come with your base sta tion and each belt pack. BTR-800 TR-800, TR-825 Con tact the ship per or your dealer im me di ately if any thing isdam aged or miss ing. Fill out the reg is tra tion card and...

An tenna Con nec tion The base sta tion is sup plied with two (2) an ten nas. One 1/2-wave an tenna for Trans mit and one 1/2-wave for Re ceive.The an ten nas have TNC male con nec tors. The fre quency range of the an ten nas should match the re ceiver and trans mit ter of the base sta tion. Match t...

Fig ure 17 An tenna Place ment Im proving Re cep tion and In creasingRange Keeping the dis tance from the base sta tion and beltpack asshort, and un ob structed as pos si ble will pro duce the most re li -able per for mance. The base sta tion is sup plied with two an ten nas. This shouldpro vide sat...

Base Sta tion Set-up Lo ca tion Lo cate the base sta tion with the front and rear of the unit ac -ces si ble so that switches may be set and con nec tions made.Place the trans mit and re ceive an ten nas on the base sta tion.Make sure the an tenna’s color band match the color dot neareach an tenna. ...

In ter nal Trans mit Switches In ter nal to the BTR-800 are two trans mit switches which en -able a user to turn on or off the two trans mit ters in di vid u ally.See Fig ure 19 for the lo ca tion. The top cover of the base sta -tion must be re moved for ac cess. The switch clos est to thefront pane...

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Dual Lis ten Func tion al ity The base sta tions's main au dio board has the op tion of plac ingad di tional parts to en able dual lis ten. Dual lis ten al lows themix ing of the in ter com chan nels. The mix ing will oc cur lo -cally, within the base sta tion, and is only heard on that basesta tion...

Aux il iary In put/Out put The in put and out put 3-pin XLR aux il iary con nec tions are forsup ply ing ad di tional bal anced au dio into and re ceiv ing bal -anced au dio from the base sta tion. The out put aux il iary con - nec tion only in ter faces to in ter com B. How ever, there is an in ter...

Stage An nounce / Re lay Con tacts The stage an nounce out put con nec tor is where au dio ex its thebase when any of the beltpacks press the [SA] but ton. Theout put is bal anced au dio though a male 3-pin XLR. The stagean nounce out put level is set at the fac tory for 2 Vrms typ i calout put at r...

Base Sta tion Link This RJ-45 type jack al lows the con nec tion of wire less talkaround (WTA) to two base sta tions of the same fre quency bands. This al lows WTA on I/C chan nel A and WTA on I/Cchan nel B to be the car ried through to the other base sta tionat tached to gether via this jack. WTA c...

Beltpack Set-up Bat tery In stal la tion En sure that the On/Off vol ume con trol knob is turned off. Press down and hold down the bat tery re lease latch, slide thebat tery pack about 1/8 inch back, to ward the latch, un til it stops. Then lift bat tery pack out. Re place bat ter ies as fol lows: F...

An tenna Con nec tion T h e b e l t p a c k c o me s w i t h t w o d e ta c h ab l e , s c r e w - t y p e ,1/4-wave an ten nas. To at tach the two an ten nas, screw into there cep ta cles at the bot tom of the beltpack. The color dot on thescrew end of the an tenna must match the color dot on an te...

System Op er a tion Fre quency Plan Over view The BTR/TR-8XX has 36 fac tory de fined fre quency groupsand 12 user-programmable fre quency groups. A Group de - fines the two base sta tion trans mit fre quen cies and thus thetwo re ceive fre quen cies on all the beltpacks. A Chan nel de - fines a bas...

Dis play Con trast The LCD’s (Liq uid Crys tal Dis play) con trast is set from thefac tory to a stan dard level. How ever it is pos si ble for the userto ad just the con trast if de sired. The con trast con trol is in ter -nal to the BTR-800 unit near the front panel. The cover mustbe re moved for a...

BTR-800 Menu Structure Main Screen Flowchart The fol low ing con tains the base station menu struc ture andref er ences the pages in which fur ther de tail of that menu maybe found. 7-4 TelexRadioCom Operating Screen - Pg. 7-5 Power-Up Screen - Pg. 7-5 Group/Channel Select Screen - Pg. 7-6 [MENU] Gr...

Power-Up Screen • This screen is dis played only on power up, first use de -fault and fac tory de fault. • The 1 st up per right cor ner num ber dis plays the base’s soft - ware re vi sion. The sin gle ver sion num ber in cre ments forchanges in op er a tional soft ware. • The 2 nd up per right cor ...

Group / Chan nel Se lect The Group/Chan nel se lect screen al lows the user to change the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of chan nelson each re ceiver. • Hit [MENU] once to en ter the Group / Chan nel Se lectScreen from the op er at ing screen. • Hit [SET] to en ter group edit. The ...

Group / Fre quency Se lect The Group/Fre quency se lect screen al lows a user to set thegroup and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of fre quen cies on each re ceiver. Each fre quency dis played on the right half of t h e s c r e e n c o r r e s p o n d s t o a c h a n n e l n u m b e r i n t h ...

Fre quency Edit (User-Programmed Groups Only) This menu only oc curs for user-programmable groups or when copy ing to a user-programable group. The Fre quency Edit screen al lows the user to set the group trans mit fre quen ciesand re ceive chan nel fre quen cies of a user-programmable group. • Pres...

ClearScan™ ClearScan™ per forms a fre quency scan of the fac tory-defined and any set-up user-programmable groups in or der to find thegroup with the high est num ber of clear re ceive chan nels. Af ter about 20-30 sec onds, the group with the high est num ber ofclear re ceive chan nels will be dis ...

Spe cial Key Se quences Lock out • Press [UP]+[DOWN] for 3 sec onds to lock or un lock thebase sta tion. Pressing [MENU] will still func tion to viewscreens, but [SET] will no lon ger start any ed it ing. ClearScan™ , First use, Fac tory de fault are no lon ger ac -ces si ble. The in ter com chan ne...

Beltpack Op er a tion On/Off and Vol ume Con trol Turn the beltpack power on by ro tat ing the knob CW. Ad justthe vol ume to the head set by ro tat ing the vol ume con trol as re -quired for a com fort able lis ten ing vol ume. Bat tery Check When the beltpack power is turned on by ro tat ing the k...

TR-800 Menu Struc ture Beltpack Menu Struc ture 7-12 [MENU] S10001 c60001 03A 01 Power-Up Screen - Pg. 7-13 Group/Channel Screen - Pg. 7-14 GP CH [MENU] 704.200 Transmit Screen - Pg. 7-15 TX [MENU] 566.200 R1 [MENU] 570.300 R2 Receive 1 Screen - Pg. 7-16 Receive 2 Screen - Pg. 7-17 Clr Scn GP 04A Sc...

TR-800 Menu Struc ture Power-Up Screens • The first screens dis played when the beltpack is pow eredup are the soft ware and chan nel map ver sion screens. • The 1 st screen dis played in di cates the beltpack’s soft ware ver sion num ber. It is dis played for about one sec ond. • The 2nd screen dis...

TR-800 Menu Struc ture Group / Chan nel Screen The Group/Chan nel screen al lows the user to change the group and se lect from a pre-determined num ber of trans mitchan nels. • The screen dis played af ter the beltpack pow er-up screens. • Press [SET] to edit the chan nel num ber. The chan nel num b...

TR-800 Menu Struc ture Trans mit Screen The Transmit screen al lows the user to set the beltpack trans -mit fre quency. Fac tory-defined groups will al low only a setn u m b e r o f p r e - d e f i n e d f r e q u e n c i e s t o b e s e le c t e d . User-programmable groups will al low the user to ...

TR-800 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 1 Screen The Receive 1 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re -ceive 1 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans -mit 1 fre quency. In fac tory-defined groups re ceive 1 is not change able. User-programable groups will al low the user tochang...

TR-800 Menu Struc ture Re ceive 2 Screen The Re ceive 2 screen al lows the user to set the beltpack re -ceive 2 fre quency. This cor re sponds to the base sta tion’s trans -mit 2 fre quency. In fac tory-defined groups re ceive 1 is not change able. User-programable groups will al low the user tochan...

TR-800 Menu Struc ture Stage An nounce En able/Dis able • Press and hold [SET] then press the [SA] but ton to show the SA en able/dis able screen. The cur rent set ting of thefea ture is dis played on the LCD. • While con tin u ing to hold [SET] press [SA] again to tog -gle the dis play from ON to O...

TR-800 Menu Struc ture Au dio Chan nel A or B Dis able/En able • Press and hold [SET] then press the [CHAN] but ton to show the chan nel en able/dis able screen. The cur rent set -ting of the fea ture is dis played on the LCD. • While con tin u ing to hold [SET], press the [CHAN] but ton again to mo...

TR-800 Menu Struc ture Spe cial Key Se quences Lock out • Press [UP]+[DOWN] for 3 sec onds to lock or un lock thebeltpack. The words “Loc on” will be dis played when thefea ture is ac ti vated, “Loc oFF” will be dis played when the beltpack is un locked. Pressing [MENU] will still func tionto view s...

TR-825 Menu Struc ture Beltpack Menu Struc ture 7-22 The fol low ing con tains the main beltpack menu struc ture and ref er -ences the pages in which fur ther de tail of that menu may be found. All beltpack fea tures and spe cial key se quences can only be donefrom the group/channel screen. Beltpack...

TR-825 Menu Struc ture Power-Up Screens • The first screens dis played when the beltpack is pow eredup are the soft ware and chan nel map ver sion screens. • The 1 st screen dis played in di cates the beltpack’s soft ware ver sion num ber. It is dis played for about one sec ond. • The 2nd screen dis...

TR-825 Menu Struc ture Au dio Out put The Au dio Out put screen al lows the user to set the au dio out -put to Mono (Add) or Ste reo (SEP). This op tion only ap pliesto beltpacks with 5 pin head set con nec tors. Sin gle sided 5-pinhead sets will only re ceive A or B Au dio de pend ing on how the he...

TR-825 Menu Struc ture Au dio Chan nel A Options • Press and hold [SET] then hit the [A] but ton to show thechan nel “A” menu screen. The cur rent set ting of the but -ton is dis played on the LCD dis play; Chan nel “A” “Talk-Latching Off”. • While con tin u ing to hold [SET], press the [A] but ton ...

TR-825 Menu Struc ture Au dio Chan nel B Op tions • Press and hold [SET] then hit the [B] but ton to show thechan nel “B” menu screen. The cur rent set ting of the but -ton is dis played on the LCD dis play; Chan nel “B” Talk-Latching Off. • While con tin u ing to hold [SET], press the [B] but ton a...

Trou ble shooting Re read the sec tions of this manual to make sure you have com pleted sys tem set-up prop erly. If you are un able to solve the prob lem, con tact the dealer from whom you purchased the sys tem for as sis tance. 9-1 S ection 9 PROBLEM SOLUTION DISTORTION - System’s audio quality se...

Tech Tips Fre quency In ter ac tion Un for tu nately, ra dio fre quency (RF) chan nels can not be ran -domly se lected for use in ra dio de vices. They must be se lected to avoid known fre quen cies in use, FCC re stric tions on the lo -ca tion of de vices, and even in ter fer ence be tween your own...

Bat tery Information Im proper bat tery se lec tion, use, in stal la tion and care are thecause of nu mer ous wire less sys tem fail ures. Al ka line Bat teries: Al ka line bat ter ies such as Mallory’s DURACELL ® or Eveready’s EN ER GIZER ® pro vide the most re li able op er a tion in wire less tra...

In ter com Sys tems Spec i fi ca tions 12-1 S ection 12 RTS In put Im ped ance:...............................................................200 W Out put Level: .............................................0.775 Vrms nom i nal Bridg ing Im ped ance:....................................................

Ac ces sories and Re place ment Parts AB-2 Bracket for 1/2 wave An tenna with 10 ft. of coax- PN 71138000 BTR Power Cords North Amer ica ................................................. 550024013 U.K . .................................................................... 550024002 Eu ro pean ..........

Soft ware Li cense 14-1 End-User Li cense Agree ment for Telex ® Soft ware IM POR TANT - Please red this doc u ment care fully be fore us ing this prod uct. THIS DOC U MENT STATES THE TERMS AND CON DI TIONS UPON WHICH TELEX COM MU NI CA TIONS,INC. (the “COM PANY”) OF FERS TO LI CENSE THE IN STALLED ...

Certification In for ma tion 15-1 FCC LI CENSING The Telex BTR-800, TR-800, and the TR-825 Trans mit ter/Re ceiver are Type Ac cepted un der United StatesFed eral Com mu ni ca tions Com mis sion Part 74. Li cens ing of Telex equip ment is the User’s re spon si bil ityand licensibility de pends on th...

EU DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY We of : Telex Communications, Inc. 8601 East Cornhusker Highway Lincoln, NE 68507-9702, USA Declare under our sole responsibility that all essential radio test suites have been carried out and that the: Model: BTR-800 Description: Wireless Intercom Base Station Model: TR...