BLADE AS-SEMI-UNIVERSAL 3222093 - Caterpillar

Configuring the Office for Freewave Radios
Ignore this section if you are not using Freewave radio modems to connect to the on-board computers. The following are the steps necessary to use ComManager with Freewave data radios.Installing the Freewave Driver
Accompanying ComManager should come a custom Aquila modem driver for Freewave data radios. This driver must be installed on the same computer as ComManager, and configured to use the same COM port as the Freewave radio is attached to.Configuring the Freewave Driver
The Freewave driver should then be configured to work at 38400 baud.Creating call book Entries
If ComManager is being installed on a Windows 2000 or XP computer, then a call book entry needs to be created for each drill Freewave that ComManager will be contacting.Under "My Computer ⇒ Dial-up networking", add a new entry for each in-pit Freewave that is attached to an on-board computer. The name of this entry must be the exact same as the Freewave serial (phone) number of the target radio without any hyphens. The speed of this connection should be set to 38400. You should then go into the TCP/IP properties of this connection and ensure it is not configured to be used as the default TCP/IP gateway.Configuring Freewave Radios for ComManager
Ignore this section if you are not using Freewave radio modems to connect to the on-board computers.There are three types of radio configurations that can be used in an in-pit setup. The mine office Freewave radio must be configured as a Point-to-point master/slave switchable, the on-board Freewave must be configured as a point-to-point slave (or master/slave switchable), and the optional repeater radios must be configured as point-to-point repeaters.Note: All the radios should be loaded with the same firmware revision, and should be configured with the same frequency key and hopping pattern.On-board Radio
Using the Freewave manual (available online) configure this radio as follows:Operation Mode - Set the on-board Freewaves as point-to-point slaves (mode 1)Baud Rate - Set the baud rate to be 38400 (choice 5)Transmission Characteristics - Set drill slave security to "0".Repeater Radio
If you are using repeaters to route the radio signal around obstacles, configure the repeaters as follows:Operation Mode - Set the repeater Freewaves as point-to-point repeaters (mode 5)Office Radio
The mine office radio must be configured to connect to the on-board radio, and any routes that involve bouncing the signal through repeaters must be added to the call book.Operation Mode - Set the mine office Freewave as a Point-to-point master/slave switchable (mode 6)Baud Rate - Set the baud rate to be 38400 (choice 5)Call Book - Compile a list of possible routes to the on-board radios through the repeaters. Then for each such route, add a call book entry with a dummy target Freewave serial number. This call book entry will be used for obtaining the 1 or 2 repeaters that will comprise the path to reach the on-board Freewave.