[Tornado] Transmitter Enable Options During Tests

[Tornado] Transmitter Enable Options During Tests

Introduction

During commissioning or fault finding, engineers and technicians may need to turn on the transmitters individually, there are three options available for Tornado which may be similar on Pyxis

Tech level using CCMS

The RF Tx and Rx calibration mode allows us to turn one transmitter on at a time. The CCMS allows a user to start calibration both transmitters are off.












Select one or the other to turn them on, but abort the process before completed.


Tech level CLI Options

As part of site testing, it may be necessary to turn the BRUT’s or RRUT's Tx1 On with Tx2 Off and vice-versa.

Looking through CLI manual, section 12.13 TXPOWER we can use the following steps to do this;

calibrate sys radio txpower start tx1   (for tx1 on and tx2 off)

calibrate sys radio txpower abort     (to abort the calibration of tx1)

 

calibrate sys radio txpower start tx2   (for tx2 on and tx1 off)

calibrate sys radio txpower abort     (to abort the calibration of tx2)

As Root user

From a root login, the hardware manager has a direct enable/disable of each transmitter independently. Using the tm menu in hardware manager and there is an enable and disable for each transmitter, this would have been what development used would have used but the tx power calibration method doesn’t require the root login.

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