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This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
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INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................................5
Document Conventions..............................................................................................................................................5
SBS-1: FRONT PANEL LED INDICATORS DESCRIPTION..................................................................................6
SCREEN LAYOUT..........................................................................................................................................................7
RADAR SCREEN.............................................................................................................................................................9
MAIN MENU..................................................................................................................................................................11
File MenU....................................................................................................................................................................11
Start Recording.........................................................................................................................................................11
Play Previous Recording..........................................................................................................................................11
Stop Recording/Playing............................................................................................................................................11
Print..........................................................................................................................................................................11
Exit............................................................................................................................................................................11
Edit Menu ....................................................................................................................................................................11
Copy Radar Screen...................................................................................................................................................11
Copy Aircraft List.....................................................................................................................................................11
Radar MenU................................................................................................................................................................11
Zoom In.....................................................................................................................................................................11
Zoom Out..................................................................................................................................................................11
Pan............................................................................................................................................................................11
Save Radar Screen View...........................................................................................................................................12
Add Radar Screen Tab..............................................................................................................................................12
Remove Radar Screen Tab........................................................................................................................................13
Split Radar Screen....................................................................................................................................................13
Show Elevation.........................................................................................................................................................13
Set View Centre and Bearing....................................................................................................................................13
Centre on Waypoint..................................................................................................................................................13
Set Elevation Upper Limit.........................................................................................................................................13
Display All Trails......................................................................................................................................................13
Display Bearing & Distance.....................................................................................................................................14
Display Waypoints....................................................................................................................................................15
Display Range Rings.................................................................................................................................................15
Display Outlines.......................................................................................................................................................16
Aircraft MenU...........................................................................................................................................................17
Expanded All Aircraft List........................................................................................................................................17
Display Full Info Window.........................................................................................................................................17
Sort By......................................................................................................................................................................18
Columns....................................................................................................................................................................18
Toggle Tracking on Selected Aircraft.......................................................................................................................18
Centre on Selected Aircraft.......................................................................................................................................18
Settings Menu ............................................................................................................................................................18
Display Settings........................................................................................................................................................18
Data Settings .............................................................................................................................................................24
Hardware Settings....................................................................................................................................................24
Toolbars....................................................................................................................................................................25
Status Bar.................................................................................................................................................................25
Sidebar......................................................................................................................................................................25
Help Menu ...................................................................................................................................................................25
Release Notes............................................................................................................................................................25
BaseStation Websites................................................................................................................................................25
User Websites...........................................................................................................................................................25
About BaseStation.....................................................................................................................................................25
AIRCRAFT LIST ...........................................................................................................................................................26
What It Shows...........................................................................................................................................................26
Using It ........................................................................................................................................................................26
customising it............................................................................................................................................................27
TOOLBAR......................................................................................................................................................................28
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Zoom Diameter Selector.........................................................................................................................................28
Zoom Diameter Slider..............................................................................................................................................28
Saved View Selector................................................................................................................................................28
SIDEBAR........................................................................................................................................................................29
USING THE MAPMODES NETWORK.....................................................................................................................30
Enabling.....................................................................................................................................................................30
Switching On And Off..............................................................................................................................................30
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Introduction
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This manual is a reference guide to the BaseStation SBS-1 application. If you have just started using your system then you should first consult the Getting Started manual.
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^ A paragraph with this symbol contains a handy tip that will help you use the BaseStation application more efficiently.
&r A paragraph with this symbol contains an important point that you need to understand.
#' A paragraph with this symbol warns you about possible problems you might encounter.
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Screen Layout
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The main screen of the application looks something like this:
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Figure 1: Application main screen
On the left is the Radar Screen and on the right is the Aircraft List. In between them is a splitter control - which you can drag in and out with the mouse to change the width of the Aircraft List.
At the top is the toolbar, which contains shortcuts to the most used menu items.
Along the right-hand side is the sidebar, which contains additional shortcuts to view commands and is also the only interface element that remains visible when in full screen mode (see Sidebar).
You can also "pop" the Aircraft List "in and out" by clicking on the Aircraft List Expand Button (the button with a green triangle and the caption "Open"). The picture below shows the screen after it has been "popped open":
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Figure 2: Application main screen with aircraft list expanded
To "pop the list closed" simply dick on the Aircraft List Expand button again.
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The radar screen looks something like this:
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Figure 3: Radar Screen
The above example shows the screen centred on the Gatwick waypoint with a diameter of 50 nautical miles. Five aircraft can be seen on the screen, one of which, 4690C1, is shown as a red box to indicate that it is selected. Since the Display Bearing & Distance option has been enabled for this radar screen, a red line displays the bearing (100 °) and range (23.3 nautical miles) of that aircraft from the centre of the view (Gatwick).
The aircraft, and the trails indicating their past positions, are colour coded to indicate whether they are climbing, descending, or flying level. By default, these colours are:
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(The way to remember it is that ascending aircraft are flying towards blue sky, descending aircraft are flying towards brown earth, and aircraft flying straight and level are somewhere in between - hence the bluey-green colour).
In our example, 400C47 (top of the screen) has been steadily climbing, 4CA12A (top middle of the screen) was flying straight and level when it entered the screen but is now descending, and 4CA264 (left middle of the screen) was descending when it entered the screen, but is now flying straight and level.
There are two other colours that aircraft can be shown as:
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Aircraft that are currently on the ground are shown as grey. If we do not receive a signal from an aircraft for a set period of time (by default, this is 30 seconds) we change the colour of the aircraft to yellow. If we do not receive a signal for a further 5 seconds, then we remove it from the screen.
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Main Menu
File Menu
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Start Recording
This menu option brings up a file save dialog box that prompts you for the name of a file to save received data to (the default will be yyyymmdd-hhmmss.bst). Once you dick on Save, all received aircraft transponder messages will be saved to the file.
Play Previous Recording
This menu option brings up a file selection dialog box that allows you to select a .bst file that you previously saved a session to. The application will then "play" the data in that file, displaying it instead of the data being received from the SBS1.
Stop Recording/Playing
This menu option is only enabled if you are either recording or playing a session. It stops the recording or playing.
Print
This menu option has two submenu options.
• Print Radar Screen:- Prints the currently selected radar screen. (If you only have one radar screen currently visible then that is the one that will be printed - but if you have split the screen then the one that is surrounded by a red box is the one that will be printed).
• Print Aircraft List:- Prints the aircraft list (the grid of data on the right-hand side of the screen).
Exit
This menu option shuts down the application.
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Copy Radar Screen
This menu option copies the currently selected radar screen to the Windows clipboard as a bitmap image that can then be pasted into standard Windows graphical applications.
Copy Aircraft List
This menu option copies the data in the aircraft list to the Windows clipboard in a tab delimited text form. It can then be pasted into standard word processors of spreadsheets.
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Zoom In
This menu option increases the "magnification" of the view on the selected radar screen, so that it shows a smaller area but in greater detail.
Zoom Out
This menu option is the opposite of Zoom In. Pan
The four Pan sub-menu options allow you to shift the centre point of the view, up, down, left and right.
Reset
This resets the view (i.e. screen centre, zoom, and view toggles) to the default for that view.
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Save Radar Screen View
This menu option allows you to save the settings of the currently selected radar screen under a name specified by yourself. Clicking on this menu option brings up the following dialogue box with the name of the saved view currently assigned to the radar screen highlighted (every radar screen has a saved view associated with it - if you have not created any saved views then it will be a view called "Default").
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Figure 4: Save View dialog box
To Update the named saved view with the current settings of the radar screen simply dick on OK. To save the current settings to a new saved view - and link the radar screen to that new saved view - simply type in the name of the new view and dick on OK.
The following attributes are recorded in a saved view:
• The view centre.
• The zoom diameter.
• Whether Show All Trails is enabled.
• Whether Show Bearing & Distance is enabled.
• Whether Show Waypoints is enabled.
• Whether Show Range Rings is enabled.
• Whether Show Outlines is enabled.
&r It is important to understand that a view is only updated if you click on Save Radar Screen View. If you select a saved view for a radar screen and then (for example) zoom in, the saved view will still be set to the previous value. If you then shut down the application and rerun it, the application will start up with the radar screen set to that saved view, but with the zoom diameter as saved in the saved view (i.e. as it was before you zoomed in). It is done this way so that you can create a set of standard views for yourself and then quite happily zoom and pan around without fear that you will inadvertently "overwrite" your saved views.
Add Radar Screen Tab
This menu items creates an additional radar screen tab, so that you can have two radar screens active and switch between them simply by clicking on the tabs that appear at the bottom of the screen. Each tab is identified by the name of the saved view that is currently assigned to the radar screen on that tab.
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Figure 5: Radar Screen tabs
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^ You can switch between tabs from the keyboard by pressing Ctrl + Alt + [Tab Number]. In the example shown in the above screenshot, you could switch to the Gatwick tab by selecting Ctrl + Alt + 1.
Remove Radar Screen Tab
This menu option removes the currently selected tab. It is disabled if you only have a single tab currently in existence.
Split Radar Screen
This splits the radar screen on the current tab into two side-by-side screens, each of which can be zoomed and panned independently and can have its own saved view.
When you have two views displayed on one tab, select between them simply by clicking inside them. The selected view will have a red border drawn around it.
If the current screen is already split, then this menu item will be called "Merge Radar Screens" and will causes the second screen to be removed.
Show Elevation
This menu item causes a separate side elevation view to be displayed below the currently selected radar screen.
If the current screen already has the elevation shown, then this menu item will be called "Hide Elevation" and will cause the elevation to be removed.
Set View Centre and Bearing
This menu option brings up a dialog box that allows you to enter in a specific latitude and longitude that you want the currently selected radar screen to be centred on. You can also set the bearing that you wish to be looking along. (By default, this is north, so the scope display has 0s at the top and the elevation runs from west to east). Setting the bearing can be useful when you want to line the elevation up with the glidepath that aircraft are following.
Centre on Waypoint
This menu option brings up a sub menu that lists your home position (the latitude and longitude you entered in as your actual position when the startup configuration wizard was running) followed by all of the waypoints. Selecting any of these will cause the currently selected radar screen to be centred on the location of that point.
Set Elevation Upper Limit
By default, the upper limit of the elevation view is 50,000 feet. This menu option brings up a dialog box that allows you to change it. This is useful if you are zooming right in on an airport, watching aircraft that are just landing or taking off, and are thus very low.
&=r Aircraft whose altitude exceed the elevation upper limit will not be displayed on the elevation view, even if they are visible on the scope.
Display All Trails
Selecting this menu option causes the trail of every aircraft on the selected radar screen to be displayed, regardless of whether or not it has a tick in the "Show Trails" column of the Aircraft List. (If you deselect it then trails will only be shown for those aircraft that do have a tick in the Show Trails column of the Aircraft List).
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Figure 6: Display All Trails menu item/button selected/depressed
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Figure 7: Display All Trails menu item/button not selected/not depressed Display Bearing & Distance
Selecting his menu option will cause a range and bearing line to be drawn on the selected Radar Screen.
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Figure 8: Display Bearing & Distance menu item/button selected/depressed
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Figure 9: Display Bearing & Distance menu item/button not selected/not depressed
Display Waypoints
Selecting this menu option will cause waypoints to be displayed.
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Figure 10: Display Waypoints menu item/button selected/depressed
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Figure 11: Display Waypoints menu item/button not selected/not depressed Display Range Rings
Selecting this option will cause range rings to be displayed.
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Figure 12: Display Range Rings menu item/button selected/depressed
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