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How It Works
Fastest
real-time location
updates in the
industry.
The M7 GX
Transponder has many
technological
advantages over
conventional
tracking radios.
These include:
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Advanced
modulation: |
Most tracking
radios operate
at 1200 or 2400
baud over the
air. The M7
series operate
at 4-10X that
speed using
CPFSK2/4
modulation for
data rates as
high as 19.2K
over the air.
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TDMA Channel
Access: |
TDMA
(Tim-Division
Multiplexing) is
built in every
M7 GX radio
modem. With TDMA,
100 vehicles may
be tracked with
10-second
updates, and no
RF interference.
Even when using
a repeater!
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Data
Compression: |
All location
transmissions
are compressed,
allowing not
only location to
be sent, but
also voltage,
temperature,
input status,
speed,
direction, and
time-and do this
with less
air-time than
most radios use
to simply
transmit their
location.
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Fast
Switching: |
The M7
transceiver has
a fast-lock PLL
with lock-time
of only 1mS, and
a T-R
turn-around time
of less than
3mS. This
enables the
radio to make
real-time
transmissions in
TDMA or
conventional
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Easy to use,
and the M7 GX does
it all.
The M7 GX
Transponder may be
user-configured for
a variety of
applications. One
simple command is
used to program it
to work in any of
these
configurations:
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Transponder: |
The M7 GX will
periodically
transmit its
location, along
with voltage,
temperature,
input status,
speed,
direction, and
UTC time. It
powers-down the
radio and GPS
when not in use,
reducing its
average current
draw to less
than 30mA.
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GPS Display: |
The M7 GX will
periodically
transmit its
location, along
with voltage,
temperature,
input status,
speed,
direction, and
UTC time. It
will also
receive the
location of
other M7 GX
radios in its
radio range for
display on a GPS
plotter or
hand-held GPS
connected to the
M7 GX's NMEA
RS-232
interface.
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RavTrack PC: |
The RV-M7 will
periodically
transmit its
location. It
will also output
the location of
other RV-M7
radios in its
radio range for
display on the
RavTrack PC
software
program.
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Plotter
Display: |
If you already
have gps
plotter, you may
connect it to
RV-M7 with
the-LX option.
This gives the
unit all the
features of the-GX
version with the
GPS, but uses
your GPS NMEA
data feed as the
source for its
GPS signal. It
will output the
lication of
other M7 GX
radios in it
radio range for
display on a GPS
plotter or
hand-held GPS
connected to the
RV-M7's NMEA
RS-232
interface.
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Repeater: |
Any M7 GX may
also be a
store-and-forward
repeater. With a
3mS attack time,
the repeated
signal has only
milliseconds of
latency, and
coverage can be
10s of miles. |
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