Contemporary Research 232-MCT - Manual (Page 7)

Contemporary Research 7 232-MCT Mono Caption Tuner
Terminal
It’s also easy to use an RS-232 Terminal app for setup. The 232-MCT is shipped set to Standard Cable, and
the internal channel list is set to 2-126. To limit the channels, use the TR command and enter a list of
channels. If your PC is XP and you still have Hyper Terminal, you can enter the setup commands in a
Notepad text file, then select the page from HyperTerminal to clone the tuner. Download the HyperTune
file from Download for a manual and a sample text file. If you have Windows Vista or newer, search for Tera
Term and download the application. It’s a great Terminal application, and it also has a Send File option that
can send the text file.
To quickly "clone" MCT Tuners:
 Create a text file with Notepad as shown below
 Add an Enter at the last line (commands need it to be sent)
 Save by job name
 Open Windows Terminal (or Tera Term for Win 7 users) set up for RS-232 control (COM port, 9600,
8 data bits, 1 stop, no handshake) and connect.
 Select the HyperTerm Transfer menu, select Send Text File, and choose the file you've just saved, or
File/Send File in Tera Term
Sample file:
>S0=0 (Tune Mode Cable)
>TR=2,4,5,7-10,19,32,50 (Tune Ring Channels)
>Q4=3 (Onscreen Channel Display - Channel and Name)
>Q0=0 (Captioning off)
>TN=2,NBC (Channel name - up to 8 characters)
>TN=4,FOX
>TN=7,ABC
>TN=5,PBS
>TN=19,CW
>TN=32,KAZQ
>TN=50,WC
>P1 (Power On)
>TC=19 (Tune to Channel 19)