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Grass Valley 7600REF User Manual

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7600 SD/HD/MHD-REF — Instruction Manual

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Operation

GPS Menu Structure

With the 7600 MHD-REF model, the GPS function will appear on the top
level menu. This opens the menu branch shown in

Figure 27 on page 56

.

This menu is detailed below.

Status

– see

Status Menu on page 51

.

PPS Lock

– it the PPS Lock mode is set to On, it only affects the Internal

Free Run mode of genlock. The internal oscillator is then locked to the
GPS reference.

Crash Lock

– if the Crash Lock mode is set to On, the output signal is

subject to a single large disturbance followed by a period of approxi-
mately 10 minutes for settling. If the Crash Lock is Off, convergence
may take many hours.

ATR

Lock

– ATR (Absolute Time Reference) is covered by SMPTE Pro-

posal 404 and is also known as SMPTE epoch. It defines a starting point
of midnight on January 1st, 1958, at which time all generating equip-
ment is deemed to be phase locked By accurate determination of
current GPS time, any ATR equipment may be locked together again.
ATER also provides a time (and date) source for timecode generated by
the 7600 unit.

If ATR Lock mode is On, the unit will also perform a Crash Lock, inde-
pendently of the Crash Lock mode described above.

Site Survey

– a site survey can take up to 2 hours to complete. It may be

initiated at any time, but would normally only be carried out when the
unit is in a fixed installation location with a high quality antenna. Status
of the Site Survey is shown in the Status sub-menu shown in

Figure 28

on page 57

.

Cable Length

– provided compensation for the propagational delay of the

antenna cable.