System Settings

Purpose:

This settings screen controls the main SDR system functions. To enter this screen, press the F5 key. Menu Items: Additional Information

Menu Items

X-Scale: Sets the display trace speed. A low number displays a fast trace; a large number displays a slower trace.

Enter a number between 1 and 1000. Default: 8
Lines per Channel: Sets the number of lines per channel to display.

Enter a number between 1 and 150. Default: 3
Video Mode: Sets the display resolution.

0 = standard VGA (640 x 480)
1 = SVGA (800 x 600)
2 = SVGA (1024 x 768)
3 = SVGA (1280 x 1024)
Note: You must have a VESA compatible video card for options 1, 2, or 3.

Enter a number between 0 and 3. Default: 0
Display History: Yes = redisplays a portion of the previous display when the screen clears.
No = Starts with a clear screen every time the trace(s) reach the bottom right corner.

Enter a Y for Yes or N for No. Default: Yes
System Number: Sets the SDR system number. Used if more then one SDR system is connected up to a network.

Enter a number between 1 and 100. Default: 1
Number of Channels: Sets the number of channels to record and display. NOTE: You must restart SDR for this setting too take effect.

Enter a number between 1 and 6. Default: 1
Background Color: Sets the background screen color.

Enter color number. Default: 0 (black)
Status Color: Sets the color of the status line information.

Enter color number. Default: 15 (bright white)
Text Color: Sets the text color.

Enter color number. Default: 15 (bright white)
Input Color: Sets the color for user input fields,

Enter color number. Default: 15 (bright white)

Samples per Second:

Used to control the sampling rate of all channels. You can record up to 6 channels at 100, 50, 25, 10 or 5 SPS. You must restart SDR for the new sample rate to take effect. See below for more information on changing the sample rate.

Enter 100, 50, 25, 10, or 5. Default: 50
Display Cursor: This option enables the display cursor to show up when you are entering data in one of the setup screens. Not all video cards handle the cursor correctly so you may have to leave this option off.

Enter a Y for Yes or N for No. Default: No
Debug Log File Path: Sets the directory for the debug log file SDR.LOG.

Enter directory. Default: root SDR directory
Record File(s): Sets the directory for daily record file(s) for each channel.

Enter directory. Default: root SDR directory
Event File Dir: Sets the root directory where event files will be places. The actual event file, either created automatically or with the Replay feature, will be placed in a sub directory based on the year and month (drive:\root_dir\YYMM\).

Enter directory. Default: root SDR directory
Request Control File Dir: This should normally be left blank. See Request Event File documentation for more information on this option.

Enter directory. Default: none

Additional Information

Changing the Samples per Second Rate: If you change the SPS rate you must first replay and extract any event files from the daily record file(s). SDR can not read record file(s) produces using different SPS rates. Note: When you restart SDR with a new SPS rate the current day's record file(s) will be over written.
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