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CTA Communications <br />Orange RaCE Test Report <br />6.0 Equipment And Test Setup <br />6.1 The RaCE Test Set <br />FIGURE 6 -1 on the following page shows the RaCE test set block diagram. The RaCE <br />test set consists of two test units: a stationary test unit and a mobile test unit. The mobile <br />and stationary test units consists of a mobile radio (Motorola XTL -5000) supplied by <br />Orange County Emergency Management, a mobile antenna, a GIPS receiver and <br />antenna for establishing the test vehicle location and test sequence timing, a laptop <br />computer running CTA's RaCE software and the equipment to connect these items <br />together. The mobile test unit has an additional auxiliary receiver and antenna to <br />measure RSSI from the designated repeater. <br />The Orange County mobile radios were preprogrammed with a wide -area talk group <br />labeled "OCMAID" for this test and provided to CTA prior to the actual testing, so that we <br />could physically interface the radios with the RaCE mobile and stationary units. <br />Equipment lists for the RaCE test set stationary and mobile units are provided in TABLES <br />6 -1 and 6 -2. <br />The RaCE test unit was setup for the Continuous By Time test mode. <br />The test setup required additional attenuation as described in SECTION 6.4, to match the <br />Orange County portable on- the - street coverage at the hip design configuration with that <br />of the mobile radio with a vehicle antenna test configuration of the RaCE test set. <br />-13- H MM <br />