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   - SYNTOR X 9000 BOARDS
     - Personality Boards
       - Cable Connector Pin Locator
       - Bottom Side Locater
       - Receive and Transmit Audio Routing
     - Personality Board Jumpers
       - Jumper Locator for the HLN4925A
       - Jumper Locator for the Top of the HLN5299A
       - Jumper Locator for the Bottom of the HLN5299A
       - Jumper Locator for the Top of the HLN5299B
       - Jumper Locator for the Bottom of the HLN5299B
     - Personality Board J301 Internal Option Board(s) Socket
     - Common Circuits Boards
     - Control Head Circuit Board Pin Out
 
 - Control Heads (early version)
       - Jumper Locator for the Bottom of the Control Boards
       - Parts Locator for the Top of the Control Boards
     - Control Heads (later and latest version)
       - Jumper Locator for the Bottom of the Control Boards
         - Jumper Locator for the Bottom of the New HLN6284C Control Board
       - Jumper Locator for the Bottom of the Display Boards
       - Parts Locator for the Top of the Control Boards
     - DEK Circuit Board Pin Out
         
   - Syntor X 9000 Home
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[INTRODUCTION] [NEW RADIO INSPECTION] [NEW RADIO MODIFICATIONS] [FAIL AND ERROR CODE PREFIXES] [SYSTEMS 9000] [PROGRAMMING] [SYNTOR X 9000 CONVERSIONS] [MODELS] [MANUALS] [CONTROL HEADS] [DEKS] [CABLES] [BOARDS] [PARTS] [OPTIONS and ACCESSORIES] [SYNTOR X 9000 VISUAL TOUR]

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Personality Boards:

The conventional Syntor X 9000 and trunking Syntor X 9000E use the same Personality Boards. The board part numbers are HLN4925 (earlier boards) and HLN5299 (later boards). For "normal" use these boards only have slight differences depending on the board part number and its revision letter. For special options that go beyond "normal" use, the HLN5299 has lots more optional capabilities built in (just compare the boards in the jumper table below). The Personality Board has the radio connector on it and is the external interface for the radio.

The Syntor X 9000 was a significant departure from previous radio models. For one thing, the Systems 9000 bus allowed the Rx volume control to be moved inside the radio drawer and remotely controlled from the control head. Older radio models placed the volume control inside the control head and routed the actual Rx audio signal from the radio drawer, through the control head and back into the radio drawer. This basic change is why the Personality Board J1 pin 33 Option Rx Audio connection was added to the Syntor X 9000. Older Systems 90 and Systems 90*s radio models would rewire the control head audio signal path routing for options like Securenet. If you look at the Securenet example, when clear audio is being received J1 pin 2 audio is sent to the speaker, but when encrypted audio is being received J1 pin 2 audio has encrypted audio and only the Securenet hardware has decrypted audio. The old way was to rewire the control head so all J1 pin 2 audio is processed by the Securenet option, sent to the control head volume control and then back to the radio drawer. Since the audio volume control connection was now buried inside the Syntor X 9000 radio drawer and not run through the control head, the old method of rewiring the control head audio connections no longer worked. So, the Option Rx Audio connection was added and its Rx audio path is remotely configured/selected via the Systems 9000 bus. Now any optional accessory that has to process the receive audio or inject its own audio signal (this used to be called Sidetone on older radio models) into the radio speaker, has a way to do it, without having to rewire the control head. Other than the microphone Tx audio input, older radio models used to have dedicated input lines for specialized types of Tx modulation (i.e. external Tx PL/DPL, Securenet Tx, etc.). These additional dedicated old style connections have been combined into the Syntor X 9000 J1 pin 3 Option Tx Audio line, with the Systems 9000 bus configuring/selecting the actual Tx modulation audio path. Another Systems 9000 change is J1 pin 1 PTT is not connected to the control head any longer. Now the control head sends serial data over the Systems 9000 bus to tell the radio drawer and any Systems 9000 options when the microphone PTT has been pressed or released.

As a result of this significant design departure, almost all the Syntor X 9000 options have their own internal microprocessor built into them to communicate with the Systems 9000 bus. The exception is the old PAC vehicle repeater, which uses the Personality Board J1 pin 1 PTT line to transmit through the radio drawer because it does not have a Systems 9000 microprocessor.

The low band seems to be picky about the compensation adjustment, much more than the VHF, UHF or 800 MHz radios. The low band does use a unique reference modulation circuit not found in the other radios. The compensation adjustment instructions are in the front part of the low band manual under the "Maintenance and Troubleshooting" section and is really easy to do after you find R628 hiding near a corner of the RF board. The problem I ran into was I could not adjust the deviation on one radio above 4.6 KHz until after I did the Compensation adjustment (the deviation pot was at maximum). After the compensation adjustment I had to turn the deviation adjustment down to get it below 5 KHz deviation.

Syntor X 9000 Radio Connector
Radio
J1 Pin #
 Radio Pin Description
A  A+
B  A-
1  PTT (Input)
2  Detected Audio (Output)
3  Option Tx Audio (Input)
4  Reset (Input/Output)
5  Busy (Input/Output)
6  Switched B+ (Input)
7  Switched B+ (Output)
8  B- (ground)
9  Filtered Audio (Output)
10  Chassis (ground)
11  Detected Audio Shield
12  A+ (later versions only - see below)
13  Spare 2
14  Mic. Low (shield ground)
15  Filtered Audio Shield
16  Write Enable (Input)
17  Bus + (RS-422 Input/Output)
18  Option Tx Audio Shield
19  Bus - Shield
20  B- (ground)
21  Channel Activity (Output)
22  Speaker Audio Low (Output)
23  KEY (Input)
24  Spare 1
25  Bus - (RS-422 Input/Output)
26  Analog Ground
27  Mic. Hi (Input)
28  
29  KID (Input)
30  
31  B- (ground)
32  B- (ground)
33  Option Rx Audio (Input)
34  Option Rx Shield
35  
36  
37  Speaker Audio Hi (Output)

SYNTOR X 9000 Personality Board Jumpers
Jumper HLN4925A HLN5299A HLN5299B Description
JU100 x

 Non-Securenet (* out for low band)
 JU100-JU105  

 x

 x
 Non-Securenet / Low Band
JU101-JU104 x x x  Low Band / 800 MHz
JU102-JU103 x x x  VHF / UHF

JU200-JU201

x

x

x
 Non-Securenet / Securenet (squelch)
JU500 x x x  Test Mode
JU501-JU502 x x x  2k / 8k EEPROM (32 / 64+ modes max)
JU503  

 Low Band Tx Buffer (see the notes below)
JU504-JU505 x x x  Conventional / Trunking
JU506-JU507   x x  U501 addressing
JU508-JU509   x x  + 5 V. / Gnd. U500 "MP0" pin
JU510-JU511   x x  + 5 V. / Gnd. U500 "MP1" pin
JU512-JU513   x x  U502 addressing
JU514-JU515   x x  2k or 8k / 16k U502 EEPROM
JU516     x  UHF Trunking

Personality Board J301 Internal Option Board(s) Socket:

1   20
2   19
3   18
4   17
5   16
6   15
7   14
8   13
9   12
10   11

The J301 Socket pin out is shown above as seen from the top of the Personality Board (there is a notch between pin 1 and pin 20 on the socket).

20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2
19 17 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1

P301 Ribbon Cable connector as seen from the side of an Internal Option Board.

J301 Internal Option Board Connector
Socket
Pin #
Cable
Pin #
 Description
1 20  Busy (Input/Output)
2 18  Tx Data (Output)
3 16  Switched + 5 Volts (Input)
4 14  Unswitched + 5 Volts (Input)
5 12  Digital Ground
6 10  Analog Ground
7 8  Switched + 9.6 Volts (Input)
8 6  VAG
9 4  Detected Audio (Input)
10 2  Option Rx Audio (Output)
11 1  Mic. Hi (Input/Output)
12 3  Option Tx Audio (Output)
13 5  Internal Securenet Code Storage Battery (Input) / Spare
14 7  Filtered Audio (Input)
15 9  JU504 - Xtal Shift / JU505 - Trunking / Spare
16 11  Internal Securenet Write Enable (Input)
17 13  Internal Securenet KID (Input)
18 15  Internal Securenet KEY (Input)
19 17  Reset (Input/Output)
20 19  Rx Data (Input)

 

Common Circuits Boards:

Here is a part number list of the Syntor X 9000 Common Circuits Boards.

The common circuits board has the Tx power and Tx current limit adjustment controls on it.

The Low Band and VHF Common Circuits Boards have no jumpers. The UHF boards have jumpers JU900 and JU901 and the 800 MHz boards have jumpers JU950 and JU951. No information is provided on any optional settings or configurations for these jumpers so they do not appear to be meant to be changed.

Some Syntor X 9000 radios have a ground jumper wire attached to the common circuits board and the chassis. Radios with this jumper wire cannot be used in a positive ground installation. These radios are supposed to have a sticker inside on the chassis near the common circuits board that has a negative ground installation only warning. If one of these radios is installed in a positive ground vehicle, exepct the radio to be heavily damaged (PC board copper traces on the common circuits board will probably be vaporized as the main 40 amp power fuse blows).

 

Control Head Circuit Board Pin Out:

J1 DB-50 connector Systems 9000 connector viewed from back of the control head.

Spectra Systems 9000 Control Head Connector
Control Head
DB-50
J1
Pin #
VIP /
DEK
Mic. Radio  Radio Pin Description
1 x      VIP Out 2 (Output)
2 x      VIP Out 1 (Output)
3 x      VIP In 2 (Input)
4 x      VIP In 1 (Input)
5 x/x      DEK Data Out (Output)
6        Pin Removed
7   x    Mic. Low (Input)
8   x    Mic. Hi (Input)
9        Pin Removed
10     x  Speaker Audio Low (Output) (BLK/GRN Wire)
11     x  Speaker Audio Low (Input)
12     x  Mic. Hi (Output)
13     x  Mic. Low (Output)
14     x  BATT- (shorted to Pin 31)
15     x  Ignition + (Input) (Orange wire)
16     x  Analog Ground
17     x  Bus + (Input/Output)
18 x      Switched B+ (Output)
19 x      Switched B+ (Output)
20 x      Digital Ground
21 x      Digital Ground
22        Pin Removed
23   x    PTT/HUB Reference (Input)
24   x    PTT (Input)
25        Pin Removed
26     x  Reset (Input/Output)
27     x  Emergency (Output) (see notes below)
28     x  Spare 1
29     x  Spare 2
30     x  BATT+ (shorted to Pin 47)
31     x  BATT- (shorted to Pin 14)
32     x  Ignition - (Input)
33     x  Busy (Input/Output)
34 x/x      VIP Out 3 (Output) / DEK Strobe (Output)
35 x/x      Switched B+ (Output)
36 x/x      Digital Ground
37 x/x      VIP In 3 (Input) / DEK Data In (Input)
38 x/x      DEK Clock (Output)
39        Pin Removed
40   x    Hang Up Box (HUB) (Input)
41   x    Switched B+ (Output)
42        Pin Removed
43     x  Speaker Audio Hi (Output) (BLK/ORG Wire)
44     x  Speaker Audio Hi (Input)
45     x  Detected Audio (Input) (N.C.)
46     x  Option Tx Audio (Output) (N.C.)
47     x  BATT+ (Input) (Green Wire) (shorted to Pin 30)
48     x  Switched B+ (Output)
49     x  Digital Ground
50     x  Bus - (RS-422 Input/Output)

 

SYSTEMS 9000
HCN1033, HCN1041, HCN1045 and HCN1047 Control Head Board Jumpers
Jumper HLN4709A
display
HLN4709A
control
HLN4709D
HLN4896C
display
HLN4709D
control
HLN5104D
display
HLN5014D
HLN5014E
control
Description
JU1 x x x  out (for future expansion)
JU2 x x x  in (for 6301X Micro)
JU3 x      out (selects internal mP ROM)
JU4 x x x  in for 32 Modes  out for 64+ Modes
JU5 x x x  out for 32 Modes  in for 64+ Modes
JU6 x x x  in (selects internal mP ROM)
JU20   x x  in (switched +12 to mic pin 41)
JU22   x x  in (PTT/HUB Ref)

SYSTEMS 9000
HCN1063A and HCN1073A Control Head Board Jumpers
Jumper HLN5464A
display
HLN5464A
control
HLN6284A
display
HLN6284A
control
 HLN6284C
display
HLN6284C
control
Description
JU001 x x x  in (A+ J103-47 to Power Switch)
JU002 x x x  out (special applications)
JU003 x x x  in (Sw B+ to J103-41)
JU004 x x x  out (special applications)
JU005 x x x  in (A+ J103-47 to Power Switch)

JU007

x

x
x  in (enable OPT 4 LED - over display)
JU008 x x x  out (special applications)
JU009 x x x  out (special applications)
JU010 x x x  out (special applications)
JU011 x x x  out (special applications)
JU012 x x x  out (special applications)
JU013 x x x  out (special applications)
JU014         
JU015         
JU016 x x x  out (special applications)
JU017 x x x  out (special applications)
JU018 x x x  in (Speaker Hi J103-43 to J103-44)
JU019 x x x  in (Speaker Hi J103-43 to J103-44)
JU020 x x x  in (Mic. HUB enable J103-40)
JU021 x x x  out (special applications)
JU022 x x x  out (special applications)
Unknown     x  ?? undocumented jumper

 

DEK Circuit Board Pin Out:

J1 connector viewed from back of the DEK.

Direct Entry Keyboard Connector
DEK
DB-50
J1
Pin #
EXP
Out
EXP
In
VIP II
In/Out
 Radio Pin Description
1 x      N.C.
2 x      N.C.
3 x      N.C.
4 x      N.C.
5 x      Data Out (Output)
6        Pin Removed
7   x    Ground - VIP Digital Ground
8   x    Data In (Output)
9        Pin Removed
10     x  Ground
11     x  Ground
12     x  Ground
13     x  N.C.
14     x  N.C.
15     x  VIP In 1 (Input)
16     x  VIP In 2 (Input)
17     x  VIP In 3 (Input)
18 x      N.C.
19 x      N.C.
20 x      N.C.
21 x      N.C.
22        Pin Removed
23   x    Clock (Input)
24   x    Strobe (Input)
25        Pin Removed
26     x  N.C.
27     x  N.C.
28     x  N.C.
29     x  N.C.
30     x  N.C.
31     x  N.C.
32     x  N.C.
33     x  N.C.
34 x      Strobe (Output)
35 x      Switched B+ (Input)
36 x      Digital Ground
37 x      Data In (Input)
38 x      Clock (Output)
39        Pin Removed
40   x    Data Out (Input)
41   x    Switched B+ (Input)
42        Pin Removed
43     x  VIP Out 1 (Output)
44     x  VIP Out 2 (Output)
45     x  VIP Out 3 (Output)
46     x  N.C.
47     x  N.C.
48     x  Switched B+ (Output)
49     x  Switched B+ (Output)
50     x  Switched B+ (Output)

 

 

[SYNTOR] [SYNTOR X] [SYNTOR X 9000 and X 9000E] [TRUNKING SYNTOR X and SYNTOR X 9000] [SPECTRA]

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