Transmitter Control

Idle time to shut off transmitter

If no task is scheduled to run for this number of seconds, then the transmitter is switched to standby to extend its lifetime (only in radiate automatic mode).

Warm-up time for transmitter

Each time an IRIS task starts, we wait this long since the radiate was turned on. This allows time for a slow on circuit, and also time for the RVP to detect the burst pulse power.

Many systems pulse with and polarization changes require radiate to be turned off. In such cases this warmup time is triggered. If radiate is set to automatic and the transmitter is off, it is turned on this many seconds before the task starts. Be sure to set this less than the idle time above.

Pulsewidth and PRF are set

Ingest can set the pulsewidth and PRF. This allows the transients to settle if there is time between scans.