Simple simulation training system for short-

wave radio station

Cite as: AIP Conference Proceedings 1955, 040120 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5033784
Published Online: 18 April 2018

Xianglin Tan, Zhichao Shao, Jianhua Tu, and Fuqi Qu

AIP Conference Proceedings 1955, 040120 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5033784 1955, 040120

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 Simple Simulation Training System for Short-Wave Radio
Station
Xianglin Tan a), Zhichao Shao, Jianhua Tu, Fuqi Qu

Wuhan Mechanical College, Wuhan, Hubei, 430075, China

a)
txl19861017@163.com

Abstract. The short-wave radio station is a most important transmission equipment of our signal corps, but in the actual
teaching process, which exist the phenomenon of fewer equipment and more students, making the students’ short-wave
radio operation and practice time is very limited. In order to solve the above problems, to carry out shortwave radio simple
simulation training system development is very necessary. This project is developed by combining hardware and software
to simulate the voice communication operation and signal principle of shortwave radio station, and can test the signal flow
of shortwave radio station. The test results indicate that this system is simple operation, human-machine interface friendly
and can improve teaching more efficiency.

Key words: Short-wave radio station; Simulation; Software; Hardware; Interface

INTRODUCTION
Shortwave radio adopts modular design, integrated microelectronics technology, information processing
technology, wireless communication and automatic control and other advancing-edge technology, which are high-
tech-intensive equipment with high degree of information and high requirements for maintenance personnel. At the
same time, in the actual teaching process, which exists the phenomenon of fewer equipment and more students, making
the students’ short-wave radio operation and practice time is very limited, while the study of the radio principle and
the elimination of radio typical fault there are also great difficulties, in order to solve the above problems, to carry out
shortwave radio simple simulation training system development is very necessary.
This project is developed by combining hardware and software to simulate the voice communication operation and
signal principle of shortwave radio station, and can test the signal flow of shortwave radio station. The project is
extensible, high degree of automation, simple operation, which can achieve the teaching function of short-wave radio
internal circuit board work process.

RESEARCH CONTENT AND EXPECTED OBJECTIVES

The main development content is a set of simple simulation training system for short wave radio station, the main
function of the system:
1) Can simulate the operation of shortwave radio;
2) Can carry out the voice operation of short wave radio station;
3) Can produce demonstration of shortwave radio signal principle;
4) Can test the signal flow of short wave radio station.

SYSTEM STRUCTURE
The structure of simple simulation training system for short wave radio station is shown in figure 1 as follows:

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 FIGURE 1 Structure of simple simulation training system for short wave radio station

Among them, student A operates analog computer A and analog radio A, student B operates analog computer B
and analog radio B, and two students collaborate to train.
The simple simulation training system software for short wave radio on analog computer is designed to realize the
following functions [1]:
1) Display shortwave radio simulation interface;
2) Simulate shortwave radio operation which the operating mode is consistent with real equipment;
3) Set the analog radio hardware parameters through the serial port.
The analog radio hardware system includes box (non-simulated radio), AC / DC power module, a set of analog
shortwave radio circuit board, a set of RF communication module, PCB test interface board, etc., which can achieve
the following functions:
1) Receive the instructions of the analog computer serial port; set the radio parameters, matching success when the
two radio parameters are consistent;
2) Carry out wireless voice communication when the two radios’ parameters match successfully;
3) Display the signal principle on the PCB test interface board;
4) Test the signal flow of the shortwave radio and the frequency of the analog signal point.
The test interface is shown in figure 2 below:

FIGURE 2 Test interface

A test point is set at the key node, which is connected with the analog short wave radio circuit board inside the
box. When the radio station works, the frequency of the test point can be measured by the oscilloscope [2].

SOFTWARE DESIGN

Software organization structure

Operating system: Windows 7
Development Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 / dotNetFramework3.5
The software running environment is as follows:
Operating system: Windows XP SP3/Windows 7
The software organization structure is listed in Tab 1.

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 TABLE 1 Software organization structure
Number Name Needs to install the software Installation location
1. Windows SP3/Windows 7
Simple simulation training
2. dotNetFramework3.5
1 system software of short- Analog computer A
3. Simple simulation training system
wave radio
software of short-wave radio
1. Windows SP3/Windows 7
Simple simulation training
2. dotNetFramework3.5
2 system software of short- Analog computer A
3. Simple simulation training system
wave radio
software of short-wave radio

Software architecture design

The simulation training system software of short-wave radio is installed on the analog computer, and the analog
computer is connected with the simulation trainer through the network port, the wireless voice and data communication
are used between the two sets of simulation trainers. The simulation operation of the radio station is carried out on the
software [3]. When the parameter matching is successful, the data and voice transmission can be carried out between
the two radio stations, while the frequency of the key signal points in the signal process of the short-wave radio station
is simulated. The system architecture is shown in figure 3.

FIGURE 3 System architecture

Software functions and design

The software is mainly composed of UI interface, network communication module and data processing module.

UI interface

UI interface includes radio analog interface, radio operation interface, radio LCD display and signal flow display.
By the simulation of shortwave radio interface and operation mode, we can achieve the human-computer
interaction and interface display, operation mode, operation interface which is consistent with real equipment,
including equipment boot, self-test information, light status, menu operation and LCD display etc. The UI interface is
shown in figure 4.

Network communication module

The simulation training system software uses the UDP method to communicate with the simulation trainer. The
students operate the simulation training system software, and then modify the parameters of the simulated radio station;
the network communication module sends the radio parameters to the simulation trainer through the UDP messages.

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Students set the baseband frequency on the simulation trainer and send them to the simulation training system software
through UDP packets. The network communication module is shown in figure 5.

FIGURE 4 UI Interface

FIGURE 5 Network communication modules

The software of simulation training system needs to be encapsulated by data processing module before sending
the radio parameters to the simulation trainer, so as to reduce the message length and easy to handle. After receiving
the UDP messages of the simulation trainer, it is necessary to use the data processing module to analyze the packets.

HARDWARE DESIGN

Analog radio system components

The analogue radio station is mainly composed of ARM core control board, DDS signal generator, wireless data
communication module, wireless voice communication module, Ethernet communication module, LED display
module, key input module, signal test panel and power supply module [4]. The block diagram is shown in figure 6.

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 FIGURE 6 Hardware design of Analog radio

Working principle of analog radio

The analog radio station takes the STM32F107 chip as the control core, simulates the computer communication
through the operation of the Ethernet communication module, real-time receives radio set parameter information from
radio simulation interface which can control working condition of analog radios and realize the function of setting
analog radio parameters. Through the wireless data communication module to achieve local and remote radio data
transmission which can achieve the simulation function of radio parameters matching. Through the voice docking
module, we can achieve the function of intercom between the radio stations. When the setting parameters of local
radio station and remote station match successfully, we can carry out voice intercom and demonstration of RF signal
transceiver function. The signal generator can generate to simulate the radio key points of high frequency sine wave
signal, through the oscilloscope that can be measured on the signal test panel [5].

Design of analog radio main function module

Control board

The core control board based on STM32F107 chip as the core chip, the chip integrates the serial port, Ethernet,
SPI and other commonly used high-performance industrial standard interface, which is applicable to realize the control
of intelligent LCD touch screen, wireless data communication module, data acquisition module, Ethernet
communication module etc. So that we can achieve the monitoring function of equipment communication network
status. The control board circuit diagram is shown in figure 7.

Ethernet communication module

Ethernet communication module uses DP83848C control chip as the core, DP83848C transceiver line is a pair of
differential line, through the ratio of 1:1 to the Ethernet transformer connected with the network cable. The main
function of Ethernet transformer is impedance matching, signal shaping, network isolation, and filtering out the noise
from network and equipment.
The structure of the Ethernet communication module is shown in figure 8.

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FIGURE 7 Circuit diagram of the control board

FIGURE 8 Diagram of the control board circuit

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 The schematic diagram of the Ethernet communication module is shown in the following figure 9.

FIGURE 9 Schematic diagram of the Ethernet communication module

FIGURE 10 circuit design schematic diagram of the DDS signal generator

DDS signal generator

DDS signal generator is used by the United States ADI's latest four-channel high-speed direct digital frequency
synthesizer AD9959. The chip integrates four DDS cores, so the four internal synchronous output channels can be
programmed independently, which can achieve the design requirement of the radio multi-channel high-frequency
signal independent output and multi-channel independent programmable control, so that it is very good to show the
radio signal generation principle [6].

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 AD9959 can achieve up to 16 levels of frequency, phase and amplitude modulation, and can also work in linear
frequency modulation, phase modulation or amplitude modulation mode. Therefore, the accurate simulation of high
frequency signal of radio station can be realized, and the function of radio signal generation, processing and RF signal
transceiver can be directly displayed by oscilloscope measurement. The circuit design schematic diagram of the DDS
signal generator is shown is shown in figure 10 as follows.

Test result
The simple simulation training system for short-wave radio station is shown in figure 11. The system is composed
by a box, and the operation interface is embedded in the box. The interface includes power switch, antenna, Ethernet
port, Microphone port, LED status indicator lights, the key test points and the 1 KHz, 2 KHz, 3 KHz stimulus input.
When we add 2 KHz stimulus to the system, we measure the point the arrow points in figure 11 with oscilloscope and
the wave is shown in figure 12. We can see the frequency of the point is 498.008 KHz which is very consistent with
the real equipment.

FIGURE 11 Simulation system

FIGURE 12 Measured waveform

CONCLUSION
In this paper, we develop a set of shortwave radio simple simulation training system which can provide no
difference training experience with the real equipment. The system is extensible, high degree of automation, simple
operation, which can achieve the teaching function of short-wave radio internal circuit board work process.

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