Wildlife Tracking : Receivers
Titley Scientific's Tracking Solutions allow researchers, in more than 100 countries across the world to track an extensive range of wildlife.
Australis 26k
The Australis 26k™ Scanning Receiver is a sophisticated, lightweight, and portable tracking instrument. Known and preferred worldwide for its illuminated liquid crystal display (LCD) for night time use, fast-charge capability and durability.
The Australis 26k™ comes with a heavy-duty leather case allowing it to easily be carried around the neck or from a belt. The battery pack consists of rechargeable NiCad batteries that have an operating life of around 14 hours before requiring a recharge of four hours at fast charge rate. Spare rechargeable battery packs are available, as is a battery holder to facilitate use of dry cells if desired.
The Australis 26k™ is capable of detecting signals over four adjacent frequency bands, and has the ability to automatically scan through up to 100 transmitter frequencies. This is an invaluable feature when tracking a number of animals. The Australis 26k™ can also be used in the normal manual mode, if preferred, searching for one transmitter at a time.
Features
| Headset audio outputs: | Two 3.5mm phone jacks, one disables the loud speaker. |
| Memory retention: | Memory is retained while receiver is switched off and while battery packs are changed |
| Low battery: | Indicator |
| External socket: | Data logging & remote control |
| Display: | A graphic type liquid crystal display approximately 18mm x 60mm is used to display all frequency, signal strength and mode data. The display is a 32 x 122 dot array. It has LED back lighting which can be switched on for night viewing. |
| Volume control: | Conventional knob operated potentiometer with On/Off switch. Off is fully CCW position. |
| Gain Control: | Knob operated potentiometer. Gain ismaximum when the control is fully CW. The minimum gain reduction is 50dB. |
| Keys: | 16 membrane keys are incorporated in the front panel. 0-9, Recall, Save, Scan, Up and Down Fine Tuning, and Light |
Specifications
| Receiver noise figure: | 2dB maximum |
| Sensitivity for 10 dB S+N/N: | -135dBm @ 400Hz BW (0.04 uV into 50 Ohms) |
| Selectivity: | -6dB BW > 400Hz, -60 dB BW < 4.0kHz |
| Intermodulation: | >70 dB rel. to 10dB S+N/N |
| <Image and spurious:/td> | >80 dB rel. to 10 dB S+N/N |
| Gain control range: | 50 dB minimum |
| Nominal input impedance: | 50 Ohms |
| Frequency range: | 148 to 174 MHz (149-152 MHz standard) |
| Frequency selection: | 1 kHz steps with fine tuning in 100 Hz |
| Frequency stability: | Better than 1 kHz -10 to +60 oC |
| Frequency memories: | 10 banks of 10 memories with fine tune offset stored for each frequency |
| Memory scanning rate: | Can be set to 1.25, 2.5, 5, or 10 Seconds (Default 1.25 Sec/Chn) |
| Audio output: | 250mW into internal loudspeaker or external load |
| Sig. strength resolution: | Approximately 0.1dB |
| Case construction: | Aluminium sheet fabrication with polyester finish |
| Sealing: | The case design minimises the intrusion of dust, dirt or spray. All external joints are either overlapping or sealed |
| Antenna input: | BNC connector |
| Size: | Height 50mm x Width 140mm x Depth 170 mm |
| Weight: | <1KG |
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