ICard Instructions

HOW TO RUN

Install program into the computer if not already installed.

Assemble antenna, DO NOT CHANGE THE LENGTH OF THE POLES. IT IS SET TO TRANSMIT FROM THIS SPECIFIC LENGTH. You alternate the white and the silver colored ones.

Screw in the short antenna pigtail attached to the big antenna cable to the transmitter.

Plug the USB end into the computer and the other end into the transmitter.

You may see the data transmitter installing. Click on yes to everything.

Put the CD in the drive and leave it there.

Click on the iCard symbol.

You will need to know two things. The COM PORT that is receiving and the COM PORT that is sending. The COM port that is sending is the computer that is operating the AMB system. If you have everything networked it will be TCPIP. Then highlight the TCPIP and double dick. Enter the IP- address for the main system and the socket is always 50000. You can find this out by going to the main computer and then to AMB and then options, communications and select scoreboard. The IP address will show up when you double click on config. Cindy, the IP address should be on my IBM laptop already but if it isn't it is 169.254.54.150. The serial output is on the left side, just open the door at the back of the left side if it isn’t open already. The next thing you will need is the comp port for the actual computer running iCard. You can get this by going to System and then device manager and then to the USB Data Transmitter and it will show the port #. Cindy if you are using my computer it is com Port 5. Then click on the Device Box - Com Port # on the iCard system and you should see all the info about the transmitter pop onto the screen right under the com port #.

Make sure you have the scoreboard enabled on the main computer. Cindy, this is already done because you run the results monitor on the network.

When you have the info on the transmitter on the screen you can click on OPEN, which is next to the input section. When you click on Open you should see the box on the top left side flash green. You are transmitting if you see green flashing. When you start the first session do one F2 and that is all there is to it. You don't need to do anything else all day. Make sure at the end of a session you do a checkered flag and then a STOP. If for some reason you stop transmitting just close out iCard and restart the iCard software. At the end of a session you probably will get a window that says it was unable to save, just click ok. It’s always good to do an F2 at the start of a session. Make sure on the Rmonitor (results Monitor laptop) that there is only one open window. If there are two the output will be jumbled and show additional classes. Do a logical shutdown for Rmonitor to fix it, go to FILE, CLEAR RESULTS, SAVE and exit. If you don’t see a window that askes you if you realy want to exit the Rmonitor than you did it wrong. If you open the Rmonitor and you see a results layout go through the close procedure to properly shut down that screen.

My cell is 1-216-256-5761. Con