Overview
RF Engineers CB3, Cerberus Receiver with 3 WB-1, AM/FM/NOAA Modules
Based on our popular Watch Dog FM/AM/WX receiver, Cerberus provides two, three or four 3-band tuners in a single, compact rackmount chassis. Cerberus can fill multiple roles in a single 1U slot, such as; EAS, live broadcast monitoring and weather monitoring.
Designed and tested for 24x7x365 operation.
- Product name: Cerberus
- Receiver modes: FM, AM, NOAA Weather, RDS
- Real-time RDS: PI, PTY, PS. and RadioText fields
- Audio output: Class AB balanced audio with StudioHub+ connector and Class AB single-ended audio with 3.5mm phone jack, both with independently controllable volume; modular and swappable audio section with future planned capability for AES3 and other audio output formats
- Alarms: Low RSS, low SNR, silence, RDS loss, pilot loss, NOAA 1,050 Hz alert tone
- Alarm outputs: Fully configurable and independently assignable front panel LEDs x 3 and rear panel open-collector GPOs x 4
- Configuration: Stored in internal EEPROM, updated via free RFEngineers, Inc. Watch Dog Dashboard software for Windows or using any serial terminal program
- Mounting: 19-inch rack, 1U height
- Tamper-resistant: Settings only accessible via USB cable
- Fail-safe operation: Always returns to last working configuration upon power-up or after recovering from power loss; built-in hardware Watch Dog Timer resets receiver to last working configuration from internal EEPROM in event of malfunction
