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User manual for HD RANGER Lite (field strength meter)

1. Oroilostorias __MEASUREMENT 2 3 J TEH 554 00 MHz 69 2 dBuV R 2 kHz 34 7 dB 6 9E 05 6 1 8E 08 MPEG2 TS locked RGE2 Figure 25 Selected installation date and time Image of the locked signal Number of view total views Selected band battery level Spectrum of the locked signal Measurement values for the type of locked signal Signal status searching locked multiplex name Softkeys menus gt Joystick right left It changes the selected channel frequency 3 32 July 2014 2 RANGER MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES E Sd Se CHAPTER 3 MEASUREMENT MODE MEASUREMENT 3 3 MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS Oiss MEASUREMENTS 3 3 TES DVB T PARAMETERS Bandwidth Spectral Inversion FFT Mode Guard Interval YZ Constellation Code Rate 2 3 sp NONE ae 554 00 MHz 69 2 dBuV Is 30 5 dB Oia 2kHz MeN 34 5 dB CBER 6 8E 05 VBER lt 1 0E 08 Figure 26 Selected installation date and time Number of view total views Selected band battery level Demodulation parameters of the locked signal Measurement values for the type of locked signal Signal status searching locked multiplex name Softkeys menus gt Joystick right left It changes the selected channel frequency Signals description annex describes in detail the measurement parameters for each type of signal 3 3 GENERIC Signal This
2. C LSC RNNNSNNNNNNNNNNNNNN gt DSS Additional data E He a a measurement mee O paee Margin Displayed data ee Displayed data Nyquist filter Code Rate 1 2 2 3 6 7 and AUTO i July 2014 10 91 HD Lite p eo oo iin 10 3 Spectrum Analyser Mode gt Digital Signal Additional data Parameter General Parameters Resolution filter ke It displays frequency level indication level difference frequency difference Adjustable in steps of 5 dB Span dynamic range and reference level are variable by means of arrow cursors Reference Level Spectrum range 65 dBuV to 135 dBuV Terrestrial 45 to 1000 MHz Channel or frequency Resolution 10 dBuV to 130 dBuV 100 kHz ee SLU Full span 500 200 100 50 20 10 MHz Full span full band selectable by joystick Digital channels measures Channel power C N 950 to 2150 MHz ee Intermediate frequency or downlink 10 kHz R Measurement bandwidth Full span 500 200 100 50 20 10 MHz Full span full band selectable by joystick Digital channels measures Channel power C N According to modulation type 10 92 July 2014 HD Lite gt Analogue Signal Parameter Additional data General Parameters Attenuation scale Auto range Numerical indication Absolute value according to selected units Graphical indication Analogue bar on screen Audible indicator Pitch sound Tone with pitch proportional to signal strength
3. RefLevel RefLevel CH CH Span q gt Span RefLevel RefLevel Figure 32 4 40 July 2014 HD Lite lt a 4 5 Specific Options in the Spectrum Analyser Mode Access by the 4 function key It allows selecting among several parameters to display the spectrum The advanced menu consists of the following options gt Average gt Spectrum Line gt Tone Level gt Marker gt Max Hold July 2014 The user can select the amount of signal values to be used to set the average signal value to be displayed on screen The larger the average value the more stable the displayed Signal appears It defines the spectrum display Outline option displays the Spectrum outline The Solid option displays the contour of the spectrum with solid background The Transparence option shows the outline in yellow and the background in a softer yellow This option produces a tone that changes according to the input level of the signal so the tone is sharper if the level increases and deeper if the level decreases It allows enabling disabling the marker This marker is displayed on screen with the shape of an arrowhead Showing on screen some information about the frequency and power level where it points You can move left right by the joystick in MK mode press the joystick until the icon MK appears When the Marker is ON at the top right corner a window pops up with the following data Freq Fr
4. FA Exit Exits the tool Set Reference Pressing this option the current F2 power values are captured and they are assigned as reference values F3 Tools It access the Tools main menu F4 Advanced It access the Advanced menu Wee In the Advanced menu there are five parameters to set the attenuation test They are gt Threshold Attenuation It defines the maximum difference that may exist between the pilot signal of higher level and the pilot signal of lower level All pilot signals out of this range will be removed and not used as a pilot signal during the measurement process gt Maximum Attenuation It sets the attenuation level used by the equipment to show on screen if the Signal passes or fails When the attenuation level is below this value the message on screen is PASS and when it is above this value is FAIL gt Pilot O It defines the frequency of the pilot signal O MHz gt Pilot 1 It defines the frequency of the pilot signal 1 MHz gt Pilot 2 It defines the frequency of the pilot signal 2 MHz 7 66 July 2014 HD Lite 7 4 Datalogger The Datalogger function stores automatically measurements in a file set by the user name channel plan and associated to a specific installation User can store for each datalogger measurements taken at different test points of the selected installation Measurements are made for all channels in the active channel plan both analog
5. Television distribution network Terrestrial Orbital position Satellite Program provider name Network identifier where the signal is distributed Identifier of the original network where the signal Originates Transport stream identifier Service Identifier Interactive service Logic Channel Number It is the first logic number assigned to the first channel in the receiver Additional service information Free scrambled transmission Standard type of transmission 5 47 MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES PANI AXPRO MAX CHAPTER 5 TV MODE CER 5 48 Tuned audio information gt TYPE Type of audio encoding and transmission speed gt FORMAT Service audio format Bit depth sampling frequency sound reproduction gt LANGUAGE Broadcasting language gt PID ID of the audio program Signal status searching locked multiplex name and name of the selected service Softkeys menu gt Joystick up down It changes service gt Joystick left right It changes channel frequency depending on the tuning mode July 2014 HD Lite lt a 5 2 2 TV MODE Radio views Radio views are RADIO 1 2 AUDIO RADIO ee Figure 38 RADIO 2 2 AUDIO RADIO SPECTRUM MEASUREMENTS 53 8 dBuV FM STEREO PI e239 PS Figure 39 July 2014 5 49 HD Lite 5 3 Specific Options for TV Mode gt Analogue Signal This option is available only if the detected or sele
6. gt Joystick up down It changes the reference level gt Joystick left right depending on the joystick active mode SP SPAN change FR or CH Frequency change or channel change MK Marker change if marker is ON TL Only available for digital channels 4 36 July 2014 Figure 29 Selected installation date and time Number of view total views Joystick active mode selected band battery level Spectrum in the band with the selected span Centre frequency and cursor It also shows the bandwidth of a digital locked signal Softkeys menus gt Joystick up down It changes the reference level gt Joystick left right depending on the joystick active mode SP SPAN change FR or CH Frequency change or channel change MK Marker change if marker is ON July 2014 4 37 one AHD Lite 4 3 4 38 F N Description in detail of the Full Spectrum screen 2 SPECTR JM 3 3 m REE M1 756 50 MHz 54 dBuv Figure 30 Horizontal reference line It indicates the signal level Vertical axis It indicates the signal level Vertical reference line It indicates the frequency SPAN It is the frequency range displayed on the horizontal axis The current span value appears at the bottom right of the screen To change use the joystick left right in Span mode SP or change it by the span option in the Tuning menu F key Span values available are Full full ba
7. 7 1 3 E Menu Options On the bottom of the screen there are four menus accessible via the function keys It displays the channel frequency where is pointing FA the cursor accesses the tuning menu and allows selecting the channel plan It displays the selected transmission standard menu and accesses the signal parameters F3 It displays the Tools menu Ts F4 It displays the Advanced menu In the Advanced menu there are some options to set the constellation tool They are gt Grid type Full Grid The grid where the constellation is displayed is a complete grid Cross Grid The grid where the constellation is displayed is made of crosses gt Persistence It allows the user to set the level of persistence which is the lapse of time the signal stays on the screen before disappearing Available options according to the persistence level are low medium high or permanent gt Start Carrier Stop Carrier This option allows selecting the range of carriers to be displayed between the first and last 7 60 July 2014 HD Lite 7 2 Echoes The Echoes function shows the response in time of a digital terrestrial channel and therefore it can detect echoes that can occur due to the simultaneous reception of the same signal from several transmitters with different delays and amplitudes Another cause that may cause echoes is reflection of the signal on large objects as buildings or mountain
8. Spectral inversion Hierarchy Ss Indicates hierarchy mode o S y O Cell ID Ss Detected from transmitter station TPS signalling Time slicing symbol interleaver and MPE FEC O gt DVB T2 Additional data Profiles T2 Base T2 Lite Z o aaa ee measurement ewe O e BCH ESR LDP Iterations and wrong packets Displayed datas Numeric and level bar __ _ o O ik 2k 4k 8k 8k EXT 16k 16k EXT 32k 32k EXT Guard Interval 1 4 19 256 1 8 19 128 1 16 1 32 1 128 _ __ _ O Bandwidth 5 6 7 and8 MHz S S O Pilot Pattern PPA PPO PLP Code Rate 1 2 3 5 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 O PLP Constellation QPSK 16QAM 64QAM 256QAM o S y OO PLPID 0 256 S S O Cell ID Detected from transmitter station Network ID_ Detected from transmitter station o Z o Z S O C2 System ID Detected from transmitter station d o OS gt DVB C Modulation QAM S y O Margin of power From 45 dBuV to 115 dBuV 256QAM 42 dBuV measurement 128QAM 39 dBuV 64QAM 36 dBuV 32QAM 33 dBuV 16QAM 30dBuV Power CBER VBER MER C N and Link margin Measures Power BER MER C N and Link margin Displayed data Numeric and level bar O Demodulation 16 32 64 128 256 QAM Too Symbol rate 1800 to 7200 kbauds O Nyquist filter Spectral inversion ON OFF July 2014 10 89 HD Lite gt DVB C2 Additional data Modulation 0 COFDM S S O measurement mae Power CBER MER C N LBER BCH ESR LDP
9. Selected Slot Address Enable Pilots Satellite Figure 50 SatCR command screen The configuration window shows the options that user can modify number of slots slot selected device address pilot signal activation when activating the SatCR device located in the headend it emits a pilot signal with constant level for each downlink frequency to identificate available channels selected satellite and frequency step In other box appears the frequencies corresponding to each slot July 2014 HD Lite PECIFICATIONS A 10 1 General Specifications gt Inputs and Outputs Value Additional data B Connector Input type F female Maximum Signal 130 dBuV Maximum Input Voltage 50 V rms DC to 100 Hz powered by the AL 103 power charger DC to 100 Hz not powered by the AL 103 power charger Protected up to 30 seconds N Ul 30 V rms 140 dBuV Sound Input Output Built in speaker USB Interface mini USB OOOO OTG On the go oS Mass storage host Serial port emulation Poe USB CDC Characteristics Monitor Display Monitor Z TMT Transmissive colour dot matrix type Aspect ratio 16 9 Dot Format 800 x 480 dots R G B W x H Brightness 350 cd m E External Unit Power through the RF input connector External 5 12 and 24 V Satellite Supply Maximum Power At least 6 W for 13 15 18 24 V If you select 5V the maximum power shall not excede 2 25 W 450 ma DiSEqC Generator According to
10. Terrestrial Tuning range Tuning mode Resolution Measurement range Measurement bandwidth Analogue channels measures Accuracy 5 to 1000 MHz Manual 10 kHz 15 dBuV to 130 dBuV 3 16 uV to 3 16 V H O O x ae Z Level C N V A 1 5 dB 25 120 dBuvV 45 1000 MHz 22 C V Ul o O A Out of range indication 950 to 2150 MHz Pe Intermediate frequency or downlink 10 kHz ee 20 dBuV to 130 dBuV 100 kHz E ee measures Level C N Accuracy 1 5 dB 5 C SS Out of range indication A V July 2014 10 93 HD Lite p eo oo iin 10 4 TV Mode gt Video Additional date ___ data MPEG s s sSssSS 1 MPEG 2 MP HL TSGHC GEO profile high level MPEG 4 AVC H 264 High Profile Level 4 1 maximum bitrate 40 e Maximum Image Size pee Ux SEXO 1280x720x60p 50p er sees Bitrate 40 Mbps y O Aspect Ratio _ 16 9 4 3 y O SI PSI data Service list and main PIDs HDMI output resolution 1920x1080 CSSC O O gt Audio MPC e FHE AAC _ S Demodulation According to the TV standard SL 75 us NTSC Digital frequency synthesis according to the Sound subcarrier TV standard gt Transport Stream EE Transmission Packet or burst mod O Methode MULTICAST IGMPversion2 y O Payload Fromito7packetsMPEG 200 O i pa enor profile PID mem Mea OOOO O scrambled free TSID SID LCN a a mono stereo language PID 10 94 July
11. 64QAM 256QAM Constellation rotation It detects if the constellation is rotated ON or not OFF Code rate It defines the ratio between the number of data bits and the total number of bits transmitted the difference corresponds to the number of control bits for the detection and recovery of errors PLP id It is the PLP identifier In the case of PLP Single mode identifies the input stream 0 255 In the case of PLP Multiple mode clients can choose the PLP ID to view ZxPROMAX HD Lite Jm DVB T2 Measurements Power Measured power over the entire bandwidth of the channel C N Carrier Noise where C is the received power of the modulated carrier signal and N is the noise power received To measure it correctly the channel should be tuned at its centre frequency PLP id It is the PLP identifier In the case of PLP Single mode identifies the input stream 0 255 In the case of PLP Multiple mode clients can choose the PLP ID to view MER Modulation Error ratio with indication of Link Margin LM The link margin indicates the safety margin respect to the MER level measured for the degradation of the signal up to the QEF Quasi Error Free value MER represents the ratio between the average power of the DVB signal and the average noise power of the signal constellation BER CBER LBER It is the bit error rate There are two measurements related to BER CBER Channel Bit Error Rate BER of the signal after the COFD
12. P ks koa Page Up It jumps one page up 3 Page Down It jumps one page down Y EEN 6 55 HD Lite lt a 6 2 F2 Signal Parameters Access by the F gt function key It allows selecting the standard transmission and displays the parameters for signal transmission This menu allows selecting the transmission standard gt Type of signal It displays the selected standard It allows selecting another standard in the same band terrestrial or satellite Place over the Signal Type option and press the joystick It displays a menu at the right with the transmission standards Move the joystick up down to select a standard Press joystick to select the standard or any function key to exit without selecting gt View Advanced Parameters It shows the TPS parameters Transmission Parameters Signalling for the locked signal according to the modulation standard This option is available only when these parameters are detected The remaining transmission parameters are detected demodulating the locked signal In case of a DVB S2 signal there will be some special settings for this type of signal They are Physical Layer Scrambling or PLS is used in DVB S2 as a way to improve data integrity A number called the scrambling sequence index is used by the modulator as a master key to generate the uplink signal This same number must be known by the receiver so that demodulation is possible Most sa
13. Place over the span option and press the joystick The option is highlighted in yellow to indicate it is in edit mode Move the joystick left right to move between the figures and up down to change the figure When finished press joystick to save the selected value or any function key to exit without saving The span can be changed directly with the joystick in SP mode July 2014 HD gt View all services July 2014 Lite lt a This option only appears if the Database services option is enabled in the Preferences menu This option displays a window with a list of services that have been detected in the current installation The list shows service name provider SID stream identifier and an icon that shows its type radio tv and if it is scrambled When hovering on the service for one second it displays a hint window with more information If user presses the joystick on a service it will access that service When disabling the Database services option all services in the installation will be deleted from the list At the bottom of this option are shown the softkeys with these functions LFA Cancel It exits the option F2 Filter List It shows several options to filter the list of services By access Free Only Scrambled Only All By type All TV Radio Search by name filtered by the name Reset list it restarts the list as at first Service filtering is persistent until reseting F2
14. SAT Power Min TER Level Export button a Lite It allows the user to select the type of reference level adjustment between manual modified by the user or automatic selected by the equipment If you select the option Capture when datalogger is working it captures the service list of each channel This process slows the datalogger but provides additional information that can be downloaded in XML files To disable this option select Don t capture When it is enabled it saves all the services been detected in the current installation There is a database for services in terrestrial band and another for services in satellital band Services are included automatically when the signal is locked If enabled these services will be displayed on the View all services option in the Tuning FU menu When disabling the option all services in the database of the installation will be deleted It sets the minimum power for a terrestrial digital signal to be identified It sets the minimum power for a satellite digital signal to be identified It sets the minimum level for a terrestrial analogue signal to be identified It allows the user to select the data to be exported when pressing the export key among the following options screen only data only or both More info in the Export key chapter It allows the user to select the set of signal types being used while auto identifying any modulation type More infor
15. for one second The options are grouped in tabs as follows vY vV yY Yy among other parameters Equipment Equipment information only read Appearance Equipment customization options Date amp Time It allows the user to change date and time zone Measures It allows the user to choose between several units of measure gt StealthID It allows the user to select the set of signal types being used while auto identifying any modulation type Preferences Equipment Appearance 1s 1s Time amp Date Measures Stealth ID Security Language Background Skin Color System Power Off Boot Image Brightness Date Date Format Time Time Zone Database Services Min TER Power Terrestrial Units Satellite Units Optical Units Min SAT Power Sat Band Min TER Level Ref Level Export button Datalogger PSI Analog Terrestrial O ANALOG Digital Terrestrial O FM Digital Satellite O DVB T O DVB T2 O DVB C ODVB C2 0 DVB S ODSS O DVB S2 Figure 23 2 26 July 2014 HD Lite lt a To navigate between tabs move the joystick left or right To navigate between the options within the tab move the joystick up or down a Press TU Exit to exit Preferences Press Save to save changes A brief explanation of the options available in each tab gt Equipment information Provider Name Serial number Release Date Free memory Company User Provider s
16. header file of a datalogger or the file name of a test point datalogger xml or datalogger tp xml bbbb Description bb nnn Byte nnn decimal size to which the file will be divided to be send size Description size File byte nnn decimal size when send 41 HD Lite 42 Name INSTALLATION FILE ZIP Description It reads an xml file of the current installation and sends all the installation files zipped to a PC INSTALLATION CURRENT ZIP BLOCK bbbb INSTALLATION SIZE size bbbb Description bb Byte nnn decimal size to which the file will be divided to be send size Description size File byte nnn decimal size when send Name INSTALLATION INFLATE It decompresses the installation if it exists Configuration INSTALLATION NAME name INFLATE Name of the installation abcd July 2014 HD Lite Name INSTALLATION PC FILE It sends a file of the current installation to the PC TINSTALLATION CURRENT tag name SIZE size BLOCK bbbb tag Description tag SPECTRUM Spectrum captures files to the current installation TER CH Terrestrial channel plans files to the current install SAT CH Satellite channel plans files to the current instal DISEQC_ PROGRAM DISEQC programs files to the current installation PNG Print screens files to the current installation CONSTELLATION Constellation captures files to the current install ECHOES Echo captures files to the current installation MER ME
17. 18 V 13 V 22kHz 18 V 22kHz Configuration Band High Low g Polarization Vertical Horizontal Band High Low PR Polarization Vertical Horizontal A3 3 DiISEqC around the world A3 4 E In the individual facilities The use of DiSEqC devices requires to know previously which commands are acknowledged by these ones since it will determine the wiring diagram of the different elements as well as the way as they can be controlled This information must be provided by the device manufacturer Following appear the DiSEqC devices more usually installed in the individual and collective facilities A3 4 1 Tone burst switcher 2 inputs 1 output 24 H wE ee sor A S Se ee Output Figure A3 1 It is the simpler DiSEGC switcher This one uses the SAT A B commands and allows to switch between two different Universal LNB July 2014 HD Lite Po Command Selected input SATA Satellite 1 SAT B Satellite 2 These switchers are transparent to the LNB s 13V 18V 22 kHz commutation commands Then once chosen the satellite with the SAT command the corresponding LNB can be used in a normal way see Universal LNB Note There are switchers of 2 inputs and 1 output in which other DiSEqC commands are used such as POSITION or OPTION to allow more complex assemblies Refer to the manufacturer technical information to make sure which are the commands to use A3 4 2 Monobloc L
18. C tp i I July 2014 55 Ax PROMAX PROMAX ELECTRONICA S L Test Equipment 99 Washington Street Depot Melrose MA 02176 Phone 781 665 1400 1 800 517 8431 Toll Free 1 800 517 8431
19. Comments If ACQUIRED Acquired services of channel status ACQUIRED IN PROGRESS Acquiring services of channel in progress then service FAIL Acquisition failed information isn t STOPPED Acquisition stopped shown number C Description number_resp xx xx Number of services sid of xx Number of services sid Se Description services ACQUIRED Original Network id Network id Transport Stream id Name of service network Configuration PSI SERVICE index_conf AUDIO index_audio OPTIONAL index_conf Index of service Selecting service from the AUDIO xx index service index audio Index of audio Configuration PSI SID service_id_conf AUDIO index_audio OPTIONAL service_id_conf Service id Selecting service from the service AUDIO xx id index audio Index of audio 48 July 2014 HD Lite Name __ PSI SERVICE It provides configures services 2PSI SERVICE service PSI SERVICE CURRENT 2PSI SERVICE xx Response PSI SERVICE ss NAME name PROVIDER provider SID sid TYPE type FREE SCRAMBLED LCN Icn __ Information service Description information service SERVICE Service number sSs CURRENT o ss index of service NAME Service name PROVIDER Service provider SID Service id TYPE Type of service Radio TV Data FREE SCRAMBLED Service free or not LCN Logical channel number Question PSI SERVICE CURRENT AUDIO Response PSI NUMBER nn AUDIO aa PID pid BITRATE bitrate TYPE
20. Management keys Each one has two different functions according to the pressing time Short press It shows the list of installations and the menus to manage them Long press It shows the preferences menu i Short press It shows the menu of terrestrial or t satellite settings according to the selected band Long press It shows the Video amp audio settings July 2014 2 15 USER S MANUAL AP ROMAX CHAPTER 2 SETTING UP gt Function keys On the left side there are 3 keys to access the most important functions of the equipment A Measurement key Na Spectrum Analyser key TV Mode Key Pressing a key repeatedly provides access to a different view within the same function For analogue signals only the first view of each function is available Each view is shown at the top When reaching the third view it returns to the first view Following there is an example of the views available for each function examples extracted from a digital terrestrial signal 2 16 July 2014 USER S MANUAL CHAPTER 2 SETTING UP Measurements 15 04 2014 13 51 MEASUREMENT 1 3 Band Power 69 2dBuV m E 10 30 50 70 90 110 130 Freq 69 2 dBuV Va 30 5 dB Offset C N 34 7 dB CBER 6 9E 05 VBER 1 8E 08 MPEG2 TS locked RGE2 Figure 10 FULL MEASUREMENT MEASUREMENT 2 3 554 00 MHz 69 2 dBuV 2 kHz 34 7 dB MPEG2 TS locked RGE2 Figure 1
21. NUMBER Number of datas of datas n eo SeRvici PSI SERVICE maona DATA dd PSI NUMBER nn DATA nn PID pid TYPE type Information Description information service service Number of datas Index of data PID number Type of data txt subtitles data July 2014 HD Lite lt a Name RTC __ i It provides sets date and time Question RTC rtc Response RTC rtc rtc_resp tc rtcresp ______ Description rtc_resp ee DATE date It shows current date time and TIME time date format FORMAT format hh mm ss Hours minutes seconds DD MM YYYY day month year DD MM YY day month year last two digits MM DD YYYY month day year YYYY MM DD year month day FORMAT Selected format Configuration RTC rtc rtc_conf rtc Description rtc_conf TIME hh mm ss Hours minutes seconds DATE Date according to the selected format FORMAT DD MM YYYY day month year DD MM YY day month year last two digits MM DD YYYY month day year YYYY MM DD year month day July 2014 51 HD Lite Names SIGNAL It provides configures the signal type Question SIGNAL signal Response SIGNAL signal signal_resp Signal standard type Current code rate Signal bandwidth Signal symbol rate Spectral inversion enabled ON or disabled OFF MODE Measurement of the FFT in a COFDM modulation GI Measurement of the guard interval CONSTELLATION Constellation type HIERARCHY DVB T hierarchy COLOR Type of colour coding STANDARD Analogue stan
22. a viewing angle of 90 between the eye and the screen should not be considered manufacturing defects either It is advisable a viewing angle of 15 in the 6 00 o clock direction in order to obtain the optimum visualization of the screen 11 2 Cleaning Recommendations The equipment consists of a plastic case and a TFT screen Each element has its specific cleaning treatment Cleaning the TFT screen The TFT screen surface is VERY DELICATE It has to be cleaned with a soft fabric cloth cotton or silk always making the same move from left to right and from top to bottom without putting pressure on the screen The TFT screen has to be dry cleaned or with a product specifically designed for TFT screens by slightly dampening the cloth NEVER use tap or mineral water alcohol or conventional cleaning products because they contain components that can damage the screen Turn off the equipment to locate dirt on the screen After cleaning wait a few seconds before turning on 11 96 July 2014 MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES AXPROMAX CHAPTER 11 MAINTENANCE AXP ROMA Cleaning the plastic case The equipment has to be disconnected before cleaning the case The case must be cleaned with a solution of neutral soap and water using a soft cloth dampened with this solution Before use the equipment has to be completely dry Never clean with abrasive soaps chlorinated solvents or aromatic hydrocarbons These products may degrade the c
23. after Viterbi equal to 2X10E 4 or 2 bit errors per 10 000 This value is marked on the BER measurement bar after Viterbi This the BER for acceptable signals should be to the left of this mark July 2014 HD A1 1 2 Lite Digital TERRESTRIAL Television SECOND Generation DVB T2 standard COFDM modulation The DVB T2 demodulator version allows working with Base standard version and Lite mobile devices version profiles E DVB T2 Parameters July 2014 p gt Channel Bandwidth This parameter affects the frequency separation of the carriers Its value is 6 MHz 7 MHz or 8 MHz Spectral inversion It detects if the input signal has been inverted FFT Mode It defines the number of modulation carriers between values 1k 2k 4k 8k 8k EXT 16k 16k EXT 32k 32k EXT Pilot Pattern There are several pilot patterns available from PP1 to PP8 which offer different features depending on the type of channel Each pattern Supports time and frequency variations up to the Nyquist limit Limits depend on certain characteristics such as the receiver operation if the interpolation is in frequency and time or just in time and so on Guard Interval This parameter is the dead time between symbols its purpose is to detect problems due to multipath echoes This parameter is expressed in terms of the symbol duration 1 4 19 256 1 8 19 128 1 16 1 32 1 128 Constellation COFDM modulation with constellations QPSK 16QAM
24. also defines immunity to the system noise 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM and 256QAM HD Lite 10 lt m DVB C Measurements Power Measured power over the entire bandwidth of the channel C N Carrier Noise ratio where C is the received power of the modulated carrier signal and N is the noise power received To measure it correctly the channel should be tuned at its centre frequency MER Modulation Error ratio with indication of Link Margin LM The link margin indicates the safety margin respect to the MER level measured for the degradation of the signal up to the QEF Quasi Error Free value MER represents the ratio between the average power of the DVB signal and the average noise power of the signal constellation BER CBER It is the system error rate In a digital signal reception via cable after the QAM demodulator an error correction method is applied called Reed Solomon The error rate after correction is less than the error rate at the output of the QAM demodulator For this reason the BER is given prior to error correction CBER BER measurement for digital signal before the error correction BER before FEC July 2014 HD Lite Pr Digital CABLE television signal of SECOND generation a DVB C2 standard COFDM modulation E DVB C2 Parameters gt Channel Bandwidth It is the channel bandwidth between 6 MHz 7 MHz and 8 MHz gt Spectral inversion It detects if the input signal has been invert
25. different satellites It uses a combination of OPTION POSITION Polarisation and Band commands The equipment allows to use easily this type of multiswitch thanks to the OPT POS command which sends the OPTION et POSITION commands in the necessary order Like in the others multiswitch if itis wanted to change of band or polarisation if the satellite is even he himself is necessary to send OPT POS command to cause the commutation again _ Band Polarization __Command__ Satellite Horizontal OPT POS A A Satellite 1 Vertical OPT POS A A Satellite 1 Horizontal OPT POS A A Satellite 1 Vertical OPT POS A A Satellite 1 Horizontal OPT POS A B Satellite 2 Vertical OPT POS A B Satellite 2 Horizontal OPT POS A B Satellite 2 Vertical OPT POS A B Satellite 2 30 July 2014 HD Lite F qe _ Band _ Polarization Command __ Satellite Horizontal OPT POS B A Satellite 3 Vertical OPT POS B A Satellite 3 Horizontal OPT POS B A Satellite 3 Vertical OPT POS B A Satellite 3 Horizontal OPT POS B B Satellite 4 Vertical OPT POS B B Satellite 4 Horizontal OPT POS B B Satellite 4 Vertical OPT POS B B Satellite 4 A3 6 DiSEqC programs and commands in the HD RANGER Lite gt Commands The Commands option allows executing any of the following commands COMMAND ___ July 2014 31 HD Lite 32 gt Programs There are eight predefined programs that execute basic functions to control an universal switch wi
26. figure 5 of the equipment Connect the USB stick to the female port of the cable USB icon should appear on the top right corner of the equipment This icon indicates that an USB stick has been detected at the port Press the Installations key and check the installations to export Press the key F4 Tools and select Export to USB A progress bar and a message indicates that the files are being copied to the USB The files are copied to the root directory of the USB in ZIP format When finished the cable can be extracted directly with the USB stick and connect it to a computer to display the copied files Unzip the installation file to access the data 9 83 HD Lite lt a To import one installation Connect the CC 045 cable USB A Female Mini USB A Male to the mini USB socket see figure 5 of the equipment Connect the USB stick to the female port of the cable USB icon should appear on the top right corner of the equipment This icon indicates that an USB stick has been detected at the port Press the Installations key and check the installation to export Press de key 4 Tools and select Import from USB A dropdown menu shows the installations identified in the USB memory An installation can be imported if it has the same folder structure than when exporting Select the installation to import from those available The import process starts If the name of the installation matches with an existin
27. gt Dashed BW When it is ON the channel bandwidth area is hatched by lines To edit or select any parameters of these described above follow these instructions Place over the option and press the joystick The data field gets into the edit mode indicated by the yellow background A menu is displayed at the right with some options or if it is numeric a number gets a black blackground Move the joystick up down to select one option To move between figures press right left and to change it press up down When finished press joystick or any function key to exit 4 6 E Location of a signal with the Spectrum Analyser 4 42 Connect the cable with the input signal to the RF input connector Press the SPECTRUM key The spectrum of the signal is displayed Adjust the span recommended value for a terrestrial signal 50 MHz and for a satellite signal 100 MHz The current value of the span is at the right bottom of the screen Find the frequency of the signal by moving the joystick left or right to move sweeping the entire band If you know the channel change the tuning by frequency to tuning by channel The channel mode allows you to navigate from channel to channel using the selected channel plan July 2014 When the channel is locked information appears at the bottom left of the screen A triple cursor shows the detected BW for a digital carrier The equipment automatically detects transmission parameters of the sig
28. gt Roll Off Factor Roll off factor of Nyquist filter It indicates the excess of bandwidth over the ideal bandwidth gt Constellation QPSK modulation for constellations with DVB S signals gt Code rate Also known as Viterbi ratio It defines the ratio between the number of data bits and the total number of bits transmitted the difference corresponds to the number of control bits for the error detection and recovery This value should be between 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 and 7 8 July 2014 5 HD Lite lt a DVB S Measurements Power Measured power over the entire bandwidth of the channel C N Carrier Noise ratio where C is the received power of the modulated carrier signal and N is the noise power received To measure it correctly the channel should be tuned at its centre frequency MER Modulation Error ratio with indication of Link Margin LM The link margin indicates the safety margin respect to the MER level measured for the degradation of the signal up to the QEF Quasi Error Free value MER represents the ratio between the average power of the DVB signal and the average noise power of the signal constellation BER CBER VBER It is the error rate There are two measurements related to BER CBER Channel Bit Error Rate BER of the signal after the QPSK demodulator and before applying the error correction or FEC Forward Error Correction VBER Viterbi Bit Error Rate Measurement of the BER for the digital si
29. gt Service Databases Mark All pa Unmark All K Mark All Delete Unmark all Copy to USB Archive Delete Rename Add TER Channel Set Export to USB Add SAT Channel Set Import from USB Add DiSEqC program Installation m 7 PREFERENCES MENU Preferences Language Background Skin Color System Power Off Boot Image SESS 1s Date Date Format Time Time Zone Terrestrial Units Database Services Satellite Units Min TER Power Optical Units Min SAT Power Pin Code 1234 Sat Band Min TER Level Ref Level Export button Datalogger PSI Analog Terrestrial Digital Terrestrial Digital Satellite O ANALOG O FM O DVB T ODVB T2 O DVB C ODVB C2 O DVB S ODSS O DVB S2 Figure 7 July 2014 2 13 HD Lite lt 2 7 Controls 2 7 2 14 The equipment has been designed to be an easy tool to use For this reason the number of keys has been reduced and these are grouped by function The menu navigation includes hints that appear when the cursor is placed on an disabled grayed option for a while This hints help the user to understand why an option is disabled and what to do to enable it For measurement and navigation through the menus the equipment has a joystick 4 programmable keys softkeys and 6 direct access keys shortcut keys Next the use of each one of them is described 1 B Joystick Joystick positions are five C ARRIBA ABAJO IZQUIERDA DERECHA VAL
30. name Equipment s name Unique identification number for this equipment Version of the software installed on the equipment Date of the software installed on the equipment Free size of the flash memory installed on the equipment Size of the flash memory installed on the equipment Name of the company which owns the equipment Name of the equipment s user gt Appearance Options July 2014 Language Skin Power Off Brightness Language used on menus messages and screens Available languages are Spanish Catalan English German French Czech Italian Norwegian Polish Russian and Slovak Once the new language is selected the equipment shows a warning message and re starts in order to load the new language Colours used on the screen It allows the user to select the time to power off which is the time after which the equipment shuts down automatically unless user press any key User can select between two options Manual The display brightness is adjusted manually using the brightness setting see section Video and audio settings Automatic The display brightness is automatically adjusted according to the light received by the sensor 2 27 AX PROMAX Background TFT Screen Colour System Boot Image HD Lite It allows the user to select the background colour on the display screen Options available are white green red black and blue User can select a time after which
31. noise power of the signal constellation BER CBER LBER System error rate In DVB C2 makes use of two codes to correct errors that are the LDPC Low Density Parity Check codes combined with BCH Bose Chaudhuri Hocquengham to protect against high levels of signal noise and interferences On screen under LBER measurement the number of iterations LDPC is shown that is the number of times the LDPC decoder for error correction has to pass through the signal and the ESR Error Second Ratio that indicates the percentage of time with errors after the BCH Error correction is internal with BCH or external with LDPC The internal error correction provides basic minimum load while the outer error correction is a correction with additional load Also the PER measurement is displayed which is the number of erroneous packets that is packets received during the measurement time and not correctable by the demodulator CBER Channel Bit Error Rate BER of the signal after passing through the COFDM demodulator and before applying the error correction or FEC Forward Error Correction LBER LDPC Bit Error Rate BER of the signal after applying the correction errors LDPC Low density parity check July 2014 HD Lite A1 2 ANALOGUEsignals s Y A1 2 1 Terrestrial band ia Analogue TV In the measurement of analogue signals in terrestrial band measurements available are gt LEVEL Indication of the carrier level o
32. signal from the menu When the equipment identifies the signal a text shows the detected signal type Press F gt Signal Parameters to see the signal parameters gt Signals automatically detected by the StealthID function Digital Terrestrial Television First Generation DVB T Digital Terrestrial Television Second Generation DVB T2 T2 Base and T2 Lite profiles Digital Satellite Television First Generation DVB S Digital Satellite Television Second Generation DVB S2 Digital Satellite Television exclusive for DirecTV DSS Digital Cable Television First Generation DVB C Digital Cable Television Second Generation DVB C2 Generic 2 Analogue terrestrial TV Analogue Cable TV Analogue Satellite TV Analogue Terrestrial FM User has to enter the symbol rate in order the equipment detects the DVB C signal 2 22 July 2014 RANGER AT AA PROMAX ex 2 9 Equipment Settings and Configuration Press the Settings key to access the settings menu Depending on the selected band the menu may be different Terrestrial Settings Supply Output Supply Voltage LNB Drain Satellite Settings DiSEqC Mode SatCR Polarization Sat Band LNB Low Osc LNB High Osc Supply Output Supply Voltage LNB Drain y Option available for terrestrial band o Option available for satellite band Figure 21 A brief explanation of each option available on the menu gt Band available for satellite an
33. the equipment INSTALLATION It provides information about all the installations CURRENT CURRENT CLEAR installation itself is not remove only its contents INSTALLATION It removes the files of the same type in the current CURRENT REMOVE installation It compresses the installation if it exists If is the eiace current installation it changes to DEFAULT installation before the compression It reads an xml file of the current installation and sends it to a PC It reads an xml file of the current installation and ZIP sends all the installation files zipped to a PC INFLATE FILE all files of the installation It removes an installation REMOVE MEASURE It provides information of all active measurements MODE It provides sets the operation mode of the equipment _ NAM It provides the program name Pst Tt provides configures services SSS 36 July 2014 HD Lite CAPTURE MAKES SCREEN CAPTURE It build a file with the current screen data in xml png format Configuration CAPTURE FORMAT format Before save format Description format file this command delete the files capture from c directory Makes a screen capture in PNG format and save this capture as c capture png TODO Copy a file from a usr var prova xml to c capture xml Name _ CAPTURE READ SCREEN CAPTURE Description It read a file with the current screen capture See command CAPTURE Question CAPTURE
34. this type of switcher because it incorporates a specific OPT POS command HDRANGER Lite Combination of DiSEqC A Selected input Command Commands send OPT POS A A Option A Position A Satellite 1 OPT POS A B Option A Position B Satellite 2 OPT POS B A Option B Position A Satellite 3 OPT POS B B Option B Position B Satellite 4 These switchers are transparent to the LNB s 13V 18V 22 kHz switching commands Then once the satellite is chosen by means of the SAT command the corresponding LNB can be used in a normal way see Universal LNB 26 July 2014 Ltr MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES AXPROMAX i iw RANIGER ae Ow ANNEX 3 DiSEqC COMMANDS AXPROMAX A3 5 In the collective facilities The most frequent satellite signal distribution system in the small collective facilities is the BIS switched This technology implies to use the Quattro type LNBs not to confuse with the QUAD type and also supports specific multiswitches for this type of facilities A Quattro LNBis a LNB with 4 outputs that provides in a separated way the four frequency bands vertical low vertical high horizontal low and horizontal high These four signal scan then be distributed in the building through multiswitches Figure A3 4 The signal is distributed in the network by means of multi outlet multiswitches The number of inputs and outputs is variable The number of inputs depends on the number of satellites LNB Us
35. type FORMAT format LANGUAGE language Information Description information service service NUMBER Audios number AUDIO Index of audio PID PID number BITRATE Bitrate in kbps TYPE Type of audio MPEG 1 MPEG 2 FORMAT Format of audio Stereo Mono LANGUAGE Language of audio Question PSI SERVICE xx AUDIO PSI NUMBER nn Information Description information service service NUMBER Audios number question AS SERVICE PSI SERVICE CURRENT xx AUDIO aa PSI NUMBER nn AUDIO aa PID pid TYPE type LANGUAGE language Information Description information service service NUMBER Audios number AUDIO Index of audio PID PID number TYPE Type of audio MPEG 1 MPEG 2 LANGUAGE Language of audio July 2014 49 HD Lite 50 Question PSI SERVICE CURRENT xx AUDIO aa Response PSI PID pid BITRATE bitrate TYPE type RESOLUTION resolution FORMAT format FRAME frame PROFILE profile Information Description information service service PID PID number BITRATE Bitrate in kbps TYPE Type of video MPEG 2 H264 RESOLUTION Resolution of video FORMAT Format of video 16 9 4 3 FRAME Freq PROFILE Profile level Question PSI SERVICE xx VIDEO PSI PID pid TYPE type Information Description information service service PID Number Type of audio MPEG 1 MPEG 2 Question PSI SERVICE CURRENT xx DATA PSI NUMBER nn Information Description information service service
36. user intervention The equipment tries to identify the channel or frequency of the input signal it receives and according to the band selected by the user it applies identifying criteria according to the standards of that band When the equipment recognizes in the input signal the identification parameters of a standard it decodes the signal and shows the data of that signal on the screen The identification system tries to lock the first signal using the modulation defined in the channel plan for that signal If after five seconds it fails to lock with that modulation it starts the wheel for automatic detection If then it locks in a modulation other than indicated it generates an internal temporary channel plan to accelerate tuning the same channel later on July 2014 2 21 HD Lite gt Operation Press the Preferences key for 1 second In the StealthID tab select the signal types to auto identify see Menu tree figure 7 By default all them are selected Press the 2 key to save the changes made and the FU key to exit the Preferences screen Press the Settings a key Select the band terrestrial or satellite Select a channel or frequency to identify The bottom of the screen shows the message Searching for signal and the standard transmission checking Wait a few seconds for the equipment to identify the signal User can force the auto identification of a signal by pressing the F2 key and selecting the type of
37. 1 MEASUREMENT TV SPECTRUM 25 04 2014 13 55 MEASUREMENT 3 3 E DVB T PARAMETERS Bandwidth Spectral Inversion Off FFT Mode Guard Interval 1 4 Constellation Code Rate 2 3 ea None E g mae 554 00 MHz 69 2 dBuV jis 30 5 dB Offset C N 34 5 dB CBER 6 8E 05 VBER lt 1 0E 08 MPEG2 TS locked RGE2 Figure 12 MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS July 2014 2 17 SERS MANUAL S Spectrum Analyser SPECTRUM 1 3 Power 69 1dBuV MER 30 3 dB CBER 6 7E 05 C N 36 2 dB VBER lt 1 0E 08 Q Freq 554 00 MHz Power 69 1 dBuV MER 30 3 dB CBER 6 7E 05 0 2 dB VBER lt 1 0E 08 Tanlc OOIS TOZI Figure 14 SPECTRUM MEASUREMENT TV DVB I Tools Figure 15 FULL SPECTRUM 2 18 July 2014 HD y Dite 9 A PROMAX m TV Mode Fo O DEFAULT 25 04 2014 15 03 eS Bri 69 2 dBuV 34 7 dB 30 4 dB lt 1 0E 08 35 04 2014 15 03 TV 3 3 a AVA D 30 SERVICE NA a RGE2 KVO G RTVE NDAD 12549 FoNN 8916 FREE ESD 40000 BSD 40001 DIAY KARE EUC App Type HbbTV 1 MPEG 4 AVC 8210 kbps PIJE 319 kbps GEE 1280x720p Format 48 kHz Profile HP L4 0 oe 1001 means spa gi 1100 4 MPEG2 TS locked RGE2 La 1 HD Figure 18 TV SERVICE DATA July 2014 2 19 AXWPROMAX Geer arate RANGER 2 7 3 Softkeys There are four programmable keys also called softkeys numbered from E to 4 Each key provides access to a menu This menu
38. 2014 HD Lite 10 5 Tools gt Constellation Additional data Type of Signal DVB T DVB T2 DVB C DVB C2 DSS DVB S y DVB S2 Displayed data Grafico I Q gt Echoes Additional data Type of Signal DVB T DVB T2 DVB C2 Pee eS SSS Measurement range Depends on the standard carrier and guard interval 0 1 us to 224 us Typical configuration DVB T 8K GI 1 4 ES 0 3 km to 67 2 km Typical configuration DVB T 8K GI 1 4 0 dBc to 30 dBc Typical configuration DVB T 8K GI 1 4 1 3 symbol period eS gt Test de Atenuacion Additional data Test frequencies 3 selectable pilots E gt Adquisici n de datos Additional data Stored data Signal type modulation parameters all measures available for the detected signal type and time stamp Date and time at each measured channel July 2014 10 95 HD Lite lt a 11MAINTENANCE A 11 1 Considerations about the Screen This paragraph offers key considerations regarding the use of the colour screen taken from the specifications of the manufacturer In the TFT display the user may find pixels that do not light up or pixels that are permanently lit This should not be regarded as a defect in the TFT In accordance with the manufacturer quality standard 9 pixels with these characteristics are considered admissible Pixels which are not detected when the distance from the surface of the TFT screen to the human eye is greater than 35 cm with
39. ATION nn NAME name It provides information about all the installations Number nn of installations Name name of current installation Number nn of terrestrial channel plans in the current installation Number nn of satellite channel plans in the current installation Number nn of DISEQC programs in the current installation Number nn of print screens in the current installation Number nn of dataloggers in the current installation Number nn of spectrum captures in the current installation Number nn of captures MERxcarrier in the current installation Number nn of echo captures in the current installation Number nn of constellation captures in the current installation Name of the installation with index nn July 2014 HD Lite PAPROMAX Se S Name INSTALLATION CURRENT It provides information about the current installation Response x INSTALLATION CURRENT current nn INSTALLATION NAME current_resp current Description nn Description decimal value current_resp lt empty gt TER CH SAT CH DISEQC_PROGRAM PNG DATALOGGER SPECTRUM CONSTELLATION ECHOES MER NUMBER lt empty gt Terrest channel plan index Sat channel plan index DISEQC program index Print screen file index Datalogger index Capture index Constellation index Capture index Capture index Installation index Available data from the current installation Te
40. BLOCK bbbb lt CR gt Response CAPTURE SIZE nnn blockn crcn name Description name size nnn Size in bytes nnn of file Description blockn crcn blockn crcn Amount of data blocks blockn and CR code crcn Read a file from c Files capture xml or capture png Protocol PC CAPTURE BLOCK xx lt cr gt RANGER gt Xoff It check if file exist then send ACK otherwise send NACK Xon abort the command RANGER gt CAPTURE SIZE xx RANGER gt Xon PC ACK RANGER gt Xoff RANGER gt block1 crc 1 byte Xon PC gt It Calculates the block crc if correct send ACK RANGER gt if detect ACK then send Xoff RANGER gt block2 crc 1 byte Xon PC gt It Calculates the block crc if correct send ACK Until last block See File command Name EQUIPMENT POWER OFF It shutdowns the equipment Order EQUIPMENT POWEROFF July 2014 37 AX PROMAX HD Lite Name EQUIPMENT SN It provides the serial number of the equipment EQUIPMENT SN Response EQUIPMENT SN equipment_resp equipment_resp Description equipment_resp nnn Unique numeric code that identifies the equipment Name INSTALLATION Description Question INSTALLATION install INSTALLATION install_resp install_resp Description install_resp lt empty gt CURRENT NUMBER nn NUMBER nn NAME name TER CH nn SAT CH nn DISEQC nn SCREEN nn DATALOGGER nn SP nn MER nn ECHOES nn CONSTELL
41. DVB C2 Generic Analogue terrestrial TV Analogue Cable TV Analogue Satellite TV 2 For this signal type refer to Generic Signal paragraph 3 30 July 2014 a oe MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES AXPROMAX 7 iw RANGER imi Cad E CHAPTER 3 MEASUREMENT MODE AXPROMAX lt a Connect the RF input signal to the equipment Select through the Settings menu the frequency band terrestrial or satellite Access the MEASUREMENT option by pressing the key Press again to display the next view Views for digital signals are MEASUREMENT 1 3 FULL MEASUREMENT Ociosos MEASUREMENT 1 300 _ Yes 0 UY Ret 554 00 MHZ 69 2 dBuV VR 30 5 dB RAI 2kHz MnedN 34 7 dB CBER 6 9E 05 VBER 1 8E 08 Figure 24 0 co Selected installation date and time Measurement value of the selected parameter Number of view total views Selected band battery level Total power detected over the whole selected band terrestrial or satellite It is shown when POWER is selected as bar graph measure Graphical measurement of the selected parameter Measurement values for the type of locked signal Signal status searching locked multiplex name Softkeys menus gt Joystick up down It changes selected parameter gt Joystick left right It changes channel frequency July 2014 3 31 MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES AAFP ROMAX CHAPTER 3 MEASUREMENT MODE MEASUREMENT 2 3 MEASUREMENT TV SPECTRUM
42. DiSEqC 1 2 standard DiSEqC is a trademark of EUTELSAT gt Mechanical Features Additional data Dimensions _ _ Weight sd Sk without options Size 3 487 cm as July 2014 10 87 HD Lite gt Power Supply External Voltage 12 V DC Using only PROMAX supplied accesories Consumption SOW Auto Power Off Programmable After the selected amount of minutes without operating on any control Deactivable gt Operating Environmental Conditions Value Additional data Altitude Up to 2000 m ____ S S O Temperature range Automatic disconnection by excess of temperature Max Relative humidity up to 31 C decreasing lineally up to 50 at 40 C gt Included Accesories Additional data Jack 4V RCA cable 1x CC 041 Connection USB Cable On the go A Male Mini USB B Male 1x CC 045 USB Cable A Female Mini USB A Male 1x AA 103 Car lighter charger 1x AL 103 External DC charger 1 F H DIN H adapter F H F H adapter Built in Quick Reference Guide RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT THE PACKING It is recommended to keep all the packing material in order to return the equipment if necessary to the Technical Service 10 88 July 2014 HD Lite 10 2 Measurement Mode gt DVB T Additional data Margin of power From 35 dBuV to 115 dBuV measurement Displayed data Numeric and level bar Carriers i 2 8K Guard Interval 1 4 1 8 1 16 1 32 Code Rate 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8
43. GE POLARISATION BAND 13 VDC VERTICAL 18 VDC HORIZONTAL 13 VDC 22 kHz VERTICAL 18 VDC 22 kHz HORIZONTAL In other words our LNB will output a different set of satellite transponders depending on which supply voltage we use July 2014 17 MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES E A PROMAX ANNEX 2 HOW TO POINT A DISH ANTENNA Ja Ne e iml wE Figure A2 5 An example of LNB Low Noise Block converter A2 1 3 Coarse dish alignment We can use different techniques to find out where in the sky the satellite we want is located They can be anything from a pure guessing game to a sophisticated procedure The satellites we are interested in are all positioned in a geostationary orbit above the earth s equator Each of them has a fix given position in that orbit something like a street number that we can know from various sources Orbital position is an important datum so it is commonly part of the name as well Websites like http www lyngsat com or http www satcodx com offer plenty of useful information about the satellites we are talking about For example ASTRA 19E refers to ASTRA satellite which is positioned at 19 degrees East in the orbit Knowing where we are in terms of latitude and longitude is also easy We can read that information from a map or even from our car s navigation system if we have one k d ASTRA 1 Figure A2 6 18 July 2014 HD Lite lt a With this information in hand we can calcul
44. HDRANGER Life TV amp SATELLITE ANALYSER HD RANGER Lite LAX PROMAX 0 MI2008 2AXPROMAX Test Equipment 99 Washington Street Depot Melrose MA 02176 Phone 781 665 1400 1 800 517 8431 Toll Free 1 800 517 8431 HD es Lite USER S MANUAL SAFETY NOTES Read the user s manual before using the equipment mainly SAFETY RULES paragraph The symbol A on the equipment means SEE USER S MANUAL In this manual may also appear as a Caution or Warning symbol WARNING AND CAUTION statements may appear in this manual to avoid injury hazard or damage to this product or other property MULTIMEDIA CONTENT You can access instantly to any chapter by clicking on the title of the chapter in the table of contents Click on the arrow q at the top right of the page to return to the table of contents Li E E E _ B i i Throughout this manual are boxes with the symbol gt It identifies a direct access to an explanatory video related to the function where it is User has to click on this icon to watch the video All videos are in the PROMAX channel on YouTube which is accessible through the PROMAX website USER S MANUAL VERSION Version Date S Software Version July 2014 HD Lite TY RULES A m A X The safety could not be assured if the instructions for use are not closely followed Use this equipment connected only to systems with their negative of measureme
45. IDAR Figure 8 The joystick is multifunctional that is each time you press its function changes The user can see the active function according to the icon that is displayed at the upper right corner of the equipment as shown in the image In the SPECTRUM ANALYSER mode the joystick has the following functions gt CH or FR Channel change CH or frequency FR change according to the tune selected tune by channel or tune by frequency gt SP Span change gt MK Marker moving if marker is enabled Figure 9 July 2014 HD Lite lt a Using the ECHOES tool the joystick is also multifunctional gt CHorFR Channel CH change or frequency FR change according to the tune selected tune by channel or tune by frequency gt EC Echo change According to the selected function the joystick will do a specific action xPROMAX NWE BRE 2 gt Click here to watch this video Navigating through the menus 2 7 2 F Keyboard shortcuts p F n f hi Fi 0 gt Export key Pressing this key for one second it makes a capture of what it is shown on screen at the time The capture may be from the screen image from the measurement data or from both The type of capture either screen data or both can be set in the Export button option which is on the label Measures in the Preferences menu More information in the chapter Export key gt Management Keys There are two
46. IONS MANAGEMENT 8 1 Description The Installations Management is a program embedded in the equipment that allows the user to easily create a file installation to individually store and manage data for each installation Measurements channel plans screenshots and any other data associated with the installation will be stored in the folder corresponding to that installation These measures can then be displayed and downloaded to a PC If the user does not create any file installation the equipment stores measurements in the installation file that is preinstalled by default named DEFAULT 8 2 Operation To access the Installations menu press the key It shows up a window with a list of all available installations On the softkeys appears the options to manage these installations To exit the list of installations press the key 640 2012 14 9 SPECTRUM 1 3 Installations List Name Creation date O DEFAULT 13KB 17 06 2013 11 16 O INST 25 KB 17 06 2013 16 37 O INSTtest 64 KB 18 07 2013 17 14 O PETERINST 157 KB 17 07 2013 17 59 O PETER_T2 72 KB 18 06 2013 09 26 O ROGERINST 33 KB 18 07 2013 08 03 Figure 48 8 76 July 2014 HD Lite There are the following options Load F Manage 2 Create new P Tools 4 It loads the selected installation To select a installation from the list place the cursor on the installation and press the joystick then press Load F to load it
47. Iterations and wrong packets Displayed data Numeric and level bar a Carriers 4k PLP Code Rate 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 8 9 9 10 Dslice ID 0 256 Z S O Detected from transmitter station Cell ID CSCC Detected from transmitter station OO C2 System ID Detected from transmitter station ees gt Analogue TV Parameter Additional data Colour System PAL SECAM and NTSC Standard supported M N B G I D K and L LS Sensibility 40 dBuV for a correct synchronism ral Additional data 45 to 1000 MHz fe Tuning step size 10 kHz Lo Sensitivity 5 dBuv 150 MHz S N N 40 cB Selectivity mono 200 kHz 25 dB SS Ss ee gt DVB S Additional data Modulation QPSK a Margin of power From 35 dBuV to 115 dBuV 18 dBuV 2 15 GHz 2 MSs measurement 30 dBuV 2 15 GHz 27 MSs 33 dBuV 2 15 GHz 45 MSs Measures Power CBER MER C N and Link Margin pe Displayed data Numeric and level bar SS Symbol rate 2 to 45 Mbauds SS Roll off a factor of 0 35 Nyquist filter Spectral inversion ON OFF 10 90 July 2014 HD Lite gt DVB S2 Value Additional data Modulation QPSK 8PSK 16APSK 32APSK Pe Margin of power From 35 dBuV to 115 dBuV 8PSK measurement 24 dBuV 2 15 GHz 2 MSs 34 dBuV 2 15 GHz 27 MSs Power CBER LBER MER C N BCH ESR Wrong Packets and Link Margin Displayed data Numeric and level bar Symbol rate QPSK 8PSK 16APSK 32APSK Pilots CC C C Presence Indication C
48. LITY Ke TO BE RECYCLED Descriptive Examples of Over Voltage Categories Cat I Low voltage installations isolated from the mains Cat II Portable domestic installations Cat IIIFixed domestic installations Cat IV Industrial installations July 2014 HD Lite TABLE OF CONTENTS i INTRODUCTION wien ces svepaiiansnsuses sok ateawntradenesseaaaal nbiangees EAP I OREA ai 1 1 bE DESCO inaaiwciwanitanee nae sors denen pane E E EAE anne aecnenineaaenans 1 1 e SETEN UP eer E mandate eo ssauubaaraas eneneemadt asada tease Oa 2 3 Jew Parado CONTENE winrar se nAn A E E E seuaianerieosesaaetaae 2 3 Pak PONC a E A AAN 2 4 Zorel ls Ss OA A EA EA 2 4 2262 Charging the Dattery rrrsresriinsanivsincni asiria aa 2 4 2 2 3 Cha rge disch rge MES wictvdacnndearenananceerwnendaseeirueaaswtenisentsaedensaunes 2 5 224 U ae TD er e D E E stan ee easaeaewesens 2 5 25 EQUDMNEN DEIS eisino rrr rN O a E SONEN 2 6 2 4 Switching On Off the equipment sesssssssssssrsrsnrnsrrrrrrrrnrnrnrrerrrrrrerne 2 8 2 5 Screen Icons and Dialog DOXES cc ec cccecsceseeeeeesceneeeeeeeeueaeeesneeueaneengs 2 9 2 0 MCAU ICC uxccanageaatewnrassacsnteantarsiaanamsneaaeteresvegatenserstenatenssanetasteneesnes 2 10 Er 9 9 d 0 ee ee en er ee ee Cee een ter er tee 2 14 ZF SOV SUCK savess cot svasineieerisasesianasa riers anne wesasnscnaanetenedansieciy cesaunia lt ees 2 14 2732 Key OOard SHORCCUCSioocresetesnecisecnnandeersdanwendawaseenisesetmassetanshesaenesaen 2 15 Ze
49. M demodulator and before applying the error correction or FEC Forward Error Correction LBER LDPC Bit Error Rate BER after been applied the LDPC Low density parity check error correction In a digital signal reception DVB T2 after the COFDM decoder two methods of error correction are applied DVB T2 uses two codes to correct errors that are the LDPC Low Density Parity Check combined with the BCH Bose Chaudhuri Hocquengham to protect against high levels of signal noise and interferences Next to the measurement LBER is shown the number of iterations LDPC that is the number of times the LDPC error correction decoder has to pass through the signal and the ESR Error Second Ratio after 20 seconds of the BCH decoder This measure indicates the percentage of time with errors after the BCH Error correction is internal with BCH and external with LDPC The internal gives basic error correction with minimum load while the external gives error correction with a correction additional charge July 2014 HD Lite Digital SATELLITE Television FIRST Generation DVB S standard QPSK modulation A1 1 3 E DVB S Parameters gt Channel Bandwidth It displays the channel bandwidth from 1 3 MHz to 60 75 MHz gt Spectral inversion It detects if the input signal has been inverted gt Symbol Rate It represents the number of times that the signal status changes in a period of time The bandwidth is related to this parameter
50. NB A Monobloc LNB is a module composed by 2 Universal LNB connected by a Tone burst switcher 2 inputs 1 output So it can be managed in the same way Also TWIN 2 independent outputs QUAD 4 independent outputs and OCTO versions exist 8 independent outputs In this case each output is controlled in a different way from the rest Important If it is desired to use Monobloc LNB with DiSEqC switchers is necessary to make sure that these are compatible Ad ag d i nA i Figure A3 2 July 2014 25 AX PROMAX HD Lite A3 4 3 DISEqC Switcher with 4 inputs and 1 output gt L D A 3A x Ca We a xo xo oe Ss POSITION Output Figure A3 3 This switcher allows the signal reception from four independent Universal LNBs coming from 4 different satellites on a single receiver As it is possible to observe in the attached scheme there are OPTION and POSITION switchers in cascade In order to switch it will be necessary to send an OPTION command and later a POSITION command that yields therefore a total of 4 possibilities Note the manufacturers usually assure the compatibility with the Tone burst commands SAT A B so that the second stage can be switched as much using a POSITION A B command as using a SAT A B command This allows us then to use the switcher like a Tone burst type with 2 inputs and 1 output With the HD RANGER Life it is very easy to use
51. Once loaded the name of the installation appears on the upper left corner of the screen accompanied by the symbol oO that means that is the current installation All measurements screenshots channel plans and other data since this moment will be stored in the current installation It opens a window that displays all data of the current installation and from where they can be edited changed or view more details in section 8 3 It creates a new installation with the data introduced by the user more details in section 8 4 It shows up a menu with some tools to use with the installations see section 8 5 8 3 E Installation Management In the list of installations press on the option Manage F2 to access to the Installation manager screen zas INSTALLATIONS Name Created Size O 19E2 AST O 19E2 DEFAULT TER Channel Sets 15 05 2012 SAT Channel Sets 56 KB Free space 101 MB Channel set information Name CCIR Band Terrestrial DiSEqC None Installation Figure 49 The DEFAULT installation is the installation preinstalled on the equipment It is like any other installation and it can load channel plans DiSEqC programs etc The DEFAULT installation can not be deleted or renamed July 2014 8 77 HD Lite 8 78 The window is divided into three fields Installation data It displays information about the installation using the following fields gt Name Name of the current install
52. R x carrier captures files to the current install DATALOGGER Datalogger files to the current installation SPECTROGRAM Spectrograms files to the current installation MEROGRAM Merograms files to the current installation TS Transport stream files to the current installation name Description name File byte nnn decimal size when send bbbb Description bbbb nnn Byte nnn decimal size to which the file will be divided to be send July 2014 43 HD Lite ai X po N Name INSTALLATION PC ZIP Description It sends a file from a PC to the equipment zipped with all files of the installation Order INSTALLATION ZIP NAME name SIZE size BLOCK bbbb name Description name Name abcd of the installation Byte nnn decimal size of the file when send bbbb Description bbbb nnn Byte size nnn decimal of blocks that will be send from the ZIP file Name _ INSTALLATION REMOVE It removes a installation INSTALLATION NAME name REMOVE a ved alto name Installation name abcd INSTALLATION ZIP It receives the installation from the host Configuration INSTALLATION NAME name ZIP Name of the installation abcd 44 July 2014 HD Lite a o i h a Name NB ___ o O It provides configures the LNB output LNB nb Response LNB nb Inb_resp Inb Description inb_resp OUTPUT Current selected output ENABLE LNB enable ON or disabled OFF VOLTAGE Last m
53. SATELLITE To access the CONSTELLATION tool Connect the RF input signal to the equipment Tune to a digital signal from satellite or terrestrial band Enter the MEASUREMENT or SPECTRUM mode Ws Press the key Tools Select CONSTELLATION The CONSTELLATION of the tuned signal appears July 2014 HD Lite AX PROMAX Constellation screen description Oiau CONSTELLATION Te Figure 41 Selected installation date and time Constellation window The colour scale placed at the left side indicates the signal quality in a qualitative way by a gradation of colours proportional to the density of symbols concentrated in a given area The colour scale ranges from black no symbols to red highest density Greater dispersion of the symbols indicates higher noise level or worse signal quality signal If there is symbols concentration with respect to the full grid see advanced menu for types of grid this is indicative of good ratio signal noise or absence of problems Selected band battery level Constellation modulation Data Window The data shown are Start Carrier Stop Carrier Power C N and frequency channel Spectrum of the tuned signal Spectrum is displayed with the span selected at the SPECTRUM mode Signal status searching locked multiplex name Softkeys menus gt Joystick Left Right Frequency Channel change depending on the tuning July 2014 mode 7 59 HD Lite
54. Selected installation date and time Number of view total views Selected band battery level Tuned service image Spectrum Measured values of the signal in the frequency channel the cursor is pointing Signal status searching locked multiplex name and name of the selected service Softkeys menus gt Joystick up down It changes service gt Joystick left right It changes channel frequency depending on the tuning mode 5 46 July 2014 MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES CHAPTER 5 TV MODE AX PROMAX July 2014 TV 3 3 SCREEN TV SERVICE DATA VIDEO SERVICE Nano au RGE2 E Provider O 12549 K ND 83916 FREE DTV 40000 S iD AUDIO NIAD 2 T 3 Fa 4 F LCN o Info w F App Type Profile 4 MPEG2 TS locked RGE2 Figure 37 Type Type MPEG 4 AVC YP inci 1280x720p an Format 48 kHz Stereo HP L4 0 PID ne 319 kbps se iby 1100 La 1 HD Selected installation date and time Tuned service image Tuned service information gt TYPE gt FORMAT gt gt PROFILE PID Encoding type and video transmission rate Resolution horizontal x vertical aspect ratio and frequency Profile level Video program identifier Number of view total views Selected band battery level Tuned service information gt v y Vvvy v y NETWORK PROVIDER NID ONID TSID SID MHP LCN Info FREE SCRAMBLED DTV DS
55. TION DEFLATE Description It compresses the installation if it exists If is the current installation it changes to DEFAULT installation before the compression Configuration INSTALLATION NAME name DEFLATE Name of the installation abcd 40 July 2014 HD Lite PAPROMAX amp Name _ INSTALLATION FILE Description Response July 2014 It reads an xm PC file of the current installation and sends it to a INSTALLATION CURRENT tag name BLOCK bbbb INSTALLATION SIZE size Description tag SPECTRUM TER CH SAT CH DISEQC_PROGRAM PNG CONSTELLATION ECHOES MER DATALOGGER SPECTROGRAM MEROGRAM TS name abcd nnn It reads spectrum captures in the current installation It reads terrestrial channel plans in the current install It reads satellite channel plans in the current install It reads DISEQC programs in the current installation It reads print screens in the current installation It reads constellation captures in the current install It reads echo captures in the current installation It reads MER x carrier captures in the current install It reads datalogger in the current installation It reads spectrograms in the current installation It reads merograms in the current installation It reads transport stream in the current installation Description name Name abcd of the capture In case of a DATALOGGER tag the name could be the
56. VB T Measurements Power Measured power over the entire bandwidth of the channel C N Carrier Noise ratio where C is the received power of the modulated carrier signal and N is the received noise power To measure it correctly the channel should be tuned at its centre frequency MER Modulation error ratio with link margin LM The link margin indicates the safety margin respect to the MER level measured for the degradation of the signal up to the QEF Quasi Error Free value MER represents the ratio between the average power of the DVB signal and the average noise power of the signal constellation BER VBER CBER It is the system error rate In a system of digital terrestrial signal reception after the COFDM decoder two methods of error correction are applied Each time an error correction is applied on the digital signal the error rate changes so if the error rate is measured at the demodulator output or after Viterbi or at the Reed Solomon decoder output different error rates are obtained CBER BER measurement for digital signal before the error correction BER before FEC VBER BER measurement for digital signal after error correction BER after Viterbi In order to have a reference about the image quality it is considered that a system has good quality when it produces less than one un correctable error per hour of transmission This border is called QEF Quasi English Error Free and corresponds to one error rate
57. X PROMAX C A2 1 5 Finetuningthedish ssid Once we know for certain that we are on ASTRA 19E it is time to make fine adjustments to the dish to optimise the alignment There are two goals to achieve On the one hand we want to receive the maximum amount of power possible and on the other hand we need to make sure we minimise the interference from the crossed polarisation In order to maximise the received signal power we need only to move the dish s azimuth and elevation very carefully ensuring that the display of the spectrum analyser show us the highest values possible As you move the dish s position you will see the signal change on the spectrum analyser Cross polarisation is adjusted by rotating the LNB on its axis As you do so you will see on the HD RANGER L e screen how the channels interfering from the opposite polarisation go up and down the objective being to leave the LNB in such a position that those channels are as low as possible A2 1 6 Testing signal quality The HD RANGER L e is the ideal instrument for quick and effective checks of Signal quality not only because it shows all measurements in one single screen but also because the meter doesn t require bothering configuration processes gt Option 1 Frequency mode I can tune in frequency mode all channels coming up in the screen all of them or the most representative ones only We can move our cursor in frequency mode in spectrum through out the band When we s
58. a special digital signal that the equipment does not demodulate It can be used for special signals as DAB DAB or COFDM modulation with narrow BW In this type of signal the user can select the signal bandwidth by accessing the Signal Parameters menu on the key The power measure and C N ratio is calculated according to the bandwidth selected by the user The triple cursor shows on screen the BW selected by the user July 2014 3 33 HD Lite lt 4 SPECTRUM ANALYSER MODE 4 1 a Introduction On the left side the equipment has three function keys which give direct access to the three most important functions One of them is the SPECTRUM ANALYSER key that displays the signal spectrum received through the RF input connector The Spectrum Analyser mode allows checking the signals on the frequency band to visually identify any anomalies and to measure the signal and display the image tuned Thanks to the auto identification or StealthID function the system is constantly identifying the signal it receives for more information refer to StealthID function When it detects the signal type it locks it and displays the information 4 2 i Mode of operation 4 34 Connect the RF input signal to the equipment Select through the Settings menu the frequency band terrestrial or satellite Access the SPECTRUM ANALYSER option by pressing the key Press again We to display the next view July 2014 Ava
59. able screenshots Channel Plans On the list of files area it shows all available channel plans Datalogger On the list of files area it shows all available dataloggers DiSEqC On the list of files area it shows all available DiSEqC commands Data Captures On the list of files area it shows all available data captures Service Databases On the list of files area it shows the service database available F2 File Mark All It marks all files on the list of files area Unmark All It deselects all files on the list of files area Delete It deletes all selected files on the list of files area Copy to USB It saves selected files on the list of files area to an USB stick connected to the equipment If the name of the file to be copied is greater than 8 characters the system cuts it To keep the file names with more than 8 characters it is recommended to export the complete installation using the Export to USB option see Tools section The Datalogger files copied to the USB cannot be used to generate reports by the NetUpdate program To do this the datalogger files must be exported directly through the NetUpdate program see the NetUpdate user s manual for details 8 79 HD Lite Fa Installation gt Add TER Channel Plan It adds a terrestrial channel plan available in the equipment to the current installation gt Add SAT Channel Plan It adds a satellite channel plan available in the equip
60. am provider name Network identifier where the signal is distributed Identifier of the original network where the signal Originates Transport stream identifier Service Identifier Interactive service Logic Channel Number It is the first logic number assigned to the first channel in the receiver Additional service information Free scrambled transmission Standard type of transmission Type of audio encoding and transmission speed Service audio format Bit depth sampling frequency sound reproduction Broadcasting language ID of the audio program At any time it is possible to display the SERVICE LIST pressing the F3 key and show all the programs and services available within the tuned channel Selecting one particular channel or service becomes very intuitive July 2014 HD Lite Ca ANNEX 3 DiSEqC COMMANDS A3 1 E DiSEqC introduction The DiSEqC Digital Satellite Equipment Control is an open protocol created by Eutelsat in 1997 as a communication standard between satellite TV receivers and external peripherals The DiSEGC communications are based on the control commands which travel combined with power voltage through the coaxial cable that leads the TV signal The compatible peripherals and receivers detect these commands and react in agreement with such A DiSEqC command is a digital command represented by a succession of binary messages 0 and 1 obtained when modulating the 22 kHz
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62. arge 8 hours to achieve a 100 charge Average discharge time with external supply disabled With the battery full charge the average battery time is 3 hours With the battery at 80 charge the average battery time is 2 h 2 2 4 E Usage Tips The battery is losing storage capacity as you go through its life Contact your PROMAX distributor when necessary to replace the battery To prolong battery life the user should follow these tips In case of providing a long inactivity period of the equipment it is advisable to make every 3 months a charge discharge cycle and a subsequent partial charge 40 aprox It is advisable to keep it in a cool place and away from heat You should avoid keeping the battery for a long period of time at full load or fully discharged There is not necessary to wait to fully discharge before a charge because these batteries have no memory effect July 2014 2 5 ALPRomax SA 7 ite 2 3 Equipment Details Front View Installations Spectrum management Measurement Key Joystick Key TFT screen Betting HO RANGER Lite CHAR BAT Battery E K chargin XPO EY Reset press 2 and hold 5s TV Key T Softkeys Figure 4 2 6 July 2014 oe LL AKPROMAX CHAPTER 2 SETTING UP AAFP R O MAX Lateral view Power input connector mini USB connector ON OFF slide switch Figure 5 Top view RF input connector Figure 6 July 2014 2 7 HD Lite lt
63. ase July 2014 11 97 HD Lite lt ANNEX 1 SIGNALS DESCRIPTION Al1 1 E DIGITAL signals A1 1 1 Digital TERRESTRIAL Television FIRST Generation DVB T standard COFDM modulation E DVB T Parameters gt Channel Bandwidth This parameter affects the frequency separation of the carriers Its value is 6 MHz 7 MHz or 8 MHz gt Spectral inversion It detects if the input signal has been inverted gt FFT Mode It defines the number of modulation carriers between values 2k 4k and 8k gt Guard Interval This parameter is the dead time between symbols its purpose is to detect problems due to multipath echoes This parameter is expressed in terms of the symbol duration 1 4 1 8 1 16 1 32 gt Constellation Modulation used by the carriers It also defines the noise immunity of the system QPSK 16 QAM and 64 QAM gt Code rate Also known as Viterbi ratio It defines the ratio between the number of data bits and the total number of bits transmitted the difference corresponds to the number of control bits for the detection and recovery of errors gt TS Hierarchy The DVB T standard gives the possibility of TDT transmissions with hierarchical levels that is the simultaneous transmission of the same program with different image qualities and levels of protection to different noises so the receiver can switch to a signal of lesser quality when reception conditions are not optimal July 2014 1 HD Lite a D
64. ate the elevation and azimuth we Should put on the dish to begin our coarse antenna alignment There are formulas to do that but some websites are again quite useful There are also free mobile applications as Dish Aligner which calculates the elevation and azimuth and also your current location determined by the GPS of the mobile phone This one is especially interesting for you can select the satellite you want and then position yourself on a graphical map http science nasa gov realtime jtrack 3d JTrack3D html For example if we take ASTRA 19E position and select a location somewhere in Germany e Latitude 50 degrees North e Longitude 12 degrees East The required elevation and azimuth for the dish are e Azimuth 170 degrees e Elevation 31 degrees Elevation must be measured from the horizontal level may be using an inclinometer and azimuth from magnetic north with a compass there are some applications for smartphones as mentioned above that include compass and inclinometer although it should be noted that the measurements made by mobile phone may be affected by interferences from the antenna itself It is normally more practical to start with azimuth moving the dish horizontally and then look for the elevation a 31 degrees Figure A2 7 July 2014 19 PX PROM A xa A2 1 4 Knowing what satellite we areon 20 And the HD RANGER L te comes into action Our dish is now more ore less lookin
65. ation file gt Created Date and time the current installation was created gt Size Data size of the current installation gt TER Channel Plans It shows the number of terrestrial channel plans in the installation gt SAT Channel Plans It displays the number of satellite channel plans in the installation gt Free Space It displays the amount of memory available List of files area It shows all channel plans screenshots dataloggers DiSEqC commands data captures and service databases available for the selected installation To move along this file list move the joystick up or down Any of these files can be selected or deselected by pressing the joystick Display area It is the area where the file on which the cursor is placed at the file list is displayed The file is displayed only if the cursor is placed for a moment In the case of displaying a channel plan file it shows the name the band and the DiSEqC commands For a screenshot it displays a thumbnail of the full screen as captured In the remaining cases it only shows the description of the file type July 2014 HD Lite The installation manager menu has four options linked with the softkeys They are described below F1 Filter by type gt gt Th gt gt gt gt July 2014 All On the list of files area it shows all type of files Screenshots On the list of files area it shows all avail
66. bandwidth 14 July 2014 HD Lite lt a ANNEX 2 HOW TO POINT A DISH ANTENNA A2 1 E INSTALLING A SATELLITE DISH USING HD RANGERLite A2 1 1 A bit of history That s it a bit of history First artificial satellite Sputnik I was launched 4th of October of 1957 by former Soviet Union It was about the size of a basketball with a weight below 100 Kgrs but went down in history as the start point for the Space age For three weeks it was transmitting radio signals to the excited scientist on the ground that were gathering fundamental data for the launches to come Figure A2 1 The first telecommunications satellite was Telstar J launched in 1962 Some people refers to Echo J as the World s first in 1960 but it was a passive signal reflector as opposite to Telstar that carried electronics on board like today s satellites It was also the first to use the modern transponder concept where the Satellite transposes the up link frequency 6 390 GHz in Telstar to another down link frequency 4 170 GHz in this case Telstar J trans mitter power was 3 Watts and the antenna was omnidirectional Figure A2 2 July 2014 15 HD Lite lt The antenna used to receive the test transmission from Telstar J was a huge horn inside a bubble radome 48 metres high Only four decades later we have broken all records and we have high power DBS geostationary satellites carrying a lot of digital transponders on board and we start to worry about space j
67. cted signal is ANALOGUE Pressing the F3 key it allows selecting the type of analogue input between antenna via RF connector and external this option is not in operation for this model gt Aspect Ratio This option is available only if the detected or selected signal is ANALOGUE It allows the user to select the image aspect ratio 4 3 16 9 gt Advanced It gives access to two options Audio It allows the user to select among the audio tracks available TS Data It shows the IRG data descriptor If the signal contains this carrier identifier this option will be enabled If the signal does not contain this identifier the option will be disabled for more information refer to section IRG descriptor 5 4 a IRG Descriptor The analyser is compatible with IRG recommendations and it can extract the Carrier ID information and display it conveniently showing all the details This information is useful to identify the interference thanks to the carrier ID This identifier provides enough information to detect the interference source customer name contact data geo coordinates etc and allows the operators to communicate directly with the RFI source to resolve the incident July 2014 ie MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES a Noo Cr CHAPTER 5 TV MODE AXPRO MAX IRG descriptor function is available only for signals containing the carrier identifier To access this feature Connect the RF input signal to the equ
68. d terrestrial band It allows the user to select between terrestrial or satellite frequency band N Click here to watch this video Switching satellite terrestrial bands July 2014 2 23 HD Lite lt a gt External power supply available for terrestrial and satellite band It enables or disables the power supplied to external units such as preamplifiers for antennas in terrestrial television or LNBs and FI simulators in the case of satellite TV When this option is enabled the equipment applies at the output the voltage selected by the user in the Supply Voltage option see below When this option is disabled the equipment does not apply the voltage to the output but it will behave as if it did gt Supply voltages available for terrestrial and satellite band It selects the voltage to be applied to an external unit Available voltage options change depending on the selected band Voltage available for terrestrial band is External 5 V 12 V and 24 V Voltage available for satellite band is External 5 V for devices working with 5 V such as GPS active antennas 13 V 13 V 22 kHz 15V 18 V 18 V 22 kHz In the External supply voltage option the power supplier to the external units is the power supplier of the antenna preamplifiers terrestrial television or the satellite TV receiver collective or domestic gt LNB Drain available for terrestrial and satellite band The LNB drain option shows the vo
69. dard type Field frequency Configuration SIGNAL signal signal_config Terrestrial signal standard Cable signal standard Analogue signal standard Satellite signal standard Satellite signal standard 2d generation COLOR PAL coding colour NTSC coding colour SECAM coding colour STANDARD Analogue standard type BG Analogue standard type DK Analogue standard type I Analogue standard type N Analogue standard type M Analogue standard type L 52 July 2014 HD Lite Name SPECTRUM It configures the span and or the reference level Configuration SPECTRUM spectrum spectrum_config Spectrum spectrum_config Description spectrum_config Value nn n of the reference level in units of the current band nnn span value number F Order of magnitude for the span F values lt empty gt 1 K 1x 10 E3 M 1 x 10 E6 G 1 x 10 E9 Name TUNE It provides configures the frequency TUNE TUNE BAND band_resp FREQ freq_resp SAT Satellite band Configuration TUNE BAND band_conf FREQ freq_conf Description band_conf TER Terrestrial band SAT Satellite band Description freq_conf nnnF nnn Number value for the frequency F Order of magnitude for the frequency F values lt empty gt 1 K 1x10 E3 M 1 x 10 E6 G 1 x 10 E9 July 2014 53 HD Lite ai F lt j po N TUNE CH It provides configures the channel T TUNE CH Response TUNE BAND band_resp PLAN plan_ resp CH ch_ resp Description band_res
70. does not respond to the habitual switching commands for a LNB 13V 18V 22kHz it is necessary the complete DiSEqC sequence to cause the commutation 28 July 2014 HD Lite lt a A3 5 2 Multiswitch 2 Satellites gt LNB QUATTRO 1 LNB QUATTRO 2 SS wt tt et wt ka E E ka aY a vt aN gt B D 4a AS Output Figure A3 7 This type of multiswitch is used usually to switch the Astra 19 and Hotbird 13 satellites As in the previous case if for a certain satellite it is desired to change of band or polarisation it is not sufficient with changing the corresponding parameter but in addition it is necessary to send the command SAT A B corresponding to cause the switching even if one does not change of satellite __Band___ Polarization Command Output July 2014 Horizontal Vertical Horizontal Vertical Horizontal Vertical Horizontal Vertical Satellite 1 Satellite 1 Satellite 1 Satellite 1 Satellite 2 Satellite 2 Satellite 2 Satellite 2 29 HD Lite lt a A3 5 3 Multiswitch 4 Satellites LNB QUATTRO 1 LNB QUATTRO 2 LNB QUATTRO 3 LNB QUATTRO 4 AL AL AL At At At At At X n X a n X y x ae x a x ne x a oon a Rh oz a 3 a o aN aN so gt so 42 4 3 so y gt o aN D GO Ka es KBA ep ap Ka ep Can Cap Ka Ce Can BA Ce TOA POSITION POSITION OPTION Output Figure A3 8 This type of multiswitch allows to distribute the signal coming from 4
71. e cable between the HD RANGER L e and the PC is supplied with the equipment You need at least Windows XP to work with HD RANGER L e Drivers only work for Windows operative systems What drivers do is to create a virtual COM port so the software application can see the equipment July 2014 33 HD Lite A4 3 OperationMode 4200 2 2 2 The HD RANGER L e accepts remote commands at any time which the instrument is on That is it is not necessary to put the instrument in special remote control mode rather this mode is selected immediately when it detects a complete command during the time necessary for its execution The protocol communication is as follows 1 HD RANGER L e transmits a XON code 11H every second The aim is to indicate to any possible remote device that the equipment is ready to receive data At this moment data streams can be sent it Each data stream is composed by a Stream beginning code 2AH b Set of characters that describe data message c CR carriage return code ODH Once a data stream has been sent will be received a XOFF code 13H indicating that the transmission is stopped Next in case of correct message an ACK acknowledge code 06H is expected or a NAK not acknowledge code 15H in the opposite case If the sent message requires answers it will be sent at this moment Once completed the data stream transmission the HD RANGER L e will send a XON c
72. e name if necessary see section 2 7 4 Then press E3 OK to end the capture or F4 Cancel for cancellation gt Display To display the captured screen click on the Installations Management key Select the installation where the capture was done and press gt Manage Press U Filter by type Select the Screen Shots or Data Captures option This will limit the list to the selected It appears a list of all the captures Move the joystick up or down to find the file to be displayed Leave the cursor on the file to be displayed It appears a progress bar that lasts a few seconds depending on the size Then the capture appears July 2014 HD Lite t To see the capture in full screen just press the Fa Options key and then on the menu press View in Full Screen To exit the full screen view press any softkeys To delete or copy the capture to a USB stick select the captures by pressing the joystick and then select the appropriate option from the menu 2 File Captures can also be viewed on a PC by downloading the installation file using the NetUpdate software see the NetUpdate manual for more information Explore Channel Plan 7 6 7 6 1 Description This option performs a scan of the selected channel plan It detects where active Signals are in a channel plan and in which channels of the current channel plan Signal is received With this information it explores these channels with si
73. easurement of the LNB output voltage CURRENT Last measurement of the LNB output current AVAILABLE Available output with the current configuration UNDERVOLTAGE Under voltage alarm OVERCURRENT Overvoltage alarm SHORTCIRCUIT Short circuit alarm DRAINLED LED DRAIN lit ON or not OFF Configuration LNB nb Inb_conf mb Inb_conf Description Inb_conf Enables the LNB Disables the LNB OUTPUT LNB output voltage nnn must be one of the available options seen on the command LNB AVAILABLE Name iE It provides configures the LTE filter status LTE LTE Ite_resp Description te_resp ON LTE filter enabled OFF LTE filter disabled Configuration LTE te_conf o ee Description te_conf ON It enables the LTE filter OFF It disables the LTE filter July 2014 45 HD Lite 46 It provides information of all active measurements Question MEASURE measure Response MEASURE measure measure_resp units lt empty gt All the active measures POWER Digital channel power LEVEL Analogue channel level C N of the measured channel dB Video Audio carrier ratio MER measurement value CBER measurement value VBER measurement value LBER measurement value Link Margin value Measurement within scale Measurement under the value shown Measurement over the value shown gt Description units dB Measurement units for C N V A MER dBm dBuV dBmvV Measurement units for POWER LEVEL July 2014 HD Lite It pro
74. ed gt Guard Interval It corresponds to the dead time between symbols its purpose is to detect echoes due to multi paths This parameter is expressed in terms of the symbol duration 1 64 or 1 128 gt Constellation COFDM modulation with constellations QPSK 16QAM 64QAM 256QAM 1024QAM 4096QAM The constellation refers to all the selected PLP data gt Code rate It defines the ratio between the number of data bits and the total number of bits transmitted the difference corresponds to the number of control bits for the error detection and recovery 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 8 9 9 10 gt DSLICE id DSLICE identifier A DSLICE is a data packet containing a group of several PLPs gt PLP id PLP Physical Layer Pipes identifier Layers are used by the system to transmit compressed data such audio video and more July 2014 11 HD Lite 12 DVB C2 Measurements Power Measured power over the entire bandwidth of the channel C N Carrier Noise ratio where C is the received power of the modulated carrier signal and N is the noise power received To measure it correctly the channel should be tuned at its centre frequency MER Modulation Error ratio with indication of Link Margin LM The link margin indicates the safety margin respect to the MER level measured for the degradation of the signal up to the QEF Quasi Error Free value MER represents the ratio between the average power of the DVB signal and the average
75. el plan during datalogger there will be a pause if this option was selected when creating the datalogger User can pause and resume the datalogger process at any time by pressing on the key Pause At the end it saves the data and allows watching the results on screen by channel plan To change the channel plan press on the F3 key It is also possible to download Datalogger files to a PC by the NetUpdate software free download on the PROMAX website Once downloaded the program can generate reports with these files This is not possible with the datalogger files exported directly to a USB without using NetUpdate Information of Service lists are in the XML files downloaded to the PC gt Description of Datalogger screens July 2014 The following describes the datalogger screen 8 Channel C15 Channel Set Freq 1684 00 MHz C SCS DL 11434 00 MHz Test Searching signal DVB S Cancel Figure 44 Selected installation date and time Current datalogger name Selected band battery level Exploring the spectrum in real time Level Power C N ratio MER time remaining to identify a channel ela psed time since the start of the channel identification Softkey menus 7 69 MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES 2XPR OMAX CHAPTER 7 TOOLS Cancel It cancels the datalogger a Pause It pauses datalogger until the user resumes by pressing again Current channel plan pr
76. equency where is placed the marker Level Power level at the frequency where is placed the marker AF Difference of frequency between the marker and the main cursor AL Difference of power level between the marker and the main cursor Off Permanent Curtain It allows the user to display the current signal with the maximum values measured for each frequency The OFF option disables this function The Curtain option displays the maximum values in blue for a moment with the current signal The Permanent option maintains maximum signal on the screen This option is especially useful for detecting sporadic noises 4 41 HD Lite gt Min Hold Off Permanent Curtain It allows the user to display the current signal with the minimum values measured for each frequency The OFF option disables this function The Curtain option displays the minimum values in green for a moment with the current signal The Permanent option maintains minimum signal on the screen This option is useful for detecting interferences in TV cable or identify deterministic interference in analogue and digital channels gt Persistence When active the signal is displayed on a coloured background The signal prior to current signal persists for a while before disappearing so the user can see how the signal changes easily gt Vertical Range It allows to adjust the vertical scale on screen Available values are 1 2 5 and 10 dB per division
77. ervices Channel Set 2 Signal type Frequenc View Advanced Parameters Tools TL External Analog input A Tuning Signal Parameters Advanced TS Data Aspect Ratio KY MEASUREMENT MENU P Channel Channel Set Channel View all services Frequency Signal Parameters Signal type View Advanced Parameters Select Service Explore Channel Set Datalogger Echoes O Constellation T Attenuation Test rhe eo dnd Only available for digital channels Only available for analogue channels a Option available for terrestrial band D Option available for satellite band July 2014 2 11 USER S MANUAL CHAPTER 2 SETTING UP t SETTINGS MENU Satellite Settings LNB Low Osc LNB High Osc LNB Drain Video amp Audio Settings Volume 1s Brightness Color System PAL 50 Hz PAL 60 Hz NTSC SECAM Option available for terrestrial band Terrestrial Disabled External 5V Toy 24V Terrestrial Satellite Off On Off On Off Horizontal Left Vertical Right Low High Disabled Enabled External 5V 13V 13V 22 kHz 15V 18V 18V 22 kHz D Option available for satellite band July 2014 USER S MANUAL CHAPTER 2 SETTING UP AAP R O MAX WV INSTALLATIONS MANAGEMENT Manage a Filter by type All Screen Shots Channel Sets Dataloggers DiSEqC Data Captures if
78. est Point It contains four options Jump to It allows selecting a test point Create New It creates a new test point Delete current It deletes the current test point Delete all It deletes all test points of the datalogger y me Export key 7 5 1 Description It captures what is displaying at that moment The capture can be an image measurement data or both This is set through the Preferences menu Export button option Data capture is saved in a XML file with all data measurements and text that is on screen at this time The image is saved in a PNG file Data can be viewed later on through an external software July 2014 7 71 HD Lite lt m 7 5 2 Operation 7 72 gt Settings Press the Management Installation key for one second to enter Preferences menu Go to the label Measures and select your option in Export button There are three options available Screen Only Data Only or Screen Data Screen Only saves the screen image in PNG format Data Only saves measurement data on screen in a XML file format Screen Data saves both screen and data F1 Once selected press to save changes and EY to exit Preferences gt Capture Press the Export key ey for one second when on screen appears the screen to be captured A progress bar shows the progress of the capture process Then the virtual keyboard appears with the default name assigned to the file Edit th
79. ew DVB S2 Measurements Power Measured power over the entire bandwidth of the channel C N Carrier Noise ratio where C is the received power of the modulated carrier signal and N is the noise power received To measure it correctly the channel should be tuned at its centre frequency HD Lite lt a MER Modulation Error ratio MER represents the ratio between the average power of the DVB signal and the average noise power of the signal constellation Next to the MER appears the Link Margin LM measurement The LM is equivalent to the noise margin NM and indicates the distance to the QEF usually defined as a one lost packet per hour The LM is measured in dB and its value corresponds to the safety margin that separates from the QEF The greater is the LM better the quality signal LM of negative values implies no reception or that video errors are starting to appear in the video or audio so clear LM of O zero value will display a service and occasionally some artefact BER CBER LBER It is the bit error rate There are two measurements related to BER CBER Channel Bit Error Rate BER of the signal after the QPSK 8PSK demodulator and before applying the error correction or FEC Forward Error Correction LBER LDPC Bit Error Rate BER after applying LDPC error correction Low density parity check This standard makes use of two codes to correct errors that are the LDPC Low Density Parity Check codes combined wi
80. f the tuned video gt C N Ratio between the modulated signal power and noise power for the same bandwidth depending on TV standard The modulation error ratio MER used in digital systems is analogue to the Signal Noise S N ratio in analogue systems T Carrier level is measured by a quasi peak detector 100 kHz BW The noise level is measured with an average detector and corrected to refer it to the bandwidth equivalent to channel noise according to its definition for the TV selected standard gt Video Audio Ratio between levels of the video carrier to audio carrier E Analogue FM In the analogue FM measurement mode signal the display acts as an analogue indicator of signal representing the signal at the input The equipment also demodulates the FM carrier radio and can be listened through the speaker July 2014 13 HD Lite m A1 2 2 Satelliteband o a Analogue TV In the measurement mode of analogue signals in the satellite band measures available are gt Level Measurement of the tuned carrier level gt C N Ratio between the modulated signal power and noise power equivalent to the same bandwidth as TV standard The modulation error ratio MER used in digital systems is analogue to the Signal Noise S N ratio in analogue systems The carrier level is measured by a quasi peak detector 4 MHz BW The noise level is measured with an average value detector 230 kHz and corrected to refer it to the channel
81. g in the direction where we presume our bird is parked With the HD RANGER L e connected to the output of the LNB we select satellite frequency range antenna alignment mode span of 200 MHz and set the power supply voltage to one of the possible values We will take for example 13 VDC which will take us to the VERTICAL polarisation and LOW band We can use 80 dBuV for the reference level for we can change that at pleasure depending on the amount of signal we get Something will come up on the HD RANGER Life screen It will normally be a weak signal that may come from the desired satellite or from the neighbour ones for the dish is not properly tuned up yet Swing the dish slightly horizontally and vertically until a decent signal is shown on the screen There we have a Satellite but which one is it Most probably the signals we are looking at are digital transponders from the unknown satellite The HD RANGER L e can be operated in frequency or channel modes Tune any of those digital channels in frequency mode using the joystick and the markers shown on the screen The HD RANGER L e will tell you what satellite and or orbital position you are on in a matter of seconds If we are unlucky and this is not the satellite we want then we only need to move the dish slightly to pick the signal from the next satellite and repeat the process Power 81 5 dBuV C N 14 4dB MER 13 6dB BCR ESR 0s 0 Figure A2 8 July 2014 HD Lite A
82. g one it gives a warning before import 9 1 2 E Connecting a computer host to the D RANGER L e device This connection allows the communication between the equipment and a computer via an USB cable or using the program NetUpdate of PROMAX NetUpdate program can be downloaded for free from the PROMAX website Connect the equipment to your computer using the cable CC 041 mini USB male USB male supplied with the equipment For more information about the NetUpdate program see the user s manual which is available on the PROMAX website 9 84 July 2014 HD Lite lt 9 2 RF Connector gt DiSEqC commands The RF connector allows controlling an antenna using DiSEqC commands DiSEqC Digital Satellite Equipment Control is a communication protocol between the satellite receiver and the installation accessories of satellite switches LNBs etc proposed by Eutelsat in order to standardize the diversity of switching protocols 13 to 18 V 22 kHz and meet the needs of the installations for the reception of digital TV July 2014 Connect the RF cable see Figure 6 to the RF connector for the input signal of the equipment Press the Spectrum key to access the spectrum analyser mode Press the Settings key and select the satellite band From the Settings menu select the polarization horizontal vertical and the satellite band high low If necessary enable the Supply output and select the sup
83. gnal looking for any broadcast and identifying them Operation Explore Channel plan tool is available for all signals July 2014 Channel S04 Power Freq 189 25 MHz C N 0 0 dB Connect the RF input signal to the equipment Access the MEASUREMENTS mode or SPECTRUM mode Press the Tools key 3 Select the Explore Channel Plan option The first screen of Explore Channel Plan appears DEFAULT O2 07 2012 13 51 54 7 dBuV Searching signal DVB T 8 MHz Cancel Figure 46 7 73 HD Lite After the exploration the following screen appears gt 02 07 2012 13 51 CHANNEL SET EXPLORA a DVB T 8 0 MHz DVB C 7 0 MHz DVB T 8 0 MHz DVB C 3 1 MHz DVB T 8 0 MHz annel Power 62 7 dBuV DVB T 8 0 MHz Freq 858 00 MHz CJN gt 27 4dB DVB T 8 0 MHz DVB T 8 0 MHz DVB T 8 0 MHz DVB T 8 0 MHz DVB T 8 0 MHz Discard Figure 47 The window is divided into three areas Spectrum and Measurement It shows the cursor scrolling through each of the channels of the channel plan On the bottom of the screen the channel and frequency appears next to the Power Level and the C N ratio Progress Bar It shows the signal type detected and the scan progress in real time At the end a box shows a message informing the exploration process has finished Channel plan At the end of the process it shows the channels that have been detected during the channel plan explorati
84. gnal after error correction BER after Viterbi In a system for receiving digital satellite signals DVB S after the QPSK decoder two methods of error correction are applied Each time an error correction is applied on a digital signal its error rate changes so if we measure the error rate at the output of the QPSK demodulator or after Viterbi or after the Reed Solomon output decoder the error rates obtained are different July 2014 HD A1 1 4 July 2014 Lite Digital SATELLITE television signal of SECOND generation DVB S2 standard QPSK 8PSK modulation E DVB S2 Parameters gt Channel Bandwidth It displays the channel bandwidth from 1 3 MHz to 60 75 MHz Spectral inversion It detects if the input signal has been inverted Symbol Rate It represents the number of times the signal status changes in a period of time The bandwidth is related to this parameter Roll Off Factor Roll off factor of Nyquist filter It indicates the excess of bandwidth over the ideal bandwidth Constellation QPSK or 8PSK modulation for DVB S2 signal constellation Code rate It defines the ratio between the number of data bits and the total number of bits transmitted the difference corresponds to the number of control bits for the error detection and recovery PLP id It is the PLP identifier In the case of PLP Single mode identifies the input stream 0 255 In the case of PLP Multiple mode clients can choose the PLP ID to vi
85. gure When finished press joystick to save the selected value or any function key to exit without saving The frequency can be changed directly with the joystick in FR mode ne Tm gt Click here to watch this video Manual input of frequencies gt Centre Frequency This option is available only for the Spectrum Analyser mode It displays the value of the central frequency on the screen To edit Place over the Frequency option and press the joystick The option is highlighted in yellow to indicate it is in edit mode Move the joystick left right to move between the figures and up down to change the figure When finished press joystick to save the selected value or any function key to exit without saving July 2014 6 53 HD Lite 6 54 gt Reference level This option is available only for the Spectrum Analyser mode It displays the reference level To edit Place over the Reference Level option and press joystick The option is highlighted in yellow to indicate it is in edit mode Move the joystick left right to move between the figures and up down to change the figure When finished press joystick to save the selected value or any function key to exit without saving The Reference Level can be changed directly pushing the joystick up or down gt Span This option is available only for the Spectrum Analyser mode It Shows the span which is the frequency range displayed on screen To edit
86. he graph corresponds to the delay in receiving the echo on the main path the stronger signal The vertical axis represents the attenuation of the echo in dB on the main path Data box with main data regarding echoes In the list of echoes it shows the power the delay in microseconds and the distance in kilometres to the echoes Signal status searching locked multiplex name Softkeys menus gt Joystick left right CHANNEL FREQUENCY active mode It changes the channel frequency according to the tuning type selected gt Joystick up down ECHOES mode It changes Zoom Remember to press the joystick to change the ECHOES mode to CHANNEL mode 7 62 July 2014 HD Lite 7 2 3 Menu Options At the bottom of the screen there are four menus available via the function keys It displays the channel frequency where is pointing the cursor it allows the user to select a channel or frequency a channel plan and access the tuning menu It displays the selected transmission standard menu and accesses the signal parameters r F E J F2 th It displays the Tools menu SEEN H Go It displays the Advanced menu The ZOOM option changes the zoom on the echoes windows Zooms are 1x 2x 4x and 8x 7 3 E Attenuation Test 7 3 1 This feature allows the user to easily check the response of the telecommunications installations before antennas and headers are working It allows the user to evaluate t
87. he previous step or Cancel it cancels the process When finish the new installation created will be the current installation 85 Tools O aa In the list of installations when pressing the Tools FA option it shows a menu with some options to edit the installation files gt July 2014 Mark All It selects all installations in the list of installations Unmark All It deselects all installations in the list of installations Archive It compresses using the ZIP algorithm the selected installations to save more space A zipped installation shows a box icon 3 at the left side in the list of installations A zipped installation can be loaded as anyone else but the load time can be slightly higher because previously it is unzipped automatically Once the installation is unzipped the user must re zip it if necessary To transfer an installation file from the equipment to a PC it must have been previously zipped Delete It deletes the selected installations and all the files associated to them The DEFAULT installation cannot be deleted Rename It edits the name of the installation selected in the list of installations The installation by default DEFAULT cannot be renamed Export to USB It saves the installations files selected in the list of installations to an USB stick connected to the instrument The installation file is exported in zip format Import from USB It imports installation files from a USB
88. he response along the complete range of frequencies by measuring the losses attenuation in the distribution of TV signals comparing reference levels at headend output and at each house antenna plugs 7 is is July 2014 7 63 HD Lite 7 3 2 Operation 7 64 Attenuation test function is available for all signals In Settings select the terrestrial or satellite band Access the MEASURES or SPECTRUM mode Press the Tools key F Select the Attenuation Test option The Attenuation Test function for the signal appears on screen First set the parameters before the test pressing the Advanced E4 key Frequencies of pilot signals pilot O pilot 1 and pilot 2 maximum attenuation and threshold attenuation see more details in the next section Then it is necessary to Set References This requires a signal generator We recommend to use of one of the PROMAX signal generators RP 050 RP 080 RP 110 or RP 250 depending on the frequency band Connect the generator and the equipment where the origin of the signal distribution is in the installation antenna headend etc or connect the generator directly to the RF input of the equipment If necessary the equipment can feed the generator using the Supply Output option from the Settings menu Q Active the signal generator and in the equipment press the Set Reference key F gt Once are set the references for the pilot signals let the signal generator co
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90. ifications cccccccececesseueueeeeucucensucusencucueeneucurensauunensags 10 87 10 2 Measurement MOde cccccccccescuccceecucueencueueensucetensuucuensucerentuueuennage 10 89 10 9 Spectrum Analyser MOG S sccatinnsuascantotee sian teeds waren 10 92 TOE PV M a ng eaeah veeusaine opeccsuaneneseatiapesseanaaern 10 94 tO TOO acca scnesuaceneveatisacetance E EE E T 10 95 July 2014 a Nooo USER S MANUAL 11 el Oo ee ee ee 11 96 11 1 Considerations about the SCl CCD iissawciesersicencoseancinncowenessaesaeenindenress 11 96 11 2 Cleaning Recommendations ssssssssssenrsnsrrnrsnrrrnnerrnnrrrnrrnrrrnnrrrenre 11 96 ANNEX 1 SIGNALS DESCRIPTION ccccccecceeeceeeceeenceeucsueeenuueeuueeeuuseueseneeanenes 1 ANNEX 2 HOW TO POINT A DISH ANTENNA ccceeceeecceceeeucceeceeuueeuueeeuvenuuenags 15 ANNEX 3 DiSEqC COMMANDS tose sce sacar cauetvan sees isacagnacueesoradnnnsiesiaeesstagennenndssees 23 ANNEX 4 REMOTE CONTROL COMMANDS wisn sscctvenreadirsanseadweasiwanitadertenteadoeareenen 33 ANNEX 5 MULTIMEDIA CONTEN T ccesrrconaccatanstede caccacuesatenmnasienanaieanusaneeeenenncent 55 July 2014 HD Lite lt a TV amp SATELLITE ANALYSER HDRANGER Lite Digital Video Broadcasting 1 INTRODUCTION The new HD RANGER Lite is the sixth generation of field meters that PROMAX launches As each new generation it represents an evolution from the previous Since it integrates the latest technological innovations and develops applica
91. ilable views are SPECTRUM 1 3 SPECTRUM MEASUREMENT o Oku SPECTRUM 1 3 EO Figure 27 Selected installation date and time Number of view total views Joystick active mode selected band battery level Measured values of the signal at the frequency channel where is pointing the cursor Spectrum in the band with the selected span Centre frequency and cursor It also shows the bandwidth of a digital locked signal Signal status searching locked multiplex name selected span Softkeys menus gt Joystick up down It changes the reference level gt Joystick left right depending on the joystick active mode SP SPAN change FR or CH Frequency change or channel change MK Marker change if marker is ON July 2014 4 35 MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES AAFP R O MAX _ CHAPTER 4 SPECTRUM ANALYSER MODE Jua SPECTRUM 2 3 SPECTRUM MEASUREMENT TV Oroaiostors433___ SPECTRUM 2 3 GE en DOG Figure 28 Selected installation date and time Number of view total views Joystick active mode selected band battery level Measured values of the signal at the frequency channel where is pointing the cursor Image of the tuned signal Spectrum in the band with the selected span Centre frequency and cursor It also shows the bandwidth of a digital locked signal Signal status searching locked multiplex name selected span Softkeys menus
92. imply reflects signals from the satellite in such a way that the beam is collimated to the LNB s mounting point 16 July 2014 HD Lite a gt or a aj She s 7 t Figure A2 4 The LNB Low Noise Block converter is an active device fruit of the great evolution of RF circuit manufacturing and includes amplifiers oscillators and frequency converters in a small low cost package The first section is made of a device called polarisation shifter that receives one polarisation or the other depending on the supply voltage given to the LNB This voltage is necessary to supply the active devices inside the LNB Signals broadcast from the satellites use two polarisations simultaneously These can be LINEAR VERTICAL HORIZONTAL or CIRCULAR LEFT RIGHT depending on the type of transmitting antenna used in the satellite The transponder frequencies for each polarisation are carefully selected to avoid interference to the other polarisation commonly referred to as the crossed polarisation In general they are imbricate or in other words frequencies used in one polarisation are free in the crossed polarisation and viceversa BENEN 13 VDC VERTICAL CIRCULAR RIGHT Benn 18 VDC HORIZONTAL CIRCULAR LEFT Modern universal LNB s use mostly linear polarisation and have also the capability to select a different input frequency range depending on a control Signal called 22 kHz switching tone which is overlapped with the supply voltage SUPPLY VOLTA
93. information to the user about the current status of the instrument Battery not charging E Yellow level indicates USB flash drive inserted charge left 10 oe USB in serial port mode K3 Current installation Y Satellite band SATCR commands enabled Multi function Joystick vou LNB power level enabled Pp Two letter code indicates the exact function Terrestrial band Compressed GS FR Frequency tuning installation CH Channel tuning SP Span change MK Marker moving EC Echo zoom change July 2014 2 9 USER S MANUAL AP ROMAX CHAPTER 2 SETTING UP 2 6 Menu Tree Adha SPECTRUM ANALYSER MENU erful Tuning Center Freq Ref Level re Span View all services Channel Set 1 Channel Set 2 Channel Frequency Signal Parameters Signal type View Advanced Parameters Select Service T Explore Channel Set Datalogger o AOBRI Outline Ech ES Solid Constellation Transparence Attenuation Test z Advanced E Average Spectrum Line Off R Max Hold Curtain Min Hold et Panen Dashed BW Curtain Off On 10 dB div 5 dB div 2 dB div 1 dB div r Only available for digital channels Only available for analogue channels Option available for terrestrial band D Option available for satellite band 2 10 July 2014 USER S MANUAL CHAPTER 2 SETTING UP AAFP R O MAX TV MENU rif Channel Channel Set Channel Set 1 View all s
94. ipment Tune the channel that produces interferences Access to TV mode Press the Advanced menu Fa Select the TS Data option If the signal has a carrier identifier this option is enabled If the signal does not contain this identifier this option is disabled The IRG descriptor window is displayed with the data about the provider see figure below QO DEFAULT 20 02 2013 15 03 Transport Stream Information SUIRG VSL Serial Number 12111918 _ Telephone Number 34 123456789 i a Longitude 41 21 20 92 Latitude 02 05 56 63 User Info USER_INFO MPEG2 TS locked BBC 2 SL_ Figure 40 July 2014 5 51 AX PROMAX HD Lite lt a 6 GENERAL MENU OPTIONS 6 52 At the bottom of the screen four menus are accessible via the softkeys or programmable keys FY It displays the channel where is pointing the cursor _ and gives access to the tuning menu Fo It displays the selected transmission standard and gives access to the signal parameters menu F3 It displays the Tools menu F4 It displays the Advanced menu In general these options are the same for all modes Measure Spectrum Analyser and TV The specific options for a mode are placed in the menu Advanced pressing the Ea key For more details about these options go to section Specific Options in the chapter Next each one of these menus is described 6 1 i Fi Tuning Acces
95. lapsed from first charge and environmental conditions may have lost some of the charge You should check the battery level It is advisable a first full charge 2 2 2 E Charging the battery Connect the DC power adapter to the equipment through the power connector on the left side panel see figure 3 Figure 3 Then connect the DC power adapter to the mains via the mains cord Ensure that your mains voltage is compatible with the adapter voltage For a fast charging of the battery is necessary to switch off the equipment If the equipment is ON the battery charging will be slower depending on the type of work you are doing When connecting the equipment to the mains the mains connected symbol L appears inside the battery icon 2 4 July 2014 HD Lite AXPROMAX When the equipment is connected to the mains the CHARGER indicator remains on This indicator changes its colour according to the percentage of battery charge RED Less than 80 of charge ORANGE Between 80 and 90 of charge GREEN 100 full charge When switching on the equipment the battery voltage is checked If the tension is too weak to start the equipment does not start up In this case please charge the battery immediately 2 2 3 E Charge discharge times Average charging time with the equipment off fast charge 3 hours to achieve an 80 charge 5 hours to achieve a 100 charge With the equipment on slow charge 5 hours to achieve an 80 ch
96. lete range of frequencies by measuring the losses attenuation in the distribution of TV signals comparing reference levels between the headend output and each antenna plug For more information about these features see the Tools chapter July 2014 6 57 HD Lite lt m 7 TOOLS 7 1 E Constellation 7 4 1 7 1 2 The constellation diagram is a graphic representation of the digital symbols received over a period of time There are different types of constellation diagrams according to the modulation type In the case of an ideal transmission channel without noise or interference all symbols are recognized by the demodulator without errors In this case they are represented in the constellation diagram as well defined points hitting in the same area forming a very concentrated dot Noise and interferences cause the demodulator to not always read the symbols correctly In this case hits are dispersed and create different forms which can visually determine the type of problem in the signal Each type of modulation is represented differently A 16 QAM signal is shown on screen by a diagram of a total of 16 different zones and a 64 QAM signal is represented by a diagram of 64 different zones and so on The constellation diagram shows in different colours the density of hits and includes features to zoom move and delete the display on screen own o The constellation is available to all DIGITAL signals both TERRESTRIAL and
97. ltage and current flowing to the external unit If there is any problems e g short circuit an error message appears on the screen SHORTCIRCUIT a warning beep sounds and the equipment will not supply power The equipment does not return to its normal operating state until the problem is solved During this time the equipment checks every three seconds if there still the problem warning with an audible signal The DRAIN LNB light indicator is lit if current is flowing to the external unit gt DiSEqC Mode only available for satellite band It enables or disables DiSEqC mode DiSEqC Digital Satellite Equipment Control is a communication protocol between the satellite receiver and accessories of the satellite system see section 8 4 2 24 July 2014 HD Lite i gt SatCR only available for satellite band It enables or disables the SatCR function Satellite Channel Router to control devices of a satellite TV installation that supports this technology see section 8 4 In this menu there is another option to access the configuration menu gt Polarization only available for satellite band It allows the user to select the signal polarization between Vertical Right vertical and circular clockwise and Horizontal Left horizontal and circular anti clockwise or disable it OFF In tuning mode the Polarization option can not be changed gt Sat Band only available for satellite band It allows the user to selec
98. m 2 4 Switching On Off the equipment 2 8 This analyser is designed for use as a portable equipment and it does not require any previous installation gt Switching On Slide for a while approximately one second the power slide switch located on the left side of the equipment When all indicators light up at once release the switch which returns to its rest position The boot image user can select the boot image from Preferences menu appears and also a progress bar that indicates the system load At the top left corner it shows the equipment model and the installed software release detected After the system load the last screen before shutdown appears gt Switching Off Slide for a while approximately one second the power slide switch located on the left side of the equipment When the screen goes off release the switch which returns to its rest position The starting display picture appears and the progress bar showing the system shutdown progress gt Reset Press the key for 5 seconds The equipment automatically turns off Use only in case of system crash In the PREFERENCES menu press 1s APPEARANCE tab option Off the user can activate the automatic shutdown option selecting a waiting time time without pressing any key after which the equipment turns off automatically July 2014 HD Lite lt a 2 5 Screen Icons and Dialog boxes On the screen are some icons that provide useful
99. male port of the cable USB icon should appear on the top right corner of the equipment This icon indicates that an USB stick has been detected at the port Press the Installations key and select check the installation to download some of its data 9 82 July 2014 HD Lite lt Press the key f Manage to access the data of the selected installation Press F Filter by type to select the type of list to view list of all the files only screenshots only channel plans only dataloggers or only DiSEqC commands Select the files from the list to be copied on the USB memory stick by pressing the joystick or by pressing gt File and selecting Mark All it selects all files on the list displayed Once files are selected press F2 File and select the Copy to USB option This option is enabled only if it detects that there is an USB connected to the equipment and if any file has been selected It shows a progress bar and a message informing that files are being copied to the USB When finish you can remove the cable with the USB stick memory directly from the equipment and connect it to a computer to view the files copied Default files are copied to the root directory of the USB memory Screenshots appear with PNG extension and data with XML extension To export one or more complete installations July 2014 Connect the CC 045 cable USB A Female Mini USB A Male to the mini USB socket see
100. mation in the StealthID function chapter July 2014 2 29 HD Lite lt a 3 MEASUREMENT MODE 3 1 a Introduction On the panel left side the equipment has three functions keys which give direct access to the three most important functions One of them is the key MEASUREMENT that measures the signal received through the RF input connector The user should connect a signal to the input and select the band whether terrestrial or satellite Then the auto identification function for more information refer to StealthID function locks the signal and demodulates it in real time automatically detecting its characteristic parameters Having identified the signal the equipment measures according to the signal type All information about transponders or multiplex is automatically displayed without introducing any additional parameter identification Next there is a list of signals that the equipment can automatically detect For more information about characteristics of each signal type refer to Annex 1 Signals description Digital Terrestrial Television First Generation DVB T Digital Terrestrial Television Second Generation DVB T2 T2 Base and T2 Lite profiles Digital Satellite Television First Generation DVB S Digital Satellite Television Second Generation DVB S2 Digital Satellite Television exclusive for DirecTV DSS Digital Cable Television First Generation DVB C Digital Cable Television Second Generation
101. ment to the current installation gt Add DiSEqC Program It adds a DiSEqC program available in the equipment to the current installation an F4 Options gt See full screen This option only appears if user selects an image in the list of files It displays the selected image full screen gt Diseqc program This option only appears if a satellite channel plan is selected in the list of files area It allows the user to add a Diseqc program to the selected satellite channel plan from the list of diseqc programs available for the current installation To get out from the Installation manager press any key to access MEASUREMENT SPECTRUM or TV mode 8 4 Create a new installation 8 80 In the list of installations when selecting the option Create New F it runs the installation wizard that helps to create a new installation During the process the user has the option to edit the default name assigned or import data from another installation The user can select the channel plans terrestrial and satellite that will be used in that installation At least one for each band has to be selected For satellite channel plans the user can select the Diseqc commands associated to the installation and also the satellite band Ku Ka or C band and the frequencies of the LNB Oscillator July 2014 HD Lite During the creation process the softkeys function are Next it goes to the next step Previous it goes to t
102. nal and makes the corresponding measurements 4 7 a Satellite Identifier The spectrum analyser makes easier the fieldwork for engineers when working with SNG mobile units and VSAT communications since it allows adjusting transmission reception systems It also has several functions to identify satellites that avoid any possibility of error When the signal is locked it identifies the satellite and shows on screen its name Often satellite operators request to look for the Beacon signal as a method of satellite identification This signal is easily identified by the equipment because it has high resolution high sensitivity and short sweep times Below are two BEACON screenshots signals with a span of 10 MHz and a bandwidth of 100 kHz resolution all with a sweep time of 90 ms 04 06 2013 14 33 SPECTRUM 3 3 of Shih VW Span 50 MHz Figure 33 04 06 2013 14 40 SPECTRUM 3 3 HX sis WW Span 20MHz Figure 34 More data for installations with satellite signals in annex How to point a dish antenna July 2014 4 43 HD Lite lt a 5 TV MODE 5 1 a Introduction On the left side of the front panel there are three functions which give direct access to the three most important functions One is the TV MODE key which displays the resulting image from decoding received RF signal TV MODE thanks to the StealthID function of automatic identification automatically identifies and demodulates the signal recei
103. nd 500 MHz 200 MHz 100 MHz 50 MHz 20 MHz and 10 MHz Reference Level It is the power range represented on the vertical axis To change use the joystick up down 5 dB steps This equipment has an option to activate the automatic adjustment of the reference level so it detects the optimal reference level for each situation This option can be enabled or disabled through the PREFERENCES menu and Measures tab July 2014 HD Lite aa Cursor Red vertical line that indicates position during the channel or frequency tuning When a digital signal is detected there is a triple cursor that shows the frequency for the signal locked and two vertical lines that shows the bandwidth of the digital carrier In the case of a GENERIC signal the bandwidth shown is the one selected by the user on the Signal Parameters menu when pressing the key To change frequency channel use the joystick left right in FR mode tuning by frequency or CH mode tuning by channel Marker It is a special cursor that can be placed on a given frequency to check the power in this point This option can be enabled using the Marker option from the Advanced menu 4 key To change use the joystick left right in MARKER MK mode The window Marker shows the following data Freq Frequency where is placed the marker Level Power level at the frequency where is placed the marker AF Difference of frequency between the marker and the main c
104. nnected to the source point of the distribution system and take measurements in each user access point with the equipment In each measurement a message over each pilot signal indicates whether the measure Pass or Fail according to the parameters set Measurement data or screen image can be exported by pressing the Export Cy key see more details in section Export key and after that display the images or download the data files in XML format July 2014 Ltr RANGER MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES E ow fee Oe CHAPTER 7 TOOLS The following describes the Attenuation Test screen A OE Attenuation Test a2 E PASS PASS PASS 3 10 20 30 Frequency 100 0 500 0 658 0 eas Current Ct gt o os Figure 48 bg ls Installation selected date and time Selected band battery level Status message depending on the attenuation level Power level of the signal Signal Frequency MHz Power level of the reference signal obtained when setting the reference and used to calculate the attenuation level dBuV Power level of the test signal at the user access point dBuV Attenuation level dB Attenuation Reference Current Softkeys X axis Pilot signals Y axis Power gt Joystick The joystick does not have any function in this tool July 2014 7 65 HD Lite lt a 7 3 3 Menu Options In the bottom of the screen are four menu accessible via the softkeys
105. nt connected to ground potential The AL 103 external DC charger is a Class I equipment for safety reasons plug it to a supply line with the corresponding ground terminal This equipment can be used in Overvoltage Category I installations and Pollution Degree 2 environments External DC charger can be used in Overvoltage Category II installation and Pollution Degree 1 environments When using some of the following accessories use only the specified ones to ensure safety Rechargeable battery External DC charger Car lighter charger cable Power cord Observe all specified ratings both of supply and measurement Remember that voltages higher than 70 V DC or 33 V AC rms are dangerous Use this instrument under the specified environmental conditions When using the power adaptor the negative of measurement is at ground potential Do not obstruct the ventilation system of the instrument Use for the signal inputs outputs specially when working with high levels appropriate low radiation cables Follow the cleaning instructions described in the Maintenance paragraph USER S MANUAL Symbols related with safety DIRECT CURRENT ON Supply ALTERNATING CURRENT _ OFF Supply DOUBLE INSULATION Class II protection CAUTION Risk of electric shock DIRECT AND ALTERNATING GROUND TERMINAL PROTECTIVE CONDUCTOR CAUTION REFER TO MANUAL FRAME TERMINAL FUSE EQUIPMENT OR COMPONENT EQUIPOTENTIA
106. ode 11H indicating that already it is prepared to receive a new data stream A typical communication chronogram would be as follows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PC REMOTE CONTROLLER HDRANGER Lite asec XON TV lt CR gt gt eases XOFF a ACK 5 lt TVO lt CR gt wait S Seca XON all characters are transmitted in ASCII code 34 July 2014 HD Lite a Commands should always be sent in capital letter and cannot be edited online i e once a character is received it is stored in the HD RANGER L e buffer and cannot be rectified by sending an erase code Commands in remote control are divided into two groups orders and interrogations Orders modify a variable or the equipment status Interrogations respond with information concerning equipment status or the value of a variable For interrogative command it is necessary to add the character after the character A4 4 ia Virtual Serial Port Configuration In order to ensure error free communication between the computer and the HD RANGER L e you must programme following communication parameters into the control console via USB Rate 115200 bits s Data bits 8 bits Parity No Stop Bits 1 July 2014 35 HD Lite ai k Ez A4 5 Remote commands table Remote Commands Short Description CAPTURE It makes and read screen captures EQUIPMENT POWER It shutdowns the equipment OFF EQUIPMENT SN It provides the serial number of
107. ogress bar in the current channel plan selected test point Channel frequency and Downlink The following describes the display of data acquired 2 ERA 5 DELCE 2012 10 25 G 08 12 05 cme 2N o 6 Signal Type Power Level C N MER LM Ana og 83 7 dBuV 37 7 dB 27 DVB T_ 68 6 dBuV__ gt 25 8 dB 255dB 7 9dB Figure 45 Selected installation date and time Tab identifying the displayed test point Current datalogger name Selected band battery level Tab identifying each test point Date and time when the datalogger was created Number of channels locked PASS or not locked FAIL Data table with measurement data for each channel In order from left to right Colour identifying if the channel has been locked WHITE or not locked RED channel signal type power level Carrier Noise C N rate MER Link Margin Move the joystick up or down to navigate along the measurement data Press the joystick on a channel to display the signal parameters 7 70 July 2014 HD Lite t Softkey menus FA Acquisition It contains two options Start It starts the datalogger in the selected test point Clear It deletes the data in the selected test point F3 Channel plan It displays a menu with the available channel plans to select the channel plan whose data want to be displayed Channel plans available are those that have been selected during the creation of the datalogger Fa T
108. on In parentheses shows the number of detected channels to total channels of the channel plan When moving the cursor through the channels the spectrum and measurement windows are dynamically updated for the selected channel 7 74 July 2014 HD Lite At the bottom are the function keys They are detailed below E1 E Cancel during the process This option appears only while performing the exploration process It cancels the exploration before finish When pressing a confirmation message appears before cancelling Save at the end of the process This option appears at the end of the exploration process It saves the results obtained during the exploration The name of the original channel plan is assigned to the new one by default and the user can modify the name using the virtual keyboard that appears prior to saving The new channel plan is now available in the list of channel plans in the installation and can be used as any other channel plan After saving it becomes the selected channel plan to work with Skip during the process This option allows skipping the current channel and explore the next one in the channel plan Discard at the end of the process This option appears at the end of the exploration process It discards the results obtained from the exploration lt July 2014 7 75 MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES AAFP R O MAX CHAPTER 8 INSTALLATIONS MANAGEMENT 8 INSTALLAT
109. p TER It means that channel belongs to the terrestrial SAT band A nae that channel belongs to the satellite ea plan_resp i Alphanumeric code that identifies the channel plan ch_resp Description ch_resp Alphanumeric code that identifies the channel Configuration TUNE ch_conf sch_conf conf Description ch_conf a XyZ xyz is an alphanumeric code that identifies a channel CH NEXT It increases one channel CH PREV It decreases one channel Name Name TUNEPLAN PPFP S Name VER It provides the version of the main software application x VER VER ver_resp Description ver_resp Alphanumeric code that identifies a version VIDEO Description Description It configures the video source Configuration _ Configuration VIDEO video video_conf video Ce INTERNAL It enables internal video source EXTERNAL It enables external video source SYSTEM PAL_50 Hz It enables the video system selected PAL_60 Hz It enables the video system selected NTSC It enables the video system selected SECAM It enables the video system selected 54 July 2014 HD Lite lt a ANNEX 5 MULTIMEDIA CONTENT Next it is the list with all the links of the multimedia content in the user s manual h h h Installation manager outu be TUUHJBXOB Generating a measurement report p youtu be fOP8n 59pH Creation of a channel plan http youtu be YwbpfRNGJY ttp i ttp i k ttp y be QI t S ttp y be QI ttp i
110. ply voltage for the LNB Select the option DiSEqC mode Two new functions appear on the softkeys Command F3 and Software Es DiSEqC programs appear classified in categories or folders Select the command or program and press the joystick to send it to the antenna These commands or programs allow the user to control an antenna for more information about DiSEqC commands and programs see Annex 3 9 85 eee HD Lite 9 86 lt gt SatCR commands By means of function SatCR it is possible to control the devices of a TV satellite installation that are compatible with the SatCR Satellite Channel Router technology which allows to concentrate downlink frequencies slots by an only cable By this way each user using a slot can tune and decode any signal present in the satellite Connect the RF cable see Figure 6 to the RF connector for the input signal of the equipment Press the Spectrum key M to access the Spectrum analyser mode Press the Settings key and select the satellite band Select the polarization horizontal vertical and the satellite band high low If necessary enable the Supply output and select the supply voltage for the LNB In the option SatCR select ON to enable it It appears the Ra icon at the top right corner Also in the SatCR option select Configuration to access SatCR parameters C 04105 2012 14 33 SPECTRUM 1 3 ZERE SatCR Configuration Number of slots Slot Frequency
111. rrestrial channel plan name with nn index Satellite channel plan name with nn index DISEQC program name with nn index Print screen file name with nn index Datalogger name with nn index Spectrum capture name with nn index Constellation capture name with nn index Echo capture name with nn index MER capture name with nn index Installation name with nn index Name INSTALLATION CURRENT CLEAR It removes all files of the current installation The installation Description itself is not remove only its contents Order INSTALLATION CURRENT CLEAR July 2014 th sat T a 39 HD Lite INSTALLATION CURRENT REMOVE It removes the files of the same type in the current installation Order INSTALLATION CURRENT REMOVE tag name Description tag Spectrum capture file Terrestrial channel plan file Satellite channel plan file DISEQC program file Print screens file Constellation capture file Echo capture file MER x carrier capture file Datalogger file Spectrogram file SPECTRUM TER CH SAT CH DISEQC_ PROGRAM PNG CONSTELLATION ECHOES MER DATALOGGER SPECTROGRAM MEROGRAM Merogram file TS Transport stream file name Description name lt empty gt It removes all files belonging to the same type which is determined by the tag abcd It removes the file with name abcd of the type indicated by the tag Name INSTALLA
112. s This may be the explanation that having a good C N and a good signal the BER does not reach the minimum value With the Echoes function is possible to know the distance from where the equipment is to the transmitter or the object that caused the echo Thus the installer can minimise the effect that the echo may cause on the installation reorienting the antenna and reducing the effect of received echoes This function is only available for DVB T DVB T2 and DVB C2 Therefore previously have to configure the equipment for the reception of such signals rza SSS Echoes function is available for DVB T DVB T2 and DVB C2 signals Connect the RF input signal to the equipment Tune a DVB T DVB T2 or DVB C2 digital signal at the terrestrial band Enter the MEASUREMENT mode or SPECTRUM mode Ah Press the F key Tools Select ECHOES The ECHOES function of the tuned signal appears on screen July 2014 7 61 _ MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES RANIG I m AAPROMAX CHAPTER 7 TOOLS i imp GER mi i Gor The following describes the ECHOES screen ECHOES mice 666 00 MHz Imeicml lt 27 7 dBuV 125 E k 0 O o o co 200 O 52 e 45 125 e KUGGOM 25 7 12 2 WR 18 0 80 9 vy Figure 42 Selected installation date and time Selected band battery level Main signal data Frequency Power and C N ECHOES Diagram The display shows a graphical representation of the echoes The horizontal axis of t
113. s by the function E1 key It contains the options to tune a channel The tuning menu consists of the following options gt Channel Frequency It displays the channel frequency pointed by the gt Channel Plan gt Tune by cursor Tuning type channel frequency is selected by means of the Tune by option This option allows the user to select a channel plan from the ones available for the current installation It allows the user to select between tuning by channel selecting a channel or channel by channel with the joystick and tuning by frequency selecting a frequency or step by step with the joystick July 2014 HD Lite a In case of tuning by channel it allows selecting a channel from the active channel plan Place over the Channel option and press the joystick A box appears with all channels of the active channel plan and its frequency Move the joystick on the box to select a channel When finished press joystick to save the selected value or any function key to exit without saving The cursor will place on the selected channel and it will appear on the 1 option The channel can be changed directly with the joystick in CH mode In case of tuning by frequency the frequency can be edited Place over the Frequency option and press the joystick The option is highlighted in yellow to indicate it is in edit mode Move the joystick left right to move between the figures and up down to change the fi
114. s work to professionals our long experience ensures an after sales quality service which includes software updates and upgrades for free Figure 2 Click here to watch this video Introducing the HD RANGER Series Click here to watch this video Introducing the HD RANGER 2 1 2 July 2014 HD lt Lite USER S MANUAL CHAPTER 2 SETTING UP lt 2 SETTING UP 2 1 a Package Content Check that your package contains the following elements HD RANGER Lite Analyser External DC charger Mains cord for external DC charger Car lighter charger F Adapters 2 units e F H DIN H Adapter e F H F H Adapter Support belt and carrying bag USB On the go OTG A Male Mini USB B Male cable USB cable A Female Mini USB B Male cable Quick Start Guide NOTE Keep the original packaging since it is specially designed to protect the equipment You may need it in the future to send the analyser to be calibrated July 2014 2 3 HD Lite lt a 2 2 Power The HD RANGER Lite is powered by a 7 2 V built in rechargeable Li Ion battery of high quality and long operation time This equipment can operate on battery or connected to the mains using a DC adapter An adapter is also supplied to use with the power connector car cigarette lighter The equipment comes with the battery half charged Depending on the time e
115. signal The DiSEqC usually is used in the satellite TV facilities in order to use different types of switchers through the coaxial cable that leads the TV signal A3 2 E To begin The Universal LNB The Universal LNB is the simplest and most used LNB This allows the signal reception coming from one single satellite TWIN 2 independent outputs QUAD 4 independent outputs and OCTO 8 independent outputs versions exist in the market Each output is independent from others and can be connected to a different receiver An universal LNB is controlled by means of a power voltage and a 22kHz signal sent through the RF cable which allows us to switch between the different bands and polarities according to the following table Standard 1 satellite only 1 satellite only 1 satellite only 1 satellite only 1 receiver 2 receivers 4 receivers 8 receivers gt Power SC Band _ Polarization linear circular _ 13 V Vertical Right 18 V Horizontal Left 13 V 22 kHz Vertical Right 18 V 22 kHz Horizontal Left Not to confuse with LNB Quattro used in collective facilities July 2014 23 HD Lite Note The LNB accept a very wide range of values for these voltages usually 10 14 5V for 13V and 15 5 20V for 18V In the HD RANGER L te the band and the polarisation selection can be done from different menus all the different ways indicate dare equivalent O Menu Line External units power supply 13 V
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117. stick connected to the equipment It has to use the same folder structure that is generated when exporting to USB 8 81 HD Lite Ca 9 CONNECTING TO EXTERNAL DEVICES The HD RANGER Lite can interact with external devices sharing information through its interfaces Connection types are Input output data interface via mini USB connector to USB memory or PC DiSEqC and SatCR interface via RF connector Next is described each of these interfaces and their interaction with external devices 9 1 a Mini USB connector The equipment has a female mini USB port that uses a USB media specific protocol called On the Go OTG abbreviated This type of communication allows the equipment to work in two different ways depending on the device connected to the USB port as a server host or device More often the HD RANGER Lite will work as a host when connecting a USB memory and as device when connecting to a computer This feature makes the equipment in a much more versatile tool 9 1 1 ia Connecting the HD RANGER L e host to an USB memory device This connection allows the user to copy files screenshots channel plans dataloggers DiSEqC commands and others and export import installations from the equipment to the USB and vice versa To copy some select data from the installation Connect the CC 045 cable USB A Female Mini USB A Male to the mini USB socket see figure 5 of the equipment Connect the USB stick to the fe
118. t the High or Low band frequency for satellite channel tuning In channel tuning mode the Band Sat can not be changed gt LNB Low Osc only available for satellite band It defines the local oscillator frequency for the LNB low band When a channel plan is selected but LNB oscillator values are not properly selected a warning is issued gt LNB High Osc only available for satellite band It defines the local oscillator frequency for the LNB high band up to 25 GHz When a channel plan is selected but LNB oscillator values are not properly selected a warning is issued 2 9 2 E Video amp Audio settings Press the Settings key for one second to access the Video amp Audio settings menu Video amp Audio Settings e Brightness Color System PAL 50 Hz Figure 22 A brief explanation of each option available on the menu gt Volume It increases or decreases the volume of the speaker audio output by moving the joystick to the right volume or left volume July 2014 2 25 AX PROMAX gt Brightness Lite amp HD It increases or decreases the screen brightness by moving the joystick to the right brightness or left brightness gt Colour System The coding system used in analogue transmissions Available options are PAL 50 Hz PAL 60 Hz NTSC and SECAM 2 9 3 preferencesmen O You access the Preferences menu by pressing the Installations Management key
119. tellite The wizard also gives an option to select if during datalogger user wants to capture the list of services it slows down the process but gives more information and also if user wants a pause between channel plans the process stops until the user resume it At the end user has the option to open the new datalogger by default these last three options are enabled Once a new datalogger is created or selected an already existing one it shows the datalogger viewer screen and measurements of test points can start If it is a new datalogger in first place before starting the datalogger user must create a new test point see next section To start the datalogger 7 68 After creating a new datalogger file or selecting an existing one the user can start the datalogging process From the datalogger viewer screen press the Test point key 4 and from the menu select an existing test point using the Go to option or Create new to create a new test point If a new test point is created user has to give it a name Now datalogger is ready to start Press the Datalogger key Fl and select Start July 2014 HD Lite lt a During datalogger it catches the list of available services of all channels in the channel plan that are part of the datalogger if this option was selected when creating the datalogger or if the Datalogger PSI option is enabled in the Preferences menu If there is a change of chann
120. tellite transponders use PLS O as a default value but there are some transponders that use other values If it is a multistream signal it will appear an option that enables filtering by the input stream identifier ISI and to select the stream to demodulate In case of a Generic signal the menu shows an option to select the signal bandwidth 6 56 July 2014 HD Lite lt a 6 3 F3 Tools Access by the F3 key It shows the Tools menu This menu can change depending on the type of selected standard Tools are gt Select Service It displays the list of services available in the multiplex tuned with the service name icons that identify the service type SID stream identifier and LCN logic channel number Icons that appear next to the service name identify the features of the service The meaning is given in the following table Digital TV HD High Definition service TV service Scrambled service Digital radio gt Explore channel plan It explores the selected channel plan Tune by channel must be selected gt Datalogger It creates a file in which are stored measurements This file belongs to the selected current installation gt Echoes It detects the echoes that may appear due to the Simultaneous reception of the same signal from several transmitters gt Constellation It displays the constellation of the locked signal gt Attenuation test It checks the response along the comp
121. th BCH Bose Chaudhuri Hocquengham to protect against high levels of signal noise and interference Each time you apply an error correction to the digital signal the error rate changes so if we measure the error rate at the output of the QPSK 8PSK demodulator or after LDPC Low Density Parity Check decoder or at the BCH decoder output error rates obtained are different Next to the LBER measure appears ESR Error Second Ratio This measures indicates the percentage of time with errors after BCH The error correction is internal with BCH or external with LDPC The internal error correction provides basic minimum load while the outer error correction is an additional correction with load It also measures the PER which is the number of erroneous packets that is packets received during the measurement time not correctable by the demodulator July 2014 HD A1 1 5 July 2014 Lite Digital CABLE television signal of FIRST generation DVB C standard QAM modulation E DVB C Parameters gt Bandwidth channel It displays the channel bandwidth up to 9 2 MHz Spectral inversion It detects if the input signal has been inverted Symbol Rate It represents the number of times the signal status changes in a period of time The bandwidth is related to this parameter Roll Off Factor Roll off factor of Nyquist filter It indicates the bandwidth excess over the ideal bandwidth Constellation Modulation used by the carriers It
122. th two or four inputs It also has more programs that control installations with 8 or 16 satellite antennas using SPAUN devices or switches Commited Uncommited Whenever a DiSEqC program is sent the commands that correspond to the equipment status in relation to the Horizontal or Vertical polarization and High or Low frequency band are also sent This allows assuring that the installation status is the one indicated by the equipment 16x1 LNB14 U1B2B OpA_PoB July 2014 HD Lite lt a ANNEX 4 REMOTE CONTROL COMMANDS A4 1 E Introduction The design of HD RANGER L e based on a microprocessor allows data to be exchanged between the equipment and a remote controller usually a personal computer via USB By this way data can be obtained from the equipment and also control it remotely These data can be stored and subsequently processed for use in maintenance work Furthermore the remote control allows tracking and monitoring installations A4 2 a Protocol for communication between the 4D RANGER L e and a j PC This protocol is controlled by software and is using a virtual serial port over an USB interface Data and information are exchanged using messages consisting of ASCII alphanumerical characters This method ensures easy carrying between different types of personal computers To activate the virtual serial port a special driver must be installed The driver is included with the purchased instrument gt Connections Th
123. the TFT screen turns off but the equipment is still running normally The screen turns on by pressing any key Time options are off 1 5 10 or 30 minutes The coding system used in analogue transmissions Available options are PAL 50 Hz PAL 60 Hz NTSC and SECAM User can select the image that appears when the equipment is booting gt Time amp Date Options Date Time Date Format Time Zone gt Measures Options Terrestrial Units Satellite Units Optical Units Satellite Band 2 28 It allows the user to edit the date Press the joystick for edit mode It allows the user to edit the time Press the joystick for edit mode It allows the user to change the date format which is the order in which is shown day DD month MM and year YYYY or YY It allows the user to select the time zone where he is It allows the user to select the terrestrial measurement units for the signal level Available options are dBm dBmvV and dBuV It allows the user to select the satellite measurement units for the signal level Available options are dBm dBmvV and dBuV It allows the user to select the optical measurement units for the signal level Available options are dBm It allows the user to select the type of satellite band used between Ku Ka band and C band July 2014 HD gt StealthID Options Reference Level Datalogger PSI Database services Min TER Power Min
124. tions for the new demands and needs that have emerged in recent years The new HD RANGER Lite has been created with the aim to make easy the user experience From its ergonomic design and stylized lines to the reduction of keys and the easy use of its interface everything has been designed so the user has a simple tool to use but powerful and useful HD RANGER Lite AA PROMAX Figure 1 The HD RANGER Lite is a universal analyser that covers several of the most popular standards of the DVB family as well as formats such as MPEG 2 or MPEG 4 1 Basena Trademark of the DVB Digital Video Broadcasting Project July 2014 1 1 ZAQPROMAX TS AD 7 Lee Besides the basic functions of TV meter and spectrum analyser for terrestrial and satellite band it provides additional tools such as the diagrams constellations or the echoes detection The HD RANGER Lite has an application to manage data generated at each installation This feature helps the user to manage information generated so he can access it at any time or download it to a PC for further analysis The HD RANGER Lite has been designed and developed entirely in the European Union A multidisciplinary team of highly qualified professionals has dedicated effort and commitment to the development of a powerful efficient and reliable tool During the manufacturing process all used materials have been subjected to a strict quality control In an effort to facilitate it
125. top on a channel the meter will acquire all the settings needed to measure the channel without bothering us Then pressing the measurement button and voila gt Option 2 Channel mode I can select channel mode and a satellite channel table from the list The HD RANGER Life has several of them preloaded but this can be changed using software application Once we select the desired table ASTRA 19E in this case we can browse the channels at once There are channel tables grouped by polarisation or band or those with all channels in the satellite July 2014 21 AX PROMAX HD Lite a A2 1 7 Lookwhatwe vegot 4 The HD RANGER 44te can also display the free to air programs available in the Satellite That is very practical not so much for the picture itself but for amount of interesting data related to the transponders we can display as well This 22 includes Tuned video information gt TYPE gt FORMAT gt PROFILE gt PID Encoding type and video transmission rate Resolution horizontal x vertical aspect ratio and frequency Profile level Video program identifier Tuned service information gt NETWORK gt PROVIDER NID ONID VV TSID SID MHP LCN Vvvy Info FREE SCRAMBLED gt DTV DS v y Tuned audio information gt TYPE gt FORMAT gt LANGUAGE gt PID Television distribution network Terrestrial Orbital position Satellite Progr
126. ually a multiswitch includes also an input for the TV terrestrial signal The number of outputs depends on the number of terminals receivers that can be connected to the multiswitch In addition multiswitch in cascade incorporate pass connectors to be able to distribute the signal and thus to connect several multiswitch in cascade mode and therefore to give access to more users Figure A3 5 July 2014 2 HD Lite gt Examples of multiswitch Vo SAT Inputs_ TER Inputs Satellites Terminals _ Multiswitch 9 4 8 1 2 Multiswitch 5 16 4 1 1 Multiswitch 17 16 16 1 4 We will not consider the input of terrestrial TV since this does not take part in the satellite signal Also the following indicated examples do not show more than a single output In the case of several outputs the own operation scheme is reproduced for each one of them because they are independent of the others A3 5 1 Multiswitch 1 satellite LNB QUATTRO L ON wr E L gt 4 NUN y gt AD aN Ad i oA _ Output Figure A3 6 In the DiSEqC menu of the HD RANGER L e select the band and the polarisations desired and send the SAT A command as it is indicated in the following table pC Band Polarization Command ____ Horizontal Vertical Horizontal Vertical Very important Whenever you wish to change of band or polarisation it is necessary to send the SAT A command at the same time since multiswitch
127. ue and digital naa operation SSS To create a new datalogger First select one installation of the list of installations and load it pressing the Load key FU An installation contains the channel plans and DiSEqC commands selected by the user and it stores dataloggers and screenshots made while it is selected more information in chapter Installations management Check the installation is selected The name of the installation should appear on the upper left corner of the screen Enter the MEASUREMENT mode or the SPECTRUM mode Press the J Tools key July 2014 7 67 HD Lite aa zai z gt Click here to watch this video Datalogger Press on the Datalogger option It displays a menu with the New dataloggers at the selected installation option and a list of all Select New to create a new datalogger or select the file name of an existing datalogger if the user want to save data on a specific datalogger already existing If New is selected a installation wizard shows how to create a new datalogger Follow its instructions Next to move to the next screen F gt Previous to move to the previous screen or U Cancel to cancel During the creation of a new datalogger using the wizard the user can assign a name and select the channel plans The channel plans are the ones available for the current installation At least one channel plan has to be selected either terrestrial or sa
128. unk having thousands of satellites in orbit plenty of them beyond its useful life Satellites use highly efficient directional antennas and very high transmitters power digital transponders meaning in plain words that we can receive hundreds of TV channels with a small fix cheap 60 cm dish Figure A2 3 Modern broadcast satellites use geostationary orbits This simply means that they could be seen from the ground hunging in the sky at the same exact position all the time and therefore receiving signals from them does not require complex steering systems A piece of cake All we need to do to receive their signals with the enormous amount of programs they carry is to set up the satellite receiving antenna properly and to ensure that the signals are received with the proper quality levels and here is where the HD RANGER Lite comes into action A2 1 2 The basies o O A professional installer will instantly tell us from the top of his head what to have in the to do list if we want to install a satellite dish properly Surely the list will require us to select the proper mount kit and dish size from the numerous options available in the market pick a good location for the dish free of obstacles to the south in the north hemisphere or to the north in the south hemisphere etc Other than the mechanical bits and pieces the dish is made of two clearly differentiated parts the reflector and the LNB The reflector is passive and s
129. ursor AL Difference of power level between the marker and the main cursor Centre frequency Frequency at which the screen is centered This frequency can be set through the Tuning FU menu It also changes when moving the cursor 4 4 E Joystick Operation in Spectrum Analyser mode In the SPECTRUM ANALYSER mode the joystick can make different actions depending on its active mode July 2014 4 39 _ MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES PANI I rm ZX PROMAX CHAPTER 4 SPECTRUM ANALYSER MODE 7 iw GER mnl Gr E The active mode of the joystick appears as an icon at the top right of the screen Available modes are gt Frequency tuning gt Channel tuning gt SPAN change gt Marker moving To change the active mode press the joystick 4 4 4 Gp CD IZ Frequency Channel SPAN Marker moving tuning tuning Change Marker ON Figure 31 Pressing left or right will take appropriate action according to the active mode Pressing up or down will change the reference level regardless the active mode The frequency or channel tuning mode will appear depending on the selected tuning type Access the TUNE BY E menu to select the type of tuning To show the Marker mode it must be ON Access the ADVANCED menu to activate the Marker Pressing the joystick for 1 second a box appears explaining the joystick modes available From here user can also select the active mode rides 1s J Joystick configuration
130. varies depending on the function the user is working on the meter The menu is displayed on each softkey at the bottom of the screen Figure 19 2 7 4 Virtual Keyboard When a user needs to enter or edit a text from an image Channel Plan etc a screen with a virtual keyboard appears as shown at the figure Enter file name SCREEN Figure 20 2 20 July 2014 HD Lite qa To edit the file name user should follow these steps Using the joystick place the cursor over the text box where the name appears Move the cursor to place it next to the letter that user wants to edit Move the joystick on the virtual keyboard to edit To delete a letter move the cursor to the right side of the letter and then press the joystick on the Delete key or press F2 Del To enter an upper case letter press first F lor press the joystick on the key To block upper case press Y or press the joystick on the key twice consecutively To return to lower case press U or the key again Keys with a point at the top right corner give access to special characters by keeping pressed the joystick for one second on the key After editing press Ok to validate the name and continue the process or 4 Cancel to cancel 2 8 p StealthID Function Signal Auto identification gt Description The StealthID function of the HD RANGER Lite is a signal identification function performed automatically by the equipment without any
131. ved by the RF input so the user can check the signal on the screen It shows information about the channel and its services To access the TV MODE option press the key If locks the screen shows the tuned signal demodulated For digital carriers the first service of the terrestrial multiplex or satellite transponder appears In case the signal is scrambled the image will not appear and it shows the icon for scrambled signal In the case of an analogue signal tuned signal will appear To access the next view if digital signal of the TV MODE press the again At the last view it will return back to the first 5 44 July 2014 nee MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES a ea CF CHAPTER 5 TV MODE AXPRO MAX 5 2 1 TV MODE TV views Views for TV mode are J l J TV 1 3 FULL TV l amp MPEG2 TS locked RGE2 Figure 35 Selected installation date and time Number of view total views Selected band battery level Tuned service image Signal status searching locked multiplex name and name of the selected service Softkeys menus gt Joystick up down It changes service gt Joystick left right It changes channel frequency depending on the tuning mode July 2014 5 45 MANUAL DE INSTRUCCIONES AP ROMAX CHAPTER 5 TV MODE TV 2 3 TV SPECTRUM MEASUREMENT Osis IV OS 69 2 dBuV 34 7 dB z i 30 4 dB E a E lt 1 0E 08 4 MPEG2 TS locked RGE2 Figure 36
132. vides sets the operation mode of the equipment Question MODE Question __ MODE mode_resp TV mode Lire TV mode with spectrum and measurements TV PARAMETERS TV mode with TS parameters SP Spectrum mode SP MEASURE Spectrum mode with measurement SP MEASURE TV Spectrum mode with TV and measurement MEASURE Measurement mode MEASURE TV SP Measurement mode with TV and spectrum MEASURE PARAMETERS Measurement mode with demodulator parameters ECHOES Echoes tool CONSTELLATION Constellation tool Configuration MODE mode_conf TV mode Ler TV mode with spectrum and measurements TV PARAMETERS TV mode with TS parameters SP Spectrum mode SP MEASURE Spectrum mode with measurement SP MEASURE TV Spectrum mode with TV and measurement MEASURE Measurement mode MEASURE TV SP Measurement mode with TV and spectrum MEASURE PARAMETERS Meas mode with demodulator parameters ECHOES Echoes tool CONSTELLATION Constellation tool Name oan NM RO eee the program name x NAM NAM nam_resp Description nam_resp It provides the program name abc July 2014 47 HD Lite Name PRINT SCREEN It makes a screenshot in PNG format Configuration PRINT SCREEN printscreen_conf printscreen_conf Description printscreen_conf lt empty gt It gives a name by default abc It gives the name abc It provides configures services PSIT PSI STATUS status_resp NUMBER number_resp ONID onid NID nid TSIDOtsid NETWORK name

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