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USER MANUAL
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SATELLITE SIGNAL ANALYZER
18 SATELLITE DISH ALIGNMENT
18.1 DISH ALIGNMENT TO A SPECIFIC SATELLITE WITH
AUTOMATIC SATELLITE IDENTIFICATION: (SAT FINDER)
The meter can assist you in aligning the satellite dish to a specific satellite. Just
mount and briefly align the dish to the desired satellite. The meter can detect if you
are really pointing to the desired satellite by looking for three user-defined reference
transponders within any received satellite signal, then it can support you in fine-
aligning the dish.
Set up the desired satellite (refer to Chapter 19 METER CONFIGURATION : PLAN at
page 57, and above all to Chapter 19.1 EXPLORING ALL THE TRANSPONDERS
OF A SATELLITE at page 57) or a Transponder Memory Plan including one or more
transponders carried by the desired satellite (Refer to Chapter 19 METER
CONFIGURATION : PLAN at page 57, and above all to paragraph 19.3 NAVIGATE
THE SOLE TRANSPONDERS INCLUDED IN A USER DEFINED TRANSPONDER
MEMORY PLAN. at page 59).
Press once and release the SAT FINDER
[2] key. The LCD will display (this
screenshot is related to EUTELSAT 7E satellite):
If the displayed transponders do not match with the appropriate ones, using the
Standard Navigation Mode highlight the transponder name to be modified, and select
the required transponder.
In case you wish to indicate less than three reference transponders, just set up the
one or the two reference ones you like, and set into the unused field(s) the reference
transponder set up as the first one.
Then highlight the item START? and press the encoder knob [M] to activate the SAT
FINDER function.
During the identification process, the START icon will be replaced by the item
SATLOOKING and a rotating bar will be displayed as an “in progress” indicator.
When the satellite will be correctly found, the meter will start the buzzer (refer to
Chapter 18.4 ANTENNA POINTING AID: BUZZER at page 55) . The Noise Margin
value (also displayed on a level bar with peak level) and the Quality Test results will
be displayed on the LCD:
