ASC ASC300LW Instruction Manual Download

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ATLANTIC SATELLITE CORPORATION
MODEL ASC300LW
BEACON RECEIVER

Model ASC300LW

Beacon Receiver

Instruction Manual

Rev. 351-4-0111

www.atlanticsat.com

www.beaconreceiver.net

Atlantic Satellite Corporation

259 Expressway Court

Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462

Phone: 757-318-3500

Fax: 757-318-7020

[email protected]

Summary of Contents for ASC300LW

Page 1: ...L ASC300LW BEACON RECEIVER 1 Model ASC300LW Beacon Receiver Instruction Manual Rev 351 4 0111 www atlanticsat com www beaconreceiver net Atlantic Satellite Corporation 259 Expressway Court Virginia Be...

Page 2: ...ons 3 2 1 Physical Specifications 3 2 2 Environmental Specifications 3 3 0 Front Panel Facilities 4 3 1 Local Operation 4 3 11 Changing Frequency 4 3 12 Changing Gain 5 3 2 Display 5 4 0 Rear Panel Fa...

Page 3: ...motely AFC 1 23 kHz Threshold 45 dB Hz for acquisition Input Impedance 75 Ohm Input Connector Type F female STD N type female optional Output Impedance 100 Ohm single ended Output Connector Terminal p...

Page 4: ...over one of the frequency digits CURSOR Depressing and releasing the CURSOR button will cause the cursor to move one frequency digit to the right When the last digit is reached the cursor will jump t...

Page 5: ...displays 7 50 VDC The unit tracks the input signal strength over a 20 dB range 0 5 V dB For a signal strength reading of 7 5 VDC the unit will track upwards to 10 00 VDC or a 5 dB increase in input s...

Page 6: ...t Pin 8 Receive Pin 9 Receive Pin 5 Ground TB1 Term 1 Alarm relay common contact Term 2 Alarm relay normally open contact Term 3 Alarm relay normally closed contact Term 4 AFC voltage When the unit is...

Page 7: ...ard install Refer to the attachment to the manual if this option is installed S2 Not installed LNB PWR 18 VDC On Off LNB POWER LED Red LED that is ON when power is applied to the LNB J5 INPUT The freq...

Page 8: ...ill be displayed in the lower left corner of the front panel display 2 To select the address for the unit press and release the UP or DOWN buttons until the desired address is selected in the range of...

Page 9: ...t either be a 0 or a 5 0 corresponds to 0 0 dB attenuation and 600 corresponds to 60 0 dB of attenuation To change the attenuation by 0 5 dB the least significant digit must be a 5 For example to chan...

Page 10: ...e User Interface Program The ASC300 series beacon receivers can be remotely controlled and polled utilizing the included terminal program Shown below are various screens that have been preset for comm...

Page 11: ...400 and the Address has been set to F Note all other ASC300 series beacon receiver baud rates should be set to 2400 Set the connection to Serial Select the COM Port to be used In this case the COM2 ha...

Page 12: ...requency and attenuation for the unit in the appropriate boxes The frequency range is from 930 00 to 2300 00 on 10 kHz steps The attenuation range is 0 0 to 60 0 on 0 5 dB steps It is recommended that...

Page 13: ...re The following screen will appear On the above screen the user can select that the unit can be polled manually by clicking the POLL button on the previous screen or can be selected to automatically...

Page 14: ...owing screen will appear In the above screen the transmitted command O 0 0 0 the poll command followed by the unit response The trailing characters J M are the control characters for line feed and car...

Page 15: ...d prior to installing or operating any of the equipment or parts thereof FAILURE TO COMPLETELY READ AND FULLY UNDERSTAND AND FOLLOW ALL OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS GUIDE PRIOR TO INSTALLING AND OR OPERATI...

Page 16: ...outine care and maintenance as indicated in any operating maintenance instructions or failure to use or take any proper precautions under the circumstances 2 Products items parts accessories subassemb...

Page 17: ...s in transit not withstanding any defect or nonconformity in the product By returning a product the owner grants ASC permission to open and disassemble the product as required for evaluation In all ca...

Page 18: ...ntiVolts as well as lock or alarm condition of the unit A dedicated DB 9 J4 on the rear of theunit provides the RS 232 streaming interface The DB9 RS 232 pin out is Pin 2 serial output Pin 5 ground Th...