2.3 – Smart Antenna Selector Page
In the following section you can find a guide of the Smart Antenna Selector operational behaviour.
If you click on “Smart Antenna Selector” button from the Home Page the following page will
appear:
Inside the green circle you can find a “copy” of the rack unit front panel. Following a resuming of
the buttons actions:
Direct Mode: in this case the antenna “A” signal is routed to output “A” distribution and
same for antenna “B” and output “B” distribution. This mode is useful when the antennas
are tracking different satellites and you want to watch both distributions satellite receivers
contemporary. In this case the system acts as s simple RF signal distributor. This mode is
automatic selected by the CPU when the antennas are tracking different satellites. In this
case the “SMART Mode Available” row become dark gray. To enable again SMART mode
just select same satellites on both antennas.
Smart Mode: in this case the system act as automatic/manual best antenna selector, or better,
it distribute the best antenna signal to both outputs. You can use Auto mode to allow the
system to calculate which is the best antenna, taking in consideration the following
parameters listed in priority order:
-. tracking status: “Tracking” or “Sleeping” enable the system to consider the antenna as available.
Other status like “Searching” or “Idle” put the antenna outside the availability. If both antennas are
not available (both in Searching for example), the system goes automatically on “A” antenna.
- azimuth position: if the antenna is inside the blind azimuth sector the system consider it as not
available, and select automatically the other antenna, if available. If not the system goes
automatically on “A” antenna.
- signal level: considering AGC value, the system calculate which is the higher value. To do this it
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