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Contents
Safety Notices........................................................1
Important information............................................3
Introduction...................................................................3
Geographic location.......................................................3
Installation..............................................................5
EMC Installation guidelines...........................................5
Suppression Ferrite...................................................5
Connections to other equipment................................5
System components......................................................6
Tools required for installation.........................................7
Planning the installation.................................................8
Cables.......................................................................8
Power Requirements.................................................8
Extending the cables..................................................9
Installing the ACU........................................................10
ACU dimensions......................................................10
Installation site.........................................................11
Installing the antenna...................................................12
Preparing the antenna.............................................12
Preparing the mount................................................12
Securing the antenna...............................................12
Connecting the system cables.....................................13
Connecting the antenna...........................................13
Connecting the ACU................................................13
Configuring the system................................................14
North America..............................................................14
Europe.........................................................................18
Connecting the system to a GPS.................................20
Operation..............................................................21
Introduction.................................................................21
Set up using the ACU...................................................21
ACU soft keys..........................................................21
Start up....................................................................21
Changing the default satellite...................................22
Monitoring the current state of the antenna..............22
Set up mode.............................................................23
Setting the satellite pair............................................23
Setting the GPS using the ACU................................25
Edit satellite information...........................................26
Setting the local frequency.......................................29
LNB systems in regions with linear polarization........30
Setting the DiSEqC method.....................................31
Display version........................................................31
Display power..........................................................33
Setting antenna go position......................................33
Setting antenna move step......................................35
Setting the factory default parameters.....................35
Perform antenna diagnosis......................................36
Set up using the Graphical User Interface....................37
GUI main menu........................................................37
Serial port set up......................................................38
The GUI control soft keys.........................................39
Loading default satellite information using the CD-
ROM........................................................................39
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