Tiernan TDR7, Manual

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Chapter 5 138
Configuring the TDR7
Monitoring and Troubleshooting With an RCD
As a matter of routine and during troubleshooting, you will want to
monitor the lock status of the demodulator, decoder, and transport
stream and view various aspects of the incoming signal. Additionally,
you will need to view and monitor faults. The following commands
provide examples of how to perform these tasks using the RCD.
Specific information on how to use these functions during
troubleshooting are explained in
Chapter 6 of this manual.
To view demodulator lock status:
At the RCD, type QD_LOCK_DEMOD , then press the
Enter
key.
To view decoder lock status:
At the RCD, type QD_LOCK_DECODER , then press the
Enter
key.
To view transport stream lock status:
At the RCD, type QD_LOCK_TRANSPORT , then press the
Enter
key.
To view the receive signal level:
At the RCD, type QD_AGC , then press the
Enter
key.
To view the receive signal Eb/No:
At the RCD, type QD_EBNO , then press the
Enter
key.
To view the carrier offset:
At the RCD, type
QD_OFFSET
, then press the
Enter
key.
To view a list of current faults:
At the RCD, type
FC
, then press the
Enter
key.
To view the fault history log:
At the RCD, type FH , then press the
Enter
key.