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25 Maintenance 

 

This appliance requires some maintenance to meet its requirements and maintain its general characteristics. 

 

 

Consequences 

Recommended periodicity of con-
trols 

Recommended 
use limit 

BATTERY 

Reduction of the bat-
tery life 

 

200 charge / dis-
charge cycles 

or 2 years 

STRAPS 

Breakdown 

At each use 
Check the holding of the straps 

 

Back Light SCREEN 

Reduction of visibility 

 

1 year 

Measurement setting 
/ check 

Erroneous measures 

Once a year 

12 months 

CONNECTIONS 

Erroneous measures 

At any measurement 

 

Optical fiber jumper 
cable 

Erroneous measures 

At any measurement, check the 
state and cleanliness of the jumper 

 

 

This "advice" does not engage the responsibility of TRIAX. 

It guarantees the best possible use of the characteristics and the preservation of the product. 

 

Routine maintenance: 

 

The basic maintenance is simply cleaning the outside of the appliance. Any other operation requires a 
trained personal. 

 

Unplug the appliance before any intervention. 

Do not let water flow inside the appliance: risk of electric shock. 

 

Periodically clean the appliance under the following conditions: 

-

 

use soapy water 

-

 

never use any product containing petrol, benzene, alcohols that would attack silkscreen printings 

-

 

wipe out with a soft lint-free cloth 

-

 

use a solvent-free antistatic product to clean the screen. 

RF socket:

 

Make sure there are 

no specks of copper between the winner conductor and the ground

 

 

Replace periodically the adapter F/F, an adapter in poor condition distorts all the measures. 

Optical: 

Before connecting a fiber, it is

 

compulsory to clean both connectors with a compressed air spray. Never 

use clothes, alcohol, water or any other liquid or solvent.

 

 

 

 

Summary of Contents for MCT059

Page 1: ...MCT059 Model Item no TRIAX MCT059 Field Strength Meter 812970 Version 1 0 Date 06 2017 EN User manual MCT059 Field Strength Meter...

Page 2: ...All First document created Thank you for purchasing this TRIAX product and therefore trusting our company Our different teams research department production sales department after sales service are a...

Page 3: ...ental breaks or consecutive to a shock or any abnormal use The factory options integrated to the appliance are guaranteed for the same duration as the appliance itself In case of replacement or repair...

Page 4: ...our after sales service for the best service and preservation of the measuring quality of your instrument When a field meter is returned to TRIAX maximum service is provided with internal updating ac...

Page 5: ...tion 19 3 1 General 19 3 2 Description of the appliance 20 4 Power up 21 4 1 Battery 21 4 2 Battery charge 21 4 3 External power supply 22 4 4 Turning the appliance on and off 22 5 Man machine interfa...

Page 6: ...s 53 12 8 DVB T H 54 12 9 DVB T2 T2 Lite 55 12 10 DVB C 56 12 11 DVB C2 57 12 12 DVB S et DSS 58 12 13 DVB S2 59 13 Spectrum analyzer 60 14 Image and Sound 61 14 1 Digital TV 61 14 2 Full screen mode...

Page 7: ...Update 84 20 4 Factory recovery 85 20 5 Configuration import export 86 21 Software update 87 22 Save 88 23 Connection of the appliance to a PC 89 24 Displayed messages 91 24 1 Alert messages 91 24 2 E...

Page 8: ...RIAX spare parts Do not open the appliance risk of electric shock You should use the F F adaptor provided with your measuring instrument Any other adaptor could damage your appliance and jeopardizes t...

Page 9: ...o the manual Shows a risk of damage for the material connected to the in strument or to the instrument itself Ground Grounded accessible parts Product for recycling 1 4 Conformity and restrictions of...

Page 10: ...citive touchscreen This requires a soft handling No glove and no stylus should be used so that the triggering should be taken into account You will recognize the keys by their dark grey color example...

Page 11: ...l antenna in RF mode In this case the Autoset function allows a scan of the channels that the antenna detects Plug the cable of your antenna to the MCT059 appliance WARNING use an adequate adaptor The...

Page 12: ...appliance makes measurements continuously C N level then BER MER on the detected channels If no channel has been found see the next chapter To finish press the home measurement key then on On this new...

Page 13: ...tenna Use of the spectrum Use of the satellite dish 2 2 2 1 Use of the spectrum Plug the cable of your antenna to the MCT059 take care to use an adequate adaptor Turn your appliance on Press the Measu...

Page 14: ...ectrum the cursor moves to where you press Press the NIT key the device find automatically all the parameters of the signal Once the search ended the device display the Network Name and the Network ID...

Page 15: ...ce gets an Antenna pointing mode in order to align quickly and easily your terrestrial antenna To access to the Antenna pointing mode from the HOME page press The following page appears Set your emitt...

Page 16: ...orientate the antenna until hearing the locking melody and getting the best quality No transmitter found bad reception quality red smiley Average reception quality 50 orange smiley Good reception qual...

Page 17: ...the Remote power supply page press To switch on the remote power supply press then select ON in the page to launch the remote power supply A green check appears in front of what you validated Press th...

Page 18: ...name of the satellite Attention To identify a satellite you must be locked on all 4 transponders Quality 0 However some transponders are regularly modified See the frequency range of the satellite wh...

Page 19: ...ld measurer In Measurement Plan mode they scan up to 50 setups at the same time and compare them to decision levels min max Equipped with an efficient Bit Error Rate measurement various BER MER they a...

Page 20: ...n ON OFF switch RF socket with F F adapter Remote supply light USB A socket Ethernet socket External power socket 15 V 5 A max Charging indicator light Optical FC APC input with protective plug RF F o...

Page 21: ...protective item that should not be damaged or removed Protect the pack from the heat while storing Do not damage the protective sheath of the pack Do not store the appliance in a vehicle under sunlig...

Page 22: ...upply The power supply block provided is an external power supply too Only use the power supply block provided with the appliance Use of another mains block could damage your appliance and would not v...

Page 23: ...MCT059 can work in RF or optical mode You can switch from one mode to the other at start up and from the homepage The Home page allows you to navigate among all functions of the appliance You will fi...

Page 24: ...exit a window like this one below you have to press the key Indication of the state of the battery Page title Indication of the position of the switch or of the SatCR position of the slot Display of t...

Page 25: ...cursor with your fingers 5 2 Changing name or value 5 2 1 Changing inside a table You can select a setup in the table In this case you can validate a setup by pressing the line you want to display In...

Page 26: ...ws you to cancel and exit this window like in the example below In this example the bandwidth changes from 8 to 6 MHz 5 2 3 Change with virtual keyboard If you want to enter a name of a number a windo...

Page 27: ...lation may use two satellite dishes ASTRA 19 2 in DiSEqC position A HOT BIRD 13 in DiSEqC position B Another one may use three satellite dishes ATLANTIC BIRD 3 in DiSEqC position A ASTRA 1 in DiSEqC p...

Page 28: ...s a place name in 10 characters a frequency a channel number in terrestrial or cable mode a frequency map in terrestrial or cable mode a vertical or horizontal polarization in satellite mode a low or...

Page 29: ...and to provide information about the current place You can access it through the key on page Home The displayed lines on this page depend on the selected Frequency band The key before the Mode line al...

Page 30: ...de allows automatic research on the terrestrial frequency band The table allows the selection of Standards Channel widths The channel range of the research i e 21 to 60 The goal is to make researches...

Page 31: ...andards Channel widths The search range of channels 6 4 START menu key No matter which mode is selected press the START key when the table is filled to launch the research Pressing Stop will abort the...

Page 32: ...e setups of the library starting from the end of the table The new list is created in the first available list The default name of the new list is AUTOSET New found channels are added one by one into...

Page 33: ...the list where you will work on measurements Pressing the Lists Library key gives you access to the LISTS function Lists are ranked from 0 to 19 To select the one you want press the following key Lis...

Page 34: ...ow shows up By pressing the key before Setup you disclose the available setups from the library you cannot create a setup from a list to create a setup see Setup creation or modification in the librar...

Page 35: ...e setup is now in the list You may erase the setup from the list by pressing the check to the left of the setup or to the setups you have to delete Then click the basket and select the deletion of the...

Page 36: ...of a list by pressing directly on the basket then by selecting In a satellite setup you can change the switch the Uncommitted Port and the DCSS by activating any of these keys this change will affect...

Page 37: ...he LISTS function From this page you have access to the Library by pressing 8 2 Creation or modification of setups in the library To create or change a setup in the library you have to select a line i...

Page 38: ...standard DVB T H DVB T2 Under standard DVB C DVB C2 In terrestrial analogical standard L BG DK I and MN To enter the fre quency band you want for the setup To enter the Emit ter Satellite name you wan...

Page 39: ...39 Setup Satellite KU L or C Ku L or C corresponds to the selected band To enter the type of polarity you want for the setup high or low vertical or horizontal To enter the symbol rate you want for t...

Page 40: ...tered 4 transponders are appended to each satellite You can select the satellite by pressing Name and position of the satellite To modify a transponder you must press the corresponding key Name and p...

Page 41: ...lite dish to the appliance and start it up 2 Validate the remote power supply VDC lights up Check the power supply current of the LNB IDC at the top right corner of the screen should be between 50 and...

Page 42: ...eption quality 50 green smiley Attention To identify a satellite it must be synchronized on all 4 transponders However some transponders are regularly modified See the frequency map of the satellite i...

Page 43: ...Check Sat This mode allows you to orientate a double LNB by checking 4 transponders on 2 selected satellites This mode is identical to the simple Check Sat mode To access the double Check Sat mode you...

Page 44: ...th reference to the north Measured in degrees Elevation Tilt angle under which the beam from the satellite reaches your antenna Measured in degrees using what is specified on the stand of the satellit...

Page 45: ...MCT059 p 45 10 TERRESTRIAL check To access to the menu terrestrial check from Home page press The following page appears Set up your check...

Page 46: ...ou try to check Once you informed the 4 transponders slowly orientate the satellite dish until hearing the locking melody and getting the best quality No found transponder red smiley Average reception...

Page 47: ...MCT059 p 47 Press key permits to list the services distributed on the multiplex...

Page 48: ...MCT059 p 48 11 The Measures TV Spectrum page TV mode SPECTRUM mode full screen Autolock Automatic search of setup...

Page 49: ...he AutoLock function 12 1 Autolock function This function is design to lock on a digital signal terrestrial cable or satellite You just have to enter the frequency or the channel for terrestrial then...

Page 50: ...for the satellite The audio mode for the analogical TV 12 3 Level measurements You can measure levels at a specific frequency with a detection matching the standard In terrestrial band for an user soc...

Page 51: ...p the measurement types and the frequencies of the audio carrier waves for each standard Standard Video carrier Measure PAL FM Peak SECAM FM Peak NTSC FM Peak DVB S Digital Power DSS Digital Power DVB...

Page 52: ...5 85 MHz I positive AM peak FM DQPSK 6 0 MHz 6 552 MHz L positive AM peak AM DQPSK 6 5 MHz 5 85 MHz MN negative AM peak FM FM 4 5 MHz 4 72 MHz DVB C digital power DVB T H digital power DVB T2 digital...

Page 53: ...sured MER and the limit MER before disconnection of the image it s the security available before disconnection Sync displayed on screen means that the signal is absent or unlocked check its pres ence...

Page 54: ...e bits number of transmitted bits during the measurement time PER packets error rate Ratio between the number of false packets number of transmitted packets during the measurement time Recall Under DV...

Page 55: ...ror rate LKM noise margin Link Margin Recall LDPC Low Density Parity Check BCH Bose Chauhuri Houquenohem The concatenation Viterbi Reed Solomon of the correction of DVB T H has been replaced by the co...

Page 56: ...Ratio between the number of false bits number of transmitted bits during the measurement time PER error rate packets Ratio between the number of false packets number of transmitted packets during the...

Page 57: ...LDPC BERo error rate after LDPC PER error rate after BCH lost packets MER modulation error rate LKM noise margin Link Margin Recall LDPC Low Density Parity Check BCH Bose Chauhuri Houquenohem Active...

Page 58: ...the number of false bits number of transmitted bits during the measurement time PER error rate packets Ratio between the number of false packets number of transmitted packets during the measure ment...

Page 59: ...er BCH lost packets MER modulation error rate LKM Noise margin Link Margin Recall LDPC Low Density Parity Check BCH Bose Chauhuri Houquenohem The concatenation Viterbi Reed Solomon of the correction o...

Page 60: ...level of the signals measured Filters are automatically selected according to the Span The filter used is displayed on the upper left corner Parameters of the spectrum are Channel use a chan nel for...

Page 61: ...Hz frame frequency MPEG 2 picture compression Video Rate 4 106 Mbits s instantaneous binary rate of the service Audio MPEG Layer II sound compression On this page there are 3 keys at the bottom of th...

Page 62: ...ing HE AAC High Efficiency AAC License Via Licensing Dolby Digital License Dolby Dolby Digital Plus License Dolby Made under license by Dolby laboratories Dolby and the double D symbol are trademarks...

Page 63: ...o start the remote power supply press the key after Remote supply 15 1 Terrestrial band In terrestrial mode you can select A green check shows which voltage is selected OFF to turn off the remote powe...

Page 64: ...n on the LNB 22 kHz Tone Burst or DiSEqC Selection polar polarization commutation on the LNB 13 18V or DiSEqC Switch switch type and position No Tone Burst 22 kHz DiSEqC Pos A B C or D Uncommitted Unc...

Page 65: ...st MiniDiSEqC DiSEqC Committed or Uncommitted 16 satellites switch Sat A Sat B Com 2 1 Sat A Sat B Sat D Sat C Com Sat A Sat B Sat D Sat C Com Sat A Sat B Sat D Sat C Com Sat A Sat B Sat D Sat C Com S...

Page 66: ...B Pos 2 Input 2 9 Pos A Option A Position A Pos 3 Input 3 10 Pos B Option A Position B Pos 3 Input 3 11 Pos C Option B Position A Pos 3 Input 3 12 Pos D Option B Position B Pos 3 Input 3 13 Pos A Opt...

Page 67: ...only one coaxial cable no matter the band H L and the polarization H V Functioning Each satellite receptor uses a fix frequency band Slot or Port whose width is more or less equal to the width of the...

Page 68: ...n of the satellite signal with only one coaxial cable to a maximum of 32 different receptors Using DiSEqC 2 0 bi directional possibility to ask current online devices and speed up installation Mode ch...

Page 69: ...32 predefined slots ALLOCATION states of the 32 possible slots DETECT automatic detection of slots DISEQC2 0 based 15 2 2 1 Influence of the DCSS on the spectrum analyzer Landmarks of the user band s...

Page 70: ...one of these standards is running in the LEVEL MEASUREMENT page DVB T H DVB T2 DVB C DVB C2 DVB S DSS DVB S2 The appliance displays the Constellation of the current signal The information displayed on...

Page 71: ...ment arrow can be done by screen touch or by automatic search keys and The end of the guard interval is displayed with a yellow line Reminder Remember In terrestrial TV broadcasting the received signa...

Page 72: ...a or by selecting a more di rective antenna The Echo function of the appliance enables you to display possible echoes that disturb the received signal Relative amplitude in dB and delay in s distance...

Page 73: ...odulator BER Viterbi VBER BCH PER packet error rate non proofread packet lost packet wrong packet UNC PER Important A bargraph above the Measurement map allows you to track the evolution of the scan T...

Page 74: ...MCT059 p 74 18 1 Out of tolerance values The digital values are colored according to the Thresholds before decision red for values less than Threshold min orange for values more than Threshold max...

Page 75: ...ided to use this function 1 angled F F cable code 978754800 1 FC FC optical fiber jumper cable to switch from APC to PC SPC or UPC code 978754700 1 FC SC APC optical fiber jumper cable code 978754710...

Page 76: ...tical signal Optical fibers are made of a core a cladding and at least one protection There are two kinds of optical fibers multimode and single mode The difference is the size of the core inside the...

Page 77: ...tion to an increased risk of damaging the connector there will be automatically a 4dB decrease of the optical level which means 8dB for RF Thus you will have to take great care of the connections and...

Page 78: ...asurements everywhere on your installation to check losses of the optical signal Warning The appliance can measure only one wavelength at a time If there are several wavelengths measurements will be w...

Page 79: ...dently To display the signal at the output of your installation you must connect the RF output of the optical option to the RF input of the appliance via the provided angled F F cable Power your LNB n...

Page 80: ...ish to the same socket Then you can turn your dish see chapter 2 2 3 Installation of a dish and or your terrestrial antenna see chapter 2 2 2 Installation of a terrestrial antenna Once the measurement...

Page 81: ...o to the Home page then Configuration 20 1 Language You can select your language by pressing the flag below Press the flag corresponding to your language 20 2 Frequency map This key allows you to sele...

Page 82: ...ry size are displayed When pressing this key a pull down menu lists the previously saved files The first column contains the order number of the file the second column contains the name of the file th...

Page 83: ...0 3 2 Save Save BMP USB allows you to export the file to the USB stick under BMP format non compressed graph it is useful to transfer graphs to a report in a PC computer Here is the BMP file of the pr...

Page 84: ...all BMP USB records all files from the appliance under BMP format into separated registers LEVEL for the level measurements MAP for the measurement maps SPECTRUM for the spectrum measurements BER MER...

Page 85: ...T059 p 85 20 4 Factory recovery A complete set up of the appliance under its FACTORY configuration with confirmation Attention In case of factory recovery you lose the setup library the measurement li...

Page 86: ...on a USB stick of your setups lists of your appliance by pushing Configuration Export And you can import from a USB stick this configuration with the touch Configuration import You can also update ch...

Page 87: ...Turn your appliance on Go to the Home page press configuration Insert the USB stick into the connector of the appliance Select Update Attention Do not turn the appliance off while updating The updati...

Page 88: ...The default name of the save is MEM X 1 X is the number of saves in the appliance You will be suggested a save into internal memory only in the Spectrum Measurements Constellation Guard interval and...

Page 89: ...sed ETHERNET cable Configuration of the connection Ethernet connection of your appliance to the PC To change the IP address of your appliance press and The PC software in communication with the applia...

Page 90: ...t mask in the appli ance 3 Type the same IP address and subnet mask in the PC software you re using Attention If the PC has already been connected to Ethernet network modem it is necessary to reboot t...

Page 91: ...nce may display messages while working 24 1 Alert messages Low battery the appliance is about to shut off in a few minutes Confirmation request for an important action Remote power supply issue voltag...

Page 92: ...ponding message ex plains the issue 24 2 Error messages A message may show up at the bottom of the screen immediately after updating the software Do not take it into account as far as it does not show...

Page 93: ...haracteristics and the preservation of the product Routine maintenance The basic maintenance is simply cleaning the outside of the appliance Any other operation requires a trained personal Unplug the...

Page 94: ...ng of the screen on your instrument to the respect of the acceptance conditions of the manufacturers Acceptance criteria Zone A central zone total less than 5 defective pixels less than 3 contiguous p...

Page 95: ...AL SECAM NTSC Measures RF level power C N Spectrum Analyzer Fast Mode 350 ms typ 3 times s Filters according to span 100kHz 300kHz 1 MHz 1MHz 3MHz 10MHz Attenuator automatic or manual 0 to 55 dB with...

Page 96: ...or multiple FFT type 1k 2k 4k 8k 16k 32k extended bandwidth auto Constellation QPSK 16QAM 64QAM 256QAM auto Viterbi rate 1 2 3 5 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 1 3 2 5 auto Guard Interval auto Spectrum inversion aut...

Page 97: ...PER Link margin Modulation Error Rate MER 0 20dB Symbol rate 1 to 45Ms s Constellation QPSK 8PSK 16APSK 32APSK Modulation CCM VCM ACM Multistream stream select ISI 0 99 PL scrambling Gold code Viterbi...

Page 98: ...nterfaces USB A USB mini B Ethernet 10baseT RJ45 DC supply input jack 5 5 mm 15 V max 5 A max Remote supply Terrestrial Satellite Voltage 5V 13V 18 V 24V 500 mA max 300mA for 24V 13 18 V 500 mA max Di...

Page 99: ...mperature 10 C to 60 C EMC and safety NF EN 61326 1 2013 et NF EN 61326 2 1 2013 class B basic electromagnetic environment NF EN 61010 Dimensions 250 x 165 x 65 mm Weight 1 350 kg 26 6 Accessories Sup...

Page 100: ...108 75 dBm Ud 1 mV N 60 dB V N 0 dBmV N 48 75 dBm Ud 1 V N 120 dB V N 60 dBmV N 11 25 dBm 26 8 Typical values for measurements Values given are indicatives minimum and maximum for good signal quality...

Page 101: ...ohem Algorithm used to correct errors in transmissions of digital satellite DVB S2 signals BER Bit Error Rate Calculation of the erroneous bits with regard to the number of transmitted bits BER demons...

Page 102: ...the opposed polarization it should be as high as possible To adjust the counter polarization you have to turn the head of the dish DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting The Digital Audio Broadcasting is a st...

Page 103: ...B Low Noise Block converter A LNB or universal head is a standard converter for the analogical and digital reception of a satellite The reception is made on 2 low high frequency band and 2 horizontal...

Page 104: ...A multiplex enables the diffusion of 6 programs in standard definition NIT Network Information Table Information about the network package Enables the display of a description of the measured transpo...

Page 105: ...rotation of a satellite dish Positioners are operated by DiSEqC commands QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation This kind of modulation is used for digital transmissions cable networks and DTT QPSK Quadr...

Page 106: ...ls Pour comparer l informatique un t l viseur cor respond une r solution SVGA 800 x 600 La proportion de l image est de 4 3 rapport largeur hauteur En t l vision HD l image est constitu e de 1080 lign...

Page 107: ...och manualer Information und Bedienungsanleitungen Informations et modes d emploi Informaci n y manuales Lis tietoja ja oppaita inform ci k s tmutat k Copyright 2016 TRIAX All rights reserved The TRI...

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