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XDS Pro Users Guide
1/11/2010
Rev A
4.2
The LCD Display and User Interface
The PRO4 Receiver comes equipped with a 128x64 pixel LCD on its front panel which
allows the user to view, modify, and save receiver settings. The navigation of the PRO4
receiver‟s menu hierarchy is simple:
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To cycle through the possible sub-menus, press the ◄ or ► buttons.
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To navigate into the currently selected sub-menu, press the ▼ button.
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To navigate back up into a higher level of the menu hierarchy, press the ▲
button.
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Once you have navigated to a menu which allows you to edit settings, use the ▲
and ▼ buttons to highlight options, and the set button, to pick an option.
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The Main Menu Options
When the receiver‟s front panel is not being used, the idle screen featuring the X-Digital
Systems
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logo will be displayed. There are two important statistics displayed on this
front logo screen: EB,
energy per bit relative to noise floor
, which is a quantitative
measure of signal quality; and AG,
automatic gain
, which is an indicator of the signal
level. Both of these quantities serve to describe the quality of the satellite signal and
should be used as a guide when positioning the satellite dish. Better signals have better
separation between the data and noise floor, and thus a higher EB. EB range is 0 - 18.
The receiver will fade in and out below 5 dB Eb/No, and loose lock completely at around
3.5 dB. A powerful signal will have a high AG (indicating little amplification is
required) while a weak signal will have a low AG (indicating unit is amplifying signal).
Once the ▼ button is pressed, the receiver will navigate into its main menu options.
These options are: STATUS, SETUP, and AUDIO PORTS. Continually pressing ◄ (or
►) will cycle through these three main menus. Pressing ▼ or
SET
will navigate into
whichever one of these three options happen to be currently selected.
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The X-Digital logo may be replaced by your broadcaster‟s logo.
