Communications, Inc. Switch User Manual

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GE/AR80 Installation Manual
580-00519, rev A 5 of 40
Table of Contents
Section# Page #
Copyright Notice & Disclaimer
2
Product Compatibility 3
Safety 3
Regulatory Information 4
Equipment Precautions 4
Table of Contents 5
1 Introduction
6
1.1 Purpose of Manual 6
1.2 Prior Knowledge and Manual Conventions 6
1.3 Contact Information & RMA 7
2 Site Planning
8
2.1 General 8
2.2 Equipment Checklist 8
2.3 Line of Sight 8
2.4 Link Distance 9
2.5 Antenna Location 9
2.6 Cabling 9
2.7 Grounding and Lightning Protection 12
2.8 Environmental 13
2.9 Simple Network Diagram 13
3 Installation
14
3.1 General 14
3.2 Equipment Packing and Unpacking 14
3.3 Equipment Inventory 15
3.4 Installation Tools 16
3.5 Antenna Mount Installation 17
3.6 Antenna and Radio Installation 20
3.7 Cable Installation 23
3.8
Antenna
Turning the System On and Alignment 26
3.9 Auto Calibration 28
3.10 Test Cable 31
4 Operation of GE/AR80 & Configuration of Network
equipment
33
4.1 Configuring Network Equipment 34
4.2 Check port statistics 34
5 Troubleshooting
35
6 Distance vs. RSL Voltage
37
7 Standard Warranty Statement
38
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