Operation Manual

SFX SERIES USER’S GUIDE
Rev 2.2 18
Main Menu
Tool Bar Item Description
Logging Items associated with local and remote status logging of receiver events, including RF status
and faults.
Metrics Items associated with RF and data metrics displays.
Configuration Items associated with configuration of web, network and operating system applications on the
receiver.
Utilities Items associated with peripheral utilities required to properly operate the receiver in your
network, including Date/Time, Passwords, Ping, etc. A Documentation menu item under
Utilities provides an electronic copy of the full User’s Guide.
Upgrade Items associated with the upgrade of application firmware and other software applications
required to properly operate the receiver.
The area at the bottom of the Main Menu page provides an updated RF status of the DVB carrier being currently
received. This area remains displayed at all times and RF metrics information presented here is only valid if the DVB
Carrier A/B Lock Status indicates that the receiver is locked to Carrier A or B (green square). This display area is
updated at the periodic refresh rate set by the “Refresh” box (in seconds) at the right of the status bar. The metrics are
displayed separately for each tuner and the content varies with the choice of DVBS or DVBS-2 carriers and the setting
of the Viterbi rate as shown below.
Carrier Type
S S
Auto
Viterbi
S2 S2
Auto
RF Metric Description
■ ■ ■ ■ Lock This shows the status of the receiver lock to the selected carrier,
and the locked carrier letter.
■ ■ ■ ■ Redundancy This display provides the current Master/Backup status of the
receiver if it has been configured for redundancy.
■ ■ Signal Quality This display gives an indication of the Quality of the incoming data
stream. This feature is useful to evaluate the quality of the
incoming RF signal. A value from 0% to 100% is shown within the
display. The higher the percentage, the better the Carrier To
Noise (C/No) or quality of the digital carrier. This display is based
on an estimation of incoming noise by the tuner front end and is
accurate to ± 10%.
The display bar changes colour, according to the following:
Black – tuner is not locked to a carrier.
Red – signal quality is too low (1% to 24%).
Green – signal quality is in acceptable operating range (25% to
100%).
■ ■ ■ ■ Signal Level This display provides a percentage of the signal strength of the
DVB carrier that is being received at the L-Band input to the tuner.
The display bar changes colour, according to the following:
Black – tuner is not locked to a carrier.
Red – signal level is too low (1% to 19%) or too high (90% to
100%).
Yellow – signal level is marginally too low (20% to 29%) or