User's Manual

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NewStream User Guide and Technical Manual

Local RF Control

There are two OLED buttons and one set of rocker switches that control Radio

Frequency functionality [see Figure 5 items C and D].

ENG Mode

The upper RF Control OLED button is used to control the Power Ampliﬁ er functionality

[see Figure 5 item D]. This button toggles between PA ON to PA OFF. When you press

this button, it will show inverted colors until the operation is complete. Should the action

take a few seconds to resolve, you have positive acknowledgment that NewStream

received input and is loading the state change request. PA ON will display a blue

background allowing you to see this indicator at a distance without having to be close

enough to read the text.

The lower OLED button toggles between PA HI and PA LO [see Figure 5 item C]. The

last state of this button is restored upon system shutdown and startup. Pressing the

rocker up or rocker down button under the PA HI/PA LO OLED will put

NewStream

into PA ADJ mode [see Figure 5 item B]. The power level of PA ADJ will default to full

power [zero attenuation] if PA ADJ has not been selected for this ODU Band before,

but otherwise entering PA ADJ will recall the last adjustable power setting for this ODU

Band.

The PA ADJ state for dual band ODUs [i.e. 2/7 GHz] may display different RF level

readings as the adjustment for each RF band, either 2 GHz or 7 GHz, is independent of

one another. This will cause the bottom OLED to show PA ADJ [see Figure 5 item B],

and will allow the up/down rocker to adjust PA power. While in PA ADJ, pressing the

bottom OLED will take the system out of PA ADJ mode, and put it into the last power

state.

SNG Mode

The upper OLED button is used to control the Satellite Carrier functionality [Figure 5

item D]. This button toggles between Carrier enabled [CW ON] and CW OFF. When

you press this button, it will show inverted colors until the operation is ﬁ nished.

Similarly, the lower OLED button [see Figure 5 item C] toggles between Modulation

disabled, MOD OFF and enabled, MOD ON. Both the OLED button’s default states

are OFF.