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  • Page 2 FSM-530 / FSM-630 FIELD STRENGTH METER USER’S MANUAL This product contains one or more programs protected under international and US copyright laws as un-published works. They are confidential and proprietary to Dolby laboratories. Their reproduction or disclosure, in whole or in part, or the production of derivative works there from without the express permission of Dolby Laboratories is prohibited.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    IMPORTANT INFORMATION ....................6 Precautions ..............................6 Safety instructions ............................6 Symbols and definitions ..........................6 Conformity and appliance limits ........................6 Quick start guide........................7 Presentation ........................13 General.................................13 Description ..............................14 3.2.1 Front panel ............................14 3.2.2 Function keys ............................15 3.2.3 Connectors (upper panel) ........................16 3.2.4 Measurements input..........................16 3.2.5...
  • Page 4 8.1.1 Installation .............................38 8.1.2 How to use ALCADSat..........................39 CheckSat mode interface ..........................40 CheckSat single LNB ...........................41 8.3.1 CheckSat information..........................41 8.3.2 Checking the satellite ...........................42 8.3.3 Alignment of the dish..........................43 CheckSat double LNB ..........................45 Modification of a transponder’s parameters ....................45 Image and Sound ....................... 47 Analogue TV..............................47 9.1.1 Volume and screen settings........................48...
  • Page 5 Messages......................... 83 19.1 Warning messages ...........................83 19.2 Error messages ............................84 19.3 Failure messages .............................85 Maintenance ........................86 Specifications........................88 21.1 Common technical features FSM-530 and FSM-630 ................88 21.2 DVB-C...............................89 21.3 MCNS ...............................89 21.4 DVB-S, DSS .............................90 21.5 DVB-S2 ..............................90 21.6 DVB-S2+ 45 MSymbols..........................90 21.7...
  • Page 12 Caution : To identify a satellite correctly, the appliance must be sy nchronised on the 4 transponders. (Quality >0) However certain tra nsponders are m odified regularly. Please see th e satellite’s frequency map when it seems that a transponder is not w ork- ing.

  • Page 13: Presentation

    3 Presentation General Field strength meters FSM-530 and FSM-630 are hand-held instruments dedicated to the installation and the maintenance of all broadcast and reception systems of analogue, digital terrestrial and digital satellite televisions. The entire bandwidth covers from 45 MHz to 2150 MHz (without gap). Field strength meters...

  • Page 17: Man-Machine Interfacing

    Thus, position the satellite dish with the hands, and at the same time, you can see the effects on the equipment. 3.2.6 Man-machine Interfacing When a line is highlighted (reverse video), the appropriate menu is displayed. To move from one line to another line, use the UP and DOWN keys on the front panel. Title of the current page, Current place, Battery level...

  • Page 19: Structure Of Places, Setups And Frequency Band

    Alphanumerical data input: For some parameters you can enter alphanumerical data from the keyboard and the menu keys +, -, #, /, _. This action begins by pressing a key from this keyboard for numerical values (program number, fre- quency…) and also by pressing a menu key for texts (name of the place, name of the program…). The data-entering eld appears in colour, you can con rm your action only by pressing the the alphanumerical keyboard.

  • Page 20: Number Of Places And Setups

    a frequency  a standard  a bit rate or a bandwidth and a constellation mode for digital standards and for a Satellite  bandwidth setup  status of the LNB (polarisation-band)  an audio mode and frequency  Selecting a Place on the Parameters screen restores automatically all the information concerning this place.

  • Page 21: Operating The Appliance

    Please recharge it if necessary. Battery Caution: For any action on the battery it is required to take the appliance to pieces and this must be done by a ALCAD technician. Only batteries provided by ALCAD must be used. Safety instructions: -Do not throw to re or warm up the battery pack.

  • Page 22: External Power Supply

    These drivers are compatible with the following operating systems: Windows Vista , Windows XP Windows Server 2003 , Windows 2000 and Windows 7 For any other operating system please contact ALCAD technical support. Your PC must also have a free USB port.

  • Page 23: Usb Interface, Installing The Drivers

    4.5.2 USB interface, Installing the drivers Download the required driver (RNDIS.ZIP) (depending on your operating system) on our website . After unzipping the drivers, connect the appliance to the PC by using a type A to mini B USB cable Switch on your appliance ;...
  • Page 24 4) With the « Browse » button, select the directory to which you extracted the drivers. 5) Click on « Next » 6) Click « Continue » if the alert message is displayed. Note that the language of the message may de- pend of your system language and setup : 7) Click «...

  • Page 25: Ethernet Interface

    4.5.3 ETHERNET interface No driver is required to run the Ethernet interface. Connect the TV Meter to a computer with an ETHERNET cable. 4.5.4 Remote connection Example: using the setup and report software SWR-002 on a computer Caution : To communicate, the computer must know the IP address of the TV Meter. Enter the IP address of the TV Meter in your PC software (SWR-002).

  • Page 26: Updating The Software

    Connecting your TV Meter to a network may cause problem if the DHCP server function is validated on the TV Meter. Updating the software The embedded software can be updated to get new features developed by ALCAD. download from our web site ( www.alcad.net ) , the update software FSM-X30_vX.X.ZIP ...
  • Page 27  Remove the USB memory stick  Power on the instrument and check that the battery has a minimum 30% charge (if not please charge the battery before upgrading)  Connect the USB memory stick to the TV Meter : few seconds later, the updating process need to be validate ...

  • Page 29: Cable Mode

    Bandwidths  Remote supply  Cable Mode cable fre- This mode permits automatic search on the quency bandwidth. The table permits to choose: Standards  Constellations  Symbol rates  Satellite Mode satellite This mode permits automatic search on the frequency bandwidth.
  • Page 32 Menu keys: Modif :  data input in a Setup Delete. :  to delete information for a Setup Reset :  to erase all Setups S ^ :  to move the selected setup to the line above S v : ...
  • Page 44 Elevation It is the inclination with which the beam arrives from the satellite signal up to your antenna. Measured in degrees and using what is marked on the support of the dish. Polarization This is the rotation that must be the LNB from the vertical soil. It is measured in degrees. To calculate the parameters of a simple head dish, enter the same satellite to point to the settings 'Satellite 1' and 'Satellite 2'.

  • Page 45: Checksat Double Lnb

    CheckSat double LNB This mode permits to direct a double LNB by checking 4 transponders on your 2 chosen satellites. It works the same way as the normal CheckSat Mode. Satellite A Satellite B Satellite A is on the left side of the screen and Satellite B is on the right side. Menu keys: ...
  • Page 46 every line there is a different menu: Click on the key to go back to normal or double CheckSat. Activating or deactivating a transponder permits to accelerate the search for active transponders. Please, choose transponders with high rate in order to get a fast alignment of satellite dish.

  • Page 48: Volume And Screen Settings

    9.1.1 Volume and screen settings Pressing one of the volume or screen setting keys makes a bargraphe appear. The sensitive wheel permits to increase or decrea se the volume depending on the direction of rotation. 9.1.2 Full Screen Mode The di erent full screen modes are described below: Menu keys: : full screen mode : display the TV picture as big as possible...

  • Page 49: Top Sync Signal

    9.1.3 Top Sync signal The Top Sync signal (vertical) is inlaid in the picture below. DIGITAL TV  MPEG DVB-T/H, DVB-T2, DVB-S, DSS, DVB-S2, DVB-C.  Choice of the MPEG service. Menu keys: : Setting of the volume with the sensitive wheel. : Setting of the brightness with the sensitive wheel.

  • Page 50: Services List

    9.2.1 Services list Get and display the Services included in the MPEG multiplex. Choice of the service with the sensitive wheel or with the up/down direction keys. Setting the service with the key Cancelling with the key 9.2.2 Access rights / access card Please find the access card at the back of the appliance (option according to appliance type).

  • Page 51: Sound

    9.2.3 Sound The instrument is able to demodulate sound of analogue TV for the systems: BG, DK, I, L, MN and also FM audio The instrument is able to decode digital sound for the following coding systems: MPEG-1 L1/L2 For the HD version Advanced Audio Coding License Via Licensing HE-AAC...

  • Page 53: Parameters

    10.1 Parameters Every menu depends on the parameter in reverse video. The different parameters are: 10.1.1 Terrestrial band - Setup #: Selected setup. Allows user to select Programs in the selected Place. This choice can be made by using the sensitive wheel, the keyboard or the list of Setups. - Frequency: Selected frequency.

  • Page 54: Wi-Fi Band

     Low : set the LNB on LO1  High : set the LNB on LO2 This choice is made accordingly to the type of LNB that you have selected in PARAMETERS page (Function key LNB-DiSEqC). Caution: All information concerning LNB and positioner is transferred through the remote supply;...

  • Page 55: Terrestrial Band

    10.2.1 Terrestrial Band The appliance automatically performs level measurements on Video Carrier and on 1 or 2 Audio Carriers (depending of the selected audio mode). The table below shows the different types of measures and the audio carrier’s frequencies for each Stan- dard.

  • Page 57: Dvb-S, Dss

    The other parameters depend on the type of digital standard DVB-S, DVB-S2, DSS, DVB-T/H or DVB-C. "Sync?" shows that the signal is missing or non-locked, check that the signal and the remote supply are not missing, the modulation parameters and the LNB and DiSEqC parameters in satellite band.

  • Page 58: Dvb-T/H

    - MER : modulation error rate Note: LDPC: low-density parity check BCH: Bose Chauhuri Houquenohem The Viterbi + Reed Solomon concatenation of the correction of the DVB-S is replaced in DVB-S2 by the LDPC and BCH concatenation. 11.4 DVB-T/H REED MPEG VITERBI TUNER...

  • Page 59: Dvb-T2

    FSM-530 FSM-630 11.5 DVB-T2 MPEG LDPC...

  • Page 60: Dvb-C, Mcns

     The constellation QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM)  The guard interval (1/128,1/32, 1/16, 19/128, 1/8, 19/256, 1/4)  The Viterbi rate (1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6) The spectral inversion of the signal In case of multi-PLP modulation use PLP - PLP + keys to select the stream to be measured. - Preamplifier: switch ON the internal preamplifier.
  • Page 61 Display of the following measures: BER :  error rate before Reed Solomon  UNC : error rate after Reed Solomon (lost packets)  MER : modulation error rate BER: 'bit' error rate Number of wrong bits / number of transmitted bits ratio during measuring time. UNC: 'packet' error rate Number of wrong packets / number of transmitted packets ratio during measuring time.

  • Page 65: Confidence-Mer / Carrier

    14 Confidence-MER / carrier Confidence MER/ carrier for the signal in progress. The appliance displays Confidence or MER/carrier represents the con dence rate for each carrier by the DVB-T/H DVB-T2 de- modulator. A carrier with a low MER will be rejected; the transferred data is already included on other carriers (redun- dancy).

  • Page 71: Memories

    Menu keys: - Modif : list of coefficients for modification - Yes/No : activates / deactivates correction Modification of coefficients: User can move the cursor with the arrows. Changing a Coefficient is possible with the rotary sensitive wheel. Pressing « Init » forces all coefficients at: frequency 5MHz, 0 dB correction Coefficients act in LEVEL MEASUREMENT and in MEASUREMENT MAP.

  • Page 72: File List

    The ' TOTAL ' folder shows the whole internal memory occupied. Menu keys: - Reset : erases the folder 16.5 File list Use the up/down arrow to change of directories: The displayed information is as follows: - File number - File name and extension (type) - Frequency bandwidth where the file has been saved - Date and time of backup Sensitive buttons:...

  • Page 73: Initialisations

    Sensitive buttons: - View. : view the selected le - Delete : delete the selected le -  USB copy le to an USB me mory stick (creates BMP le) 16.6 Initialisations Initialisations: - Places nb. : selection of the number of Places in the appliance - Reset actual place : erases all information about the current Place - Copy channelssetups :...

  • Page 74: Adjustments

    Caution All these possibilities will erase the data you have entered in your TV Meter: Places, Pro- grams, Channels … For a better security, all these operations must be double confirmed. 16.7 Adjustments Setup: - Beep: activate an audible signal when pressing a push button - LCD: adjust the backlight intensity of the LCD - Wheel threshold:...

  • Page 76: Save / Recall

     Files saved on the same Frequency bandwidth (in order not to recall the files saved on another fre- quency bandwidth) Select the file in the displayed list, and then recall it by pressing the validation menu key. The file is recalled and the" Recall memory mode" message is displayed on the menu keys. Press a function key to quit 'Memory mode' and to restart measurements.

  • Page 78: Entering / Changing A Setup Number

    Important User can view the progress of the measurement map scanning with the bargraph located under the table. The colour of the bargraph indicates if a rst scan is completed : red : the measurement map has not been scanned green : the whole measurement map has been scanned The Level and C/N informations are updated during the rst scan.

  • Page 79: Graphic Display

    18.3 Graphic display By pressing twice the MEASUREMENT MAP function key, you can display the Measurement map in a graph. It is displayed in one screen; the histogram widths are automatically fitted according to the number of Set- ups included in the Measurement map. The blue cursor shows a Setup and displays its number and its name on the first line of the page.
  • Page 80  Red for values under the minimum Threshold  Orange for values over the maximum Threshold Graphical display: The histograms are displayed in colour depending on the thresholds programmed in the PARAMETERS page, line Thresholds:  Red for values lower than the minimum Threshold ...

  • Page 81: Recording On Usb Drive

    18.5 Recording on USB drive You can store these measurements on an external USB drive Pressing the key  USB opens a CSV file The file name is built according to the date and time of launch The recording takes place when all setups were scanned The date and time are stored at this time Pressing the Stop key ends the acquisition The duration of the recording depends on the size of the USB drive (one channel measurement takes 72 bytes and...

  • Page 83: Messages

    19 Messages The appliance displays messages while it is working. 19.1 Warning messages The battery is discharged; the appliance will automatically switch o in a few minutes. Con rmation request for important action. Remote supply fault: a voltage is already on the cable or current is already exceeding the maximum value.

  • Page 84: Error Messages

    19.2 Error messages Pressing a function key that is not available in the appliance The appliance tries to perform a level measurement out of these possibilities (for example an Audio measurement with an 865 MHz video carrier). Impossible to Save/Recall here.

  • Page 85: Failure Messages

    press on the level key: The appliance tries to perform an error rate measurement with a Standard diferent DVB-C, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2, DSS or DVB-T/H. 19.3 Failure messages If the internal temperature in the appliance is over 60°C: change to protection mode. A message in red appears on the menu keys,...

  • Page 86: Maintenance

    Metrological t- ting/checking The manufacturer’s recommendations do not commit ALCAD’s responsibility. They allow ensuring the best use possible of the characteristics and its preservation. Routine maintenance: The maintenance limits itself to the external cleaning of the equipment. The other operations require a quali ed sta .
  • Page 87 100% of well functioning of the pixels in display area. They specified defective number of pixels on screen surface. ALCAD's quality service conditioned assembly of the screen of your instrument to the respect of accepta- tion conditions of these manufacturers.

  • Page 88: Specifications

    45 MHz to 865 MHz, terrestrial band 900 MHz to 2150 MHz, satellite band 2412 MHz to 2484 MHz, WI-FI band 802.11 B/G/draft N (option) Only the Wi-Fi keys provided by ALCAD are recognized Resolution: measurement: 50 kHz in terrestrial band, 1 MHz in satellite band...

  • Page 89: Dvb-C

    Satellite Measurement map (data logger): Capacity: scanning 100 setups max Display: digital, graphic Measurement: detection of thresholds, tilt Storage: Backup: internal backup on ash memory Data: places, setups, frequency m aps, measures, spectra, measurement maps, graphic displays Capacity: 312 Kbytes, 1000 les max per type of data Auxiliary inputs and outputs: USB interface: mini B USB...

  • Page 90: Dvb-S, Dss

    21.4 DVB-S, DSS According to ETS 300-421 Frequencies: 900 MHz to 2150 MHz Error rate: before Viterbi (CBER) after Viterbi (VBER) after Reed Solomon (UNC) (lost packets) Modulation error rate: 0 to 20 dB (MER) Rate: 1 to 45 Ms/s Modulation: QPSK Viterbi rate:...

  • Page 91: Dvb-T/H

    21.7 DVB-T/H According to ETS 301-701 Frequencies: 45 MHz to 865 MHz AFC: +/- 167 kHz, +/- 333 kHz, +/- 500 kHz Error rate: before Viterbi (CBER) after Viterbi (VBER) after Reed Solomon (UNC) (lost packets) Modulation error rate: 0 to 35 dB (MER) Bandwidth: 5, 6, 7 or 8 MHz, 6, 7 or 8 MHz Carriers:...

  • Page 92: Image And Sound Demodulation

    21.9 Image and sound demodulation Audio: analogue sound TV AM and FM, FM radio, mono digital sound TV, MPEG2, MPEG-1 L1/L2 HD version digital sound TV, MPEG2, MPEG4 (H264), MPEG-1 L1/L2 Via Licensing AAC and HE-AAC, Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus Video: analogue terrestrial TV for PAL, SECAM, and NTSC (on LCD screen) digital TV MPEG2...

  • Page 93: Environment

    21.12 Environment LCD display: TFT, colour, 7.0 inches (16/9°), with backlight Operating temperature: from -5°C to +45°C Storage temperature: from -10°C to +60°C EMC and safety: CE marked and compliant NF-EN 61326 July 1997 + A1 October 98 + A2 Edit September 2001 EN 55022 A2 edit 2003 class B autonomous device Immunity according to EN 61326-1 2006 NF-EN 61010-1 June 2001...
  • Page 95 ALCAD can reject any instrument damaged. What to do in case of malfunction? In case of malfunction or for any problem of use, please join the technical assistance by ALCAD S.L.. A technician will take your call in charge and will give you any necessary information to solve your problem.

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