2 Safety Hints Antenna WARNING! DANGER TO LIFE BY ELECTRICAL SHOCK! Make sure to comply with the occupational health and safety standards when installing the antenna. Never work without a proper fall protection device! Do not carry out any installation or maintenance work on the antenna system or cabling when there is a potential risk of lightning.
Carefully unpack the system and all accessories and put them aside. Check the scope of delivery with the pack- ing list to ensure that no parts are missing. If any of the listed contents are missing, please contact Meinberg Funkuhren.
3.2 Disposal of Packaging Materials The packaging materials we use are fully recyclable: Material Use for Disposal ———————————————————————————————————————— Polystyrol packaging frame/filling material Recycling Depot (polystyrene peanuts, bubble wrap) PE-LD accessories packaging Recycling Depot Polyethylene low density Cardboard shipping packaging, Paper recycling accessories packaging ————————————————————————————————————————...
4 Installation GPS Antenna 4 Installation GPS Antenna WARNING! Antenna mounting without effective anti-fall protection Danger to life due to fall! - Pay attention to effective working safety when installing antennas! - Never work without an effective anti-fall equipment! WARNING! Working on the antenna system during thunderstorms Danger to life due to electrical shock! - Do not carry out any work on the antenna system or the antenna cable...
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Antenna Mounting Mount the antenna at a distance of 50 cm from other Free view to the sky! antennas to a vertical pole up to 60 mm outer diameter or on a wall with the mounting kit included in the scope of delivery.
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4 Installation GPS Antenna Earth cable to PE rail To ground the antenna cable, connect the surge Cable circa 1,5 mm Ø protection with a grounding cable to a equipotential attached to the surge protection bonding rail (see figure). After installation, connect the other end of the as short as possible antenna cable to the socket of the surge protection.
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Antenna splitter option Several receivers can be connected to one antenna via the antenna splitter. Make sure, that the total length of a route going from the antenna via the splitter to the receiver, does not exceed the maximum cable length. The splitter may be installed at any position between the surge protector and the receiver.
5 Technical Specifications GPS Antenna 5.1 Antenna Cable: Cable type Cable (mm/in) Attenuation at 100 MHz max. Cable lenght (m/ft) used for receiver type (db)/100m/328ft RG58/CU 5/0.2 300/984 GPS/GNS-UC/PZF RG213 10,3/0.41 700/2297 GPS/GNS-UC H155 5,4/0,21 70/230 GNM/GNS H2010 Ultraflex 7,3/0,29 150/492 GNM/GNS Further values can be found in the data sheet of the cable used.
5.3 MBG S-PRO - Technical Specifications Attachment plug with replaceable gas discharge tube for coaxial signal interfaces. Connection: N connector female/female. The MBG S-PRO set includes a surge voltage protector (Phoenix CN-UB-280DC-BB), a pre- assembled coax cable and a mounting bracket. The surge voltage protector for coaxial lines has to be installed in the antenna line.
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5 Technical Specifications GPS Antenna Max. discharge current (8/20) s maximum (Core-Shield) 20 kA Nominal pulse current (10/1000) s (Core-Shield) 100 A Impulse discharge current (10/350) s, peak value I 2,5 kA Output voltage limitation at 1 kV/ s (Core-Earth) spike 900 V at 1 kV/ s (Core-Earth) spike 900 V...
6 EU Declaration of Conformity 6 EU Declaration of Conformity Konformitätserklärung Doc ID: GPSANT - GPS Antenna/Converter Unit-2020-06-04 Hersteller Meinberg Funkuhren GmbH & Co. KG Manufacturer Lange Wand 9, D-31812 Bad Pyrmont erklärt in alleiniger Verantwortung, dass das Produkt, declares under its sole responsibility, that the product...
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