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Easy HD Expressway! HV-120 DVB-T HAM TV Receiver Box Quick Installation Guide PACKAGE CONTENTS FRONT PANEL VIEW BACK PANEL VIEW BOARD VIEW IR REMOTE CONTROLLER-TYPE A FILL BATTERY TO IR CONTROLLERS: AAA X 2 PCS IR REMOTE CONTROLLER-TYPE B REMOVE BATTERY PROTECTOR...
Page 2 FIRMWARE UPDATE- FLASH KIT UART DEBUG MESSAGES UART CONTROL & DEMUX SHORTEN RECEIVER LATENCY SPECIFIED RF KEY FOR PROTECTED SIGNAL DECRYPT ENCRYPTED STREAMS ACTIVE ANTENNA BUILT-IN ATTENUATOR FOR TV VHF/UHF RF INPUT CHANNEL SWITCH BUTTONS DVB-T CHANNEL FREQUENCY TABLE: 7/8MHZ BANDWIDTH WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 3: Package Contents
Easy HD Expressway! Package Contents  HV-120 Receiver Box  12V DC adaptor  CVBS & Line-out cable  Remote Controller  Firmware version code: v0.0.5.79.34 Front Panel View Back Panel View WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 4: Board View
Easy HD Expressway! Board View CVBS A/V HDMI TV VHF/UHF 1.2G/2.4G Ant. output DC-in Ant. output TV VHF/UHF 20dB attenuator Antenna Power Jumper UART Ports: J9:Debug J10:Demux & Config LED: Red: Unlock Green: Lock CH+/- Micro SD 7-seg LED WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 5: Ir Remote Controller-Type A
Numeric Keys Clear “Back” used for menu or exit OK/Enter And Arrow Keys Volume & Channel Up/Dwon Record/Stop Note: The other keys are not defined Red & Green & Yellow buttons Fill Battery to IR Controllers: AAA x 2 pcs WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 6: Ir Remote Controller-Type B
IR Remote Controller-TYPE B Power button Reset to PAL CVBS display mode OK/Enter And Arrow Keys menu and exit keys Note: The other keys are not defined Red & Green & Yellow buttons Remove Battery Protector Remove the thin plastic film WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 7: Power On
Easy HD Expressway! Power on HV-120 can support 2/3/4/ 5/6/7/8 MHz bandwidth DVB-T signal automatically, and there no need to set bandwidth mode switch as HV-110. Apply DC to the power jack. Connect RF-in and the display output Feed the RF-in to the right SMA connector.
Page 8: Channel Scan
1.2G/2.4G ant. TV VHF/UHF ant. CVBS and HDMI output Line-out Channel Scan It’s necessary to do channel scan in the first time usage. When the box is powered on well, click on the IR “Back”/”Menu” key to popup the menu WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 9 The auto scan mode will scan a predefined channel frequency list to find TV service. The manual scan mode scans a channel specified by the user input. The manual input mode allow user to specify the program channel frequency, bandwidth and audio/video/PMT/PCR PID’s directly.. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 10: Channel Scan-Auto Mode
5. Country: ATV(US)-6M is for USA DATV 6 MHz BW channel list auto scan 6. Click on Remote Controller “Red” button to start auto scan. ATV-2/3/4M Channel list Frequency(MHz) Bandwidth(MHz) 423.000 423.000 434.000 434.500 436.000 436.000 436.500 437.000* 440.000 WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 11 Easy HD Expressway! 440.000 515.000 560.000 604.000 V0.0.1.71.4 * 437/2M is added from version ATV-6M BW Channel list Frequency(MHz) Bandwidth(MHz) ATV(US)-6M BW Channel list Frequency(MHz) Bandwidth(MHz) ATV(US)-2/3/4M BW Channel list Frequency(MHz) Bandwidth(MHz) WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 12: Channel Scan-Manual Mode
In installation menu, if click on Remote controller “Green” button, Manual Scan menu pops Select the bandwidth by arrow keys Specify the channel frequency manually, Type-A RC, you may input with numeric keys (0~9) Type-B RC, please click on Yellow key first WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 13 Don’t care about “End Frequency”, which will be ignored If the input channel frequency can be locked well, the transmission parameters (TPS), signal quality and strength will be shown, as show below. You may adjust antenna direction to optimize the reception here. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 14 Press “Enter/OK” to scan the specified channel, it will prompt a message to clear the old program list. You may select “Yes” to continue. When scan is done and a service is found, it will start to play the first service found. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 15: Channel Scan-Manual Input
Easy HD Expressway! Channel Scan-Manual Input WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 16 In installation menu, if click on Remote controller “Yellow” button, Manual Scan menu pops Select the bandwidth by arrow keys Specify the channel frequency manually, Type-A RC, you may input with numeric keys (0~9) Type-B RC, please click on Yellow key first use arrow keys to edit the start channel frequency. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 17: Channel Pat Changed
HV-100 to DC-101 or any other Tx devices. If you start to play TV, and the following message pop up, please click on “OK” to do channel scan. (PAT is short for Program Association Table in a video transport stream.) WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 18: Show Signal Statistics
Easy HD Expressway! Show Signal Statistics When watching TV, you may click on “Yellow” Key to pop up simple signal statistics for checking the transmission parameters or optimizing antenna direction. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 19 Signal Strength Frequency/Bandwidth Service Name You may also click on “Green” Key to pop up detailed signal statistics info, as shown below. “Back”/”Exit” or “Green” key will switch to show OSD, then click again to return to TV only. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 20 The problem is caused by the bottleneck of DDR memory access. You may minimize this problem by lowering display memory access. In Menu-> Settings-> Display Preference, please set the display mode to1080P30 or 1080P25 if the service is 1080P, and set to720P30 or 720P25 if the service is 720P. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 21: Set Display Preference: Display Mode
Easy HD Expressway! Set Display Preference: Display Mode You may set the display output resolution and aspect ratio in this configuration option. Click on the IR “Back”/”Menu” key to popup the menu WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 22 Easy HD Expressway! Select Settings Select Display Preference WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 23 Note 2: Because your HDMI display may not support CVBS display modes, like 720x576i/720x480i, you may fail to set HV-120 720x576i/720x480i mode if your HDMI display attached. You may change another HDMI display. Or, you can try in this way, a.
Page 24: Set Display Preference: Pat Mismatch
If no user input, the message will disappear in 10 seconds and nothing is changed. If the setting is ON, it will pop up the following warning message. If no user input, the system will erase all channels and rescan the current channel automatically. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 25: Set Display Preference: Signal Osd
Note: the PVR feature is a trial release and provided as it is. You may need to open the front panel to plug in a micro-SD card. The micro-SD card should be formatted in FAT. NTFS or other formats are not supported. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 26 In the upper-left corner, an OSD pops up to show the recording time. Click on the “Red” button again to stop recording. The file recorded can be played in the main menu “Multimedia”. Click on the IR “Back”/”Menu” key to popup the menu. Select “Meltimedia”. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 27 Easy HD Expressway! Select “PVR”. The file recorded is in TS format. If you want to play it in Windows environment, it’s recommended to install VLC(http://www.videolan.org/) or MPC-HC (http://mpc-hc.org/). WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 28: Delete Recordings
Easy HD Expressway! Delete Recordings Menu-> Multimedia->Movie Click on "Red" Key to delete the selected file. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 29: Reset To Default
If necessary, you can reset the receiver box to factory default. The program list will be cleared and the display mode will be set to 720i50 PAL mode. Click on the IR “Back”/”Menu” key to popup the menu Select Tools. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 30 Easy HD Expressway! Select Factory Reset. The default PIN is “0000”. If reset successfully, all channels will be cleared and it pops up channel scan menu. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 31: Firmware Update-Sd Card Method 1
There are two ways to update the firmware with SD card. You can choose either one to update the firmware of the box. If you cannot control HV-120 well with remote controller or the display is not normal, please use Method 2.
Page 32 Easy HD Expressway! Select “Software Upgrade” Plug in the micro SD card. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 33 Easy HD Expressway! Select “Upgrade by SD Card” Select “Yes” WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 34: Firmware Update- Sd Card Method 2
There are two ways to update the firmware . You can choose either one to update the firmware of the box. If you can control HV-120 well with remote controller and the display is normal, please use Method 1. Copy the firmware image file “dtv.img” to the root directory of a micro SD card.
Page 35: Firmware Update- Flash Kit
Firmware Update- Flash kit In case the boot code is corrupt due to failure of SD card update, HV-120 will fail to boot and cannot be updated with SD card any more. The only way to recover the boot code and firmware is to re-flash the NOR with a flash kit.
Page 36 Easy HD Expressway! WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 37: Uart Debug Messages
The other UART port on J9 can be used as a control interface or UART data demux output. While used as a control interface, an external host controller can control HV-120 thru this UART port. Refer to ITEU2-AN-IT9070-16001 UART Control Protocol.PDF for more details.
Page 38: Shorten Receiver Latency
If you are tuning HV-310 or any Tx with RF key protected, you should specify the RF key. You may edit RF key in menu “Settings”->”Display Preference”. The RF key is a 8-digit HEX number. Move to the item “RF Key” and click on the “Yellow” key to start editing. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 39: Decrypt Encrypted Streams
Then, use arrow keys to change the key. Decrypt Encrypted Streams If you are tuning a transmitter with TS data encrypted, you should enable the decrypt function and specify the decrypt key. You may edit RF key in menu “Settings”->”Display Preference”. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 40 Easy HD Expressway! Enable the “Decrypt Mode” Specify the decrypt key, which is a 32-digit HEX number. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 41: Active Antenna
Then, use arrow keys to change the key. Active Antenna HV-120 supports active antenna on the SMA RF connectors. The supplied power current is 12V DC, 150mA maximally. First of all you should set a jumper on the PCB as shown below.
Page 42: Built-In Attenuator For Tv Vhf/Uhf Rf Input
If the input signal is higher than -10dBm, you may attenuate it by about 25 dB Set a jumper to disabling the LNA as shown below to attenuate the TV VHF/UHF RF-in. Note: it’s for TV VHF/UHF RF-in only, while no impact on 1.2/2.4G input. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 43: Channel Switch Buttons
For “Auto scan” and “Manual scan” modes, it works only if there are multiple services in the service list scanned. In “Manual Input” mode, it switches the channel frequency and bandwidth according to the channel table specified in the “Manual Input” page. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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Page 45: Dvb-T Channel Frequency Table: 7/8Mhz Bandwidth
Special (UHF hyper band) Special (UHF hyper band) Special (UHF hyper band) Special (UHF hyper band) Special (UHF hyper band) Special (UHF hyper band) Special (UHF hyper band) UHF IV UHF IV UHF IV UHF IV UHF IV UHF IV UHF IV WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 46 UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V UHF V WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Page 47 1265 DATV 1280 DATV 1280 DATV 2334 DATV 2350 DATV 2360 DATV 2380 DATV 2385 DATV 2395 DATV 2395 DATV 2395 DATV 2402 DATV 2406 DATV 2420 DATV 2443 99(0x99) UHF IV Note: CH82-CH98 are only supported by HV-120. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...

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