Using Your Meter - Horizon Fitness HD-S2 User Manual

Using Your Meter

OFF
ON
To turn the meter on press the
The next screen will display the meter information, including
model, version, satellite list selected and battery percentage.
Note: Satellites shown will be from the last used list.
Use the LEFT or RIGHT arrow keys to cycle through
the selections available until the desired one is shown.
Point the dish in the approximate direction of the required satellite,
and slowly sweep the dish across the sky, adjusting your elevation at
the end of each sweep. While you are sweeping the sky the rate of
beeps will change as you pass each satellite; the scale on the meter
will also change. If very low RF levels are found the dBuV value will
show << dBuV. For extremely high levels >> dBuV will show.
Once a lock has been acquired the second bar that is referencing
MER is shown and this is directly relative to the quality of the signal.
The padlock symbol is also shown locked confirming the signal lock.
You can now use both of this displayed measurements to peak the
antenna (ideally getting these levels as high as they will go).
Now that you have acquired a good lock you can further tweak the
pointing of your antenna to maximise the satellite system performance
by pressing the On button once to access the RF and MER magnified
display. This will provide you with a sensitive linear scale allowing you
to make very fine adjustments.
Shown on the right is a lock acquired on a DVB-S2 service the padlock
symbol is showing locked condition and there is also an additional
indication that the signal acquired is DVB-S2.
Pressing the On button
again will also show the
BER Bit Error Rate for
DVB-S1 carriers this is
shown as a numerical
value.
The HD-S2 keypad. All of the meter functions are accessed from here.
Once your dish mounting has been securely installed in a suitable direction
connect the LNB to your HD-S2 meter with a short length of cable (1.5m or 4 feet
being ideal): note that this cable is not supplied – you should use a high quality
satellite cable.
Tip: Your dish clamp should be just nipping the metal work allowing you to adjust
the dish position, and it should hold when you release.
VL Measat3
RF 66.8dBuV
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BER= 6.00E-8
ON
button once and the Horizon animation will appear.
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For DVB-S2
carriers DER is
shown indicating
a Derived Error
Rate.
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Battery
VL Measat3
RF 68.0dBuV
l
Searching
VL Measat3
RF 66.8dBuV
l
MER 13.9dB
VL Measat3
RF 167
MER 72
S2 Measat3a
RF 66.8dBuV
l
MER 13.9dB
S2 Measat3a
RF 66.8dBuV
l
DER= 6.00E-8
32%
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