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The ultimate responsibility for safety rests with the facility operator and the individuals who work on the system. INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL FOR SEA TEL BROADBAND-AT-SEA TRANSMIT / RECEIVE SYSTEM MODEL: 6009-33 WITH SELECTABLE CO-POL OR CROSS-POL RECEIVE PRELIMINARY Sea Tel, Inc.
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The Sea Tel Model 5009 antenna will meet the off-axis EIRP spectral density envelope set forth in FCC 47 C.F.R. § 25.222(a)(1)-(4) when the input power density to the antenna system is limited to -15 dBW/4kHz.
Introduction 6009-33 Broadband At Sea Introduction WARNING: RF Radiation Hazard - This stabilized antenna system is designed to be used with transmit/receive equipment manufactured by others. Refer to the documentation supplied by the manufacturer which will describe potential hazards, including exposure to RF radiation, associated with the improper use of the transmit/receive equipment.
1.4. General scope of this manual This manual describes the Sea Tel Series 09 Antenna (also called the Above Decks Equipment), its’ operation and installation. Refer to the manual provided with your Antenna Control Unit for its’ installation and operating instructions.
Operation 6009-33 Broadband At Sea Operation Operation of your system is accomplished from the DAC-2202 Antenna Control Unit (ACU). Refer to the operation section of the DAC-2202 Antenna Control Unit manual. 2.1. System Power-up Turn the Power switch on rear panel of the Antenna Control Unit (ACU) ON.
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Operation 2.7. Low Noise Block Converter Operation/Selection: There are three controls applicable to the LNB's installed on this system; 1 operational voltage selection, 2 operational tone control and selection of Co-Pol OR Cross-Pol Receive IF. Voltage and Tone, used to select the frequency band of the LNB, are supplied to the LNB which has been selected by the Co-Pol/Cross-Pol switch.
Installation 6009-33 Broadband At Sea Installation Your antenna pedestal comes completely assembled in its radome. This section contains instructions for unpacking, final assembly and installation of the equipment. It is highly recommended that installation of the system be performed by trained technicians.
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Installation 3.4. Installing the ADE The antenna pedestal is shipped completely assembled in its radome. WARNING: Hoisting with other than a webbed four-part sling may result in catastrophic crushing of the radome. Refer to the specifications and drawings for the fully assembled weight of your model Antenna/Radome and assure that equipment used to lift/hoist this system is rated accordingly.
Installation 6009-33 Broadband At Sea Bolt or weld the legs of the radome base frame directly to the ship's deck. If the deck is uneven or not level, weld clips to the deck and attach them to the legs of the radome base frame. When completed the radome base must be level.
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Installation 3.6. Below Decks Equipment. 3.6.1. System Configuration PRELIMINARY Figure 3-1 Series 09 Simplified Block Diagram 3.6.2. Installing the Below Deck Equipment Install the ACU, Terminal Mounting Strip and Multiplexer Panel in your standard 19” Equipment Rack.
Installation 6009-33 Broadband At Sea 3.6.4. Terminal Mounting Strip Connections You will connect you Ships Gyro Compass input to the appropriate screw terminals on these strip. 3.6.5. Control Cable Connections The Serial Control Cable is connected from the Base Multiplexer to J4A on the DAC-2202.
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Contact Sea Tel for the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Network Operation Center (NOC) ASSIGNED IP address, SubNet Mask and the Primary & Secondary DNS addresses if they have not been previously provided to you, or if you have changed providers.
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Set-up & Configuration your transmit polarity and is much more accurate than you trying to optimize your receive polarity). Save your new TX POLARITY and POL OFFSET values (refer to Save New Parameters in your ACU manual).
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Set-up & Configuration 6009-33 Broadband At Sea If the antenna stopped before it got to the bow-line; When you initially target a satellite, the antenna will also stop prior to the satellite position, so you that will have to drive the Azimuth of the antenna UP to actually find the satellite.
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Set-up & Configuration 4.4.2. To Enter the HFO value: To enter the calculated HFO value, press & hold both LEFT and RIGHT arrows for six seconds to enter the parameter menu at the EL TRIM parameter window. Press DOWN arrow key numerous times (about 21) until you have selected the REMOTE COMMAND window.
Set-up & Configuration 6009-33 Broadband At Sea 4.7. TRACK DISP This parameter set the selections that the user will see in the Tracking - Band Selection menu. Band Selection must be set to the appropriate selection for Tracking to operate properly.
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Set-up & Configuration 4.8. Default Setup Parameters The following table shows the factory default parameters for the DAC-2202 Antenna Control Unit interfaced to a Series 09 Antenna PCU. When the installation & setup of your system is finished you can record the “optimized”...
ACU / Antenna System Check Press RESET on the ACU front panel to initialize the system. Verify the display shows "SEA TEL INC - MASTER" and the ACU software version number. Wait 10 seconds for the display to change to "SEA TEL INC - REMOTE"...
· When used as simple “BLOCKED” logic output for a single Sea Tel antenna, this output could be used to light a remote LED and/or sound a buzzer to alert someone that the antenna is blocked, and signal is lost.
Functional Testing 6009-33 Broadband At Sea 5.7. Test Broadband Operation Open you Internet Browser and access several internet sites, email or other functions as you normally would. Operation should be the same as any equivalent service ashore. 5.8. Test Voice Over IP (VOIP) Operation If Voice Over IP equipment has been provided and services are available from you Internet Service Provider (ISP) you should verify that this equipment and service are functioning properly.
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Scheduled Preventive Maintenance 6009-33 Broadband At Sea Scheduled Preventive Maintenance 6.1. Lowest Replaceable Unit Locations PRELIMINARY 1 Radome Base and Top 8 BUC Power Supply 2 Azimuth Motor 9 Pedestal Control Unit (PCU) 3 Motor Junction Box 10 Vertical Isolation Spring...
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Scheduled Preventive Maintenance 6.3. Monthly Operator Checks Description of Maintenance Operator Check 1.1.1. Test GPS Auto-Update 1.1.2. Heading Following 1.1.3. Check Tracking Receiver Settings 1.1.4. Four Quadrant Tracking Test 6.3.1. Test GPS Auto-Update This verifies that the GPS position information is automatically updating.
However, to maintain peak operational and to extend the life of the equipment, some components should be changed annually. Your Sea Tel authorized dealer has trained service technicians who will perform this work using Sea Tel replacement parts.
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6009-33 Broadband At Sea Scheduled Preventive Maintenance If the damage is at the power ring, replace the power ring (refer to the “replacing the power ring” procedure in the Maintenance section of this chapter), Inspect the Coaxes at the bracket on the radome base, through the pedestal base and at the dual channel rotary joint.
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Scheduled Preventive Maintenance 6009-33 Broadband At Sea Verify that the ends of the chain tensioner spring are properly hooked in the brackets and that the spring is not stretched. Rotate the chain tensioner away from chain to verify positive spring tension against chain.
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Scheduled Preventive Maintenance 13. Inspect the alignment of the belt through the motor drive sprocket and the driven sprocket. Mis- alignment will cause the belt to wear along its edges. 14. Inspect the belt teeth for damage.
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Scheduled Preventive Maintenance 6009-33 Broadband At Sea Rotate the pedestal through full range of cross-level rotation (+/- 30 degrees). The antenna should rotate freely and easily with light finger pressure. Inspect all drive belts for wear (black dust on/under the area of the belt).
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7.1. Warranty Information Sea Tel Inc. supports its Series 09 systems with a ONE YEAR warranty on labor and TWO YEAR warranty on parts. What’s Covered by the Limited Warranty? The Sea Tel Limited Warranty is applicable for parts and labor coverage to the complete antenna system, including all above-decks equipment (radome, pedestal, antenna, motors, electronics, wiring, etc.) and the Antenna Control Unit...
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Maintenance and Troubleshooting OFF to balance the antenna. . Do NOT remove any of the drive belts. Balancing is accomplished by adding or removing balance trim weights at strategic locations to keep the antenna from falling forward/backward or side to side.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting 6009-33 Broadband At Sea · The Level display should decrease (plots below red line) as the antenna requires drive forward (Up in elevation) and increase (plots above red line) as the antenna requires drive back (Down in elevation).
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6009-33 Broadband At Sea Maintenance and Troubleshooting Step 2: Press ‘ENTER’ key to go to Pol Offset window and verify setting is 0040. (If necessary use arrow keys to select appropriate digits and change accordingly) Step 3: Press ‘ENTER’ key to go to Tx Pol parameter and ensure it is set to 0002. (If necessary use...
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Maintenance and Troubleshooting 6009-33 Broadband At Sea (Fig 1.1) (Fig 1.2) Step 10: On the ACU, push ‘ENTER’ key so that the cursor is not within the Pol display (Fig 1.3, failure to do this will result in display not changing). Rotate the Pol Pot gear manually until a count of 130 is achieved (Fig 1.3)
7.2.5. Replace Wire Rope Isolators Use Sea Tel replacement kit 129980 Place the wedge provided in the wire rope replacement kit in between the upper and lower base plates near one of the wire rope isolators.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting 6009-33 Broadband At Sea 7.2.6. Replacing the Rubber Bumpers Use Sea Tel replacement kit 129978 11. Using a 6mm wrench, loosen and remove all four of the rubber bumper assemblies. 12. Apply Loctite to the exposed threads of the four replacement rubber bumper assemblies.
Install the replacement flow control valves in the side of the pneumatic dampener. 7.2.8. Replacing the Pneumatic Dampener Use Sea Tel replacement kit 129977 Using a 12mm wrench, loosen, remove and discard the top bolt of the pneumatic dampener assembly. PRELIMINARY...
Maintenance and Troubleshooting 6009-33 Broadband At Sea Loosen, remove and discard the bottom bolt of the pneumatic dampener assembly. Discard the pneumatic dampener assembly. Apply Loctite to the M12x40 and M12x55 bolts provided in the kit. Place a lock washer on each bolt.
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Maintenance and Troubleshooting 7.3. Pedestal Control Unit Configuration – Series 09 The PCU is designed to be used with a variety of antenna pedestal models. So, the PCU must be configured correctly for the model number of the antenna it is mounted on. The configuration information that is unique to each pedestal model is stored in a Non Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM) in the PCU enclosure.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting 6009-33 Broadband At Sea 7.4. Troubleshooting 7.4.1. RF Flow: Cross-Pol/Co-Pol switching and Quad Band LNBs Your antenna system has hardware components installed onto it to allow the operator a choice of providing either Co-Pol or Cross-Pol receive IF signal (in any of four frequency bands) to your satellite modem via the Tracking Band selection (refer to Chapter 5 for detailed setup information on this parameter or Chapter to for detailed operation information).
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Maintenance and Troubleshooting The output port of the coax switch is connected to the L-band port Pedestal M&C Mux, to provide Co-Pol or Cross-Pol LNB output, of the selected frequency band, through the receive channel of the rotary joint to below decks via the receive IF coax cable.
7.4.3. Troubleshooting using DacRemP While troubleshooting a Sea Tel 3-Axis Antenna System, you must classify the fault you are dealing with as a failure within one of 3 major system functions, Targeting, Stabilization, and Tracking. Should there be a failure with any one of these functions, your system will not operate properly. A few simple checks may help determine which fault (if any) that you are dealing with.
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6009-33 Broadband At Sea Maintenance and Troubleshooting cable binding, or wind loading. If these forces cause the antenna to mis-point by more than 0.5° from the desired position the PCU will flag a “Stab Limit” error. · To view the position error, select the graph chart.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting 6009-33 Broadband At Sea Elevation Axis physically moved CW. (reflector slightly pushed up) and then physically moved CCW. (reflector slightly pushed down.) At the end of chart recording shows · DishScan Drive turned Off, notice the lack of accumulated IVC errors.
6009-33 Broadband At Sea Maintenance and Troubleshooting 7.4.6. Open Loop Motor Test The DacRemP Comm Diagnostics Window provides a means to enter in Remote Commands for driving each individual torque motor to test that motors functionality. By driving each axis and observing the resulting motion of the antenna, a coarse operational status of the motor and motor driver may be established.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting 6009-33 Broadband At Sea input is corrupt, not stable or not consistently accurate the tracking errors will become large enough to cause the antenna to be mis-pointed off satellite. Satellite Reference Mode will uncouple the gyro reference from the azimuth rate sensor control loop. This...
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6009-33 Broadband At Sea Maintenance and Troubleshooting Left mouse click on the icon. Right mouse click on the icon. This will display a list box with the status of the above decks pedestal filtered into 3 sections. Items preceded with...
Maintenance and Troubleshooting 6009-33 Broadband At Sea PCU Status (Word 2) Az Target Indicates the antenna is currently targeting a pre-determined azimuth position Az Velocity **Not a valid state** Valid Heading (PCU) Indicates that the PCU has received and integrated the heading value from the ACU into the Azimuth Stabilization Loop.
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6009-33 Broadband At Sea Maintenance and Troubleshooting Left mouse click on the icon. Left Mouse click on the “?@ PCU GPS position, 1 min (1 Nm)” PRELIMINARY In the “Response” window verify proper GPS position to within 1 nautical mile of your current position.
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6009-33 Broadband At Sea Furuno default value is in Japan at 34.4N 135.2E (@3444,N,13521,E,,_). After acquiring a good fix at Sea Tel the string is @3800,N,12202,W,A^ for our 38N 122W Latitude and Longitude position. The status character tells you the status of the GPS.
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6009-33 Technical Specifications 6009-33 Broadband At Sea 6009-33 Technical Specifications The specifications of your 6006 antenna system are below. 8.1. Antenna Assembly 6009 The antenna assembly is comprised of the Dish, feed assembly and LNB. A variety of LNBs could be used, refer to LNB specification for the LNB that is provided with your system.:...
Ingress Protection Rating All Sea Tel radomes have an IP rating of 56 Maintenance – The radome must be kept clean and free of residues that will increase the RF attenuation. Repair - Any cracks, scratches or other damage to the surface seal of the radome must be repaired and re-sealed by a competent “A”...
6009-33 Broadband At Sea 6009-33 Technical Specifications 8.6. Pedestal Control Unit The PCU Assembly contains 2 Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs). One is the main control board and the other is the Motor Driver for the 3 Brushless DC Drive motors (AZ/EL/CL).
8.10.2. Antenna L-Band IF Coax Cables (Customer Furnished) Due to the loss across the length of the RF coaxes at L-Band, Sea Tel recommends the following 50 ohm coax cable types (and their equivalent conductor size) for our standard pedestal installations. Type N male...
DRAWINGS 6009-33 Broadband At Sea DRAWINGS The drawings listed below are provided as a part of this manual for use as a diagnostic reference. 9.1. 6009-33 Ku-Band Model Specific Drawings Drawing Title 130288-104_A System, 6009-33 130357-3_A System Block Diagram, 6009-33...
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BALANCE WEIGHT KIT (NOT SHOWN) 130290-1 SHIP STOWAGE KIT, XX09 123494-X (REF ONLY) AIR CONDITIONER, R417A PRELIMINARY SYSTEM, 6009-33, LIN, 8-16W, QUAD, 81 IN, PPL, AC RDY PROD FAMILY EFF. DATE DRAWING NUMBER SHT 1 OF 1 SERIES 09 09-Jul-09...
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111079-8 CABLE ASS'Y, SMA(M)-N(M), 8 FT. 128385-12BLK CABLE ASS'Y, RG-179, COAX, SMA (RA) T 117164-60BLK CABLE ASS'Y, RG-179 COAX, F TO F, 60 IN SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM, 6009-33 PROD FAMILY EFF. DATE DRAWING NUMBER SHT 1 OF 3 09-Jul-09 130357-3...
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115492-1 ADAPTER, N(F)-SMA(F), W/FLANGE 110567-19 ADAPTER, N(F)-N(F), STRAIGHT, FLANGE 111003-18 ADAPTER, BNC(F)-F(M) 116298-1 INTERFACE HARNESS ASS'Y, DUAL MODE 120643-25 CABLE ASS'Y, RS232, 9-WIRE, STRAIGHT, SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM, 6009-33 PROD FAMILY EFF. DATE DRAWING NUMBER SHT 2 OF 3 09-Jul-09 130357-3...
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CABLE ASS'Y, CAT5 JUMPER, 10 FT. COMTECH MODEM 126877 HARNESS ASS'Y, COMTECH MODEM INTE IDIRECT MODEM 119478-5 CABLE ASS'Y, RJ-45 SERIAL, 60 IN. PRELIMINARY SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM, 6009-33 PROD FAMILY EFF. DATE DRAWING NUMBER SHT 3 OF 3 09-Jul-09 130357-3...
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SINGLE LEVEL MFG BILL OF MATERIAL FIND PART NO DESCRIPTION REFERENCE DESIGNATOR 125650-2 ANTENNA ASS'Y, 6006 KU-BAND, SMW LN 125488-4 SPACER, REFLECTOR BRACE, 0.625 IN 114593-171 SCREW, SOCKET HD, 10-32 x 1-1/2, S.S. 114580-011 WASHER, FLAT, #10, S.S. PRELIMINARY ANTENNA INSTALL ASS'Y, 60 INCH KU, SMW LNB PROD FAMILY EFF.
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SINGLE LEVEL MFG BILL OF MATERIAL FIND PART NO DESCRIPTION REFERENCE DESIGNATOR 130306-1 81 INCH, RADOME FABRICATION, TUNED 120881 HARDWARE KIT, 80.8 INCH RADOME 117762-1 SILICONE ADHESIVE, WHT RTV 122, 10.1 PRELIMINARY RADOME ASS'Y, 81 INCH, WHITE, TUNED PROD FAMILY EFF.
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SINGLE LEVEL MFG BILL OF MATERIAL FIND PART NO DESCRIPTION REFERENCE DESIGNATOR 112657 MACHINING, TERMINAL MOUNTING STRIP 126865-2 PCB ASS'Y, TERMINAL MOUNTING STRIP, 112936-36 CABLE ASS'Y, D-SDB, 25 PIN, 36 IN 116669-36 CABLE ASS'Y, D-SUB, 9-PIN, 36 IN. 121228-3072 STANDOFF, HEX, F/F, 6-32 X .25 OD X .50, 114588-146 SCREW, PAN HD, PHIL, 6-32 x 3/8, S.S.
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