Re: [noaaport] Repeak tips?

• To: Brendon Hoch <bhoch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [noaaport] Repeak tips?
• From: Michael Dross <mwdross@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:25:21 -0500

 I would suggest trying to re-align it yourself. There is not much too it,
provided the dish is in an accessible location.  The key is being able to
see the real-time output of the S75 signal, while you are adjusting the dish
EL/AZ. Novra has a windows based program that once connected to the Novra
will show you in real-time the signal strength. What I do, is hook this up
at the dish and run it on a laptop with the novra at the dish and tweak the
dish while watching the signal.

-Mike

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Brendon Hoch <bhoch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All,
>
> Our Noaaport signal strength & errors are both outside of normal
> thresholds:
>
> [ldm@noaaport0 bin]$ ./s75status
> Status for device: 0
> Firmware Ver 3, Rev. 4  RF Firmware Codes: 0x506
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Symbol Rate 6.349000 Msps    Frequency 1192.900024
> The viterbi Bit Error Rate is 1.8792e-01   Viterbi Rate 2
> LNB Power On, Polarization = 1, Band = 1
> Signal Strength: 29  Signal Lock: 0  Data Lock: 0  Uncorrectables: 61
>
> I've tried restarting the Novra with no success.  The signal light is
> blinking intermittently, and the lock light is off.  Usually, both these
> lights are steady green.
>
> With our recent noreaster, we experienced wind gusts near 55 mph near where
> our dish is located, so it is very possible our dish may need to be
> repeaked.  The last time we had this done in 2005, the technician we used
> really didn't seem to have any special equipment, all he seemed to do was
> make small adjustments while I continued to run the s75status program until
> our signal strength improved.  Not sure whether to hire the same guy, hire
> the other guy (in rural NH, our options are limited! ;) ), or try to do the
> adjustments myself; the "official" website at
> http://www.weather.gov/noaaport/html/sat_loc.shtml does not have much for
> newbies on this.
>
> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Brendon
>
>
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