Super Buddy Operation Manual Revision 2.50 Date 12/17/2009 Operation Manual Super Buddy 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................ 5 CONNECTIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 5 IRD CONNECTION ....................................................................................................................................... 6 PC CONNECTION ......................................................................................................................................... 6 2. RUN SCREEN ...................................................................................................................................... 6 DISPLAYED DATA........................................................................................................................................ 6 SOFT KEYS .................................................................................................................................................. 7 CHANGING SATELLITES............................................................................................................................... 7 CHANGING TRANSPONDERS ........................................................................................................................ 7 POLARITY.................................................................................................................................................... 7 MULTI-LNB SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................ 8 SATELLITE IDENTIFICATION ........................................................................................................................ 8 ID VERIFICATION ........................................................................................................................................ 9 SATELLITE SCAN ......................................................................................................................................... 9 FIELD GUIDE UPDATES................................................................................................................................ 9 3. MAIN MENU...................................................................................................................................... 10 4. SYSTEM SETUP................................................................................................................................ 10 REGIONS.................................................................................................................................................... 11 SERVICES................................................................................................................................................... 12 SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................................... 12 LNB MODEL ............................................................................................................................................. 13 SWITCH TYPE ............................................................................................................................................ 13 5. OPTIONS ............................................................................................................................................ 14 SIGNAL LEVEL........................................................................................................................................... 14 SIGNAL QUALITY ...................................................................................................................................... 14 FREQUENCY............................................................................................................................................... 14 SOUNDER OPTION...................................................................................................................................... 14 SHUTDOWN TIMER .................................................................................................................................... 15 FREQUENCY DEVIATION............................................................................................................................ 15 IRD CALC ................................................................................................................................................. 15 6. ZIP CODE LOOKUP......................................................................................................................... 16 POLARIZATION OFFSET ............................................................................................................................. 16 SKEW......................................................................................................................................................... 16 WILD BLUE DATA ..................................................................................................................................... 17 7. MANUAL TUNING ........................................................................................................................... 17 FREQUENCY............................................................................................................................................... 17 MODULATION............................................................................................................................................ 18 BAUD RATE ............................................................................................................................................... 18 CODE RATE ............................................................................................................................................... 18 LO FREQUENCY ........................................................................................................................................ 18 LNB CONTROL.......................................................................................................................................... 18 8. VOLTAGE / CURRENT ................................................................................................................... 18 SOFT KEYS ................................................................................................................................................ 19 9. OPI AND DISEQC MONITORING................................................................................................. 19 OPI SIMULATION....................................................................................................................................... 19 HUGHESNET™ CROSS-POL CHECK PROCEDURE....................................................................................... 19 Page 2 of 63 Operation Manual Super Buddy DISEQC MONITORING............................................................................................................................... 21 10. BIT ERROR RATE........................................................................................................................ 21 11. PROOF OF PERFORMANCE TESTING................................................................................... 23 INSTALL PC SOFTWARE............................................................................................................................. 23 COLLECT TEST DATA ................................................................................................................................ 23 SAVING DATA ........................................................................................................................................... 24 TRANSFER DATA FILE TO PC .................................................................................................................... 26 ERASING FILES .......................................................................................................................................... 27 PRINT REPORTS ......................................................................................................................................... 27 12. NOISE SCAN.................................................................................................................................. 30 THEORY OF OPERATION ............................................................................................................................ 30 NORMALIZATION SCAN ............................................................................................................................. 30 SYSTEM SCAN ........................................................................................................................................... 32 ANALYSIS.................................................................................................................................................. 33 13. LIMIT SCAN .................................................................................................................................. 34 SPECIFICATIONS ........................................................................................................................................ 34 SETUP.......................................................................................................................................................