[HamWAN PSDR] Dish alignment continued

[Carl Leon]

The BaseBox5 has a row of LED indicators on the outside of the housing. With the BaseBox5 properly connected to the LNB on the dish, you can connect your Ethernet to it, and power it with the POE. The power LED should light up.  If you are close in your alignment, one or more of the signal level LEDs should light.  At this point, you can use those indicators for rough alignment.

 

If no signal LEDs are lit, you should try very slow azimuth sweeps to see if you can find a signal. If nothing, change elevation a degree or two and try azimuth sweep again.  Continue until you catch some type of signal.  Then adjust for maximum (both azimuth and elevation).  Don’t go too fast or you can move right past the signal and not see an LED response.

 

 

From: PSDR [mailto:psdr-bounces at hamwan.org] On Behalf Of Ric Merry
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2019 8:39 AM
To: psdr at hamwan.org
Subject: [HamWAN PSDR] Dish alignment continued

 

I have the MikroTik mANT30 dish antenna and the BaseBox5. I didn't notice an LED's on the base box but then again I wasn't looking.
Can I just plug the POE into my length of CAT7 sans computer and do rough/LED alignment like that?
 
 
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