Basic HTML Version
Satellite name
Orbital position
Orientation
TURKSAT 2
42
E
ASTRA 2
28.2
E
ASTRA 3
23.5
E
ASTRA 1
19.2
E
EUTEL W2
16
E
HOT BIRD
13
E
INTL 10 02
1
W
ATLANTIC 3
5
W
ATLANTIC 2
8
W
HISPASAT
30
W
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15. Editable list of all satellites and transponders preprogrammed
in the SPAROS SAT HD internal memory
16. One of many possible configurations preprogrammed in the
meter's internal memory; this exemplary setup is for the ASTRA/
HOTBIRD reception system with a DiSEqC 1.0 switch
17. Another configuration file stores the information about which
four transponders of a given satellite should be used when reco-
gnizing antenna alignment
18. Spectrum view can be stored and later copied to a USB stick as
a graphic file
19. Spectrum view can also be stored as an CSV file containing list
of values; after converting it to a spreadsheet file, you can do your
own chart
20. Transponders assigned to a preprogrammed reception setup
(here: fixed antenna aimed at TURKSAT 42° East) can be saved as
BMP graphics...
21…or a CSV file that can be opened by any spreadsheet applica-
tion and processed or charted as needed.
adjustment. When maximiz-
ing MER, you will notice that
you are maximizing the oth-
er green bars too. And, as a
matter of fact, that‘s all you
do to set your dish.
The SPAROS SAT HD what
we got for this was prepro-
grammed by SPAUN with the
data of a few popular Euro-
pean satellites. SPAUN also
added a USB memory stick
with the MS Excel configura-
tion files that you can edit,
convert to CSV format and
upload to the meter‘s inter-
nal memory. The analyzer
does not accept XLS files di-
rectly.
SPAUN prepared two
spreadsheet files. The first
file, called Sat.xls, contains
a list of all satellites that you
want SPAROS to be able to
identify along with the cor-
responding four transpond-
ers for each of them. The
analyzer we got for the test
had in its memory as well as
in the corresponding file 10
European satellites as in the
table below.
Four transponders are de-
fined for each satellite (fre-
quency, polarization, DVB-S
or S2, symbol rate). As you
already know, these tran-
sponders are used by the
SPAROS SAT HD for satellite
identification. If, for exam-
ple, one of the transponders
is switched off and no longer
transmits, you need to re-
place its data with another
one which is active. Once you
edit the XLS file, you should
execute a built-in Excel mac-
ro, and a corresponding CSV
file will be generated which
when stored on the USB
stick can be imported to the
meter. This is really simple!
And what about the other
configuration file? Well, it is
a little bit more complex. Ex-
cept for identifying satellites
based on their four tran-
sponders, SPAROS SAT HD
can measure a larger num-
ber of their transponders and
show the results in a form of
a table. Such table can be
stored in memory as well
as exported to USB stick for
further processing. This fea-
ture can be useful to check
if the reception system can
receive various transpond-
ers of different frequencies
and polarizations. Some
reception systems require
DiSEqC commands to switch
between satellite and we can
order the SPAROS SAT HD
to do that by putting the pa-
rameters in the second con-
figuration file.
It is also an MS Excel file
but it is called SConf.xls. In
its first spreadsheet tab, it
can contain up to 1000 tran-
sponders from as many sat-
ellites as you need. On the
following twenty tabs, you
store configuration data for
specific reception systems.
So, for example, the list
Lst00 can contain the tran-
sponders numbers referring
only to the transponders
from ASTRA 1 (fixed anten-
na, no DiSEqC commands
needed), while the list Lst02
can be dedicated for a 2-sat-
ellites setup and contain
the transponder numbers
from ASTRA 1 and HOT-
BIRD along with the DiSEqC
commands: Position A or
Position B. So when the in-
staller has a customer hav-
ing a popular setup with a
monoblock LNB for ASTRA
1 and HOTBIRD, he makes