[BC] Starlink Interleaver adjustment

[Gary Blau]

Hey, Bob.
Already using the Crescend amp and big dishes.
Plenty of rock solid signal 99.9% of the time, (~53dbm), but the ducting 
drops it out once in a while.

What makes it worse is the alarm threshold on the Starlink is not 
adjustable, so we have to listen to dropouts for a few seconds until the 
backup switches over.  It's this transition to an alarm that's annoying.

These radios are not quite 2 years old.

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Bob Stroupe wrote:
> Gary:
> 
> I have increased the interleaver on a Starlink operating at 32QAM to 6 and
> this did help some with the occasional drop out but what helped more was
> this:
> 
> http://www.crescendtech.com/products.html?parentId=14
> 
> It's a 1 watt in/10 watt out linear amplifier.
> 
> Also I have a couple of different vintages of Starlink receivers on one of
> my links and the new (c. 2005) receivers show quite a bit fewer severe
> error seconds and unavailable error seconds than the older receivers (c.
> 2000) on the same link.
> 
> Bob Stroupe