[BC] Starlink Interleaver adjustment

[Bob Stroupe]

Gary:

I understand now......how about this.

On the NMS card  there is a 26 pin high density connector.  Pin 10 gives a
linear voltage output verses signal.

Why can't you use this to set up a comparator to trip when the Starlink signal
level goes down to the point you are getting errors but the alarm has not
tripped?

Thanks,

Bob Stroupe


Gary Blau wrote:

> 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.
>
> g
>
> 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
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