[BC] Starlink Interleaver adjustment

[Mike McCarthy]

That's what it did and it triggers the back-up systems.  FWIW, the 
connector is a PIA to work with.

MM

At 07:38 PM 2/9/2007 -0600, Bob Stroupe wrote
>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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