Tsat 3500 User manual

Product: U3510A Revision: 02P

September 2020

TSAT - Telemetry and data transfer via SATellite

TSAT 3500 User Guide

HUB Station and Remote Terminal

Installation, Operation and Maintenance

Guide

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Document Status

Product description: HUB Station and Remote Terminal Installation Operation and

Maintenance Guide

Revision

Date

Reason for change

Archive

10.08.2020

First Revision

U3510A01

17.09.2020

Minor updates: Ch 7: Interfaces

U3510A02

Approved

SHA

Date

17.09.2020

Checked

CBE

Date

17.09.2020

Further information about TSAT 2000/2100/2150/3000/3500 can be obtained from:

TSAT AS

Martin Linges vei 25

N-1364 FORNEBU

NORWAY

Telephone: +47 66 77 44 40

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Protective Grounding

Protective grounding –here shown for rack-mount version.

M4 SCREW:

PROTECTIVE

GROUNDING

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Table of Contents

1INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................... 7

1.1 SCOPE.......................................................................................................................................................... 7

1.2 TSAT 3500 SYSTEM INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 7

2HUB STATION AND REMOTE TERMINAL SITE REQUIREMENTS .............................................. 9

2.1 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................ 9

2.2 ANTENNA SITE REQUIREMENTS................................................................................................................... 9

2.2.1 Site elevation and azimuth angles .......................................................................................................... 9

2.2.2 Signal path obstruction .......................................................................................................................... 9

2.3 ANTENNA MOUNT REQUIREMENTS............................................................................................................ 10

2.4 ANTENNA MOUNT METHODS ..................................................................................................................... 10

2.4.1 Pole mount ........................................................................................................................................... 10

2.4.2 Wall mount / Ground mount................................................................................................................. 10

2.5 CABLE REQUIREMENTS.............................................................................................................................. 11

2.5.1 Data cable requirements ...................................................................................................................... 11

2.5.2 BUC/LNB cable requirements TSAT 3500........................................................................................... 11

2.5.3 DC Power cables.................................................................................................................................. 11

3HUB STATION INSTALLATION ........................................................................................................... 12

3.1 INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................... 12

3.2 ANTENNA UNIT ASSEMBLY ........................................................................................................................ 13

3.3 ANTENNA POINTING .................................................................................................................................. 13

3.3.1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................... 13

3.3.2 Antenna pointing procedure................................................................................................................. 14

3.4 RF FRONT END MOUNTING ....................................................................................................................... 15

3.4.1 RF Front End assembly........................................................................................................................ 15

3.4.2 RF Front End rotation adjustment ....................................................................................................... 16

3.5 MAIN UNIT MOUNTING ............................................................................................................................. 19

3.6 PROTECTIVE GROUNDING .......................................................................................................................... 19

3.7 SUPERVISORY TERMINAL INSTALLATION .................................................................................................. 19

3.8 HUB STATION MODULES INTERCONNECTION ON TSAT 3500 .................................................................. 20

4REMOTE TERMINAL INSTALLATION .............................................................................................. 21

4.1 INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................... 21

4.2 ANTENNA UNIT ASSEMBLY ....................................................................................................................... 22

4.3 ANTENNA POINTING .................................................................................................................................. 22

4.4 RF FRONT END MOUNTING ....................................................................................................................... 22

4.5 MAIN UNIT MOUNTING ............................................................................................................................. 22

4.6 REMOTE TERMINAL MODULES INTERCONNECTION TSAT 3500 ................................................................ 23

4.7 PROTECTIVE GROUNDING .......................................................................................................................... 23

5HUB STATION OPERATION .................................................................................................................. 24

5.1 PRE-OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS........................................................................................................... 24

5.2 MAIN UNIT CONFIGURATION ..................................................................................................................... 24

5.3 SUPERVISORY TERMINAL CONFIGURATION ............................................................................................... 24

5.4 HUB STATION POWER-UP ......................................................................................................................... 24

5.5 CIRCUIT-SWITCHED PROTOCOL OPERATION............................................................................................... 25

5.6 LAN (TCP/IP) OPERATION........................................................................................................................ 25

5.7 SUPERVISORY TERMINAL OPERATION....................................................................................................... 25

5.7.1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................... 25

5.7.2 Network Status monitoring................................................................................................................... 25

5.7.3 Logging of statistical data.................................................................................................................... 25