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5 demodulator alarms – Comtech EF Data MDX420 SkyWire Manual User Manual

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MDX420 SkyWire™ Satellite Network Gateway

Terminal Screens

MN-MDX420 Revision 6

6–9

6.2.4.5 Demodulator

Alarms

(Common to all installed Burst Demodulators)

DEMODULATOR ALARM STATUS 1 THROUGH 4

DEMOD FPGA

{Pass/Fail, Unmasked/Masked}
Indicates a receive FPGA hardware failure.

DECODER FPGA

{Pass/Fail, Unmasked/Masked}
Indicates a decoder failure.

TUNER PLL

{Pass/Fail, Unmasked/Masked}
Indicates that the Rx L-Band Synthesizer is not locked. This alarm will flash on
during certain gateway parameter changes. A solid indication points toward a
configuration problem within the gateway.

SIGNAL LOCK

{Pass/Fail, Unmasked/Masked}
Indicates that the burst demodulator is unable to lock to a signal.

IFEC LOCK

{Pass/Fail, Unmasked/Masked}

FRAME LOCK

{Pass/Fail, Unmasked/Masked}
Indicates that the Framing Unit is unable to find the expected framing pattern.

ESNO Fault

{Pass/Fail, Unmasked/Masked}
Indicates Rx signal quality fallen below input threshold.

CARRIER LEVEL

{Pass/Fail, Unmasked/Masked}
Indicates Rx signal level has fallen below input threshold.

TESTPRN SYNC

{Pass/Fail, Unmasked/Masked}
Indicates Rx pattern is synchronized to the data pattern

CLEAR LATCHED

Allows the user to reset the latched alarms by selecting