Preparing the Active Antenna

This procedure sets the Active Antenna to site survey mode. The main dialog of the Site Surveyor software is shown below.

The Site Surveyor Active Antenna Tab

  1. Connect a serial cable between an Active Antenna and a COM port on the PC using a Serial Cable.

  2. Ensure that the correct serial COM port is selected (displayed on the far right of the status bar). To select a different COM port, see Changing the COM Port.

  3. Power up the Active Antenna using the PSU adapter.

  4. Open the Site Surveyor software and ensure that the Active Antenna Tab is selected. If more than one Active Antenna is to be used as part of the Site Survey, then enter a unique Radio Fixed Part Number, between 0 and 255 in the RPN field. Attach an adhesive label to the Antenna to display this number.

  5. Click the Configure Active Antenna button. This sets up the Active Antenna in Site Survey mode which it indicates by the yellow LED flashing at 2Hz. A message dialog appears saying that the Active Antenna has been configured successfully.

The Active Antenna has now been set-up and Beltpacks can connect to it over the air. The serial cable may be removed from the Active Antenna.

Site Survey mode status is stored in non-volatile memory enabling the Active Antenna to come up in that mode after interruption of power. The only way it will revert to operational mode is when it next receives an E1 (encoded data) stream from the Cell Controller Card in the matrix.