ATSC 3.0/1.0 Compact Monitoring Probe
EdgeProbe Nano ATSC 3.0/1.0

INTERFACES

• RF Connector In

• 1 x RF input (F-type female – 75 Ω)

• Standards

• ATSC 3.0 (NEXTGEN TV), ATSC 1.0

• Frequency range

• 40 to 1000 MHz

• RF Sensitivity

• -80 to -5 dBm / 28 to 104 dBμV

• BaseBand

• Gigabit Ethernet for DATA in/out (VLAN support)

  ASI in/out (BNC-type female 75 Ω)

• Time Reference

• 1PPS input (BNC-type female 50 Ω)

MONITORING FEATURES

• ATSC 3.0 RF Monitor

• Demodulation status: Lock / Unlock

  Spectrum, Constellation display

  Shoulders measurement: Lower (Left), Upper (Right)

  Signal level: -100 to -5 dBm

  SNR: 0 to 50 dB

  MER: 0 to 40 dB (L1-Basic, L1-Detail, PLP)

  Pre-LDPC BER, Pre-BCH BER, Post-BCH FER, Packet Error Number, LDPC Iteration

• ATSC 1.0 RF Monitor

• Demodulation status: Lock / Unlock

  Spectrum display

  Shoulders measurement: Lower (Left), Upper (Right)

  Signal level: -100 to -5 dBm

  SNR: 0 to 50 dB

  Post-Viterbi BER

• Reception area SFN Monitor

• Channel Impulse Response – Echoes: Delay/Level alarm mask per echo

  With TX ID detection and echo association

• TX SFN Monitor

• SFN Drift measured at RF level

  Fast identification of which TX site is causing SFN issues

• ATSC 1.0 Transport Stream - ETR 290 Monitor

• MPEG-2 TS Monitor, ETSI TR 101 290 Priority 1, 2, 3

• ATSC 1.0 Service Plan

• Verify regional services, Service & PID bitrates, Scrambling, Service & PID presence

• ATSC 3.0 Content Monitor - Service Plan

• PLP list & Services list with Bitrates and Channel Usage (ideal for channel-sharing scenarios – “Lighthouse”)

  Modulation parameters with complete decoding of L1 information (Subframes, PLP structure)

• ATSC 3.0 STLTP Monitor

• Gigabit Ethernet STLTP stream input

  IP link monitoring (IP jitter, FEC, Packets lost/recovered)

  STLTP integrity (Inner, Outer, L1)

• Round-Robin Monitor Mode

• Monitor sequentially (round-robin) multiple frequencies over 1 RF input

  Monitoring status & context is kept between two successive monitoring rounds

• 32GB Internal Memory

• 32 GB of internal storage: alarm logs, RF trends, service bitrates up to 4 months. CSV format files. Available for download via web GUI or FTP connection. Demodulated TS recoding (*.ts) files.

PHYSICAL

• Height: 30 mm / 1.2 in, Width: 144 mm / 5.6 in, Depth: 137 mm / 5.3 in
• Power supply: 12 VDC, 100-240 VAC to 12 VDC adapter provided
• Power consumption: 8W

ENVIRONMENT

• Operating temperature

• -20 to 55°C / -4 to 131°F

• Storage temperature

• -20 to 70°C / -4 to 158°F

• Humidity

• 0 to 95%, non condensing