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TELE-audiovision International — The World‘s Largest Digital TV Trade Magazine
— 09-10/2013
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fun to do this but it also gives
you a feel of how easy it will
be to work with the unit.
But this time it was differ-
ent: I was speechless when
I first saw the S7000. This
unbelievable analyzer can
not only handle your typi-
cal measurements like those
you‘d find in higher-end pro-
fessional units, it also in-
tegrates a complete trans-
port stream analyzer that
provides information on the
entire contents of a received
transponder. All of the pa-
rameters can be displayed -
this type of detail was previ-
ously only available on a PC
with specialized software.
But that‘s not all. Do you
remember the TELE-audiovi-
sion issues from 12-01/2012
and 02-03/2012? In those
issues I described my idea
of implementing a waterfall
diagram to continuously dis-
play the spectrum for satel-
lite signal analyzers. This
makes it possible to display
the spectrum over a speci-
fied time period so that, for
example, intermittent errors
could be identified. It also
makes it much easier to align
antennas, especially motor-
ized dishes. Suffice it to say
that it‘s thrilling to find this
function in the S7000.
It also comes as no sur-
prise that measurements
like Echo, Barscan, skew,
constellation diagrams, real-
time spectrum analysis, etc.,
are available in this super
analyzer. Using the S7000
is child‘s play and the user
manual was only needed oc-
casionally to make sure that
none of its functions were
overlooked.
Another surprise in these
tests came from the included
CD. The software on this CD
not only allowed the com-
fortable administration of
the channel and transponder
lists, logger files and screen-
shots, but we discovered
