User's Guide

Chapter 2: First Time Installation
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From there, click Restore and locate the target Config file from the browser’s file manager.
Double click on the file once it is found, and ZoneDAS will begin the restoration process,
which typically takes less than 10 seconds. When it is done, you will see “Success” at the
top center of the screen.
Done! Now all the settings have been loaded and, depending on how the Config file was
written, there should be no more setting left to do, and only verification remains to be done.
2.3.6 Checking RF Activity from the BU Screen
As mentioned above, it is prudent to go to the BU screen and check the RF activity graph
for each connected RF channel to ensure that signal is as expected. To do this, start by
clicking Home on the Navigation Panel. From there, move the mouse pointer to the black
Base Unit, such that it is encased in blue, as shown below, then click.
Once clicked, the BU screen would appear, as shown below:
Figure 13 ZoneDAS BU screen
The large graph at the bottom of the screen depicts RF activity for the RF module selected.
In the above scenario, it is RF-D. To see RF activity for other RF modules, simply click one of
the four blue buttons near the top center, marked RF-A, RF-B, RF-C, and RF-D.
The graph has 2 lines: one yellow and one blue. The yellow line marks the Source Signal
Strength at any given time, measured against the left axis. The blue line marks the Downlink
System Gain that the system automatically generates at the same time, measured against
the right axis. The bottom axis indicates the time. With the cursor on top of the graph,
turning the scroll wheel on the mouse shrinks or expands the scope of the time axis, while
holding on to the left mouse button and moving the mouse left and right makes the graph
go back and forward in time.
What needs to be done at this point, for all active RF channels, is that the user must click
through all the graphs and check that no input signal ever goes beyond the normal
operating range of 0 to 24 dBm. If they do, there could be a potential problem and the
situation must be reported.