Alarab News Channel recently completed a new teleport at the World Trade Centre in the heart of Bahrain’s capital city, Manama with Hiltron. The newly installed system consists of seven fixed 2.4m Ku-band receive-antennas, a 3.7m C-band fixed downlink plus a motorised 3.7m receive-antenna with a four-port C/Ku-band feed. Also incorporated are a Hiltron HMAM […]
Alarab News Channel recently completed a new teleport at the World Trade Centre in the heart of Bahrain’s capital city, Manama with Hiltron.
The newly installed system consists of seven fixed 2.4m Ku-band receive-antennas, a 3.7m C-band fixed downlink plus a motorised 3.7m receive-antenna with a four-port C/Ku-band feed.
Also incorporated are a Hiltron HMAM motorised antenna mount and Hiltron ACU
antenna control unit covering the whole receivable arc. All these receive-antennas are being used for programme contribution and feeds.
Two uplink installations are being used for programme backhauling in the 13 to
14.5 gigahertz extended Ku band range. Each is equipped with 3.7m motorised ASC
Signal antennas with Hiltron ACUs and a tracking system.
The system, which is protected by full 1:1 redundancy, also includes Newtec M6100 modulators, Work upconverters and CPI 750W high power amplifiers providing a maximum EIRP of 72 dBW.
Hiltron’ s HMAM is a motorised high-precision rotatable VSAT antenna mount for
use in commercial satellite operations. It incorporates professional-grade drives for azimuth and elevation plus a high-accuracy polarisation drive.
The Hiltron HACU is designed to control three-axis motorised antennas. The
antenna control unit and associated motor-control electronics are contained in
an IP65-rated weatherproof outdoor housing with a hinged front access port
secured by dual key screws. The HACU can be operated from a PC running a
graphic user interface compatible with standard web browsers. The control GUI
displays all the information required to set and maintain azimuth, elevation
and polarisation, including current and target positions plus a database of
potential accessible satellites.
