Receives any UHF/VHF or cable channel
Additional ASI Transport-Stream input
No power supply or batteries required
Description
FEATURES
- Light-weight, easy-to-use RF adapter for tuning to any UHF/VHF or cable channel in the 44 to 1002 MHz range
- Support for all QAM variants
- Auto-sensing 44-MHz IF support
- Convinient ASI input
- Capture TS signals directly to file on a laptop PC for easy field recording
- Ruggedized portable unit that requires no additional power supply or batteries, the unit operates entirely from a USB-2 connection
- Sensitive front-end allowing reception of RF signals from -30 to +50dBmV
- Combine the DTU-236A with RFXpert software for a powerful RF measurement tool than can be used in the field or in the lab
- Combine the DTU-236A with StreamXpert software for real-time Transport Stream analysis, recording, monitoring, as well as SD/HD video decoding
- Channel plans for world-wide regions
DTU-236A Applications
- Recording of QAM and 8-VSB streams
- Performing RF measurements and Transport-Stream analysis on QAM, 8-VSB or ASI signals in the field
- QAM monitoring
RFXpert MEASUREMENTS
- RF Level, MER, EVM
- BER : Pre/Post FEC, SER (Severe Errored), Errored Seconds
- Constellation and Eye Diagram
- Channel, Adjacent and Full Spectrum
Specifications
RF Input
Connector 75-Ω “F” female
Frequency range 44 .. 1002MHz
Bandwidth 6/7/8MHz
Level measurement -30 .. +50dBmV
Level accuracy ±2dB
MER range 15 .. 38dB
ASI input
Connector 75-Ω BNC
Standard EN50083-9
Bit rate 0 .. 100Mbit/s
Dimensions in mm (LxWxH) 180x107x36
Weight < 500g
Ordering Info
All USA order will be shipped from our USA warehouse.
All other orders will be shipped from Canada.
DTU-236A – 8-VSB / QAM-A/B/C RF Probe
DTU-236A-RX – 8-VSB / QAM-A/B/C RF Probe with RFXpert
DTU-236A-SX – 8-VSB / QAM-A/B/C RF Probe with StreamXpert
DTU-236A-RSX – 8-VSB / QAM-A/B/C RF Probe with RFXpert and StreamXpert
Software Description
1. StreamXpert – Transport Stream Analyser Software
• Real-time analysis, monitoring and recording of MPEG-2 transport streams
• Recording based on duration, size or manual
• Provides detailed statistics on the PIDs, services and tables found in the transport stream
• Displays PIDs, services, tables, descriptors, stream information and PID-grid (compact overview of all PIDs)
• User definable TR 101 290 templates
• PCR analysis
• Measurement of bitrates, PCR-accuracy and interval
• Integrated SD/HD video and audio decoder with support for MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, AVS, 4:2:2 and 10 bit video streams and MP1 / MP2 / (HE-)AAC / Dolby AC3 / Dolby AC4 audio
• Deep decoding of PSI, DVB-SI, DVB-RCS and ATSC-PSIP tables and descriptors
• Closed captions decoding
• SI decoding with user templates, Dolby AC4 analysis, multi-monitor support
• Support for analysing TS-over-IP streams via a DTA-2160 / DTA-2162 or a local network port
• The world’s most cost-effective and user-friendly transport-stream analyser
2. RFXpert – RF Monitoring and Analysis Software
- Real-time analysis and monitoring of modulated digital TV signals using DTU-235 (for DVB-T) or DTU-236 (for 8-VSB and QAM-A/B/C) RF probe
- Main window displays overview of current RF status, monitor status and RF level and MER histograms
- Master alarm indicators for a quick check of signal integrity
- Alarm logging with configurable pass/warn/fail thresholds
- Client-server architecture: RFXpert can connect to the RF probe over a network
- Supports creation of a channel plan for easy tuning; Standard channel plans and auto-channel search are provided
- Run RFXpert and StreamXpert for parallel RF and transport-stream analysis