ANTENNAPOWER

Controls power to the antenna

Platform:

OEM719, OEM729, OEM7500, OEM7600, OEM7700, OEM7720, PwrPak7, CPT7, CPT7700

This command enables or disables the supply of electrical power from the internal power source of the receiver to the Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) of an active antenna. Refer to Antenna LNA Power for further information about supplying power to the antenna.

There are several bits in the receiver status that pertain to the antenna (see Table: Receiver Status). These bits indicate whether the antenna is powered and whether it is open circuited or short circuited.

Message ID: 98

Abbreviated ASCII Syntax:

ANTENNAPOWER switch

Factory Default:

ANTENNAPOWER ON

ASCII Examples:

ANTENNAPOWER ON

ANTENNAPOWER OFF

If a short circuit or other problem causes an overload of the current supplied to the antenna, the receiver hardware shuts down the power supplied to the antenna. To restore power, power cycle the receiver. The Receiver Status word, available in the RXSTATUS log, provides more information about the cause of the problem.

Field

Field Type

ASCII Value

Binary Value

Description

Format

Binary Bytes

Binary Offset

1

Command header

-

-

ANTENNAPOWER header

This field contains the command name for abbreviated ASCII or the message header for ASCII (see page 1) or Binary (see page 1).

-

H

0

2

switch

See Table: ANTENNAPOWER Parameters

Antenna power setting

Enum

4

H

ANTENNAPOWER Parameters

Binary

ASCII

Description

0

OFF

Disables antenna power.

On dual antenna receivers, disables antenna power for both antennas.

1

ON

Enables antenna power.

On dual antenna receivers, enables antenna power for both antennas.

3

PRIMARY_ON_SECONDARY_OFF

Enables primary antenna power and disables secondary antenna power.

Note: Dual antenna receivers only

4

PRIMARY_OFF_SECONDARY_ON

Disables primary antenna power and enables secondary antenna power.

Note: Dual antenna receivers only

The OEM7 dual antenna receivers are: OEM7720, PwrPak7D, PwrPak7D-E1, PwrPak7D-E2 and CPT7.