TEST REPORT

Twin LNB

Skytrack JTU41

Twin LNB of Jiuzhou

excellent performance with high signal levels a rare exception: manufacturers gives the true specifications perfectly suited for multi-user installations very high output power

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Twin LNB

Solid Performance
Jiuzhou offers a wide range of LNBs that suit the needs of almost any user. Our regular readers can remember a number of test reports dedicated to Jiuzhou products. What is so special about this company: they do not over specify their products. For example, they do not claim their LNBs have a noise figure of 0.2 dB or even 0.1 dB as so many other competitors do. They promise just 0.6 dB. Some casual customers (and we do not want to call them nave) may think that Jiuzhou products are second class LNBs. Far from it! In our previous tests we discovered that the performance of Jiuzhou 0.6 dB devices matches quite well, if not beat, the 0.2 dB LNBs of some other manufacturers. Now we wanted to find out: is that also the case with their new Twin LNB JTU41? To be quite certain about

their performance we did not measure just one but two samples of the JTU41 model. The external design of JTU41 is classic. This is the shape we are accustomed to when dealing with universal twin LNB for Ku Band with a 40 mm collar. It has two F type connectors which can be covered with a sliding bottom part of the plastic enclosure. Thanks to that they will not be exposed to rain and snow and

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Jiuzhou JTU41 Solidly designed LNB giving a very strong signal level

One of the

sample LNBs during the test

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the quality of cable connection will be not degraded over time. Their weight is not high so they are suitable even for the dishes with not so strong LNB supports. Also their energy consumption is moderate 130 mA in our measurements, so it will not be a problem for any receiver or antenna switch. Workmanship leaves nothing to be desired for this class of products. We usually test this kind of LNBs with one of the strong European satellites ASTRA

on 19.2 East or HOTBIRD on 13 East as this is the most typical application for them here in Europe. This time, however, we decided to make our test a little bit harder. We chose TURKSAT on 42 East. Some of its transponders are quite weak in our location and additionally some of them transmit with low symbol rates. This makes the test more demanding. The table below (Table 1.) lists all the transponders we used for our test. Symbol

rates vary from 2,500 up to 30,000 ks/sec and there are transponders of both polarizations from low and high sub bands of the Ku-Band. We turned our dish to TURKSAT and did the first round of measurements with our reference high performance single LNB. Then, we installed the first sample and measured its two outputs (1A and 1B in our graphs). Finally, we did the same with our second sample of the JTU41 (2A and 2B). In our analysis we fo-

cused on the output power achieved from the same transponders; this corresponds to the LNB conversion gain parameter and modulation error ratio (MER) which in turn corresponds to a combination of a few parameters: noise figure, phase noise, isolation, image rejection and intermodulation. In other words, the first parameter tells us how strong the signal is and MER is a measure of signal quality at the output of LNB. The first graph shows

Testing the

two samples of Jiuzhou Twin LNBs Skytrack JTU41

output power. Th Skytrack JTU41 had evidently a stronger signal than our reference LNB. Practically for every transponder, both Jiuzhou samples delivered higher output power by about 5 dB on average. This is a lot. It means that we can use long cables or high loss switches and still enjoy a strong enough signal at the IF input of our receiver.

Our general conclusion is: if you do not need to hunt for very weak transponders and signals with very low symbol rate, the Skytrack Twin LNB JTU41 will perform as perfect as many 0.2 dB devices of other manufacturers. It is a solidly designed LNB giving a very strong signal level suited even for very demanding installations with long cables and multiswitches.

10762 HL 10845 HL 10928 HL 10972 VL 11010 VL 11045 HL 11054 HL 11131 VL 11177 VL 11220 HL 11231 VL 11283 VL 11324 VL 11345 HL 11366 VL 11386 HL 11470 HL 11470 VL 11512 HL 11512 VL 11553 HL 11595 HL 11678 HL 12508 VH 12576 VH 12593 VH 12596 VH 12600 VH 12605 HH 12621 VH 12633 VH 12640 VH 12656 VH 12676 HH 12733 HH 12736 VH

Modulation and SR
DVB-S 27500 DVB-S 27500 DVB-S2 30000 DVB-S 27500 DVB-S 27500 DVB-S 10555 DVB-S 2894 DVB-S 14815 DVB-S 27500 DVB-S 30000 DVB-S 30000 DVB-S 27500 DVB-S 30000 DVB-S 27500 DVB-S 30000 DVB-S 30000 DVB-S 30000 DVB-S 29950 DVB-S2 30000 DVB-S 29950 DVB-S 30000 DVB-S2 30000 DVB-S2 30000 DVB-S 2532 DVB-S 5925 DVB-S 2500 DVB-S 2848 DVB-S 2500 DVB-S 27500 DVB-S 3364 DVB-S 4883 DVB-S 6510 DVB-S 4883 DVB-S 2800 DVB-S 5700 DVB-S 3703

MER measurement results shown in the second graph are more balanced between the reference LNB and the devices under test.

Except for two weak transponders with low symbol rate where JTU41 performed slightly worse than the reference, it had no problem in
matching or even exceeding our reference for all remaining transponders. The difference between the outputs of the same twin device was rather small for the majority of the test transponders.
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Very good performance for stronger signals Low LO drift Low phase noise

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Slightly worse performance for weak signals with low symbol rates

TECHNICAL
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Jacek Pawlowski TELE-audiovision Test Center Poland

Sichuan Jiuzhou Electric Group Co. Ltd.

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Universal Twin LNB for Ku-Band 10.7 GHz ~ 12.75 GHz 950 MHz ~ 2150 MHz 1.0 MHz (@ 25 C) 2.0 MHz (-30 ~ + 60 C) -60dBc/Hz @ 1 kHz offset (Max.) -80dBc/Hz @ 10 kHz offset (Max.) -100dBc/Hz @ 100 kHz offset (Max.) -50 dBm (Max.) 0.6 dB 50 dB (Min.) 8 dB (Max.) 0.5 dB/27MHz 20 dB (Min.) 40 dB (Min.) 0 dBm (Min.) 2.5:1 (Max.) 200 mA (Max.) V:11.5~14V, H:16~19V Low:0 kHz, High:22 4kHz +60C water for 5 minutes

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