To maintain safe and specific output signal levels, this advanced repeater has built-in AGC (Automatic Gain Control) and ALC (Automatic Limit Control) circuits which can automatically control the gain of the repeater within a 15dB range depending on the RF environmental conditions. In addition, it also has built-in attenuation dip switches that allow you to manually attenuate (fine tune) the repeater’s uplink and downlink channels in 1db increments up to 31dB, using color changing LED’s as a status indicator. These Alarm LED’s are used as a guide to prevent your installation from re-producing errors due to excessive input signal strength if a pre-amp is used, or from signal oscillation due to the indoor antenna and outdoor antenna being too close to each other, which can have adverse effects on a base station and greatly impede system performance.
A Network Safe / MUTE™ feature comes standard with this repeater to protect the cellular network. In short, the repeater will stop transmitting if any errors or signal oscillation is detected within 2-4 sec of detection. It will cycle for 30 sec then attempt to transmit again. If no adjustment in gain has been made to correct the error within the 30 sec MUTE cycle, the system will again shut down after 5 sec. It will run this sequence for a total of 3 times and then shut down completely. Power cycling the unit will reset this sequence.
Due to the number of active amplifiers inside this repeater, a high-speed 3″ brush-less fan is built into it in order to maintain cooler operating temps. This also greatly extends the lifespan of the repeater.
This repeater is designed to be transparent to the network and will therefore support the same number of calls the serving sector of the BTS the donor antenna is aimed at.