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Aptus
®
Quick
File
Toolbar Menus
The toolbar menus at the top of the screen display command buttons of the most
commonly used on Aptus
®
. The toolbar menus consists of 6 main menus; Quick
(for quick launch of functions), File (for le backup, restoring and loading), View(for
user layout and work view), Connection(for communication), Utill (for rmware
uploading and spectrum view) and Help(for reporting problems and information
check) .
Setup: enters Setup mode.
Restart: exits Setup mode and restarts the antenna.
Reboot: reboots the antenna.
Get Ant. Info: obtains the information stored in the antenna
Save Satellite: saves the current bow offset only if the antenna is tracking
onto the satellite. The satellite acquisition time can be reduced signicantly
after the antenna is restarted.
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Backup: backups the antenna information to ACU or PC.
- Select ‘To ACU’ to backup the antenna information to ACU.
The backup le (le format: *.ibf) will be stored on the ACU.
- Select ‘To PC’ to backup the antenna information to a PC.
The backup les (le format: *.rpt and *.ibf) will be generated
on the PC.
Restore: restores the antenna by using the stored information in
ACU or PC.
- Select ‘From ACU’ to restore the antenna by using the stored
information in ACU.
- Select ‘From PC’ to restore the antenna by using the stored
information in PC (le format: *.ibf).
NOTE: Both *.rpt and *.ibf les contain antenna information. However, while *.ibf le
can be used for restoring antenna information, *.rpt le is stored as plain-text for viewing
purpose only. Users can open the *.rpt using text editors such as notepad software.