On March 5th, 2010 at 0915 Eastern, Amb-OS’s (as well as other CRC entities’) satellite uplink provider will change two of our signal’s characteristics. We will adjust our transmission schedule for that day so as to not be transmitting program files during the transition period. As the changes are made we expect that your AMR will de-acquire and then re-acquire within a few seconds.

The first change, FEC rate, will be auto-detected by your AMR-100. The second change, symbol rate, will be sent to your receiver from the Amb-OS head-end so under normal circumstances the manual change as detailed below will not be necessary. However, if a local manual change becomes necessary due to your AMR being offline when the command is sent (if you have spare AMR-100 units you may want to consider having them also connected to the satellite feed on March 5th) refer to the AMR-100 front panel LCD display and four associated pushbuttons to make changes to “Symrate” ONLY:

Press [ENTER] twice

Press [DOWN] three times to “Receiver Utilities”

Press [ENTER] once

Press [DOWN] twice to “Symrate” (old value is 07140000 new value is 03910000)

1. Press [ENTER] to select 0 (or the first digit of the symbol rate)

2. Press [UP] or [DOWN] to change the digit to the desired value (in this case - no change)

3. Press [ENTER] to move to the next digit

4. Press [BACK] to return to a previous digit to correct it

5. Press [ENTER] to go to each successive digit. When you press [ENTER] at the last digit, it will remember your new value and the cursor will return to “Symrate”

6. Press [BACK] to save the new setting or wait for the system timer to auto-save (about 15 seconds delay)