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11-07-2009, 04:16 AM
| | SatelliteGuys Freshman | | Join Date: Nov 2nd, 2009 Location: London ON
Posts: 13
| | | Viewsat VS Pro?
Ok... So I went for a walk with my wife through the neighborhood when we came upon a garage sale...
we were looking around and I found a Viewsat VS Pro receiver and the guy was selling it for 10 bucks.. Now I know that these receivers were used for piracy but I am not into that..
I talked the guy down to 5 bucks and bought it (came with the remote) I am going to be wall mounting a 39" Dish and Motor and I was wondering if this receiver are any good for true FTA.
If so... I guess 5 bucks was a great investment if the receiver works  |
11-07-2009, 06:04 AM
| | Pub Member / Supporter | | Pub Member / Supporter Join Date: Feb 28th, 2008 Location: Near Chicago, Illinois
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Yes, it will work fine.
If necessary, load the Factory Firmware.
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11-07-2009, 07:54 AM
|  | Pub Member / Site Sponsor | | Pub Member / Supporter Join Date: Sep 3rd, 2004 Location: Roseville, CA
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Great price on a good receiver.
Would not be my choice for a primary receiver. Great 2nd room receiver, but beware of flaky motor control and "slower than snail racing" scanning.
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11-07-2009, 11:04 AM
|  | Pub Member / Supporter | | Pub Member / Supporter Join Date: Jul 19th, 2007 Location: Albuquerque, NM
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I have one, in fact it was my first receiver. As Brian mentioned the motor control isn't the best. In fact mine wandered quite a bit making me think that I had constant dish alignment issues. I cant tell you how many trips up to the roof I made. Once I purchased a Fortec Star Mercury II my motor control problems went away. The Viewsat VS Pro now is used in my bedroom hooked up to the secondary outputs on my dual LNB. It works fine when its not having to operate the motor anymore. I use the Viewsat to record some programing thats on when I'm sleeping. I paid a heck of a lot more than $5 for mine.  |
11-07-2009, 03:19 PM
|  | The No Pain Train | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Nov 17th, 2003 Location: Places men fear to tread
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any time you can get a "decent" receiver for that cheap (and it works) GRAB IT!
I picked up the other day at a place called Unique (think goodwill but more upscale) I picked up for 15 bucks a Directv receiver with ASTC tuner in it. Had a card in it and everything. Works great (dont care about D* but get a couple channels which loads the OTA guide) Much better than those crappy converter boxes for OTA (oh and this outputs 1080 too)
__________________ Winegard 76cm dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual KU LNB/DirecTv dual..... Fortec 6 foot dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB aimed at 99W... Primestar 84e aimed at 91W.... WSIDigital 4 foot dish with Sadoun dual LNB aimed at 105W with 2nd LNB for 101W.... GeoSatPro 36" dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual LNB
Coolsat 5000 on motorized....AZBox HD Elite on 99,motorized,105....Viacast DSR1500 on 99....GeoSatPro DSR200c on 2nd motorized.... Directv D15 DVR on 101W.... Pansat 1500 to aim dishes.... few receivers not set up yet
Other 6 foot Fortec dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB "ghetto moved" to various C-Band satellites
Third 6 foot Sadoun dish with GeoSatPro Prime Focus KU LNB on it for maximum rain fade combatting  |
11-08-2009, 03:58 AM
|  | SatelliteGuys Junkie | | Join Date: May 6th, 2005 Location: Metro New Orleans, LA
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Great finds, Jscrimshaw and Iceberg! I'm somewhat surprised I haven't found any "useless" FTA receivers at thrift stores since the hackers went down...
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11-08-2009, 11:19 AM
| | The No Pain Train | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Nov 17th, 2003 Location: Places men fear to tread
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me neither tron. All I've seen are old crappy Directv receivers. But I saw two of the D*/OTA units and this one was cheaper so I figured "for 15 bucks I cant go wrong"
__________________ Winegard 76cm dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual KU LNB/DirecTv dual..... Fortec 6 foot dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB aimed at 99W... Primestar 84e aimed at 91W.... WSIDigital 4 foot dish with Sadoun dual LNB aimed at 105W with 2nd LNB for 101W.... GeoSatPro 36" dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual LNB
Coolsat 5000 on motorized....AZBox HD Elite on 99,motorized,105....Viacast DSR1500 on 99....GeoSatPro DSR200c on 2nd motorized.... Directv D15 DVR on 101W.... Pansat 1500 to aim dishes.... few receivers not set up yet
Other 6 foot Fortec dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB "ghetto moved" to various C-Band satellites
Third 6 foot Sadoun dish with GeoSatPro Prime Focus KU LNB on it for maximum rain fade combatting |
11-08-2009, 11:23 PM
|  | SatelliteGuys Regular | | Join Date: Apr 7th, 2006 Location: up on the roof
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Great deal
double whopper w/cheese $5 lol
good luck
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KU>5)Fortec 36"90 cm,on 5) STAB 100 Motors 1) Fortec 31"80 cm @97°
Fortec's 5400,Classic na,ULTRA,Pansat's 2>2700,2800,5>3500,9000HD,9200 S-2 HD,Coolsat 5000,SV-8000 HD,Visionsat IV-200,and a Azbox named it Andy Pettitte because he keeps misremembering stuff |
11-09-2009, 02:49 PM
| | The No Pain Train | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Nov 17th, 2003 Location: Places men fear to tread
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today I went back there and the only D*/FTA receiver there was another D* unit with OTA tuner
they wanted 30 bucks....no thanks
tons of crappy vcr's though
__________________ Winegard 76cm dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual KU LNB/DirecTv dual..... Fortec 6 foot dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB aimed at 99W... Primestar 84e aimed at 91W.... WSIDigital 4 foot dish with Sadoun dual LNB aimed at 105W with 2nd LNB for 101W.... GeoSatPro 36" dish, SG2100 motor, Sadoun dual LNB
Coolsat 5000 on motorized....AZBox HD Elite on 99,motorized,105....Viacast DSR1500 on 99....GeoSatPro DSR200c on 2nd motorized.... Directv D15 DVR on 101W.... Pansat 1500 to aim dishes.... few receivers not set up yet
Other 6 foot Fortec dish with GeoSatPro dual C-Band LNB "ghetto moved" to various C-Band satellites
Third 6 foot Sadoun dish with GeoSatPro Prime Focus KU LNB on it for maximum rain fade combatting | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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