The Best FTA Receiver

**bic** · 12-26-2009 04:19 PM

I need some help.

I'm located north of 53 degrees Lat. on the Pacific Coast. Any signals I get from the sats are a little weak so i need a good sensitive receiver; with blind scan and hopefully an accurate signal meter. I'm only interested in the Ku band as my back yard wouldn't handle a C Band dish.

I've got a 1 meter Fortec dish with an Invacom QPH 031 LNB mounted on a STAAB HH120 motor.

I should be able to get about 4 true FTA satellites but all my Nfusion will pick up is Galaxy 25; and it doesn't do blind scan. I don't like it.

What brand of receiver should I be looking at? I've been researching CNX, AZbox, and Sonicview but am open to suggestions.

Thanks.

**guapoharry** · 12-26-2009 04:36 PM

A lot of people will say Coolsat 5000 is the best. It blinds scans well, but you have to pick up used ones.

Pansats are good too.

I use a Fortec Mercury II for blind scanning also. They sell it now under the name Fortec Dynamic...

Azbox doesn't blind scan.

**Sadoun** · 12-26-2009 05:34 PM

I would second that the Mercury II or Dynamic receivers are some of the best Blind scanning receivers out there.

**turbosat** · 12-26-2009 08:48 PM

Several people lately complaining about those nfusion things, and I"ll second the Fortec Merc/Dynamic boxes-got two of them now ( in case I manage to tear up one, so far that hasn't happened, haha). They are good blind-scan receivers and they don't lock up if they happen to find an HD signal when scanning, like some do.

**Lucky53** · 12-26-2009 08:56 PM

I use VS Ultra,Coolsat 5000,Mercury II and Pansat 9200 hd...The Merc and Pansat are great..,but the coolsat 5K wins my vote..fast scan and very easy to use..just a overall great machine!..good luck on ur choice.

**Iceberg** · 12-26-2009 08:57 PM

Pansat
Fortec
Coolsat

top 3 in my book especially when it comes to blind scanning

**tdti1** · 12-26-2009 09:22 PM

Traxis 3500 great for blind scanning.

**mr.crane** · 12-26-2009 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by Iceberg

Pansat
Fortec
Coolsat

top 3 in my book especially when it comes to blind scanning

Iceberg, is the Pansat 3500 good for BlindScan?

**updatelee** · 12-26-2009 11:12 PM

I love my fortec mercury II and they are such an incredible price right now.

**Anole** · 12-27-2009 02:34 AM

Originally Posted by bic

What brand of receiver should I be looking at?

The question has been discussed in a couple of threads before.
If you want to take a look, I'm sure you'll find plenty of pro and con on a number of FTA receivers.

Additionally, I'd like to sugest two more, which we have reviews of here on the forum:
Visionsat IV200 PVR Plus
Geosatpro DVR-1100c (Review: Geosatpro DVR-1100c)