Fortec Mercury II Problem

[jself1982]

Here I go again...



Got up this morning -- off today, so figured I would power up all my receivers and what not...until I noticed that on the Fortec Mercury II, I was on SBS 6, Ohio News, and pressed the OK button for it to display the other channels I have scanned in on SBS 6 and noticed in the bottom corner where it displays the TP, is says "?-360.0E" as the TP information, I am getting Ohio News fine but it displays that, so when I went to change the channel to the MUX on SBS 6 it turned to G10R, I was shocked...When I went to channel info it said the SBS 6 MUX was found at 11720vXXXXX on G10R. So I went to the other sats in my system and all the TP information for all my channels on all my sats now says "?-360.0E" or "11720vXXXXX G10R"----therefore when I changed the channel, no matter what channel or satellite location, it goes back to G10R unless I go thru the menu and force it to change to a certain location. Does this for both C and Ku bands.


What has happened to my system?

You know I lost the cband fta on it the other day and took a month of Sunday's to get it back...

Am I going to have to reset this stupid box again, for the 3rd time, and lose it all again? If so, can someone please give me a recommendation for another box? Because I have not been impressed with this receiver at all.

Thanks.

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[Scott Greczkowski]

I got home yesterday and find my FTA out too on my Mercury II, however I have a feeling it was the 60 MPH winds we had yesterday which probably knocked my Dish out of alignment.

Looks like I trek outside this weekend with my LCD TV and Receiver to fix it.

[PSB]

I don't have a Mercury II, but on my Fortec Ultra this sort of thing was common, I had to delete ALL but one transponder from all satellites (You will not loose any stored channels) then it started to behave again.

[jself1982]

So just go thru each satellite and delete all but one TP, and then rescan each sat? Do I do a channel backup? or a factory reset?

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So just go thru each satellite and delete all but one TP, and then rescan each sat? Do I do a channel backup? or a factory reset?

No need to rescan as your stored channels will still be there No need for channel back up or factory re-set.

Remember this was with the Fortec Lifetime Ultra, but its still worth a try before doing a factory reset and loosing everything!

Just go through each satellite and delete all but one TP.