Knowledge Network on Anik F1R

[colbec]

I'm fishing for KN on Anik and not having much luck. I'm sure that Anik is H/V and not L/R so I have the right LNB. Motor seems to be on the arc pretty good.

Detail blind scan on 107.3W gives me 4 channels, FTN-1,3 and ETN-1,2. One of these has poor audio from the Canada Houses of Parliament (Federal) but bad audio on the others, and washed out video on all of them.



It is almost as if I have one setting not quite right, but I can't think what that might be? I have very solid green bars on some TPs so I think I am on target. Maybe the satellite has an issue?

The specific channel for the Knowledge Network (12050 V) returns nothing on manual scan.

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[Iceberg]

Almost all the channels on AnikF1 are Digicipher II (DCII) which our DVB boxes won't get.

[colbec]

Agreed. However according to Lyngsat there are a few which are FTA. It is these that I am trying to land in my net. Normally when the Coolsat comes across a scrambled channel it is very quick to display a black screen with "Scramble channel" and I move on.

I did try a full blind scan and did not come up with the expected scrambled channels. Does this mean that the Coolsat can detect some types of encryption and not others?

[Iceberg]

All of the channels that show "in the clear" according to Lyngsat on AnikF1 are DCII coding/encryption. Those are StarChoice (Candian satellite provider) channels (same with CKUA, Access and a couple others) and our boxes will not get them.

When there are multiple channels on a transponder, the first row of the Transpnoder on Lyngsat tells if its DCII or DVB

The only free stuff on AnikF1 is C-Band. There may be a couple CBC feeds on KU but those are 4:2:2 which the Coolsat will not decode

[colbec]

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