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  1. Grimgnaw

    Lost counts somewhere

    VBOX7 Lost count Issue I recently had a problem with a VBOX7 losing counts and resolved it as noted in this posting.
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    Certain Channels need to be "primed"

    Update on priming problem: The Pansat 9200HD with an ARM processor appears to have the same "priming" problem when moving from 97w to 125w. Thus, the Ali processors are not the only ones.
  3. Grimgnaw

    Certain Channels need to be "primed"

    Thanks Titanium, both of my receivers have ALI chips and your comments are confirmed. My friend has a Pansat 9200HD which is not an ALI processor (Conexant) and I asked him to try it with that unit where his Linkbox is having the "priming" problem on PBS at 125W. Interestingly I have never had...
  4. Grimgnaw

    Certain Channels need to be "primed"

    Often when I tune to an abc feed (say 4120 H 30k) on 99.2°W the channel fails to appear until I tune to another channel like FOX (Mo) (3720 H 8703) and then switch back to it. This also occurs on the 16aspk channels (3980 H 30k) and the very high quality 7 channels (3940 H 30K) on 97°W. On...
  5. Grimgnaw

    c band reception with ku lnb?

    If you supply power to both the C-band and Ku-band lnbs on the same dish at the same time and the incoming IF path to the receiver is common (after a Diseqc switch) you will receive the strongest of the IF signals showing up whether C or Ku. For instance this happens when using a 922 to power...
  6. Grimgnaw

    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    It would be neat if Pansat had included an added switch to separate the hardware front-end choice from the data stream software choice to provide an “S” picture, not that it would normally be any different. Well, the “level” comparisons were interesting. I did a Pansat 9200hd-S2+ blind...
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    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    On the contrary, one can use the DVB-S2+ tuner (on a Pansat 9200hd) for the DVB-S signals. To demonstrate this one only needs to set up a second transponder identical to the one used for a given DBV-S signal and change only the tuner to be used in that second TP. For instance, push MENU...
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    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    I would suggest any cpu found on the following chart: PassMark Intel vs AMD CPU Benchmarks - High End After you choose a cpu then any motherboard that can handle it will do the trick with a couple Gigs of ram. My cpu has just fallen off the bottom of that chart in the last month but is still...
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    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    Comparison of the 7300 and 7301 "front ends" First, I must mention that the Prof 7301 and the DVB-S2+ upgrade for the Pansat 9200hd have a common "front end" demod chip (credits are below). Thus, this comparison is actually between a Prof 7300 and the Panast 9200hd with its DVB-S2+ upgrade...
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    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    pendragon - While the basis of those figures likely differs between the Pansat and the 7300 (and cannot be compared precisely ) each set does indicate their builder's confidence in what is seen and what is derived from the signal. The relatively small difference in level correlates with the...
  11. Grimgnaw

    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    I have seen no definitive information comparing the signal to noise or stability of the Prof 7300 and 7301 cards although likely such exists. My experience with the 7300 indicates it has a far better front end than my Pansat 9200hd. As a comparison using the AK-1 channel on satellite AMC-8...
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    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    Significance of 7300 "relative stability" The card (7300, 7301, etc) front end "sensitivity" (s/n and stability) is only one piece of the puzzle. It is an intermediate stage in the signal path. A more vunerable part is the sensitivity of the front end of the system, i.e., the lnb quality and...
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    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    Variation in quality of HD As stated the FTA CBS bit rate was about 32 - 36,000bps according to ProgDVB and the OTA CBS HD does have a FOX SD subchannel. Thanks for the heads-up on exactly what was going on. I was aware of a wide variation in bit rates on "HD" FTA channels but paid little...
  14. Grimgnaw

    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    Thanks Stephan1 for the reference to a later set of drivers for the Prof 7300. I have installed them in one of my XP systems and they seem to work fine. It is curious that they were in the "cd" folder on the Prof site rather than the "beta" or the "drivers prof" folder. Maybe they are in a...
  15. Grimgnaw

    My Recent Exchange with Pansat USA!!!

    My Solution to Pansat 9200HD Freezing I have obtained a second Pansat 9200 (this time with the Pansat DVB-S2 Plus kit) on Ebay and remounted the heat-sinks in it also. I have added pics and more definitive heat sink removal info at the following site: Remount Heat Sinks 2 As the MPEG-2's...
  16. Grimgnaw

    Is it really worth the premium for an S2 receiver?

    The ability to view the NBC East transmissions in 1080p from the West Coast on AMC-18 (105W) for the Winter Olympics (3 hours earlier) makes it worth while. The late night portion ends at about 10:30pm rather than 1:30am. If you miss something you can always revert to the Mountain, Central or...
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    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    Experience with DVB-S2 channels including the four NBC HD broadcasts on AMC 18 (105W) and six ABC channels on Galaxy 16 (99W) has shown solid performance using the Prof 7300 with the ProgDVB Pro x86, XPx86 system on a 64 bit PC. The NBC channels have required use of my 9' dish (rather than the...
  18. Grimgnaw

    windows 7 64bit

    With a Prof 7300 card I have had success using the x64 ProgDVB version 6.24 with Win 7 x64 Home Premium. The drivers are x64 beta drivers from Prof and the codecs were x64 versions too. It functioned perfectly, beyond my wildest expectations, just yesterday. My earlier experience with...
  19. Grimgnaw

    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    I cannot report on motor control. I have yet to use (other than test) my 39" Ku dish which has the Diseqc controlled motor. At this point I am only controlling a 2x1 Diseqc switch for polarity on a dual lnb 7.5' C-band dish (Satellite changes are accomplished via the 922 receiver). I have seen...
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    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    Prof 7300 Works with 64 bit Hardware wi PROGDVBx64 Success was achieved on the use of the Prof 7300 PC card on a 64 bit machine with both the Win 7-RC x64 and XP x64 operating systems. The PROGDVB program exists in an x64 version and of course requires x64 drivers and codecs which are...
  21. Grimgnaw

    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    64 bit hardware normally does not require any changes to 32 bit applications or drivers from that used on the 32 bit hardware when using an x86 Operating System (OS). When using an x64 OS then x64 drivers are required but the x86 application is still normally compatible although likely not as...
  22. Grimgnaw

    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    I installed a fresh copy of XP x64 (evaluation) along with the beta x64 drivers (referenced by both zamar23 and PROF) on the 64 bit computer (using Dvb Dream, an x86 app) and the results were consistent with installing Win x86 and the x86 drivers on that 64 bit computer -- similarly limited...
  23. Grimgnaw

    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    Whoops, I may now have to eat my last words on the "whole new ballgame" at least for a while. I just received a reply from dong.prof.tuners as follows: Jerry, Driver here: Index of /download/beta/64bit But we don't know good DVB-S/S2 TV-player for x64. You will have problem with 32bit...
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    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    I very much appreciate you referencing of the 64 bit beta drivers for the PROF 7300 as that opens up a whole new ballgame for me on the 64 bit machine. It was looking like I would have to continue network streaming from the 32 bit machine to the 64 which in turn forwards it over HDMI (60...
  25. Grimgnaw

    Experience with the Prof 7300 PC card

    See the page of the PROF web site at the following link: Prof Red Series DVB-S2 7300 PCI The first line under System Requirements reads as follows: OS: Microsoft Windows 32bit 2000/XP/Vista/Win7 The drivers you referenced are for a 64 bit Operating System as can be noted in their...