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  1. Robbert

    Free Receiver of the Week Contest Thread- Satellite AV

    My favorite FTA channel is BVN-TV because it's the best way to keep up to date on events in my home country of the Netherlands!
  2. Robbert

    Skystar 2.3 only one with Blind Scan?

    Thanks for the tip! I am running it right now, but oh boy.. is it slow.. :) Well.. Better than nothing I guess! :)
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    Skystar 2.3 only one with Blind Scan?

    That's a bummer. Same here with the newsfeeds. Would be nice to automate some of that scanning and with a PC, even record some of it automatically. ;) Hopefully some other company will see the light and come out with a PCI card that CAN do blind scanning... Thanks, Robbert
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    Skystar 2.3 only one with Blind Scan?

    Hi Everyone, Maybe a stupid question, but is the Skystar 2.3 the only one that ever had Blind Scan of all the PCI DVB cards out there? I currently have a Twinhan 102g, which works great, but I really miss the blind scan that my Pansat box has on-board... Does anyone know why blind scan is...
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    Enter to Win: GEOSATpro 1.2M Motorized Dish with C/KU LNBF

    How about Radio Nederland Wereldomroep? Some sounds from the homeland! PAS3R 3942V, SR 1200 http://www.rnw.nl/
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    Blind scanning speed

    Iceberg, The Pansat works ok, but I'm frustrated with the slow scanning speed. If I'm looking for feeds, by the time it's done scanning the feeds are already gone.. ;) From what I hear from you guys, the Coolsat does this a bit faster, so it might be worth upgrading... I don't use the card...
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    Blind scanning speed

    Ah, ok.. Then I won't worry about getting a 6000 then. It's a shame EPG is not being transmitted with a lot of channels here (or any for that matter..). I regularly watch the BVN-TV channel from Holland on IA-5 and would love to be able to use my Twinhan card with MyTheatre as a PVR. But without...
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    Blind scanning speed

    So how does the 6000 compare to the 5000? Are there any significant differences? How about speed-wise?
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    Blind scanning speed

    Hmmm.. Anybody interested in swapping a Pansat 3500 for a Coolsat 5000? :) Haha! Maybe we should put a blind scan benchmark chart on this forum somewhere. It would be interesting to see how all brands stack up against eachother!
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    Blind scanning speed

    So do other brands of receivers not have this problem? (Thinking of Viewsat, Coolsat, etc?).. And do they scan faster in general on regular TP's, or is it about the same speed as the 3500S?
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    Blind scanning speed

    Yeah, that's true, although it's gotten better with the latest firmware that I installed on there a couple of weeks ago. But sometimes it will sit there for a few minutes on those TP's. Unfortunately you never know what something is unless you have a PC with Lyngsat open at the same time or you...
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    Blind scanning speed

    Hello Everyone, I love the whole FTA hobby and scanning satellites for feeds and whatnot. Especially during Katrina last year, there was a lot up there. However, it seems that either the number of feeds has diminished or maybe they've been encrypted? Or there just isn't much news to report...
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    DiSEqC... Does it EVER work???

    Ok.. The holidays are over.. So Happy New Year everyone! A quick update on the Pansat switch. The one I got has, as I said before, 5 ports on one side, with the center port being the receiver port. It's being sold with a rain (outdoor) cover. I bought it on eBay for around $20. The good news...
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    DiSEqC... Does it EVER work???

    I got it in, but haven't had a chance to try it with the busy holiday season upon us. I do have an older Pansat which has trouble. The older one I have is laid out with connectors on both sides of the box. The newer Pansat only has connectors on one side (5 in a row). After the holidays I'll...
  15. Robbert

    Fortec Ultra Lifetime Sat out plug

    In my experience, when you hook up a second receiver to the Sat Out on the Fortec, one of the following three things happen: 1) Fortec is on and tuned to a channel: 2nd Receiver will only receive transponders with the same polarity from the same sat. DiSEqC and motor commands won't pass...
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    DiSEqC... Does it EVER work???

    It Finally Works!! I just got my NEW Spaun 4x1 DiSEqC in and it finally seems to work.. I guess I really do have 4 bad switches!! The Spaun wasn't cheap ($40), but then again, my 4 other switches also add up to $40... :) I've tried it a few times now, and I haven't had any switching "errors"...
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    DiSEqC... Does it EVER work???

    Ok, did a little research on how the DP34 works, and yeah, that won't work (I won't see half of the transponders because my LNB's are not stacked).. But I noticed Dish has something called the SW64 as well. Now, I have a single output on my linear LNB, but it would be easy enough to upgrade that...
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    DiSEqC... Does it EVER work???

    Thanks for testing that for me. At least this is a quicker way for me to find out if a new DiSEqC works.. I ordered two new ones.. One from Spaun and a new type of PanSat.... We'll see what happens when they come in. If they also don't work, they'll be on eBay.. :) MyTheatre is set to 10 Hex...
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    DiSEqC... Does it EVER work???

    Right, I did hit apply when I actually made changes. But what I was wondering is, say, if I'm watching a channel on DiSEqC port 1, go into the setup, DiSEqC settings, choose another port (the channel is still playing in the background), hit DO NOW, shouldn't the port change to what I have...
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    Noob looking for advice.

    123tim, I recently also had an order placed with Sadoun on a Monday and my dish (ordered a 90cm dish, some cable and some misc. accessories), still hadn't shipped on Friday. Called 3 times that week. First they said it would ship the next day (Tuesday call), then on Thursday they said it...
  21. Robbert

    DiSEqC... Does it EVER work???

    Phil, So what you're saying is that all my 4 switches are bad??? Or is the power problem something else you're referring to? Thanks, Robbert
  22. Robbert

    DiSEqC... Does it EVER work???

    The linear LNB is universal.. So it does use the 22KHz to switch from the low to the high band.. However, if that were to be the problem, I would expect the switch not to switch properly to the port that the universal is on.. Funny enough, that has been 100% reliable.. :) Switching to any of the...
  23. Robbert

    UonTV?

    Wow.. That's a bummer.. This was certainly a unique channel! I mostly got my FTA setup initially to receive BVN-TV (Dutch), but soon got hooked on what else you could find up there, such as the newsfeeds etc.. UonTV was definitely one of those channels that my wife and I could actually both...
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    DiSEqC... Does it EVER work???

    Iceberg, thanks for your quick reply.. Yes, I am turning off the receiver in the back (with the switch). Or in case of the PC, it's shut down as well. Not sure what you mean by if I set up the other ports whether or not I select them?? Obviously when I connect one of the circular LNB's...
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    UonTV?

    My apologies if this has been discussed previously (didn't see a post though), but what has happened to UonTV? It used to have all sorts of funny stuff on there like the Ramirez Family Vacation, the Sadoun commercials, etc. And now all I see is infomercials for cosmetics.. I also don't see any...
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