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Well I have had my Fortec for quite some time now, still loving it!!!

Welcome to Satelliteguys.us :D You show stellar intellect and obvious good breeding in your very first post! Must be good genetics..... BTW folks, I would like to introduce Gameguy, he is my older brother who is now fast on the way to FTA addiction ;)

Tony, I might have had more than that, the bottom 50% of the dish was completely level with snow, ie: it was no longer parabolic lol. I have some pics i took today of my snowbound dishs, will post them in the fta shack. Last storm we had dumped 32-36" of snow on us. I was really suprised...

I just noticed something kinda cool on my merc II. The signal strength meter actually seems to mean something :-D I had about 1' of snow on my 6' c band dish, when i checked signal quality it was zero. The neat thing was, signal strength was also zero. As soon as I cleared off the snow signal...

Thanks for the review Shawn :) Sounds like this unit still has some bugs to be worked out.

Hi Labgate, Sorry to say, but no the Mercury II does not support 4:2:2. Have a happy 4th, Doc

Once you actually set up an antenna and scan in some channels the language selection will go away. I also noticed that all KU satellite entries are listed as universal by default, I think the only way to change them is one at a time as you mentioned. Hope you enjoy your new reciever as...

Disabling the audio tone turns it off whenever you see a signal meter, ie: when hitting "sig" button on the remote, in antenna installation screen, transponder scan screen, etc. Enabling it turns it on whenever you see a signal meter.

New channels are saved in the default channel list. If you find too much garbage you can always go back to a previously saved channel list by using the built in recovery function.

Sidekick, The Mercury II will pass the ac-3 via optical output to your ac-3 compatable reciever, etc. It does not decode the ac-3 audio itself.

Yes it does have an audible tone for sq, you can turn the tone on or off.

Yes you can select h, v or both h and v.

Yes, there one button that takes you right into blind scan. BTW, did some blind scan comparisions in between the satworks 3618, pansat 2700a, and the Fortec Mercury II. Mercury II Blind Scan Times Test 1, set at detailed scan, took 8 minutes and found 10 tps with 38 channels. Test 2, set at...

Sidekick, I havent tried a coolsat yet, so I really cant compare them except on paper lol.

With this feature you manually add all parameters, which is something I can do with the Satworks, but not the Pansat. This works nice for adding in radio stations that are on a secondary carrier, like the ones on g10. Simply click on the radio button, then select add new channel under the...

The Mercury II is powered by an NEC 61114 processor, and has two meg of flash ram, with 16 meg of sdram. Quite a bit of power packed into a nice little case, and this unit uses it to produce lots of cool "why didnt they think of that before?" features. This unit has lots of goodies a true FTA...

Very nice review Iceberg. Thanks

It seems as if the Pansat line of receivers just keeps getting better :-D Thank you for the awesome review Iceberg, and its nice to hear you finally have a reciever with ac-3 out ;)

I guess i shouldn't say it is next to useless, because you can see your signal quality get better or worse as you peak a dish. Its just not as useful as the meter in the satworks is.

The signal quality meter is extremely spazzmatic, doing exactly as you describe. Its not quite useless, but you cant really use it for peaking a dish. I had thought of selling my satworks 3618, but i am going to keep it just for peaking dish's (very stable sig. quality meter) and blind scanning...

Review of Pansat 2700a The Pansat 2700a receiver physically is very small, but dont let that fool you, its a very feature packed reciever. The front of the unit is simple, with power standby, channel up/ down buttons and a very easy to see digital display. On the back of the box is power...

Iceberg, Thank you for the excellant review : )