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acuevas

Last reply Mar 12, 2010 · posted in Free To Air (FTA) Discussion

Adding a TP in Coolsat

Hey All,

I tried adding a TP (Transponder) in the manual scan menu of my Coolsat 4K Pro. Unfortunately, as soon as i get to the point where i will change the polarization from 'V' to 'H' I get an error message that says "TP already exists". After checking to see if it does I find that it does not and all I end up doing is adding a TP with wrong polorization. Any ideas are most welcomed.

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Fizbi

Mar 11, 2010

Instead of selecting left or right button to select polarity, try pressing the red button on the remote and select from the drop down list. That should do it.

Mr Tony

Mar 11, 2010

if you get that message there is already a transponder stored with either the same or near that frequency and polarity. Symbol rate doesnt matter for it to give you that message

fitzbi gave a good fix. Check the existing TP in the list.

John Popper

Mar 12, 2010

green button (the Audio button) will allow you to add a TP, it will store it as long as you dont already have one with the same freq and polarization

AcWxRadar

Mar 12, 2010

acuevas said:
Hey All,

I tried adding a TP (Transponder) in the manual scan menu of my Coolsat 4K Pro. Unfortunately, as soon as i get to the point where i will change the polarization from 'V' to 'H' I get an error message that says "TP already exists". After checking to see if it does I find that it does not and all I end up doing is adding a TP with wrong polorization. Any ideas are most welcomed.

Acuevas,

Look for another TP that is within +/- 5MHz of the one you are trying to add.
i.e. If you are trying to add TP 12.112 GHz vertical, look for another vertical TP in the list that is shown as something between 12.007 GHz and 12.117 GHz. If there is one, and it is NOT utilized (no chennels scanned in on it) then delete it and try to add the TP you originally wanted. If there are none, you might want to expand your search for a TP that is +/- 6 Mhz or maybe even +/- 8 MHz at most.

If you don't find any TPs that are of the same polarity and within +/- 8 MHz, then you might have a situation like one I have witnessed with my Coolsat 5000 receiver.

In a few instances, I had edited the TP list in my Coolsat and at one time had the very TP enterered, but had since deleted it. However, for some reason, the Coolsat did not truly delete it, or so it seems. The TP did NOT appear in my list for that satellite, but the Coolsat "thought" it was still there. In this case, I was required to delete the entire satellite and re-enter it from scratch.

Otherwise, try the tip that Fizbi posted.

RADAR

acuevas

Mar 12, 2010

AcWxRadar said:
Acuevas,

Look for another TP that is within +/- 5MHz of the one you are trying to add.
i.e. If you are trying to add TP 12.112 GHz vertical, look for another vertical TP in the list that is shown as something between 12.007 GHz and 12.117 GHz. If there is one, and it is NOT utilized (no chennels scanned in on it) then delete it and try to add the TP you originally wanted. If there are none, you might want to expand your search for a TP that is +/- 6 Mhz or maybe even +/- 8 MHz at most.

RADAR

Thanks AcWxRadar,

I searched for TPs up to and with in +/- 8 MHz and found only one 11836 / V / 20.765 that is being used for channels. I attempted to add TP 11842 / H / 22000 and I can add it using Fizbi's advice. However, I don't get any green bars on it. I did notice however that if I change the 'symbol rate' to 20000 I do get green bars and I can download some channels, but they are not the channels I am looking for. Which, according to the 'The List!' are the new 3ABNs and other religious channels. Any thoughts are most welcomed.

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If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

WhiteBeard

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EarDemon said:
If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

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WhiteBeard said:
To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.

I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.

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EarDemon said:
I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows.

What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI? By many accounts, it has been going downhill since Windows 7.

There are Linux desktops that offer Windows or Mac UIs, yet you don't hear much chatter about them outside of questions about when the creators might get sued.

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harshness said:
What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI?

Because it's what I prefer. I know I've said this a few times, I use Open Shell to give me the cascading start menu a la WIN 95 and NT4.0. The only reason I went from Windows Vista to 7 back in the day was because of Classic Shell. I cannot stand anything other than the OG start menu from 30+ years ago. I'm using ExplorerPatcher to give me Windows 10 UI elements of the taskbar and right click context menus.

If you could take a look at how I set up Windows 95, you'd find many similarities to how I use 11.

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harshness

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EarDemon said:
Because it's what I prefer.

I hope you don't believe that makes it wonderful (especially when you're using workarounds for Microsoft's malfeasance).

I use LibreOffice as opposed to Microsoft office (even in Windows) because it's UI is like the Office of old, so I'm putting my money where my mouth is (in a manner of speaking). The ribbon was one of the worst ideas to come out Redmond.

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EarDemon said:
I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

I used to pin the C: drive to the Win Taskbar and it would open in cascading style

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DEATH TO NEXGEN!

It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

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Mister B said:
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.

QFT. Of course, my preference involves a curb and some kicking.

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It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

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WHAT ABOUT THE INTERNET PART OF IT. NO ONE WANTS A BOX CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET EITHER.

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mheisen said:
Over the past few weeks, I have had problems connecting to streaming services (Netflix, HBO et al). When I go to the TV's native Channels, I have no problem. The Dish internet troubleshooter shows I have a good internet connection. I'm wondering whether it's an issue with my internet provider or a problem with the Dish software on the Hopper Plus. Anyone else seeing this?

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