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Let's not continue with any discussion that way, or we are going to get my thread locked.

I simply bought it to watch the stuttering channels on 101w. If I could find a legit receiver that's capable of locking those, and that didn't cost way too much, I'd buy that instead. It's not easy here in North America to get good info on what receiver does what, or that doesn't cost nearly $200, and isn't super complicated to run.

I need a receiver that WORKS, including the stuttering channels. It MUST be capable of Diseqc motor control with a V or G box, and not lock up or reboot when using that. It MUST have really good DVR controls like the MicroHD has had for 5~ years now, such as 30 timers, 30 second skip forward and back, and file place marking and 'jumping-to' capability. CC would also be nice, and a GOOD CLOCK that actually keeps time!

All that just doesn't seem available to us here, and that's just sad.

primestar31 said:

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I simply bought it to watch the stuttering channels on 101w. If I could find a legit receiver that's capable of locking those, and that didn't cost way too much, I'd buy that instead. It's not easy here in North America to get good info on what receiver does what, or that doesn't cost nearly $200, and isn't super complicated to run.

I need a receiver that WORKS, including the stuttering channels. It MUST be capable of Diseqc motor control with a V or G box, and not lock up or reboot when using that. It MUST have really good DVR controls like the MicroHD has had for 5~ years now, such as 30 timers, 30 second skip forward and back, and file place marking and 'jumping-to' capability. CC would also be nice, and a GOOD CLOCK that actually keeps time!

All that just doesn't seem available to us here, and that's just sad.

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1. I've got some of these same concerns with incompatibility between ATSC (OTA) receiver and a local FOX station--receiver WORKS BAD, drops video and audio every few seconds while having a good quality signal. All other stations work normal. So far, I've only concluded it MIGHT be the very common and very widely cloned problematic software on chip. I've been researching replacing with another (third receiver) with a different software on chip. One of two recievers lockup, reboot, and in the process corrupt user channels (constantly going back in to reset channels and schedules), been this way since new.

2. On the satellite system, dealing with the receiver that won't retain correct time for one day even with Standby turned off.

I have a daily recording setup to kick off at 4am-6am for FETV, for Sergeant Preston, and Lassie (ranger years). So last night I moved my dish to 113w for the various RetroTv horror movies with no issues, it was about 11 degrees F here at that time. This morning I got up around 5am to use the bathroom, and noticed that the G-box was flashing its display. I looked at the outside thermometer, and it was -4F! Dish or actuator or motor was frozen or something.

Temp finally got to +1F about 10 minutes ago, and the dish now moves again. I've never had this happen before with my older dish on a different Venture actuator, but I'm using the Venture actuator that came with this SAMI dish, so I'm not sure what on it actually froze.

It's rare for it to go this cold around here anymore, but the whole week is supposed to be like this with freezing cold, so not sure what I'm going to do about this as of yet, as it probably is likely to happen again.

Maybe some grease froze, and I need to replace it with one that has a lower temp ability? Anybody got an idea what (beyond heat tape) would help for it to work normally at cold temps below zero F?

Well, it's 26°F out there right now, and my dish wouldn't move again, though I had moved it from 99w to 101w hours ago with no issues. This time I was done with 101w, and was trying to move it back to 99w. The Gbox was showing a weird display on the front every time I tried to move it. I then discovered by accident, that it would move WEST with the manual West button, and I could move it back to 99w FETV with the manual East button, but not beyond that.

So, I looked up the Gbox manual, and it said that the display I was seeing was because the EAST soft limit had been set! I NEVER set either the West or East limits on the Gbox itself, I only set those as hard limits with the manual microswitch setup inside the Venture actuator. So, somehow the Gbox set the soft limits by itself! Or, the MicroHD receiver did it, but without any input from me. In this case, I held down the LIMITS button on the Gbox remote for 10 seconds, and it did a countdown, and cleared it all up. Everything now works properly again. I remember reading some threads way back when something like this happened to others, but not what they thought about it, or if they figured out why it did it. Or if it's "just one of those (magical) things".

Anybody got any theories?

P.S. a few minutes later I started thinking: "MAYBE the Gbox got confused with the IR signals from another remote, and used that to set itself"! In other words, perhaps pushing some buttons on another remote hit the same IR frequency the Gbox is looking for... Hummmm...

For now, I covered the front of the IR sensor on the Gbox with some heavy cardboard. Theory being some remote signal got through from a different remote, and caused it to set a soft East limit. IF it happens again, I'll have to consider that the MicroHD somehow sent a signal via coax to set the limit, OR that the Gbox is going wonky. I hope not, but it was given to me used, and I don't know much about it. I do have a Vbox X and another Gbox (NOS!), so I'm covered either way.

I used to use a GBox and it would set the east limit to the position you were at after doing a blind scan. I thought this was associated with the receiver I was using. To prevent this I would turn off the GBox with the remote before the blind scan. Unlike a VBox which won't turn off when the receiver is powered up, the GBox will turn off.
Given the choices you have, I would ditch the GBox and use the VBox X.