got my pansat 9200HD

[truckracer]

This box seems like a great receiver except it keeps locking up doing a "smart scan" on G10R c-band at the end of the horizontal side.

I have to power the unit off and start again. Don't know what's up with that.

It scans the other sats fine on both polarities.

The terrestrial tuner is great too.

 

[Mr Tony]

what software version is in it?

The original software sucked...there is a new one on the pansat site (pansatusa.com) that cleaned up the bugs...I downaloded the newest factory software in mine and it works great

 

[dishMIKE]

Tony are going to do a full review of the 9200 soon? Mike

 

[techno935]

Yea, looking forward to a review in hopes that it may be better with channel numbering to allow placement of terrestrial and satellite channels in MY OWN ORDER and not SID order!

Good luck with it!

 

[Mr Tony]

techno

I will tell you this...yes you can sort them that way. If all you do is scan OTA it logs them as their legit mapped channels. So when I scan my OTA I get
2.1
2.2
4.1
5.1
5.2
9.1
9.2
etc

but when you scan satellite channels, then they go as channels 1,2,3 but you can sort them how YOU want them too

So I have my OTA first in numerical order, then G10, SBS6, G11 etc and feeds are the end for easy removal

so as an example it shows
1. TPT2 (my local PBS channel 2)
2. TPTHD (my local PBS HD channel)
3. WCCO (local CBS 4)
etc
down to about 23 where
23. KSTC (local Independent 45)
then
24. KUWF (G10)
25. KVTC (G10)
etc

then around 50 or so I have
51. PBS from AMC3
52. Montana PBS

etc

and I can sort the channels how I want to

 

[techno935]

That is sweet! That being said, would you say it's better than the CS8000? If I can get grandma set up with an all-in-one OTA and satellite package, that would be good.

 

[Mr Tony]

from an ease of use standpoint, yes it is

when you scan new channels in, it doesn't re-sort the existing stuff back to all channels 001 in one area and 002 next etc. You can sort it and those channels do not get moved unless you tell them to move.

 

[truckracer]

My software version is 1204 Is this the newest?

 

[Mr Tony]

yep just checked on mine and I have 1204 too. That's the newest factory software