GTMedia V8 Finder 2 For SAT ID

[Titanium]

Thanks, I knew it couldn't "see" Turbo, but didn't realize it could detect L and R polarities. Why does my receiver see Directv TP's on 101 sometimes when the LO is set to 10750?

DirecTV uses h.264 and h.265 MPEG4 encoding (may still be a few MPEG2 transponders remain for SD programming???) with Videoguard encryption. An FTA STB will detect these transponder streams. A Universal type LNBF receives DirecTV and DIsh Network carriers with frequency coverage up to 12750MHz and a standard type LNBF often will pass frequencies above 12200MHz. A circular polarity signal will be received on a linear type LNBF with approximately 3dB of attenuation and without a depolarizer (or electronically phased, as with the Invacom QPH/QPF-031) and may be logged as a horizontal and/or vertical polarity transponder.

Example: 12225 (DirecTV TP Frequency) - 10750 (LO Frequency) = 1475 IF ( Most FTA STBs tuners cover an IF range of 950 - 2150 MHz). As you see, if a standard type LNBF band pass includes the DBS / DSS frequency range 12200 to 12750 MHz, then these frequencies fall within the tuner frequency range of most FTA STBs.

 

[Pepper]

As Titanium mentioned, Dish uses Turbo 8PSK so you'll never find a Dish TP (unless there are any non-Turbo TP's in use, not sure if there are anymore)

My V9 (different obviously but I'm not sure how different) found a bunch of empty Dish TPs on 118 before they were finally turned off around 8/1. No channels though as they were all migrated elsewhere a couple months prior.

 

[cyberham]

My V9 (different obviously but I'm not sure how different) found a bunch of empty Dish TPs on 118 before they were finally turned off around 8/1. No channels though as they were all migrated elsewhere a couple months prior.

If you check Lyngsat, you'll notice that some of the Dish tps were DVB-S SR 20000. Those were non-Turbo and you could have received them with a regular FTA receiver. Since they were encrypted, you couldn't watch them though.