GTMedia V8 Finder 2 For SAT ID

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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 

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