Scanning

[shankle]

I move my dish from one end to the other about once
every two weeks. My usual procedure is to delete everything
I did last time and rescan the bird. I feel that so many changes
are taking place that this is necessary.
Am I wrong???
Stats: Pansat 250sm, 10ft antique, from 131W to 58 W,
Uniden pusher

 

[Mr Tony]

I would keep the existing channels in there and rescan. MOst receivers put new channels at the end of the list so you'd be able to see which channels were added

I only do a full delete of channels when I scan for updates to thelist

 

[FaT Air]

It would be nice if the receivers would somehow identify previously found channels that DIDN'T scan in. Would just make life easier, (I'm l a z y) blind scanning quicker, instead of having to scroll through them all.

 

[stanleyjohn]

It would be nice if the receivers would somehow identify previously found channels that DIDN'T scan in. Would just make life easier, (I'm l a z y) blind scanning quicker, instead of having to scroll through them all.

When i do a rescan on my AZBox ultra its shows the total tps scanned and number of new ones found.The scan is slower than my solomend but i think it picks up some tps that the solomend misses.I agree with others above! No need to remove tps before a rescan unless its a first time scan.

 

[shankle]

I had to do a factory reset this week even with all the deleting I did. Wouldn't leaving the previous stuff in there
tend to overload the 250sm??? Asking.
Thanks for the replies.

 

[FaT Air]

It might. I usually get into erratic operation when this is encountered. Channels will scan in, but not save, blind scan locks up, etc. I make a list of the fta channels on a sat, and the TP they are on. I then delete all the TP's scanned in that are not associated with an active FTA channel. I will leave in a strong, non FTA TP on sats that don't have a 24/7 FTA channel so I can find the sat to do a blind scan for feeds. I completely reprogrammed my 9200 for two reasons, 1- over 1400 saved channels, most being itinerant feeds. 2 blind scan became as described above. After the reprogram, around 500 ch. And far fewer lock-ups during just regular viewing, and subsequent blind scans.