drhydro said:
I am getting ready to update my 3618 to the newest version. I have found that it takes what seems to be a long time to blind scan a satellite, up to 30 minutes per polarity on my BUD. Hopefully the newer version will help this out. One thing i have to ask tho, after i update the software, will i have to rescan in everything i have already done?
If it's the DMSI/USA upgrade dated 5/4/04, I did it and didn't see much difference. And yes, you will have to re enter everything, so make notes of the stuff you have because it is easier to manually enter them than to set and do re scans.
I have found that if you have the 3618 slaved through another receiver, this is the quickest way to blind scan:
1. Set your receiver on a horizontal transponder
2. Set up the 3618 on the blind scan and set the polarity to horizontal then
scan
3. Set your receiver on a vertical transponder
4. Follow step 2, only change the 3618 to vertical
I have found that by scanning them sperate cut my scan time down from about 30 minutes to about 5 to 7 minutes for each polarity. Also if you leave the 3618 on Hor/Vert and don't change the main receiver, the 3618 will scan twice because it does not know which polarity to scan. That is the reason it takes so long.
Good luck.