Terrestrial ?

[turbosat]

Anybody with a fta receiver that does terrestrial, which I assume is OTA type channels - When you tune an OTA channel can you look at the freq info and other info about that channel?
Would channels in the freq range of 658 mhz, 602,586 sound right?
Reason I'm asking, my new receiver (Icon 550) seems to have developed OTA capabilities ,lol. Never saw it before, but in the SAT menu, it now also lists Terrestrial as one of the options. I don't think it has an OTA tuner, so I'm puzzled.

 

[Lak7]

My Diamond 900HD has "Terrestrial" as a Sat too.
It has an ATSC tuner.

When you tune an OTA channel can you look at the freq info and other info about that channel?

Yes
Maybe the Firmware is "borrowed" from another unit

 

[turbosat]

Lak7, are those freq I listed matching any OTA channels in your rec? I don't know how this thing is supposed to work-I swear that wasn't on my sat menu last night and I can't figure out where it came from! I haven't even rebooted the box in 4-5 days nor changed any firmware.
I did hook up an external antenna to the RF-IN jack, but its a UHF antenna with pre-amp, and I got nothing. The freq start at 177 mhz and go up, some of them are in there 5-6 times. but there's no provision anyplace in the menus to Search, Add or edit Terrestrial channels.

 

[Lak7]

Is it a European Box? Possible it has a DVB-T tuner in it?
In the Diamond, you scan channels just like a Sat.
I'll check on the Freqs.

 

[Lak7]

Freqs:
57MHz to 803 MHz

 

[B.J.]

Anybody with a fta receiver that does terrestrial, which I assume is OTA type channels - When you tune an OTA channel can you look at the freq info and other info about that channel?
Would channels in the freq range of 658 mhz, 602,586 sound right?
Reason I'm asking, my new receiver (Icon 550) seems to have developed OTA capabilities ,lol. Never saw it before, but in the SAT menu, it now also lists Terrestrial as one of the options. I don't think it has an OTA tuner, so I'm puzzled.

Like mentioned above, I'd guess it was European, because all those freqs are off, relative to US OTA ATSC. 2 of them are 1 MHz off, and the other is further off.
Also, if it doesn't have a separate ATSC tuner, that makes it more likely to be European, because they use a terrestrial version of DVB I think, instead of ATSC, so the same tuner used for sat might work.

 

[turbosat]

Well thats strange. It doesn't have DVB-T listed in it anyplace, and the firmware is the latest from the Satopia/Icon website. The box is new since Christmas to me, but I think they came out in April 08 in NA. It's manual is sketchy and doesn't list much good info other than the very basics. But no mention of OTA and the RF-IN jack is listed in the manual but just says "Connect your TV antenna here" and no mention of it later anywhere else in the manual. Maybe the software just got corrupted or something lol.

 

[turbosat]

Thanks BJ, I think it just went haywire for some reason. The only thing I've done to it lately was renamed Gal 11 to Gal 17 last night and it stored the name change. It's another Korean made receiver, but sold thru Satopia. Well it IS a satopia I think, they just changed the faceplate of it and renamed it. Very good blind-scanner but the menus and the manual are not really that good. The RF port is prob just a pass thru, but I have no idea how it managed to scan in Terrestrial channels when it had never been connected to an antenna, and Terrestrial had never been listed in its Satellite menu, haha.

 

[Mr Tony]

Anybody with a fta receiver that does terrestrial, which I assume is OTA type channels - When you tune an OTA channel can you look at the freq info and other info about that channel?.

I can on the CS8000. Its lists the frequency and pids

 

[turbosat]

One of life's mysteries I guess. Funny that it just popped into the menu today. WIsh it would develop the ability to see 4.2.2 feeds instead though.

 

[Lak7]

LOL