I have a X2 square satellite receiver (picture at bottom)
I am using this receiver dedicated for my Radio station. Because its a spare i could care less about, and it has a phono jack for RCA audio. But - It is a ROYAL pain in the butt setting up channels on the 103w mux with this receiver. First off, you cannot create custom customs by manually entering PIDS. Making it worse, you cannot manually change a TV to a radio or the other way around. And lastly, if you modify the PIDS, and rescan in attempts to get new channels, it will still see the channels as already scanned in!!!!
Here is the scenario. I scan in 103w 12145v20000 and it only pulls in 2 radio stations. I then modify the AUDIO and PCR pids, for 2 of the hidden radio services.. I then try and re-scan the TP in attempts to get those two visible radio stations and repeat the process... NO new channels found.. I cannot switch the Video to Audio or Audio to Video, so how the heck do i get the other radio stations i want into it... Ah, bright idea... I changed to a different satellite, setup the exact same settings as 103w (ie, creating multiple satellites which all yield 103). I then only have the 12145 TP on each satelliite, allowing me to scan in those 2 radio stations per Satellite. I then manually modify the audio PID for those two radio stations to get the actual service i want. I wanted 10 of the radio stations, so i needed to do that for 5 satellites, and i got my 10 radio stations, numbered 1-10, and being thats the only thing i have on the receiver, i can cycle through the ten stations just by hitting the channel up/down buttons... Talk about a MacGyver!!!
and thankfully that TP has those 2 scan-able radio stations. If it didn't I don't think it would be possible to access those hidden services without some sort of external channel editor.
But, it works, and that's all i care about.. Disconnected the receiver, took it back out side to my FM transmitter and plugged it back in. I used to have an old dreambox unit, but it crapped out about 5 years ago. I miss that receiver, i could change the radio station with icons i had on my desktop, and it was a LOT easier configuring the channels. But, being i set it and forget it, this inconvenience doesn't happen often.
If someone found an channel editor for this utilizing the backup channel database you can save and load, let me know, or if you found some easier method within the user interface that i missed, please let me know.
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I am using this receiver dedicated for my Radio station. Because its a spare i could care less about, and it has a phono jack for RCA audio. But - It is a ROYAL pain in the butt setting up channels on the 103w mux with this receiver. First off, you cannot create custom customs by manually entering PIDS. Making it worse, you cannot manually change a TV to a radio or the other way around. And lastly, if you modify the PIDS, and rescan in attempts to get new channels, it will still see the channels as already scanned in!!!!
Here is the scenario. I scan in 103w 12145v20000 and it only pulls in 2 radio stations. I then modify the AUDIO and PCR pids, for 2 of the hidden radio services.. I then try and re-scan the TP in attempts to get those two visible radio stations and repeat the process... NO new channels found.. I cannot switch the Video to Audio or Audio to Video, so how the heck do i get the other radio stations i want into it... Ah, bright idea... I changed to a different satellite, setup the exact same settings as 103w (ie, creating multiple satellites which all yield 103). I then only have the 12145 TP on each satelliite, allowing me to scan in those 2 radio stations per Satellite. I then manually modify the audio PID for those two radio stations to get the actual service i want. I wanted 10 of the radio stations, so i needed to do that for 5 satellites, and i got my 10 radio stations, numbered 1-10, and being thats the only thing i have on the receiver, i can cycle through the ten stations just by hitting the channel up/down buttons... Talk about a MacGyver!!!
and thankfully that TP has those 2 scan-able radio stations. If it didn't I don't think it would be possible to access those hidden services without some sort of external channel editor.But, it works, and that's all i care about.. Disconnected the receiver, took it back out side to my FM transmitter and plugged it back in. I used to have an old dreambox unit, but it crapped out about 5 years ago. I miss that receiver, i could change the radio station with icons i had on my desktop, and it was a LOT easier configuring the channels. But, being i set it and forget it, this inconvenience doesn't happen often.
If someone found an channel editor for this utilizing the backup channel database you can save and load, let me know, or if you found some easier method within the user interface that i missed, please let me know.
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