The problem:
I was designing a interface that would use your computer to scan DVB satellite signals and was going to get my cousin involved for the software since he writes software in the design of flight simulators, and multimedia software as a spare time hobby. I trashing that idea now, it is not worth the time.
The scanning solution:
This receiver does auto everything scan ! Lets face-it guys & gals anyone can target Telstar 5, and pull in a strong signal . I like to target the Atlantic sats where some transponders are weak to see how sensitive the receiver can hold on to the signal. This Coship does one fine job of scanning. For the first test I used the default settings for the "blind search" on Telstar 12. I scanned both H/V signals which it first scans horizontal then rescans the same frequencies on the vertical side. It collected all channels except BVN which I know is very tight for a receiver to pick up if you do not have the exact frequency. It seemed that the scanning frequencies jumped every 4 MHz. and the complete scan took about 7 minutes . There is a selector box to check off under 4 mhz.scan and gave it a whirl. The scan took 17 minutes and pulled in everything including BVN !
The pitfalls:
There is no TV F. connector out, so nobody will be climbing any roofs with this one with there small TV unless you have a rca to TV out F. converter. There is no pal to ntsc conversion which does not matter too much unless your favorite channel is in pal. You can only assign one satellite to each of the 16 antennas or you can keep doing a auto search on 1 antenna moving your dish while mixing all the channels together ( remember the old Satcrusier 101 days )
Only Diseqc 1.0 no dish moving with this baby !
