Tip: All the satellites are sorted by name and only when you enable a satellite they are put into the que of enabled satellites and then are displayed by there orbital position.

Lockups: I found no evidence of receiver lockups, while I had the receiver sitting on a weak signal on T12 for a channel I watch for a month. Other receivers lockup during a day or two of rain when they are working too hard to resolve the signal into the proper video stream. This ultra performed perfectly.

Diseqc: Performs with no problems switching between 4 antennas with 250 feet of cable and 2 splices on the run of cable.

Picture quality:
Was the clear and crisp.

PAL to NTSC:
Conversion was good but this receiver like mostly all the others except for 2 all have a problem with AMC1 Unitel package causing a 1 second interuption on the conversion. NSS 806 conversions was fine.

Power Scan:
Auto frequency scanning takes a different approach to finding satellite channels. First the receiver finds the frequencies then scans the frequencies for the channels rather than doing it in one shot of programming the channel as it finds it. There are other options for scanning to rescan the frequencies that are already done by the power scan which will save you time to find any new channels if they are available. Network Scanning does not matter much because if the NIT is not present you are not going to receive it.

Pitfalls:
1. When using a dish mover you must move to the satellite first before doing a power scan. You cannot activate a powerscan before moving to the satellite because the scanning process will start while the dish is on the move to the target satellite. This is not really a bad feature but it would be better to move first then scan. What would be grate is if you could set a scan before going to bed and waking up to find all the programmed satellites freshly scanned.

2. When adding a new satellite you must add a frequency to the new satellite in the range for the into you are using otherwise the system will reboot. Then performing a power scan will commence and perform correctly on the new satellite.

3. There are different references for selecting the Cband LNBF. Usually you would set to LNBF and if you had Cband programmed for the sat it would do its thing for that band. I still do not know what Single-SH or Single-SL mean. Single-SH is used for Cband LNBF circular polaritys due to trial & error.

4.Sleep timer can be a pain especially if it is late and you and you are used to just using the sleep timer on your TV which is usually one button that will increment in 15 seconds.

5. F1 - F3 not used.

Conclusion: If you are into satellites and you have played with other receivers it will take you a few days to get used to it. I desided to keep this one but the missteak I made was telling a coustomer I was reviewing it then they pressured me to sell it to them. I need to get another one.
I highly recomend this receiver.

Design	9
Menus	9
Signal Meter	9
Remote	8
Blind Search	10
Average	9.0