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Originally Posted by superd46
I have the Fortec Lifetime Ultra. When ever I do a blind scan sometimes I pick up a transponder with a symbol rate of 7.957Msps. When it finishes looking for transponders and try to do a channel scan it gets to the 7.957 and gets stuck. I've had it going for over an hour and it never gets past it. It doesn't matter what Down Frequency is I've had 12061, 11791 and some others and always gets stuck. My friend has the Ultra too and his does that same thing. Any ideas one why or how to fix it.
Right now I just have to exit out and then do a TP scan and pick up after the bad one.
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You don't say whether you are slaving your Fortec to a big dish or if it is direct connection to an lnbf. The reason I ask, is that I've run across a couple of transponders that will lock up the Ultra too, I think they were on the KU side of either IA6 (T6) or IA8. I think that they are transponders that don't have a PAT or PMT or something like that, perhaps IP data, and the Fortec just sits there waiting for the channel info to come through and it never does. Since I'm using a slaved system, what I do when this happens, is just flip the polarity on my analog receiver which I'm slaved off. What this does is kill the signal the Fortec is locked on, so it gives up and goes on to the next transponder. As soon as I see it switch, I flip the polarity back to the proper polarity, and it continues on and finds all the remaining signals. I think the signal that was doing it to me turned out to be an IP/DVB data feed, but it wasn't on all the time, so it didn't always do it. But I remember being very annoyed once when trying to find a preseason NFL game last August, before I figured out how to get past that freq.
If you are NOT slaved, then you wouldn't be able to use that trick though, so I'm not sure what you could do other than what you are doing.