Ran into some strange behavior today. I had done a couple blind scans with my ULTRA, and it seemed to be working OK, then I tried another blind scan on a sat where it found more than a dozen transponders, however when it started looking for channels, it came up empty, even though I know there were channels there. I went to another sat, same thing.
I was a bit confused, since I didn't think I was over the maximum number of sats, transponders, or channels, however I went in, and deleted 4 or 5 channels. Bingo, the Ultra was able to scan in channels again.
So I figured that I must be over the maximum. I checked, and I only had 1807 channels, and the maximum is supposed to be 2001. I hooked up the Gtools program, and verified that I was under the limit, both for TV (1807) , Radio (389), and for sats (58) and transponders (1086).
I thought that perhaps some memory was taken up by hidden satellites, but I only have one hidden one, and it only has a handfull of channels that I think were included in the count anyway.
Anyway, I'm confused. I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered any maximum channel number short of the advertised value? I looked through the data in Gtools, and the only unusual thing that I noticed was that all the
AC3 channels had PID #s that seemed very strange. For example, a channel with an audio PID of 505 had 33273 entered, which is greater than the 8191 maximum. However for an integer, this equates to negative 505 I think, so I'm guessing that AC3 channels are just coded as negative numbers.
I guess I had long ago decided that nothing that this Ultra did strange would ever surprise me, but I had come to beleive that it only had problems when over the memory limits, but I guess not.
One thing that occurred to me, was that it might be something like a computer that needed de-fragging or something. Ie, if I had previously deleted channels,, that maybe I could be under the limit, but the Ultra isn't able to recover deleted space. Perhaps if I sort each category, to force it to re-save all the data in order????
Any ideas?