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Originally Posted by Vitruvius
Bill, wow.. .you are the curmudgeon. LOL
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But now, do I understand that I can add transponders to the Mercury and possibly get more stations? If I find that I am not getting all the DVB stations for a satellite on Lyngsat, I can add the transponder? I thought that is what powerscan was doing. I did update the software for the Mercury and was able to get the PBS stations I was hunting. Is that because the reciever is not always up to date?
Anyway, for this newbie the Mercury II works just fine, but probably could be better, but I don't know how. I just neet to find more channels.
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Yeah, the curmudgeon thing was what they called me where I used to work. But I guess working with nerve gas tends to make you grumpy.
Updating the software shouldn't have affected getting PBS, but you never know. The blind search functions don't always work the same every time.
Re the Mercury working fine, I guess I should have been more clear that it should be fine for people with a simple system with just 1 dish with that one receiver. My complaint is that they have assumed that all users are using the receiver one way, and didn't allow for the possibility that other people might use the receiver differently. I basically have 5 different FTA receivers running here on several dishes, and I switch which dish goes to what receiver all the time. I can switch my 90 CM dish to any of my other FTA receivers, and each receiver can control the dish, because I have each set up so that the sats I use have the same DiseqC 1.2 sat numbers. The DiseqC motors don't know satellites by name, but they store positions by numbers which vary from 1 thru 60. The first 25 or so are pre-defined for
European sats, but you can redefine these to whatever you want. But for example, I have AMC3 defined as sat position 29 and Galaxy 11 is sat position 31, so on any of my other receivers, I just define those sats to those numbers, and it can send the dish there. But the way they have the Mercury set up, you can't define a satellite to any specific DiseqC sat number. You apparently have to take whatever number it randomly uses, and can't even determine what that number was from what I can tell, although I guess I could hook the motor up to another receiver and one by one tell it to go to 1 thru 60, then try to figure out what number it really was on.
Anyway, sorry for being grumpy, and I do realize that what I'm criticizing here won't affect many or maybe even most users, but I still find it very annoying that they have taken capability away from the user in order to make the receiver more user friendly.