Not sure how you do more than one quote, so I will copy and paste.
wejones: This is harder to explain, and doesn't sound right. I'm curious though again, re whether the frequencies show up while scanning, but then doesn't find any channels, or if it doesn't even find the frequencies? And will it scan these things in if you do a transponder scan?
It don't find the frequencies and it don't find channels.
wejones: Also that channel you mention has a relatively low SR, ie a narrow signal, so unless you scanned at 4 mhz steps, the
Mercury might skip over it, and you can't tell now what you scanned at, because I think the Mercury reverts to a default of 6 or something after the scan.
I will have to play with the settings (I'm at work now, so not sure if they got change when I went from Normal to detail back to normal)
wejones: I'd compare it to a transponder scan
I always use just the blind scan. Now I did try some of the other scanning options since blind scan brings nothing up. Not sure if it is transponder scan... it seem as if it skip the scan and just search for the channels that already had the freqs for, which it did refind the channels. (The yellow screen filled up with channels, no new channels so the channel count number stays at 0).
I may not be expressing this right because it sounds like no one understands what I am saying...
Let's say you got five sats that you just blind scan and you got freqs that shows up and you have channels show up for all five sats. Now lets say you did a channel backup. Now delete all the channels from all five sats. Now go do a blind scan on the same five. Now on all five sats blind scan shows NO freqs and no channels. Ok now the only way to get your channels back is do a channel recovery.
This happens on ALL the birds that is active! (I have not tried to enter manualy). It just like blind scan stop working for all sats.
Thanks everybody, hopefully I can get the MercuryII back in operation soon. Maybe when I told it to do detail scan for the first time that it set something, and when I told it to do normal again it did not change back?
One thing I can remember is before it -stop working or got misconfigure- is I done a blind scan with the
c-band and got around 6 freqs on satmex 6 and not sure how many channels. I saved that information. I then tried a detail scan and only came out with 2 freqs (3764/V/2938 and 3768/V/2980). and yellow screen with no channels asking to save. Said no. After that point is when I change out the c-band lnb, then no luck bypassed the switch.
Thanks