The day I got my fortec working one of the posters here just HAD to rain on my parade and tell me
Mercury 2 has Firmware problems. Now the day has come and I realize they weren't kidding.
I too am having
problems with Mercury II -TP scan. I have had to reload factory defaults twice now. I think one thing that just MAY be causing some problems. Sometimes if I see a few new TP (+)..I just gotta see them..can't wait. So I hit the menu button and then save. I sometimes terminate the scan in this way before it gets thru all the frequencies and polarizations.
Here's what mine does sometimes..IT SHOWS WIERD STUFF on the yellow screen for Satellite name freq symbol rate etc and HANGS.
I
can get out of this mode..but from THAT POINT ON it won't ever scan right again. It scans normally but then FAILS as mentioned above. I think FORTEC knows they have firmware problems. I wrote them a message in the last few days describing the problems I have been having. I don't think the new unit is any different F/W wise.
The one thing I really loathe is when FORTEC tells me THAT's how it is "supposed" to work! For instance, if I do a scan of a particular satelite like STS6 after it finds new TP's it then
changes my sat selection to
ALL Sats!
Yes I know I can reselect the satellite that it should be on. But
what a pain! If I forget to change it back from default...then if I channel up the motor starts runnning and i'm off to some other satellite. Then I have to command the thing
BACK to where it
should be. Fortec says other mfrs. machines work this way. Most of Fortecs F/W problems are similar. Like it resets the scan settings to default freq limits polarization etc after you set them up a particular way. It can't seem to remember anything.
So I wonder:
What if your microwave oven reset the clock to
12:00 midnite every time you cooked food -
by design. And
Amana argues like Don at
Fortec saying "that's how
GE ovens work also" Thats similar to the statement Don McEwen of Fortec made in an e-mail to me today. He also said that I should not need to be using TP search feature much. Kinda suggests to me they
know they have a problem in that area. But, It's the ONLY way to find the wild feeds! I told him in my reply that actually I spend quite a bit of time searching while I cook supper, milk the cows
whatever. As I said, I think they know they have F/W problems. They have to by now.
Does anyone know, does Fortec write their own F/W? Or do they pay other people to write for them?
Maybe that would explain Don's response.
Sure would be nice if it not only remembered the freq limits polarization speed etc that I use when searching for TP's but
SAVED them for EACH and EVERY satellite I have stored. The unit does not save anything but again decides that "Fortec knows best" and changes all settings to default. Fortec sure love's defaults.
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