Deleting C-Band Satellites

[glen4cindy]

I am just in the beginning stages of getting my STB programmed with all of the active satellites that I can see. Many of them I will never look at, but, I just am having fun at all of this.

My question is this. Is there any reason for me to retain all of the C-Band satellites since I only have an 80cm dish, and will never have a BUD unless I move out into the country at which time I could always ADD them back in?

I know that I can add and delete satellites at will up to the point where my receiver's memory is full. I just don't want to go willy nilly with things, and frankly, I don't want to have to scroll past the C-Band stuff.

Would it be a better solution to just move all of the C-Band to the end of the list or is this type of a sort even possible?

Thanks!

[rainman]

I would just delete them as you said you can always add them back in if need be.

[wejones]

It might be easier AND better to delete them with the channel editor software, rather than manually. I think that on my 2 Fortec receivers, if you delete them manually, they are really still there taking up some space, while if you use the channel editor software you can get rid of them completely. Plus it's faster.

[glen4cindy]

Great. Thanks.

I just wanted to confirm that it would be a good idea to get rid of them.
And I will use the channel editor too.

[glen4cindy]

Actually, this has proven to be difficult. There does not seem to be a 'delete satellite' command on the channel editor or even on the satellite receiver.

When I choose clear data, and one satellite, the ones that have not been selected and scanned do not appear in the list as one to be deleted.

[wejones]

Actually, this has proven to be difficult. There does not seem to be a 'delete satellite' command on the channel editor or even on the satellite receiver.

When I choose clear data, and one satellite, the ones that have not been selected and scanned do not appear in the list as one to be deleted.

Are you using the channel editor program (Gtools) specific for your receiver? Ie Fortec has slightly different editors for each of their receivers. I have a different Gtools program for my Lifetime than for my Lifetime Ultra.

Also, what OS are you using on your computer? Ie the channel editor software doesn't run properly on Win 98, in case you are using that. It runs, but some of the menu items are missing.

Anyway, on my Gtools programs, there are 3 windows, at the right are channels, in the middle are transponders, and at the left are the satellites. If you right click a satellite, a pulldown menu appears with "delete" as one of the options. If you don't have this, then I suspect that you either don't have the proper program, or you have the wrong OS.

[elgemcdlf]

On my Platinum if you do not have any channels programmed on the sat it will not show up in your sat list when channel surfing. Matters not that it is the master list.

[wejones]

On my Platinum if you do not have any channels programmed on the sat it will not show up in your sat list when channel surfing. Matters not that it is the master list.

I think he's referring to having to scroll past all those satellites when you are scanning for channels, and/or when on the antenna window, not when you hit the sat button to find already stored channels. It is annoying to have to go through dozens of satellites that you aren't using. Even on my big dish setup, where I DO have C-band sats, I found it necessary to delete dozens of satellites I can't see due to trees, or footprint, because on the Ultra, weird things happen when you fill up the memory. I know these new receivers have more memory, so I haven't heard any reports of them giving this problem, but I think it's always a good idea to keep the sat list limited to only what you are receiving, except that I also keep a "GENERIC-C and GENERIC-Ku" just to scan when I'm testing on a new sat.

[elgemcdlf]

With my Fortec I have found you can not really delete a sat. I just use the page up page down button on the remote to quickly scroll the list.

[wejones]

With my Fortec I have found you can not really delete a sat.

That's why I recommended using the channel editor. When you use that, they do seem to get deleted. Just using the remote, they go into some kind of hidden state.