I beg to differ on the DVR FTA combo in one unit. I am not 100% certain but it does seem as though I found them out there somewhere for around $650.00 each. I am not familiar with your particular receiver but do know the Fortec series of receivers are pretty simple to use / understand. They will take a bit to set up time wise but once set up to what you want seem pretty stable.
Something to remember concerning FTA receivers. They are from what I see designed for a very wide market which tends to lean towards many features you can / must setup yourself or have someone do it for you. As an example: Setting favorites to channel 1 as English channels and the second of 4 to
Spanish language channels. Now you also have the ability to rename the channels (does come in handy) you can also reorder them for let's say putting your favorite of the favorites near the top of the list. Or if you have a motorized unit grouping your favs by sat so you are not moving the dish everytime you change a fav up one channel.
So once you get such a task accomplished which is after getting all the sats programmed you start on fav2 and the whole process starts again. Let's talk about programming sats. Assuming you have a steerable dish and a USALS compatable motor once you enter you location info the receiver finds the sats for you. Just save and now it is there. You must go through one by one. Why? Built for a large market thus many sats you will not use are also available in your sat list. You only need save the sats you will be using.
Do your channels search and walla we have TV! Get familiar with Lyngsat.com as it is probably your guide to what each sat offers in the way of channels. There are a few in depth settings to do for specific things you might want but aqll in all pretty simple to accomplish.
I would talk with PanSat people here before I jumped ship on the receivers you have. What are you trying to accomplish and what equipment are you using?
Have a great day
Steve
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