Best receivers for Fringe Reception

[Lazarus]

Ah, yes, I see!

I was speaking from a fat, dumb and happy UK Resident's perspective

 

[tony smith]

Hi
It is very difficult to get a Freesat receiver with any type of low thresshold tuner, due to its
main area of where the unit is designed to work, its for a DTH high power satellites operation, with out having to put any attenuators in to prevent signal front end overloads.

There are a few exceptions like the Humax The best low thresshold "Freesat" box was infact a sky digital box, the 2nd generation of Panasonic, first silver case unit Panasonic made, this was after their first offering which was the all black unit with " Noisy" background audio out of the scart sockets.

These Panasonic Sky "Boxs" where very sort after by ex pats in Spain, to receive Sky etc in Spain.
The rumor was that Sky had to step in to get the receiver changed to a standard tuner.
But these receivers are many years old so difficult to find any working units out in the field.

Your better option is, to go for a Multi satellite reciver, as many previous posters have called up.
Take your point about "Guests" fiddling with the receivers, take the option of password protecting as many functions as possible with a new changed password.

The best lowest threshold tuner I have come across is the Technomate 6900,most other Technomate receievrs are not as good the 6900 has a good -5 dBm better lower operation
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[Costactc]

Technomate 6900 ebay worldwide search comes up empty, just a few remotes.

 

[tony smith]

Hi
I have installed the 6902, but have not had time to spec it's tuner sensitivity, I have been informed, that the tuners are similar, so maybe the 6902 is as good, which is the current model.
most of the other Technomates I have tried for weak signal operation and they are not as good.

 

[timo_w2s]

Just don't get the original mark 1 TM6900, I have two and both are pretty deaf compared to the DrHD F15, Pace 2600C1, Sky DRX 595 and DRX890.

 

[tony smith]

Hi timo_w2s
What does "deaf" mean? is that a word for low sensitivity?
The only receiver from your list thats high thresshold, is the old Pace 2600ci, came out about same period as the Panasonic TUD sb31, I put forward which we measured had the edge on the Pace, the Dr HD F15 is a receiver with some add on goodies, e.g spectrum analyser, upscaler etc, and the other two are standard HD low current Sky receivers.

 

[Serafeim]

Hi
I have installed the 6902, but have not had time to spec it's tuner sensitivity, I have been informed, that the tuners are similar, so maybe the 6902 is as good, which is the current model.
most of the other Technomates I have tried for weak signal operation and they are not as good.

6902 has the same tuner as model 6900 super and is very sensitive. I think that technomate models 6902 and 7102 are the best non linux receivers in the market.

 

[timo_w2s]

Hi timo_w2s
What does "deaf" mean? is that a word for low sensitivity?

Yes, the original 6900 is just not great with weak signals. I believe the 6900 Super is much better as others have said, but not done any side by side tests myself.

All the other receivers I mentioned I have tested with very similar results on my setup.

 

[feedme]

Any one has experiences about the new Technomate nano 2 super ?

 

[Costactc]

After a day of scanning with my new receiver, I'd have to say that the Technomate 5402 m3 is up there with the best.

 

[wolzy67]

has anyone had any problems with the tuner thresholds on the ferguson 103e from dss.

 

[RayArdia]

I have already had some comments re replacing my Humax Foxsat HD so this may be repeating but I want to keep all the info in this thread. I do like the Humax and it has worked really well here but instead of getting another one I would like to try another make. I already have a little Manhatten which is OK but rather insensative - I don't want to go down the Linux path and don't want Sky either so a Freesat box makes most sense to me. What else is there which is good here on the Fringes?

I noticed your comment " I don't want to go down the Linux path " and wondered, as a newcomer to this forum, what that referred to as I use Ubuntu (a Linux distro) as my OS and have done for over 12 years.
I'm in NW Spain on the Atlantic coast: Iuse a Humax Foxsat 500GB box, a 1.8m offset dish and a 8-way LNB labelled Sky but made I think by ??? (will have to look!)

 

[Lazarus]

Welcome to the Forum!

Ubuntu (and many other Distributions used for Computing) are just bells and whistles placed around a Linux Kernel.

So, looking at it the other way around, that same Linux Kernel can be enhanced and customised for specialist uses such as providing the framework for a Satellite Receiver to use.

This provides flexibility and scope for the addition of a vast array of add-ons.

 

[RayArdia]

Welcome to the Forum!

Ubuntu (and many other Distributions used for Computing) are just bells and whistles placed around a Linux Kernel.

So, looking at it the other way around, that same Linux Kernel can be enhanced and customised for specialist uses such as providing the framework for a Satellite Receiver to use.

This provides flexibility and scope for the addition of a vast array of add-ons.

I think that's made it clearer, ie to make the kernel a functional part of a receiver setup, rather in the way that same kernel can be used as the 'hub' of, say a CNC machining operation. That said, it's clearly not something I would want to start tinkering with at age 77 - even if I could understand the concept!

 

[Analoguesat]

After a day of scanning with my new receiver, I'd have to say that the Technomate 5402 m3 is up there with the best.

Much worse than the Vu+Duo tuner here. In fact the tuner in my 5402M3 is nothing special.

 

[Lazarus]

I think that's made it clearer, ie to make the kernel a functional part of a receiver setup, rather in the way that same kernel can be used as the 'hub' of, say a CNC machining operation. That said, it's clearly not something I would want to start tinkering with at age 77 - even if I could understand the concept!

Yes, but if you don't want to tinker, you don't need to: There are lots of ready-made "Images" out there and lots of folk as clever as a sack of ferrets to keep developing them - and providing "plug-ins".

 

[Lazarus]

I think that's made it clearer, ie to make the kernel a functional part of a receiver setup, rather in the way that same kernel can be used as the 'hub' of, say a CNC machining operation. That said, it's clearly not something I would want to start tinkering with at age 77 - even if I could understand the concept!

Yes, but if you don't want to tinker, you don't need to: There are lots of ready-made "Images" out there and lots of folk as clever as a sack of ferrets to keep developing them - and providing "plug-ins".

 

[skomedal]

Depends on how the term " fringe reception " is related to geographic location and which satellites and beams on that sat. you are trying to get signals from at that location.

eg.

Astra 2E psb on the uk beam channels are available from my location even in rain during the daytime only, whereas the sky encrypted channel on the europe beam are available 24/7 with same setup.

Regards

 

[Costactc]

Much worse than the Vu+Duo tuner here. In fact the tuner in my 5402M3 is nothing special.

I find the 5402 m3 up there with my f15 but my 5302 tuner is the most sensitive of the present receivers I use but its blind scan is super slow.

 

[bim]

Depends on how the term " fringe reception " is related to geographic location and which satellites and beams on that sat. you are trying to get signals from at that location.

eg.

Astra 2E psb on the uk beam channels are available from my location even in rain during the daytime only, whereas the sky encrypted channel on the europe beam are available 24/7 with same setup.

Regards

We are definately fringe cause we can't pick any uk channels up( bbc etc)