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- My Satellite Setup
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Triple Dragon, Dreambox 8000, Echostar AD3000ip, TBS6522,6925,6983 PCie cards.
Gibertini 1.25m motorised dish driven by the AD3000, with either Inverto BU Quad or Norsat / XMW Ka LNBs . SMW 1.05m + 3 other dishes. Speccy: Promax HD Ranger+
- My Location
- The Flatlands of East Anglia
Having added a BCM4505 tuner module to my Dreambox 8000, I did a blindscan to compare the results with the STB6100 tuner in my TBS6925 PCI card.
Satellite scanned was AM22 at 53E; the resulting TP's found included those on Yahsat 52.5E. The scan step value was set at 2MHz in each case.
As regards time taken for each scan, there wasn't a great deal of difference between the two: 36:26 minutes for the Dreambox, and 34:10 minutes for the TBS6925.
The TBS6925 did find three data transponders which the Dreambox missed as they were ACM transmissions, which the BCM4505 cannot resolve.
Unfortunately, the Dreambox blindscan utility doesn't have AFAIK at present a logfile for a permanent record of found results; I can't locate one in the Dreambox file system.
Satellite scanned was AM22 at 53E; the resulting TP's found included those on Yahsat 52.5E. The scan step value was set at 2MHz in each case.
As regards time taken for each scan, there wasn't a great deal of difference between the two: 36:26 minutes for the Dreambox, and 34:10 minutes for the TBS6925.
The TBS6925 did find three data transponders which the Dreambox missed as they were ACM transmissions, which the BCM4505 cannot resolve.
Unfortunately, the Dreambox blindscan utility doesn't have AFAIK at present a logfile for a permanent record of found results; I can't locate one in the Dreambox file system.