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When is a Technomate TM5400 Blind Search Rx, not a Blind Search Rx...!!!???
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<blockquote data-quote="JohnC" data-source="post: 521606" data-attributes="member: 177912"><p>When is a Technomate TM5400 Blind Search Rx, not a Blind Search Rx...!!!???</p><p></p><p>Can someone shed light on my dilemma with my Brand New Technomate TM5400 ??</p><p></p><p>I bought this receiver for its Blind Search ability and help me find channels for my existing TM5500 dap ci.</p><p>However there are some transponders it simply will not detect when doing a Blind Search and I have to input the transponder information manually.</p><p></p><p>For example when aimed at Express AM22 at 53 east, and doing a blind search on my TM5400 it does not pick up transponder freq. 11044 symbol rate 44951.... </p><p></p><p>When I manually put these settings into Advanced Search Mode I get a steady signal (no variations at all) ..... Strength of 85 with a Quality of 56. </p><p></p><p>On doing a a scan on this transponder (with the red button in Advanced Search mode) the receiver does not find any channels and the Quality setting suddenly drops to 20 (while Sig Strength remains at 85).</p><p></p><p>If I keep persevering, I do eventually get all the channels on this transponder and it saves them!!</p><p></p><p>However, once I achieve that and when I now change channels, the channel I've changed to shows a blank screen saying "Bad or no signal"..... and now shows a quality reading of just 20 (like before)..</p><p></p><p>If I wait half a minute, or several minutes sometimes, picture & sound will suddenly appear with a Sig Strength reading of 85/56 again.</p><p></p><p>The picture/sound stays on all the time until I once again change channels, when it reverts back to a quality of only 20.... I wait a few minutes & picture/sound come on again with a quality reading of 56. </p><p></p><p>If I remove the transponder and do a blind search,,,,, Again it does not find the transponder and I have to go through the whole process all over again "Manually."</p><p></p><p>I know my dish isn't spot on for this satellite, but my TM5500 picks up channels with a good steady signal off this transponder,,,, (off the same dish no problem what so ever.)</p><p></p><p>I've also had this problem on other Satellites.</p><p>The feeling I get is the receiver is running very slow or is unstable at these settings (Software/Hardware ?) or there's a problem with the tuner/polarization.</p><p>""Its as if running the software kills the signal for certain transponders..!!""</p><p></p><p>I phoned Technomate and explained this but they say "Send us an e-mail and we will show it to our engineers!!!"</p><p></p><p>I've done this but they don't seem to want to respond to any e-mails.... my TM5400 has the very latest software update so it isn't that!</p><p></p><p>I actually bought my TM5400 to compliment my TM5500 and add transponders to it, but its actually working the other way round my 5500 is helping my 5400 to find transponders.</p><p></p><p>Any thoughts anyone please??</p><p>Best Regards</p><p>JC</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnC, post: 521606, member: 177912"] When is a Technomate TM5400 Blind Search Rx, not a Blind Search Rx...!!!??? Can someone shed light on my dilemma with my Brand New Technomate TM5400 ?? I bought this receiver for its Blind Search ability and help me find channels for my existing TM5500 dap ci. However there are some transponders it simply will not detect when doing a Blind Search and I have to input the transponder information manually. For example when aimed at Express AM22 at 53 east, and doing a blind search on my TM5400 it does not pick up transponder freq. 11044 symbol rate 44951.... When I manually put these settings into Advanced Search Mode I get a steady signal (no variations at all) ..... Strength of 85 with a Quality of 56. On doing a a scan on this transponder (with the red button in Advanced Search mode) the receiver does not find any channels and the Quality setting suddenly drops to 20 (while Sig Strength remains at 85). If I keep persevering, I do eventually get all the channels on this transponder and it saves them!! However, once I achieve that and when I now change channels, the channel I've changed to shows a blank screen saying "Bad or no signal"..... and now shows a quality reading of just 20 (like before).. If I wait half a minute, or several minutes sometimes, picture & sound will suddenly appear with a Sig Strength reading of 85/56 again. The picture/sound stays on all the time until I once again change channels, when it reverts back to a quality of only 20.... I wait a few minutes & picture/sound come on again with a quality reading of 56. If I remove the transponder and do a blind search,,,,, Again it does not find the transponder and I have to go through the whole process all over again "Manually." I know my dish isn't spot on for this satellite, but my TM5500 picks up channels with a good steady signal off this transponder,,,, (off the same dish no problem what so ever.) I've also had this problem on other Satellites. The feeling I get is the receiver is running very slow or is unstable at these settings (Software/Hardware ?) or there's a problem with the tuner/polarization. ""Its as if running the software kills the signal for certain transponders..!!"" I phoned Technomate and explained this but they say "Send us an e-mail and we will show it to our engineers!!!" I've done this but they don't seem to want to respond to any e-mails.... my TM5400 has the very latest software update so it isn't that! I actually bought my TM5400 to compliment my TM5500 and add transponders to it, but its actually working the other way round my 5500 is helping my 5400 to find transponders. Any thoughts anyone please?? Best Regards JC [/QUOTE]
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