Blind Scanning

[Electro960]

Hello Forum Friends!

Just wondering how people are blind scanning out there. I have an AZBox Elite but use a Fortec Star Platinum for blind scanning. Normally when I blind scan I use either 4 or 6 increments but its taking tooooo long to get through the process. A typical scan takes up to 10 minutes under these parameters. Is this the typical time span to scan a band on a satellite? If I increase the increments how bad will it affect any finds? Any feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[turbosat]

The scanning depends on a lot of things, like your receiver's innards and its firmware, how many transponders are on a satellite, with how many channels, etc. I've used a sampling of several makes/models of blind-scanning receivers and gotten a wide range of results. Slower scans sometimes mean more accurate, but not always. I scan so much during the basketball and hockey seasons I wanted a fast, accurate box, and finally settled on the Icon.. there may still be some dealers with unsold stock. The Satopia is the same internally, I think they are identical except for case color. With the Icon I can get through the average ku band or c-band satellite scanning in 3-4 minutes and it doesn't miss much. There's lots of opinions here on which receiver scans best, or which is fastest. It's like car choices, mostly, its what fits YOU.
The newer receivers that are HD and also some scan for the DVB-S2 signals, I can't tell you about. Read the review section for some of those, like the Azbox, Sathawk, Pansat9200, etc.

 

[crackt]

i scan with a dvbworld pc tuner. scans s and s2 in an average of 2.5 minutes. its pretty darn accurate too.

crackt out,.

 

[Mr Tony]

I use the Coolsat 5000 to scan and then load that info into the elite...works pretty slick

Coolsat has a fast blind scan. Probably one of the best I've seen