How many FTA receivers do you have?

[jayelem]

4 Receivers currently in use

Coolsat 5000 - Favorite and primary receiver controlling Stab HH100 w/ 30.0 - 129.0 LOS

Relook 400s - DVR on a stationary 90cm dish pointed @ 30.0 west ( Turned my Mom into a Recordaholic )

Analog Toshiba TRX-2220

4DTV 905 Digital Sidecar

Not in use.

Megasat YT 6688 ( FLU Clone ) - Great Blindscan and Motor control

Megasat comanche ( Piece of Crap IMO )

 

[SatPhreak]

Only one, a visionsat IV200. Sold my viewsat ultra to finance this new reciever and a larger dish. I also used to have a pansat 2500a but that got sold a couple years ago. My next planned purcase is a pci card for 4:2:2 and maybe some high def, but my computer might be to slow for high def.

 

[Sadoun]

As to how many boxes...lets see
active right now (active as in hooked up)
Coolsat 5000
Quali-TV
Coolsat 8000
Visionsat
Viacast 1500
2 Toshiba TRX-1420 analog boxes
Captiveworks CW600

not hooked up right now
Pansat 1500 (thats my dish aiming box)
Neusat 9000
Pansat 9200
DSR 905 4DTV(does that count??)
Satpros
Pansat 2100

so 10 DVB boxes, 1 4DTV box and 2 analog

some of those I need to get rid of. I did donate a Fortec Ultra to someone to get a FTA system up and running

I am surprised you haven't got the Mercury II receiver?

 

[Mr Tony]

I had the Classic and really liked it. Never got my hands on a Merc II yet

Had an Ultra but donated that to someone who needed it to get their FTA system back up and running...there has been a lot of receivers through the Berg household. Off the top of my head
2 Pansat 5000
Pansat 6000
KUSat 2600 (Digiwave 6800 clone)
Microyal 1000
Microyal 900
Satworks 3618 & 3688
Buzz
Viewsat (the orignal)
Coolsat 4000
Neosat i1000
Neusat 6000
Pansat 2700
Pansat 3500
Fortec Ultra
Fortec Classic
Samsung 4700

I'll probably remember a few more

 

[schlever]

I had the Classic and really liked it. Never got my hands on a Merc II yet

Had an Ultra but donated that to someone who needed it to get their FTA system back up and running...there has been a lot of receivers through the Berg household. Off the top of my head

Microyal 1000
Microyal 900


I'll probably remember a few more

Didn't Timmy have a Microyal? I wonder if he ever got it working

 

[Mr Tony]

there were a few of us with the Microyal

 

[PopcornNMore]

I have the Coolsat 4000 Pro receiver. How does the Coolsat 5000 compare? If I got rid of the 4000 and got the 5000 or 6000 would I be happy?

 

[Mr Tony]

popcorn

the 6000 & 5000 are pretty much the same box sans a epg (yeah like we need that) The original joke was the 6000 is a 5000 in a 4000 body

The 4000 & 5000 I really don't know what the difference is. If I remember right, originally the 4K didnt have AC-3 and the blind scan was goofy (it went from 10700-12950 no mnatter what you used for LNB) and the 5K fixed both of them