Thank you Armadillo, for doing such an awesome review so far on this receiver! I ended up buying this receiver late last week from Ebay to try it out, I should get it in the next few days; for my motorized C-Band dish project. I was trying to decide between this receiver and the new Dreamlink T6. It seemed far too easy to obtain a cloned T6, so the 9000i appears to be the better choice. I found the website for the 9000i to obtain updates, and the offices are located here in the U.S. for support! :-D I would much rather have a slow blindscan to make sure I get every channel I can instead of a blindscan that's too fast; missing channels. I would guess the company will release firmware updates soon to correct the bugs in it. Looking forward to warmer weather to work on my C-Band dish projects. Don't worry, I still promise to keep everything I do just to myself and not post it here! Hard lessons learned so it's all good! I really appreciate your excellent reveiw so far. :-D
will timer recorder work.i wound try it but my remote just broke
armadillo_115: Thanks for your comments on the 9000i. I've been looking at the 9000i (local) as a backup for the Amiko HD SE. I guess your observations would also apply to the local model. Just out of curiosity, could you time a blind scan for 97 W Ku? (Amiko mini HD SE does 97w in 2:17 finding 198 FTA channels.)
OK here it is: Removed all TP's from 97W KU and blindscanned for ALL channels..ITC,Scrambled,TV,and Radio.7 Mins,24 secs.
173 TV- 50 Radio.
Keep in mind that I am NOT fine tuned for KU yet.Plus we are getting some pretty strong wing gusts at this time.I guess both would slow down the scan,IDK.I don't believe my system gives a fair test and I really DO like this receiver.
Now to resort all those channels again.
OK here it is: Removed all TP's from 97W KU and blindscanned for ALL channels..ITC,Scrambled,TV,and Radio.7 Mins,24 secs. 173 TV- 50 Radio.
Christopher you are more than welcome here. However, the attitude that everybody hates me, is not the way to approach things.
If you think that, then you will believe that, and nothing fruitful will come of it.
Also refrain, from putting in every post how, you will get stomped--your incompetent--your always wrong--etc, this is only setting up a negative atmosphere.
Post your finding and thoughts with a positive attitude.
Post your questions...and if answered, take the answers and apply them.
Most guys here have been doing this for decades, they have made a thousand mistakes and are more than happy to share their knowledge to help out someone new to the hobby.
Enjoy the hobby! It is that, a hobby. Hobbies are supposed to be things that make us happy and cause us to spend more money, that the wives don't understand.
Hobbies are for our excitement and relaxation. If this hobby is not providing that, perhaps a new hobby is in order.
Believe me I spend 10X more on amateur radio, than I do this hobby.
I've done that before with other receivers without any problems. So it should be fine.Is it ok to hook up 2 tv's simultaneously to the receiver : one using HDMI and the other using the RCA cable plugs? I'd rather not buy a HDMI splitter.
I'll test the capability providing it isn't something that might screw up the receiver.We can't see the tv from the kitchen.