S-2 board for Sonicview?

[Lone Cloud]

I know there are people who claim that the Sonicview HD does S-2, but that is not my experience.

I am using it for c-band and I see what looks like unscrambled stations named "***S-2" I bought a module for it, but I still don't get these stations, leading me to believe I didn't get what I thought I was getting. It might be a hack board.

That alone wouldn't bother me if it allowed me to get s-2. It doesn't.

Do they make an s-2 board for Sonicview? If so, can anyone point me at an online resource for such a thing?

I appreciate it.

 

[truckracer]

I don't know about the sonic view but I have a pansat 9200HD and I bought a so called "s-2" board for it and it was a hack board that hackers use to steal dish net signals.

I made the guy take the tuner board back and told him to send me a legitimate s-2 board.
He ended up sending me a different looking board that was the same thing.

Now I have a useless piece of junk that I cannot use for legitimate FTA reception.

The dish s-2 signals are different from normal fta s-2 signals and the boards are not compatible.

I will get a real s-2 board one day.
Be careful who you buy from. I would recommend buying from a sponsor on this site since they don't deal with hack hardware. I wish I would have spent a little more money on a good board. Lesson learned here.

 

[Lone Cloud]

It's what I think I got also. Actually, when I bought it, I thought it might be "hack hardware" but since I'm not interested in that at all (WHY SHOULD I BE? wITH ALL THESE COOL STATIONS!) but I thought it might work on s-2 or MPEG 4 and get me some more stations anyway.

But it doesn't. I'm sure the market for an s-2 board for this receiver is tiny. I keep hearing about Pansats and Diamonds and Qualis and Coolsats, but no one but me has a Sonicview dedicated to c-band. It is actually a pretty good performer. but that evaluation is based solely upon a comparison with a Viewsat HD, which isn't too good for C-band.

So, while I'd like a real S-2 board, I doubt the market forces in this hobby would justify the expense of design, engineering, manufacture and distribution.

I'm not holding my breath. At least I'm not angry about my board purchase, though, since when I bought it, I figured it might be a hack board that I could make work for legal stuff.