what is blind search?

[jeffreywho]

I'm confused on exactly what's blind scan. My BEC 1000 scans the entire satellite all frequencies and symbol rates. Or even all satellites. What am I missing is anything? Thought this BEC 1000 wasn't suppose to do a scan.

 

[Stefan]

I think the difference is that a true "blind search" receiever will scan for frequency and symbol rate to begin with and then scan those frequencies and symbol rates for channels as opposed to a non blind search reciever which simply scan for channels either form a preprogrammed list of frequencies and symbol rates or from frequencies and symbol rates you program into it. So, in other words a true blind search reciever will find (or try to find) the frequency of the transponders to begin with and will attempt to find the symbol rate and then go on from there to find channels contained in those streams whereas a non-blind search reciever may need to already know what frequencies and symbol rates to scan for channels. Anyway, that's my understanding of it.

 

[Mr Tony]

I'm confused on exactly what's blind scan. My BEC 1000 scans the entire satellite all frequencies and symbol rates. Or even all satellites. What am I missing is anything? Thought this BEC 1000 wasn't suppose to do a scan.

a blind scan will find the frequencies not published. This is mainly used for news feeds and sports backhauls....but this is also how we find new channels

most receivers have a satellite scan. This only scans what is in the unit and doesn't find any new feeds