Advice Needed Technomate TM-5402 M3 HD F1 button fof feeds ?

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Good afternoon gentlemen.

I found this on feedback for the M3, IS IT CORRECT AS DIFFICULT TO SEE HOW IT COULD WORK ?

A special feature which I have not seen on other receivers is the F1 button on the remote control, which if you press before you begin a scan will enable your receiver to scan for broadcast feed channels.

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It was an attempt by Technomate to overcome the transponder data base problem but it did not work,

I complained to Technomate that when you Blind Scan or do a normal scan the TM5402HD M3 adds non existent transponders,
For example Eutelsat @ 16 east operates in this part of the Ku band 10700 to 11700 & 12500 to 12750,
But the M3 adds transponders from 11700 to 12500 about 15 + another 10 to 15 that do not exist :eek:

Also on 42 east Turksat the M3 adds all the east transponders that cannot be received with a 100cm dish in the UK :eek:

What happens next when the data base is completely full the Blind Scan stops working,

I complained to Technomate & never got a sensible answer as they do not have anyone who can solve this problem that they deigned existed due to the software compilers Korean & Chinese moved onto other projects so these software errors never got corrected :eek:

I then dropped my support for Terchnomate testing ect as it was pointless to continue with the continual lies about F1 button that does not work,

If you check your data base with this FlySat Sat List so if your Blind scan stops working you can spend a couple of hours removing dead transponders but do no be surprised when some of them pop back up again.:eek:
 

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Thank you William-1

Also on 42 east Turksat the M3 adds all the east transponders that cannot be received with a 100cm dish in the UK:

So if it is adding transponders that it is not receiving, is it getting them from its data base ?

I also have an Amiko viper 4k, on blind scan that appears to first search the satellite for transponders, then scan those transponders for stations in two separate operations.

Which is how I thought they would all work ?

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So if it is adding transponders that it is not receiving, is it getting them from its database ?
Correct,

Technomate tried to be clever by adding a database that cannot be seen by the owner of the receiver so eventually as transponders changed in the Real World the Database became obsolete as no one at Tecnomate provided support to update the unseen database disaster was inevitable :eek:
 

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I have moved this thread Spiff as you posted it in the Linux section & the M3 is a non Linux.
 

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You dont even need to be scanning for feeds for the dead tp's to appear on an M3 - just scanning the existing frequencies as normal searching for new tv channels is enough to trigger a shed full of none existant tp's to turn up on some birds.
 

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So if it is adding transponders that it is not receiving, is it getting them from its database ?
Correct,

Technomate tried to be clever by adding a database that cannot be seen by the owner of the receiver so eventually as transponders changed in the Real World the Database became obsolete as no one at Tecnomate provided support to update the unseen database disaster was inevitable :eek:


If you create a CNDF/NDF file with satellite names and positions but not populated with any transponders or channels then load this as both the user database and the default database, does this still throw out spurious frequencies in a scan?
 

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If you create a CNDF/NDF file with satellite names and positions but not populated with any transponders or channels then load this as both the user database and the default database, does this still throw out spurious frequencies in a scan?
Yes
 

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I just went into Satellite set up on 4.8 east, which I receive very well.

Flipping through the 47 transponders, only 20 were showing a signal / quality bar at the top.

I had recently blind scanned it.

So the no signal transponders are just taking up memory and should be deleated ?

Spiff
 

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I just went into Satellite set up on 4.8 east, which I receive very well.

Flipping through the 47 transponders, only 20 were showing a signal / quality bar at the top.

I had recently blind scanned it.

So the no signal transponders are just taking up memory and should be deleated ?

Spiff
Yes where ever possible because you only have a limited number of usable transponders I think it is 9999 ? I will check later & confirm this,

The thing that annoyed me with Technomate was that they had a good product that could have been much better but were not prepared to pay the software writers to re-edit the software errors out.
 

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does the 5302 and 5502 suffer the same issue?

also, can you change SNR to DB at all>
 

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Sorry I do not know the answer, hopefully the others may : )

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Thank you again sir
 
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