If your receiver is missing channels now do this and you should get them back
With new Bin's being released so often so many of you are losing channels during the updating process.. To save alot of time I thought I would post a few suggestions of what you should do before or during the updating process every time you upload a new bin in your receiver.
I do this each time and never have any data loss I just do it this way, in this order, and watch tv seconds after putting the new bin in my receiver not after fighting my receiver for hours or day's.
#1 BEFORE you disconnect your receiver from the TV make a note of ALL antenna settings for every Satellite you can receive. You could do this ANYTIME so its done. I have it all in nice text DOC in my computer.
#2 Download the new bin from the "home" forum for your receiver. Never pay for free info. Unzip the file and place it inside a folder on your computer named "new bin 12-03-09 or whatever the date is.
#3 Go to Viewsatusa.com or wherever on the nett you can get one and get a FRESH UPDATED copy of the satfile. Place this file inside that folder you made today.
#5 Use the Loader Program or USB drive to copy the channnel list FROM your receiver to the computer. Place that file indise the folder you made today.
#6 Use the loader Program or USB drive to install the new bin, satfile, and Channel List from the folder you made today.
#8 Connect your receiver back to TV, LNB and whatever else you normaly do.
#9 Using you notes make sure all settings are the same as before in each satallite you can receive in antenna settings.
#10 Turn it to a sat and if need be let it autoroll. Sometimes this step takes 3 min sometimes 10. If you interrupt it by changing channels it will take longer so just let it roll.
#11 Watch tv. Be thankfull it works.
#12 After using the receiver for a while go to the "home" forum for you receiver and report any Bug's or thank the coders for their hard work.
Yes their are a few extra steps here than what some people will say do they do but when these steps are done they save ALOT of time and energy fixing trouble after a data loss. I have 17 sat's scanned with 2700 channels it would take me about 5 hours to get everything back the way I like it. I am sure others will jump here and say stuff like "I never do all that and I never have troube" That is fine I am just saying if you do this you will not have trouble due to data loss or settings being wrong. It takes me about 5 min to do this each time so its not a big deal.
That's how I do it and have never had to rescen to watch TV but there's one thing I don't understand:
"#3 Go to Viewsatusa.com or wherever on the nett you can get one and get a FRESH UPDATED copy of the satfile. Place this file inside that folder you made today".
The satfile is a file that has all the sat's listed with the active transponders. You can eather get one from the nett or check all your sat's listed in your receiver for the correct transponders. You go to site like lgnsat and look at every satellite you can receive and make sure you have all the transponders listed and add the ones missing a long time consuming process. The length of time it would take to check all the sat's is why I suggest you just get a new list or if your receiver can do a BLIND scan..
You have a FTA satellite receiver. The way it works is simple.
You connect the receiver to an antenna mounted to a pole or your house. The antenna is "pointed" at a satellite located in space.
The receiver receives channels from this satellite that are broadcast on "transponders". In order for your receiver to do this it has to know all the frequency's and settings for each transponder for each satellite you can receive. Inside the software of the receiver it uses a file commonly called the "satfile" to know the frequency and settings for each transponder on each satellite you can receive.
You can eather get a file someone else made for you on the internet with all the correct transponders listed
or
spend a few hours looking at you receiver's list and comparing it to a list found on a site like lygnsat for each satellite you can receive.
I am only in this "hobby" to watch tv so I always just get a satfile and upload it so I can be done with scanning the sat in a few minutes and watch tv.
tamara they are separate files which you load thru your usb to your receiver.from your receiver you have the option to load the bin, satfile(channel backup). this method is easier than doing it manually.or u can do a blind scan if your receiver has this option.if u still don't understand just go to the home site of your receiver and read up on this topic.i always say before you get into a hobby learn about or you'll be shhitt out of luck and stuck like chuck.readreadreadreadreadread and then read some more.
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