Which sats have the most duplicates ?

[gAsH]

Hey folks,


I've been trying to research between sats 110, 119 and 129 which have the most duplicates as the next. It used to be that 110/119 complimented each other nicely for SD channels and the odd HD but 129 was required to get a bulk of the HD programming.

Now after a fresh reset and rescan it seems sats 129 and 119 have a majority of the exact same channels giving me 2 of all the same channels which i find is a waste of a good feed to my switch. I'd like to knock off one of these south sats in favour for the north hd at 82.

If i throw out 129 in favour of 82 I am unsure how many channels and which ones i am giving up. I am curious if other testers here are still running all those 3 south sats and if it remains worth it (with the duplicates) rather than freeing up that port for another sat feed as i am limited to 4 sats with my current hardware setup.

[hutch]

110,119 & 129 are US sats ...

82 & 91 are Canadian sats which run Different programing.

82 & 129 are primarily HD...

Conversely 110, 119 & 91 are primarily SD.

[gAsH]

110,119 & 129 are US sats ...

82 & 91 are Canadian sats which run Different programing.

82 & 129 are primarily HD...

Conversely 110, 119 & 91 are primarily SD.

Yes, I know which are south / north. My question applies to only the 3 south Sats. I am not seeing much HD on 129 exclusively. seems 129 has quite a few of the SD channels moved to it now, making it much closer to the same channels as 119. I have a ton of duplicates but one is on sat 119 and the other is on 129 (same SID #) making me wonder how many channels one loses if they switch from 129 seeing as a large percentage are duplicated on 119 now.

Looks like i may just have to spend some quality time on lyngsat and make a comparison list manually :thumbsup:


EDIT: may have a switch issue, as some of the TP's are locking in at 129 while others like 12239 are locking it at 119 all on the same sat in the settings. Explains the duplicates.

[hutch]

LOL... when you said duplicates I thought you meant same channel in both SD & HD... try scanning each sat manually rather than blind scanning which takes longer & often brings in duplicates

[gAsH]

I always do blindscan with network search these days.

It turns out the culprit was as old chieta switch, but rather than just dying the switch started to mix the feeds. On the sat settings page the first couple of transponders locked in at 129 then the 3rd, 4th and 5th locked in on 119. It was random between tp's although all on the same switch port. Very odd, but a new ariza switch did the trick and everything locks in properly and scans properly.


I got a few good years out of it, but beware they can be a pain :thumbsup: 25664