Testing TM5302 HD official software upgrade issued 25th Jan 2013 "6 MHz steps Blind scan used for trial",
For this trial I have chosen the 3 most popular commercial satellites for Direct To Home transmissions
+ one of the most popular feed satellites,
28.5 east Eutelsat 28A
Blind Scan 11200 to 11700 misses 3 strong transponders 11260V 11426H 11640V
Blind Scan 12500 to 12750 misses 4 strong transponders 12560H 12560V 12643H 12643V
A full Blind scan of 28.2 / 28.5 east 10700 to 12750 finds only 58 of the 88 active transponders from this
satellite location
A full Blind scan of:
19.2 east Astra 10700 to 12750 finds 82 of the 98 active transponders here
16 east Eutelsat 16A finds 35 of the 50+ active transponders
13 east Hobirds finds 93 of the 98 active transponders
All my other HD receivers find all the active transponders that are listed on flysat & lyngsat,
The USB recordings made play back ok in SD & HD
The DiSEqC USALS motor control works ok now,
4K ultra-high definition test by Eutelsat on 10 east work very well on the TM5302 HD all you need is a Super HDtv
to view the full quality of the transmissions,
Good work on these last 3 features
You Tube is not working with this software version,
To conclude the Blind Scan is not working correctly this may be due to the original software or remnants of
the old software,
Current Blind Scan layout:-
1 MHz scans 300 to 45000 symbol rates
2 MHz ----- 1700 to 45000 -----------
3 MHz ----- 2500 to
4 MHz ----- 3500 to
5 MHz ----- 4800 to
6 MHz ----- 6000
8 MHz ----- 8000
10 MHz ---- 11000
13 MHz ---- 14000
16 MHz ---- 19000
20 MHz ---- 23000
24 MHz ---- 27000 to 45000
With the Originally software it was not possible to Blind Scan 10950 to 11200 + 11450 to 11700 + 12500 to 12750 without an error message
Each symbol rate had a preset part of the Ku band that had no resemblance to the active parts of the Ku band,
The current Blind Scan on the TM5302HD is much better but still unreliable & the layout is over elaborate where a simple Blind Scan layout below would suffice,
1 MHz 300 to 45000 (or preferred 300 to 3000)
3 MHz 2500 to 45000 (or preferred 2500 to 12500)
8 MHz 8000 to 45000
This would cover all Blind Scan needs,
With the current software the Phant0m has very little chance of rectifying some of these problems
as the fault would seem to be in the original Hardware that was poorly thought out by persons
with very little knowledge of the functions well established in other TM satellite receivers
such as the TM1000 Super+,TM6900HD Super+
These tests have taken me over 2 weeks I hope this provides some useful feedback & a possible rebuild of the software of this receiver