Telstar 5 and FTA Channels, am I getting them all?!?!?

[SaGe69]

Hey all,

I'm trying to setup my CoolSat 4000 Pro for what it was originally designed for, Free-To-Air. I have it pointed at Telstar 5 aka Galaxy 25 aka IntelSat Americas 5 aka 97.0W. I setup the receiver with the most common settings for FTA use and did a blindscan. Now, after the scan was completed it found about 300+ FTA channels of which many were duplicates (i'm assuming they show on multiple transponders). In any event, the channels I am most concerned about are the Romanian ones. About a year ago, I was able to get about 4 Romanian channels using FTA and now I can only get one. A friend of mine is using the same receiver and pointing to the same bird and he's able to still get all four. Am I doing something wrong or is there a special setting/key that needs to be input for me to see the other channels that are now missing?

For a little more clarification, I am receiving TVR International but according the LyngSat, the following other channels should also be on 97.0W as well and these are the ones I'm missing...

Pro TV International / RSC-3
Unknown Name / RSC -2
Unknown Name / RSC -1
If anyone could shed some light on this, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Cheers,
SaGe69

[billk28213]

you dont need to do a blind scan on telstar 5, as all the transponders are listed. LND should be at 10750 . Go to lyngsat and see what transponder your channels are on, and see if you get a signal. That bird is hard to get in, and sometimes if it ain't right, a transponder will not show signal. Let me know what name and transponder it is on, and I will motor mine there and see if I get a signal.
bill K

[heybabylover]

hey, man. May i have a question? May i post a message to you?

[SATTROY3M]

Billk28213 is right..That Galaxy_25 signal is a hard to get signal bitch. The secret is to get the max "QUALITY" remember that,"QUALITY" is what is important not signal %. And use the most stronger transponder,not all transponder have the same "QUALITY",so use the stronger one and get the max Quality u can get.I did it once for a friend and i think I used 11836_V or 12146_V. Try that and good luck. i also recomend you that before you do anything do the Factory Default on your Coolsat_4000...Long Live the Musqueteers.

[Joeblow5]

For a little more clarification, I am receiving TVR International but according the LyngSat, the following other channels should also be on 97.0W as well and these are the ones I'm missing...

Pro TV International / RSC-3
Unknown Name / RSC -2
Unknown Name / RSC -1
If anyone could shed some light on this, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Cheers,
SaGe69


The 3 channels you have listed are Encrypted, there is no way to get them unless you sub to GlobeCast. You friend must be using 'other' means to get these channels ;) The only FTA Romanian channel is TVR International.