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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clarkebelt" data-source="post: 1085713" data-attributes="member: 148422">Thank you for the explanations.  I am learning a lot here!Just for future consideration it would be nice if there were an explicit tone switch setting for each of the four positions (maybe in the advanced settings) so you could have two C-band or (more likely) two Ku-band tuners on the same tone switch.  The reason is that tone switches are sometimes placed out by the dishes to save wire, and it's not that uncommon to have two Ku-band dishes on the same pole.  Some people even figure out ways to put multiple LNB's on a single Ku-band dish (not me, I'm not that crafty).In my case that tone switch that has the C and Ku band dishes connected to it is in a waterproof box out on a pole and I will need to get into that to change the dishes around.  It won't take me all that long, I just need to get around to it, but it may not happen until later in the week depending on weather and what else I have going on.At the moment I'm concerned that I may have a defective tuner card here.  It's having some issues tuning signals on 107 W C-band that my old standalone receiver has no problem with.  The strange thing is that there are two nearly identical transponders on that satellite that only differ in terms of the content they carry, but they have almost identical specs otherwise.  Yet the card will only scan one completely. On the other it blows right by the HD channels and only scans the SD channels.  And if you add the channels manually (which I had an interesting time figuring out how to do earlier today), it will receive them ONLY if you tune to one of the SD channels on that same transponder first.Stranger still, if you start on the "good" transponder (the one where all the channels ARE scanned) and then try to change to a HD program on the other, it will act as if it's changing channels but it never actually changes frequency.  So if you start watching "Channel 1" from the one that scans, then change to "Channel 3" on the one that doesn't, what you will actually be watching is "Channel 3" from the one that did scan (and I did check the frequency quite carefully to make sure I had not input in the wrong one).  It's as if the card sees you're going to a HD feed on that transponder and decides to just stay on the frequency it was previously on!  The only way to get around it when watching Live TV is to go to one of the SD programs on that transponder first, THEN go to the channel you really want.  But there is no reliable way to record one of those channels.So that is the major issue I want to get resolved, if possible.  But it is one of the strangest things I have seen in a long time because it completely defies logic!Anyway, thank you again for your help!</blockquote>

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