Initial settings

A conveyor belt indicating the progress of the search appears in the lower part of the screen. Below it are displayed the number of new transponders found, number of services found and number of new bouquets found.

The services found comprise all TV programmes, all radio programmes and all data services.

After completing the search run a message appears: “Search run has finished!“,

which you should confirm with the key.

Transponder search run

A search is carried out for new TV and radio programmes, even if the transponder information (satellite frequency, polarisation etc.) is not available. After selecting this submenu entry, the settings can be entered for the search run:

 

The meaning of the entries is as follows:

Symbol rate

The symbol rate specifies the amount of data that is transmitted per second. It is

 

measured in MSymbols/s and is equal to the number of symbols that arrive per

 

second.

 

Symbol rate 27500

YES

A search is carried out for transponders with a symbol rate

 

 

of 27,500 MS/s. The default setting is “YES“.

 

NO

No search is carried out for transponders with a symbol rate

 

 

of 27,500 MS/s.

Symbol rate 22000

YES

A search is carried out for transponders with a symbol rate

 

 

of 22,000 MS/s.

 

NO

No search is carried out for transponders with a symbol rate

 

 

of 22,000 MS/s. The default setting is “NO“.

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Kathrein UFD 510 manual Transponder search run

UFD 510 specifications

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