Panasonic satellite reciever manual

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Also the advert below now confirms This is another receiver that had a good following at the time. Again just a couple of years before I started but they were in customers homes when repairs or upgrades were being dealt with. We also have a "Skyscan" advert from from the spring issue of "Satellite TV News" but it is not clear whether this is the same company. It should be noted that in there were a few satellites above the USA transmitting TV programs which could be received on 3m 10' dishes.

Skyscan Satellite Systems and Skyscan Corporation may or may not have been the same company. The Satcom satellite receiver This receiver has been in the collection for very many years and yet we have no information about this item.

It would have dated from around to The Satcom has some sentimental value as I think it was the 1st "knobs on" receiver ever to be part of our collection. UK Clearly this receiver must have been sourced and badged. That is quite a common practice these days by large satellite distribution companies but for a general retailer store to do that in is interesting.

The receiver has some original warning stickers underneath that are in French and these would indicate that was the country of origin. It was used on the Astra satellite at 19E. In this satellite required a 90cm dish as it was not as powerful as it is now. The controls are interesting. Signal strength meters were quite common. A manual polarity switch! If anyone knows any more about a receiver with model number L and probably manufactured in France please let us know.

The Receipt is dated the 3rd March Sold at the beginning of March 89, this model may have been available from The story does not finish here, read about the ZetaL below and the Feb update. The ZetaL satellite receiver. A little more light now shines on the Bennett L receiver mystery above.

This ZetaL receiver is exactly the same. It would appear that the Bennetts receiver is a clone of the Zeta receiver. It is also possible that they are both clones but the Zeta receiver also came from a local supplier in North East England. It originated from a well known distributor called "Network Communications" from Hartlepool.

Our company used to purchase goods from Network Communications. This satellite distributor disappeared in the mid s but a local installer here in the north east purchased it from them at the time and eventually donated it to the museum. It was purchased in the late s and for many years was used in a local pub.

The installer supplied it to the pub and again many years later when the pub upgraded he took it home. This additional information is useful but we would still like to know more about the origins of this unit.

From the serial number - if may have been earlier than the Bennetts receiver with a serial number of There is also a small difference in the connections on the back with additional sockets on the ZetaL Network communications also produced their own range of prime focus satellite dishes. Update Feb It seems there was a matching dish positioner for the ZetaL. It was called a Zeta positioner. Also from an email we recently received - "My observations about the production and serial numbers are as follows..

The first batch of Zeta's were model and had serial numbers less than The second batch were Zeta model L and had serial numbers in the 's The third batch were also L's but serial numbers jumped up to above The five I have right now are numbers , , , and The three different productions can be internally identified by three different main printed circuit boards. The first PCB had only two voltage regulators on the PCB and the later second and third had four, but their are more subtle differences on the PCB layout between the 2nd and 3rd productions.

All units I saw with serial numbers had black meters and all serial numbers had yellow meters. The lids on the 's had extra holes in the top and sides to aid cooling these were round holes instead of the earlier slotted holes in the top only on models with serial numbers.

I have seen several Bennett branded units but none are in my possession right now. I remember them as having PCB's like the Zeta second and third production models. This kit is complete with positioner, manual, handset and original boxes and is in excellent condition.

This is not a unit that I have ever seen before but it is clearly dated in the manual at Feb. It has some interesting features. The unit looks very modern and has concealed controls under a unique hinged up lid.

The positioner module looks like the types of units used in the very early s and resembles a power supply rather than a piece of domestic AV equipment. The positioner is connected to the receiver by a control cable and so everything is electronically integrated and controlled by one handset. The handset is large, as most were at the time. The manual shows that the receiver was part of a complete satellite system including a Triax prime focus dish and using a mechanical polariser.

Prime focus dishes were the norm until the mid. Once again is very pleasing to have a complete boxed kit. Triax is a company that manufactures a very wide range of products today.

Whilst most manufacturers of historic products on this page have long since disappeared, it is good to include an old receiver from a manufacturer who is still a market leader today. There have always been attempts to produce satellite receivers which are stylish to look at. A very interesting and notable attempt was made by Bang and Olufsen in : the Beosat receiver. The tube still stuck out of the back just as far, it was simply that the sides you could see were narrow.

The Beosat used the same visual trickery. It looked like a very slim unit but on closer inspection the case is actually much bigger. The base and feet hide the depth and the width and depth make it quite large. This receiver also had an option of motor control and could be a full motorised receiver. This involved a connection lead to a separate box. From the picture of this add-on box it is clear it needed to be hidden away out of sight.

We are pleased to have a complete kit in the manufacturers packaging. The PDS Ltd. Rainbow 12 volt receiver. This unit was available new when I started in the satellite industry and therefore can be dated around - approx. This analogue receiver is very light weight and has knobs on. Even in knobs were a little unusual and were a throw back to the mid s but being a simple to use unit for the mobile leisure market, it was meant to be no frills and simple to use.

This unit in the museum was owned by me from new although it was bought in as a sample and like many things over the years was stored as a possible future museum item. In those days on-line museums were not even dreamt of but I always felt somehow when I saved something and put it away, perfect in it's original packaging, that it would be a consumer electronics antique in the future.

If anyone has any more information on this product, please let us know. Update Feb. They made a decoder called a "Combi". When Filmnet was encryption LEDs lit up!

Filmnet, however, were not too happy about the availability of cheap decoders and every 2 weeks or so would change the encryption routine - PDS customers would then have to send the decoder back to PDS for adjustment and return, then lose pictures again only a few weeks later.

This was of interest to Sat-zappers as the news feeds over the EBU circuits on 7 east used sound in syncs [SIS], a form of early digital transmission when the audio was digitised and inserted with portions of the picture syncs thus saving the cost of leasing both video and audio circuits. The problem was that any audio modulation resulted in the pictures shaking. The sync inserter provided the enthusiast the means of inserting his own locally generated syncs and removing the picture shake.

So you enjoyed stable pictures but with no sound. These things were critical to set, mine was returned for repair and PDS went bust whilst the sync inserter was with them and it was never seen again. Salora XLE satellite receiver. Very slim receiver as you can see when compared to a watch. Large handset. This receiver is unusual as it contains a built in stereo amplifier.

There are left and right loudspeaker terminals on the back. It even had Dolby noise reduction. This system was used by BSB and also in the Scandinavian countries. The company was owned by Nokia from - An optional dish positioner was available. The XLE had 9 satellite positions with 16 channels per satellite. This receiver came into the museum in Nokia satellite receiver and D2 Mac Decoder. There was a high resolution analogue system mostly used by the Scandinavian countries and in the UK satellite enthusiasts would receive these channels as many of the movies were in English.

There were other manufactures of receivers with MAC built in and D2 MAC decoders but none of them had the excellent picture quality these Nokia units could produce. This unit includes the manual and manufacturers packaging. This is a d2MAC Filmnet decoder. You can see here our original Filmnet card in the decoder.

This decoder came from Holland. Filmnet was a movie channel broadcasting with a focus on Scandinavia, the Netherlands and the northern part of Belgium. It was launched in March and in the late s used a crude analogue scrambling system. The encryption was carried out by changing part of the video signal by either inverting part or all of it, there may have also been some form of additional waveform to disrupt the picture.

There was the Elektor Filmnet decoder from In April it was estimated that there are at least 1. In the UK the figure is estimated to be , The encryption was called EuroCrypt-M.

Panasonic TU-S satellite receiver for Astra 1. Just as there are dedicated receivers today there were dedicated receivers in This Panasonic receiver was one of the most expensive available. In those days the channels were free to air, not scrambled. You can see a list from the Panasonic manual which came with the receiver of a list of the Astra 1 channels beamed at the UK.

You can see a review below from the April edition of What Satellite magazine. Incidentally I used to write technical articles for What Satellite magazine through the and until about Zeta Antenna. This was one of the strangest satellite products to be designed. Notice I did not say introduced as only 3 prototypes were ever made.

I remember it was mentioned in the news section of "What Satellite" magazine at the time. I need to see if I can find the exact copy. The idea was that it would replace a dish in areas where planning permission for a dish was not possible or a customer preferred the appearance.

The news article said it was a prototype. Anyway I guess the gain was insufficient and the idea never went into mass production. This prototype came into the museum in from another satellite company. I had known the MD of that company since the early s and he thought it would be idea to donate it to the museum.

Zeta products also made motorised multi LNB brackets made of clear perspex and clear transparent dishes and so again these products were also an attempt to look visually better than the norm. This page will soon also contain - Pace BSB receiver in original packaging. In storage - will be added to the site later Toshiba BSB receiver in original packaging.

In storage - will be added to the site later RSD satellite receiver see blind search notes below. The Echostar SR A very early analogue satellite receiver with knobs on. When I started in the Satellite Industry back in , the experts in the industry at the time proclaimed the Echostar which was available new in the shops in those days as the best motorised satellite receiver in the world.

It was fairly short lived as at about that time the Chaparral Monterey see below came out and then in my opinion and many others took the top spot for the next 10 years as it was continuously developed and improved by SCT. However, during that time Echostar introduced the , the , and then the analogue receivers.

After that came the analogue and digital receiver, the analogue and digital receiver, and the PVR. Basically a with a hard drive. By the time the came out the Monterey had finished it's run at the top and the last three analogue and digital Echostar receiver mentioned were then each proclaimed as being the best motorised receiver available at the time.

Not that the earlier analogue receivers were not good. They were excellent but they were also much cheaper than the Monterey. We are, however, getting a little ahead of ourselves literally as we need to go backwards in time not forwards. Before the back in was the Echostar and before that the In those days, I saw these in customers homes when they were upgraded to an Echostar or Monterey and so although they were "before my time in satellite", I did see them in the second hand area.

The was a very good receiver but I was not at all impressed with the earlier or as they had complicated menus and were difficult to use and set up. Was it earlier or could it have been around at the same time as the to ? I know it was available for a number of years.

It was not a motorised receiver. It had no internal positioner. It had knobs on the front. It was considered to be a good enthusiasts receiver due to it's excellent specifications for the time and the fact it had very good adjustable controls for the "DXer". The SR50 was avaialable new through the mid s and even a bit later. This was strange as it it looked very dated receivers with knobs on had gone by , however, Echostar aimed the product at the satellite enthusiast market.

This Echostar SR has been donated to the museum by Roy Carmon a well respected feed hunter writer and satellite enthusiast. Not earlier. Its main selling feature was its very low threshold -- this is the measure of the ability to pick up weak satellite signals and deliver a watchable picture while other receivers just deliver snow on the screen.

As noted above the reason was that it had a very low threshold and so it was sensitive enough for people as far south as Lagos, Nigeria, Harare in Zimbabwe, and even Jo'burg to be able to pick up a few Ku channels off Astra 1a. These sales in Africa were very strong during the early s and EchoStar introduced the SR to strengthen its hold on those markets.

Please note that we are looking for an Echostar for the museum. The most upgradable and upgraded and probably the best motorised satellite receiver in the world for 10 years. For 10 years to the Monterey was the best satellite receiver in the world.

Many more pictures are to follow when the museum's Montereys come out of storage. We have 4 of these units in storage. Later models were both analogue and digital. Our parent company sold the Monterey for all of the 10 years. Our company was an authorised Monterey repair and upgrade centre. The Monterey was the most upgraded satellite receiver of all time. Over the 10 year period it received countless software upgrades. The first software had only channel locations. Not really designed for blind search, more a by products of the chip design which gave it auto FEC and symbol rate and some crude blind search qualities.

All this in the late s! Another first and even now, never equalled or beaten, the Monterey had the largest alpha-numeric display ever fitted to any satellite receiver. Earlier models without the display could be upgraded. Even an 8 card reader two stacked 4 card readers was available and can be seen in the picture above. He then became the authorised importer forming his own business SCT Ltd.

The SCT Monterey also takes the title "the most expensive consumer receiver of all time. One of them is complete with all manufacturers packaging and in perfect condition. This supplement eventually led to this web site! This supplement was published in a "What Satellite Magazine" in After reading this supplement I purchased a Monterey from a trade outlet called "Micro X" and a motorised satellite system was installed.

At the time we were installing satellite TV through our video production business. Our first satellite website started in Feb. In October this dedicated www. This "Vision Of The Future" supplement was a major inspiration to me and was a large factor in me starting the satellite TV business which eventually led to this satellite museum. The History of Motorized Satellite Receivers. Fully integrated receiver 36 volt positioner motorised receivers.

Echostar motorized analogue receivers - , , , , Echostar motorized analogue and digital receivers - , , see the below. It was before my time pre but I did see them in customers houses when they were upgrading. For the first time it was possible to move the dish and select channels on the one handset. More about the SR is detailed above where our museum exhibit is featured. The Echostar SR was the main motorized receiver available back in and they were sold in large numbers.

They were a very good easy to use receiver. I attended a motorized training session in run by Eurosat. The lecture was being given by a company called Pro-com who made a very high quality dish unfortunately the company went out of business about 5 years later but the MD who was giving the lecture was using a new Echostar which he referred to as being the "best receiver in the world.

The future proof, upgradable Monterey ruled the skies for the next 10 years. The had reliability problems but the Echostar and were both excellent. They were a good alternative to the Monterey as they were much cheaper.

It looked good and it was cheap but it was a nightmare to use and set up.