Starguide III question

[kyscott]

Will a Starguide III decode a Starguide II signal? I am moving a station this weekend. I have a dish at the new location with a spare Starguide III receiver however we are using a Starguide II receiver at the present location to receive Sporting News Radio. If this Starguide III is backwards compatable it will make the move much easier.

Thoughts? Opinions? Experience?

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[ncradioeng]

I believe it will. You can hook it up to any convenient antenna and get it authorized before you install it at the final destination to make sure.

 

[TomT]

Some of the Starguide II cards work in the III, so I suspect that anything a II can do a III can do better..
On the Starguide III there are menu screens where you can set the L-band frequency of the transponder you will be looking at, the bit rate needed to decode the transmission and the viterbi numbers, whatever the heck that is. You can get this information from your network supplier.

 

[kyscott]

Thanks Tom. I already have that info from the provider. And again this is going to be a temporary situation until we can get their II over to the new site. And I am thinking I heard somewhere in my past that III's are backwards compatible to II's.

 

[mr_elbows]

yes

SG III has a wider IF than a SG II

if you compare the screens where you can manually set the bit rate, there is one more digit available on the 3 (as in 64-something vs 128-something)

I have the bite marks on my butt to prove it after I carried a II from Hannibal to Sedalia (MO) and found out that I ran out of space entering bit-rate for the KC Chiefs radio network........