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Part 2 - Spotbeam Scan.

Note : ChannelMaster can make worse any problems SV receivers have with EPG & rescans when using the sonicviews inbuilt satellite list to scan sats (or using most other posted satinfo files).

Best method for scanning sats is to let SV make its own satellite TP Data list by doing a "spotbeam scan". You are not actualy just scanning spotbeam TP's, the name spotbeam scan comes from the fact that on DN sat 119w TP 1 - freq 12224 is a spotbeam TP for local channels for aprox 6 dif regions and outside those regional footprints 119w TP 12224 is not active.
I think I was the first to use that term when I first started posting channel lists & how to's for pansats & later for dreamboxes in the early years of the FTA revolution, and the name just kinda stuck. When sharpC's ChannelMaster came out there was no longer a real need to post channel lists for FTA receivers except for dreamboxes which did not scan DSS sats at that time."geno" fast became the champ for dreambox channel lists so then no need for me to post them.

There are two methods for doing a spotbeam scan, one is to do it in SV receiver with TP edit, the other is to create your own satinfo file in ChannelMaster.
As this is a guide for using ChannelMaster with SV here is ChannelMaster method of creating your own custom satinfo file for your region.

If you have done part 1 of this guide you will have on your desktop a channelmaster project file from your initial saved edit.
Open it in channelMaster by dbl clicking it.
First click the + beside sat 119 (on the left) to open up the TP list then click 12224 and see if you have any channels on that TP, if not then TP 12239 will be your lowest active TP on 119 (you will delete 12224 & leave 12239 on 119 if 12224 not active, in the next steps).

Now open up your favorites one at a time & clear all channels in main window (shft click > delete)
Now you delete all TP's except the lowest freq active TP on all used sats (left side click + beside Satellite to open TP list)
Now delete all the channels for the single tp remaining on all your used sats.
This is now your satinfo file for sending to your SV & doing a spotbeam scan.
Write to STB or Export in SV1000 or SV4000 format using same procedure outlined in Part-1.

End of Part - 2