BEC 2000 help page  and 2000+ International

note specifications may vary slightly from below on international unit.

2000+ International.  Your receiver comes with a USA power,  and UHF to F-Connector adaptors! 

FINDING THE BIRD IS EASY ON THIS RECEIVER!  Go to the channel that you want to watch or a channel that you know is active on the satellite, bring up the info banner at the bottom of the page. You can get the info banner to stay on until you find the bird by pressing the EXT button until INFO comes up and tu appears on the front of the receiver.  3 presses of the EXT button (below 9 button) should do it.  Slowly turn the dish and watch the bars at the bottom of the page. They will turn gold when you are on the bird.  White bars mean that you are not on the right satellite.    70 is a good strong signal strength  for both bars on this model receiver. Numbers are arbitrary, other models may show 98 but that is meaningless.  Press EXT button once and wait, or cycle receiver off and on to restore normal picture

In most cases this is all you need to do if your receiver is preprogrammed for the channels you want to watch.  You may want to go into the setup mode and rescan the satellite from time to time to pickup new channels that may have come active.

BEC STB DBS-2000    A new high line receiver from BEC

Tuning Strategies    Main Programming Menu; Press "Menu"

Under the Channel List Tab the user can access the list of channels, tv, or radio.  The user can edit the channels by pressing "Menu" This allows the user to organize the channels after scanning for new transponders which may add new finds at the end of the list and not with other channels on the same satellite

The Second Tab in the main menu "Channel Edit" allows the user to Sort, Lock, Unlock< Delete, and Rename channels by pressing "menu" and selecting the options.

Tab 3 in the main menu "Setup" allows the user to perform all kinds of programming functions.  DON'T SELECT FACTORY DEFAULT OR YOU WILL LOOSE ALL YOUR PROGRAMMING.

Let us first select "Channel Search"  This function allows the user to program satellites, add new bouquets, ( frequency and symbol rate) which generates new groups of satellites.  When the user first turns on his satellite receiver and selects a channel that is known to be active and then presses Menu and select and selects the third tab "setup" by pressing the right button and select, he will enter the "Channel Search" mode and land on the specific satellite and  transponder that the specific station is on. Line 1, below, denotes the "Satellite".  You can scroll to different satellites by pressing enter and choosing the satellite that you want.  Important; if you do not see the satellite that you want, back up to the setup tab (5:00 ),'clock button,  choose  "LNB Port, then "Satellites", select then check off the names of all the birds that you want to program..  Line 2 , back in channel search, denotes the tuning information for the satellite, mainly the stuff on the right.  More on that later. Lets just say that L.O freq of 5150 allows for tuning C Band and 1075 allows for Ku band The frequency, symbol rate, and polorization are all either preprogrammed or added by the user. To add a new bouquet, you would highlight TP index and scroll to "new" and add the new information. "Scan Type" can be selected for one tp, say the one you just added, or the entire satellite "One Sat" or All satellites.  User may scan "One Sat" say once a week on the more active birds to see if any new stations have come on line.  If the new station is within an existing bouquet it will be added to the bouquet or tp.  If it is not it may be added to the end of the satellite list, so don't forget to go to channel 1 and scroll down to the highest channel number to see if any more channels have been added.  Pictures of "Scanning" are shown below;

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When the BEC scans it will show you the channels that have been found.

Installing a new satellite dish and using  the BEC to find the bird.

  Read about the Magic Rainbow elsewhere in this site.  When you aim the dish you have two places where you can find a meter to set the dish with.  Note in the "Channel Search" window above there is a dual meter showing Str(ength) and qual(ity).  If the bars are red like above to the right you have a signal but are not on the right bird or are not on a channel that is active.  It the bars are all "peachie" or whatever that color is, you are locked onto the bird.  Not that 73/67 is an excellent signal.  The 2000 is not like the old 6600+ that usually showed a 98 for quality.  An alternate source of tuning indication is on each channel.  On each channel you will see the tuning bars, unfortunately they only stay on for a few seconds.

Important, when you back out of the menus and are asked to save, if OK is red it will save.

Advanced tuning Procedures;  Let us say that we want to listen to some of the radio channels that are on Nimiq.  Nimiq, like Dish and DirecTV use DBS band broadcasting which requires an LNBF (thing on the dish) with a local oscillator freq of 11250.  We can tune this by going to "menu", "setup", "LNB PORT" which places us in the "LNB Port setup" screen.  Initially we will see we are set in LNB index 2  LNB Type says Ku but since we have lo of both 5150 and 10750 the receiver sill seek out and tune both C and Ku  Important; a third type of lnb is listed as Universal.  If you are using a universal LNB  (it will say LO 9750 and 10600 on the LNB, set choose Universal.

   Now lets go back and choose a DBS satellite.  For our example we will choose EchoStar 1 and 2.  NO you can't watch Dish Network but we will use it as our example.  With line  1 reading 2  go ahead and select satellite(s) and uncheck  Echostar 1/2 and any other dbs bird.  No go back to lien one and select LNB INDEX  5.  We will make that our DBS freq. Make sure that one or both of the LO freqs is 11250 so the receiver can detect the DBS frequencies.  Go to Satellites and place a check beside all of the DBS birds, Echostar 1/2, Nimiq 1, Nimiq 2, (forget DirecTV they are not MPEG 2 compatible)

   You can also select switches so that any time you choose a satellite  with a LNB 5  it will throw the switch and choose a coax that runs to a special dish or lnb.  Avoid using DiSEqC if you are going to us a Horizon to Horizon drive as the can conflict with each  other.

To create a New Satellite, From the main menu scroll over to "Setup" and choose "Satellite".  Press "menu" again and   "Add"  "delete"  "edit" or "sort".

Both C Band and Ku Band on one satellite,  say Telstar 5 You must create an lnb under LNB port setup for each type of lnb  i.e.  C-Band,  Ku-Band etc. dont forget to indicate the type of switch, ie  0 volts.  The receiver will hunt and find the right lnb for each transponder and store the information

Lnb 1 has been set up to operate C band using 0 volts on a 12v switch.  Ku uses 12 volts.  When you scan the satellite the receiver will figure out which lnb to go to.  Software will automatically update the LNB list.

Channel Serach ==> Step1
KU-band Transponder (TP Index 1~14)
LNB Index change to 2 or don't care.
Note: No need to change the TP Index because our software will automatically to update the LNB Index after search.

NOTE!  Ku local oscillator frequency for US  is 10750  or if universal  9750/10600

Decoding the numbers at the bottom of the page.

Decoding the banner starting top line left to right.  Channel Number, Name of channel if known, Stereo. Line 2, transponder within channel search, and frequency and polarity Horizontal.  Name of satellite, and Language selected. Pressing  "audio" button may restore or change audio.  Freq  3700  to 4200 is C Band (big 10 foot dish) and 11700 to 12200 is standard Ku band

Black and White Rolling Picture?  Your receiver is in PAL mode, press the (rf) button on the remote and then the left arrow several times until you are in NTSC (USA) mode.

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