Any satellite Digicipher channel "fixed key"?

[Ed in Tx]

Turned on my C-Ku band DSR922satellite receiver yesterday for the first time in months. Clock was about 5 min slow. Clock auto-sets only when a Digicipher channel is received. The usual one I had it parked on, a shopping channel, seems to be gone. Found "Newsmax" on GB 802 still IDing, Not Authorized, but the clock did reset to correct minutes so apparently the channel is active I just can't see it.

Anyone know if there is a satellite channel on that can be received by the Videocipher-Digicipher decoder and show the programming? They used to call that "fixed key" when anyone with a decoder could watch.

[Boobtubeman]

Ed are you familiar with a site called satforums? Its a big dish website i am a member of and can answer your big dish questions....
Been awhile since i used my big dish and DSR05..
SR

[Ed in Tx]

No I haven't done anything with it in years. When NPS sold out its big dish customers to Dish Network. Seemed like a good deal at the time. Ha!

Anyway just wondering if there's any channel left "in the clear" or Fixed Key to test the old DSR 922 with.

[Boobtubeman]

Yeah, the small dish industry made backroom deals to get channels removed from C band till we had squat... My dish is still up but i havent hooked nothing to it in awhile...

www.satforums.com you can log in as a guest and poke around, 4dtvrocks is the digicipher forum.... Check it out..

SR

[ChrisW6ATV]

Ed-

It has been a while since I "messed with" my DSR-922 settings, though I do just plain use it fairly often. Primarily, I listen to the music channels on it, which are still available and not encrypted.

What I do remember is, you can create a free online account with the one remaining provider of programming to 4DTV receiver owners, and once that account is active, you can get a "re-hit", which if I remember right does things such as reset the clock.

I also recommend satforums, because there are pitfalls to these receivers and the data streams now that can make things worse if I remember right. I think there are/were still some unencrypted 4DTV video channels, but I have not tried to tune any in in quite a while. Maybe Lyngsat will have details.

One important thing is to avoid a site called "music workshop chicago" or similar; they claim to "help" 4DTV owners but are apparently only some type of scam from everything I have read.