hello–thank you so much for your help in these matters..as it turns out i emailed disaster area and they told me to just send the gen 2 back to them and they would get me a gen 3 —WHICH IS AWESEOME!…so i still have hope..you are right abou tthe hard encoded channels on the gen2…and i did try the omni deal—to avail  ; (…but hopefully this will take care of my problem—i will wait an see  : )—

thanks again to the both of you who chimed in to try and help me.