The set-up section of the Force 1122s breaks any routines in the trade. It is simply nothing you would expect to see. However, this is not a negative thing - as much as the layout of the set-up menus can be confusing at first it dramatically gains on logics as soon as you get used to it.
The main menu takes us to eight sections presumably ordered by importance in everyday use. As the set-up is something you do only once - it's at the very bottom of the screen.

In the set-up section first you get to choose one of eight languages as a primary for your OSD (mostly Scandinavian choices). Then set up a clock - either to be displayed in stand by mode only, at all times or never and pick time zone. The clock is adjusted every single time you switch your receiver off from the synchronisation transponder of your choice, more about it later. This is quite characteristic, as, in case of motorised set-up, your dish will wonder back to the aforementioned transponder upon every power off.

The TV format was the first surprise. Not only does it offer additional proper UK standard PAL-I for the RF output, but also allows you to choose image shifting should your multi-standard TV set have a problem setting correctly aligned pictures. You can also separate TV scart settings from VCR scart standard, which is good news for those of you using, say, straight SCRT-S-Video converters for recording. No more black and white pictures.

As we mentioned before, Force 1122s has a unique feature that allows you to assign functions to coloured teletext buttons on the remote. This is truly thoughtful, as after carefully choosing the options you can invoke most of the everyday functions from one and the same bottom part of the remote. Should you choose not to do so - all extra functions can be chosen via scroll buttons after pressing 0 on the remote.

The channel list is already in place. It is predefined in the memory of the receiver as it arrives, although it's way old and needs immediate updating. Force was lagging a bit with Over The Air updates to the channel list, but this situation has improved recently, and we received two notifications about new settings being available for download in a fortnight. Should you feel like loading the settings yourself, regular updated lists can be found on the Internet and a settings editor is available (more details in a sec).

The characteristic thing about the 1122s is that once the receiver is preloaded with channels, frequencies and satellites you cannot delete anything off it. If any of the settings are out of your dish's range or simply unwanted you can HIDE them from the usable list and re-enable them should you wish to do so at a later stage.
All channels are assigned to Bouquets, Content type and Language. Additionally Encryption type and card slot used to decrypt it is also in place and can be changed should you wish to assign say AbSat channels to Mediaguard cam instead of built in Viaccess. Good thinking Force.

Users can freely add transponders, frequencies and satellites manually, using quick buttons in corresponding menus.

Using the frequency menu a user can assign a transponder as the default for the system to set Clock and/or Epg. We strongly advise you to make sure the clock is read from a transponder on the satellite you use most often - as we mentioned before the clock is synchronised every time you switch you receiver into stand by mode - so choosing you sync wisely can save on moving the dish from one position to another every time you power your box on and off. The EPG synchronisation setting is used for updating the channel guide (more about it later) and spending some time doing it properly can bring some life to your OSD banner in the future.

Enabling the motor is childs play. At any point during set-up enter the MOTOR menu and choose "on" from a pull down window. This procedure reveals full DiSEqC 1.2 options, which it has to be said, are rather impressive. Except the typical functions a user can set a GEO offset, being a set correction for badly mounted dishes common for all positions, use precise tuning via "Position Adjust", set limits or drive motor to position zero (e.g. for mount adjustment). We can't say we got the "Geo offset" to work properly (dish was realigning itself right on the next transponder) but all together driving the dish with the Force is nothing but a pleasure

43% signal from HotBird?! Scandal!	Could do with some aligning	Make sure it doesn't stop in neighbour's kitchen.

There is one very interesting thing in the positions menu. Even with the motor enabled, the user can still assign LNBs to satellites. We tried, just as an exercise, to pull "Humax User vs. global settings" trick on it, and attempted to assign primary LNB focus for HotBird and offset LNB for Astra with DiSEqC 1,0 switch in a loop. The outcome of it would be using the motor to drive between HotBird and Sirius and use offset for Astra and Thor. Such an operation would be quicker, more effective and possibly less intrusive to your neighbours late in the evening or at night. Obviously the exercise failed, as when an Astra channel was chosen the motor would understand it as a command and move the dish, instead of using a second channel on the switch but the chance is there, and we were wondering if a similar attempt with 22kHz switch splitting BEFORE the motor would do the trick. Anybody willing to continue testing the possibilities?