Official Thread of Free-To-Air Satellite TV (Part 1)

thanks to u guys out there for this marvelous researh of urs, i personally use strong decoder with Dstv size of dish facing east, all i have is religious programs and cnbc only as free to air while others like ait, bbc, etv, trace tv, etc. are being subscribed for, is there anyway i can upgrade for many other free to air without further subscriptions? pls help me out if there is any without changing the dish for a very big one like NTA transmitting branch office . God bless u all

Hi all, just checked the 30ºw and found out the beam is for europe and america. I tried tracking 7ºE but could not pick it even though the beam is very much covering nigeria. can someone help me out, i live in lagos and have 90cm ku dish

@ tushman,

visit http://www.rdi-files.com/seca.php

that's simply what you need.

Have a great day ahead of you


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@ Osazeet

Your satellite is pointing at 68.5e (Intelsat 7/10) First of all try scanning that satellite to see if any other new channels come up. In particular, scan the channels on the frequencies with Africa/Europe beam i.e. towards the bottom of the list in the following link: http://www.lyngsat.com/intel68.html

If you do it correctly, the channels that have F (i.e. Free) in front of them should come up -- including CNBC and SABC.

Also, you may be able to get eTV; for that follow the procedures described in pages 4 & 5 of this very thread.


@ jujukemist

I don't recall or think that we ever had any quarrel!

tushman re u using double ku band at a time or is your dish motorilized plz answer i need to know.

enitan 2m monde is on c band u cant get with 90cm

enigma wots the difference b/w patch and softcam.

Hi again

Just saw your question; a patch is the main operating system (also called firmware) but an unofficial one which allows the receiver to accept codes that allow you to open some encrypted channels.

Sometimes the patch is so powerful that it auto-rolls or auto-updates (AU); i.e. as the TV stations change the code, the receiver automatically updates itself with the right codes.

Most of the time, after loading the patch it is necessary to manually update the keys by the remote; or to use a software to load the keys to the receiver. The software that has the keys which allows you to update keys via computer instead of manually with remote ---- that is the softcam.

pitodenz,
i have a motorized dish

enigma,
the 1k was for one fake ass dude who had the patch and was charging us for downloading it into our strong recievers

guys u can update your strong receiver the x series when i say x series i mean 4653x,4651x,4654x etc.

go to these sites and get the patches and do the rest on your receiver with your usb flash drives mainly for channels on nilesat and hispa

http://np-ulc.net/index.php?directory=Receiver/Strong&PHPSESSID=fa720dde52a1cf33dc618abbb95c1d94

http://www.crosat.org/aploud/index.php?&direction=0&order=mod&directory=STRONG%20RECEIVERS/4-xxx%20Files



from these two sites u can get softcams to update your x series receivers with and also included in the patches are the keys to unlock the channels just down load and run on your receivers

Enitan

You should have asked for advice; Ku sats require a systematic approach (unlike C band sats).

1. Determine which sat you want to align to

2. Use your location coordinates (Lagos?) to determine exactly how high to aim the satellite; on the side of the dish is a scale; you set the dish on that scale according to your location and desired sat (This is what they call elevation )

3. Then you have to work out in what direction to point the dish (i.e. side to side movement which is also called azimuth )

Try again tomorrow be4 your guy comes; use the tool below: type Lagos, Nigeria in location; select the sat you want; set elevation; point dish in direction suggested --- making very very slow side to side movements.


http://www.dishpointer.com/


 
Added Anyway make sure you stay with the guy and learn from him so that next time you will know how to do it yourself. The other thing ask him about how he sets the receiver because that also matters a little bit.

hey guys,

my installer don come ooo,

but as we all know the situation of epileptic power supply in the country, there's no power supply.
One thing i've noticed is that even novice that are here without practical knowledge but try to visit all the satellite sites that have been mentioned here like lyngsat, flysat kingofsat e.t.c are still more knowledgeable compared with these installer guys, when i was telling him the number of stations i will be getting he was shocked to the marrow, all he's been installing is hitv, mytv and dstv, can u guys now see the number of people you would all have impacted with this great knowldege just keep it up.

Here are my accessories and tell me if they are all ok.

90cm ku band dish,
strong lnbf with 0.3dB
strong decoder 4652X, that's all. But the question i will like to ask is.

1. i heard that there're still some frequencies of some ststions that are not added to all these lyngsat, flysat e.t.c, and if one should input any of those freqs the particular station on that freq will show up, just wanna know if that's true?


2.is strong decoder 4652X hackable? if it is then, when software will you advise me to patch first of all into this new decoder?


when the guy is done is done with the installation i'll try my possible best of posting the pictures of the dish setup, and anything i find on the decoder screen that seems unfathomable.



Thanks all.


I LOVE YOU GUYS

I can also tell you now that for NSS7 in Lagos, the dish elevation should be set to about 59.4; you will see the scale on the side of the dish/brackets.

Congrats

However you have to tell us the full story about your installation!

To your request: I think what you can get now is about all you can get free on NSS7; you can of course also subscribe to Canalsat ---- but I wouldn't recommend it yet until you have done the best you can with FTA first.

Anyway the frequencies on NSS 7 can be found at the 2 following links (I think you can only get the stations on the West African beam):

http://www.lyngsat.com/nss7.html

http://www.flysat.com/nss7.php


Once again you must tell us the full story of your installation because that's how we all learn.

@Enitan

I don't think there are any current working keys for Canalsat Horizons; if I hear anything I'll post here.

France 24 situation: the thing with FTA is that new channels come up every now and then; eventually they will be listed on Lyngsat etc but there might be some gap. One of the best places to find out if there are new channels is: http://en.kingofsat.net/

You check such places and Lyngsat etc every now and then and occasionally you do a scan on your receiver. The other thing, keep checking the Canalsat channels once in a while as they can sometimes be opened by the operators theselves to give people a preview and encourage them to subscribe.

On http://en.kingofsat.net/ check the 'Temporarily FTA' section.

Finally, you must tell us the story of your installation because that's how we all learn.