Free-To-Air Satellite TV

Gents,
I am happy to inform you that sometime in January/February, 2008 we will have available in Nigeria, 3.2m strong pan dish which will be very good for receiving Nilesat channels, especially for those of us that resides in the southern part of the country. However, with a 2.4m strong pan dish, I am currently receiving most of the Nilesat channels. The harmatthan has really helped alot in improving the signal strength. In warri, I can watch MBC1, 2, 3, 4, MBC Action, ONE TV, City 7, Kuwait Sport etc, for twenty four hours since late last month. I believe this trend will continue through out the harmatthan season. During the raining season, using the same size of dish, you can watch the above channels from about 10.00pm till about 10.00am in Warri and it's environs.
In general, when it is about 1.00pm the signal for most of the stations will start to drop. But around 9.00pm the signal will be coming up again.
If you live in Warri and would like to see for yourself, phone me on 08023055983.

Pitodenz
Since you cannot get me on phone from now till about 20th Dec, I will have to call you to continue our discussion.

Jujukemist/Enigma/Enitan/All
Thanks for your contributions so far

@ enitan
          am an installer am am facing all round

Please butonede, help me to get the frequency of the following stationsMBC1, 2, 3, 4, MBC Action, ONE TV, City 7, Kuwait Sport

@PITODENZ
u can watch 4 matches a week

Fadinus,
In the first place, your local antenna does not and cannot communicate with satellites. It receives stations aired by local companies such as CTL (who transmit stations they receive from satellites). secondly, it looks like the sunwin dvb box is a Freeview receiver which is compatible with such local Califonia antenna. Some second hand 28" flat tube televisions (go to Ibru warehouse and Alaba Int market, they are there) shipped from the UK also have similar Freeview boxes installed in them. When such antennas are connected to such TVs, they are capable of decoding the signals. These boxes are actually called free view. But as for strong and other FTA receivers, you need to connect your dish antenna to it via lnb.

the software comes in two part, the loader/driver and the software itself. I suspect you are taking it raw from a computer as a download. My advise is to collect it from a strong reciever via the usb flash. or take the decoder to the computer and use the cable to down load. We are walking round the clock to get a new hack on strong.
Meanwhile note that europian recievers are thrice expensive compare to asian ones like strong. Without the asians we would not know that digital video broadcast via satellite is this cheap.

Hello nairalanders,

I tried the two lnb stuff last weekend and it was an intesting experience. it did not work from the left for me as suggested earliar on this tread but i got it on top. (pics atached) I was able to use the lower lnb to receive 22ºW and the upper lnb for 27.5ºW. I don't know what i did but when i was fidling with it I picked up HITV signal on the west intresting. i wish i can explain what happened. Dont mind the untidy job but I got good signal. would update this post to give detail of what i did.

HITV signal from the west? Interesting! what is the frequency, symbol rate and the transponder please? I need to try it too.

@ vick
        bro, from my point of view your lnb re facing either ways that shows that u did not tight the dish very well to the hanger thats why u ve to support it with a stick,well shaa signal is signal hope u re able to get up to 14 unscrambled channels.
this your hitv stuff re very sure about it,post the frequency for us and is their channel unscrambled plz reply quick.

you are on your own.


Bros you are a genius, you will make me to go get 90cm dish-an easy tool for experimenting

My e.tv channel does not work on mytv. Can u assist with that?

@ Enigma>>
what did u study because u have quite some info up there, I would like to know
send me an email hunkimpostor@yahoo (don't laugh its just an ID)




Love computers and Technology!

we have a silient rule on this thread please. If you had gone through the past post all your present ques would have been answered, including my mobile num,which would have lead you to call me, then you would know where i live in Kaduna

@ madskillz

I'm actually a lawyer; this satellite stuff is just a hobby  Where are you located by the way --- it helps to understand what satellites you can receive.


@ ayusman

Tune your receiver/TV to etv; then press 6969 or 8280 or 8282, then come back and post results; we'll take it from there.

who the f@#k do you think you are?
lord of the manor or what?
do you think everybody has the time to go through almost 12 pages of posts?
if you can't answer his question without trying to feel inflated like a thanksgiving turkey with a limp privates then shut the f@"k up?

what relationship does your statement above have with the thread?



you really are a conceited yansh hole and like i said earlier,you don't have to answer every question posed here no matter how stupid it is to you.
but i know you always will because you are the result of a few drops of syphillic sperm from a mongrels dikc rammed into your transversite fathers yansh who shat you out with choleric rubbish from his anus.

like i asked earlier, does anyone have info about showtime/art keys?
if it has to be paid for monthly after subsciption,its not free to air