Free-To-Air Satellite TV

@toxnaija & Enitan

Edited It does look like both the wide beam and Middle East beam  of Nilesat might be possible on a 90 dish in Senegal;  also at the same 7w location is Atlantic Bird 4 and the wide beam of that also seems possible on a 90 in Senegal but its own Middle East beam will probably require a large dish even there. (Although there are three birds at 7w/7.2w i.e. Nilesat 101 + 102 + Atlantic Bird 4, sometimes they are all just called Nilesat for shorthand).   

Actually, the official beam prediction of Nilesat by Lyngsat etc seems to be more pessimistic than the reality. It used to be advised that you need a very large dish here in the UK but we have found out that with a 100cm dish we can lock the V transponders (and even some H) in southern UK, I have even locked it but with no picture on an 80cm dish once.

@ enigma,
something just cropped up my mind now, do you remeber sometimes last year when i just installed SS7, do you know i usually complain of direct 8 that usually go off air especially when they are about to air the euro qualifier then? So i'm wondering if the same thing will happen on W3A being directed by free2view because its also among their bouquet presently, do u get what i'm trying to say? since its canalsat that are seizing the signal, will that also affect free2view or is free2view getting the signal from direct 8 itself and not canalsat horizons.

@ w3a viewers,
you can expect all the channels to be in just english language, because the beam the satellite w3a covers extends to all the french speaking west-african countries and east africa as well as south africa, so they have to balance it in terms of the languages so that it wont be one-sided, since they are reaching out to all those who can receive that beam be it french, portugese(angola) or english, so they have to balance it among those languages.

I hope the above explanation is clear now?

Trust me am always here and on the look out for more interesting stuffs , As we all know am on the W3a now and really am yet to feel the best of it, only one station is in English and its the news people. Or am i missing something ,
I don't understand French , another interesting thing on this W3a?? , hm mm mm,    I think i really will dig the "adult station" if i know how to get it unscrambled.(Enitan please clarify on that).


Now time to try and help someone nail that Bird W3a, first i give you some pictures. I think it will be a good idea for you to know am doing all this in Ibadan.

My dish is elevated so that the bottom of the Lnb holder just lie on the marking of 70. see it in the Elevation picture.

Then i show you the distant from the front view, from that front view, i will be picking W4 if the dish is faceing where i stand to take the picture and the right elevation, so u get the idea of how far right u have to go at the elevation, to get W3a.    the dish u see in that picture is on W3a.
And there is another general view(Ariel). so u see how it look , you can see am getting ready to climb my ladder in search of more fun stuff, ( that was yesterday), so am telling you that no luck , trying to track Nss 703  and intelsat 7/10.  I think the buildings next to mine are blocking that signal from me , because the elevation for this 2 satellites are rather low, any advice will be cool.

And  i think it will be more fun if i can motorize my 90cm dish , some one can organize a good motor for 90cm dish , i saw a few in the range of 65 pounds online in a UK shop,  trying to see how much it will go for in the US, I know it will be heavy so i should be thinking of what delivery charges will be from DHL, it will be killing .

About my intrest , MOVIES(English), and NEWS, a little bit of sport will be cool,

Thank you all

justx24
 

@ gangstar101
              the name of satellite dosnt matter in most recievers as long as u use c band for c band and ku for ku band satellite name.go africa signal sometimes goes down and come up again.
@ all
      this small strong reciever is not bad at all srt 3650 its new it come to market sometime last year  and it should be below 5k in lagos.like in my w3a i can't get ariane tv with 4652 the signal ll be moving with red bar but when i use this reciever it open ariane without cracking.also i ve used it so many time in c band work and i can say its okay.
the only station i enjoy in w3a is go africa because of musical,msnbc is good but am not in usa,then when some of them join bbc.

N.B.the reciever is strightly fta no space for card reader.

@Enitan

I don't expect free2view to encrypt since it seems they are specialising in FTA; on the other hand they might not have rights to, or show, football matches whose transmission would normally be encrypted.

CHEIIII
I SILL NEVER FIND THIS W3A. I TOOK ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD AND FOR OVER SIX HOURS TODAY, I VE BEEN TRYING TO TRACK IT. IS IT THE INABILITY OF THE THE WORKMAN OR THE INEFFICIENCY OF THE WORK TOOLS. SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME. I WONDER IF I LL BE NEEDING SATELLITE FINDER?
 FOR NOW I HAVE GONE BACK TO MY NSS7,MAYBE,  TILL AFTER  TOMORROWS MATCHES. I WONDER WHAT THAT BIRD WILL DO FOR ME AFTER THAT. OKAY, I WATCHED ONE US BOX OFFICE MOVIE, FOR THE FIRST TIME ON GTV THIS AFTERNOON. 

@ iwes,

how much does the locally made dish 2.6m made here in lagos cost, and please can u be specific on the transportation cost from the north here and and the installation cost, seems like i have someone intrested in getting that.

Reply very fast

@ OLA,
i just visited nilesat now, and the al-jazeera package are about 6 channels, but the ones encoded are sports  plus 1, plus 2 and plus 3, so i guess those rae the 3 stations the al-jazeera card will be working on.

@ all nilesat viewers,

kindly post the numebr of channels u guys are getting free and not the encoded ones and also the number of the english-speaking ones.

@ badaru1,
i've been longing to ask the question from u if u do installation, can you kindly send me a text stating the total cost you will accept from a nairalander if you are to install 2.4/2,6m dish for nilesat, please reply fast
a fellow nairalander wants that fast and he's OLA, guess u know him.

@ OLA,
get across to badaru1 now and get the info from him and send me a text concerning what i just asked above.
Thanks

 
@Enitan2002

 Thank you for the long, 3-4hr  we had on phone ( maybe i will try activate this midnight call stuff myself). Its very reviling. I was able to get my decoder STRONG 4653X in good order, Thank you my guy I appreciate it and will keep u posted as i progress in my findings, if u don't get them first,  . Thank you man ,



 @mygee33

 Think maybe we can work together on your W3a hunting, definatelly you don't need a real gun like me , i can get you a wooden gun, that will do ok
Just pulling your legs , i think i can get you the bird, first i need to know where you are staying , so i can know how close it is to Ibadan. Then let me know if u can get the W4 (DSTV and Hi-tv bird), because that might be easy as out reference point, Then you need to build for yourself a tool, its something you make,  will give you instruction on how to do that. You need a cardboard(harder substance ok, e.g empty office file jacket). Let me prepare the information for you when i get your location first, +2348053334470

@Enigma

 Thank you for the links you gave , I think you'll know more about this, kindly check it out and tell me if its cool _http://wizkid.persiangig.com   am in Africa  and i think the last one is for my 4653X. maybe you can give me more hint, (not allowed here.). try send me an sms and i will call you please +2348053334470
Or if you have another stuff like that useful. "Coming into this life itself is a big risk" am ready to take a few cheap ones like this

@bodejohn

 Patching stuff are quite cool, i use STRONG decoder SRT4653, And since you know much about this and you are in Africa just like me , let me in on anyone you have personally tested and its working , might need to do this talk off this forum(don't want to break forum rules). try send me an sms 08053334470 and 'll call you.

@all

This place is full of wonderful people and the interaction is cool, Keep up the good work, without people like you all, people like me will be lost. Thank you all


justx24

ART and SHOWTIME ARE BACK AND FREE ON STRONG 4651-6X

@ salamander,
though i'm not suppose to say on this on this forum because its mainly based on free to air and not pay tv, but i have someone who might be intrested in getting the card for GTv, can u be of help i and how much do u think that will cost, because the person is trying to setup premeirship viewing centre starting from next season.
Reply soon.

badaru 1
please give details on what you said concerning showtime and art. does the model open it automatically or there a latest patch one will need to download. 

 Hi All , Av just being able to put up my second dish and its cool , i have the second dish facing Intelsat 7/10. And now i can watch ETV, and a bit more English speaking channels. , its got a lot of christens  channels too , but me am born again,  again that makes me over qualify to watch those
Not a bad setup , and my dear friend Enitan is asking me , if i have another space for a third dish , hmmmmmmm
Its a rented apartment , i think i have the space but i keep on the look out what W3a is going to give us in the near future.

Setting up the second dish and tracking Intelsat 7/10 took me just 15 minutes , using the W4 position as a starting point , first i adjust the elevation , it was listed as 15.00 degrees in dish position finder, on my dish i knew it was going to be on the 5 degree setting on my dish, from my past experience with W3a. Then i know the direction ( azimuth) to be lower than the one for W4 too so i know i have to move left bit by bit at my elevation of about 5 degree. then it just pop up and am there,

Thank you all , what will i do without you??
maybe i'll upload the picture if need be , ( don't want to take too much forum space for nothing , )

Please anyone got the W3a for the first time lately???, think maybe i can help out with this bird a bit, need to confirm my new trick works with someone who has not being able to get the bird at all before, so anyone need help kindly post here in the forum, its a new week and we got lots of time to get this done before weekend.

Thank you all

justx24

hi all,

first of all let me say i don't have a problem receiving w3a, just that mine was initially tracked using amos 1/2 so i was wondering if that bird was rebroadcasting the w3a feeds, that was why i tried entering the info for go Africa as it was supposed to be broadcasted by w3a alone, and initially i didn't get any indo that was why i posted my observations, now i know better, the freq were just coinciding. i actually thot i was getting amos 1/2 because it is supposed to be on 4w.

so why is it that we can receive the eastern bird w3a while facing west? also, as i said in my previous post the signals are supposed to be H signals e.g  go africa 11102 h 3208, but mine is 11102 V 3208 and if i try changing mine to H it tells me that sorry the same TP already exists.

i see art and showtime keys are now available, i will download the softcam and give. i do feel anyone who isn't getting nilesat is missing, it does have a great number of interesting channels, more than any availabel FTA sat in Nigeria, or at least  i think so, and if u do buy the aljazeera card, you're covered for even sports (except for EPL of course) but then we have RDV don'twe?

@ Gangsat101,
the problem u are having is similar to what justx24 had and we resolved that during a midnite call, and with this it will be very difficult entering the freqs and SRs of stations manually one got from lyngsat.com,  so here is what you are to do.
Get the cable coming from the lnb use in tracking the W3A satellite and go to your dish installation setup if you are using a strong decoder as if u just want to do a fresh installation and go to column where the list of your satellites are, but don't pick any of those names at all, move ahead to  those blank lists we have up to 8 blank lists there and select the first one only if its not in use but u can pick any of those blank but you must be able to identify it, whther its the 1st blank or 6th one, but u must be able to identify it at all cost, then save and move on to manual setup and input this frequency and symbol rate which is for MSNBC 12728H and Sr: 30000, with this you will see a rise in signal level and the rest is history, but don't forget to delete the stations you have through the amos 1/3 or what u call it, then do a fresh blindscan using the blank satellite freq and if Go Africa still didnt come up you can then enter the freq u have from lyngsat manually.

There was also a time when my dish was facing 22W, and i selected the W3A satellite and i got some NSS7 stations but the frequencies were uite different from the ones on NSS7. So next time one is doing a setup installation and to be on the safer side because the frequencies that followed those satellite names might be conflicting it's better you follow the step i explained above, justx24 can tesify to that also.

Have a nice day to you all

@ badaru1,

just checked my mail i've seen that patch, thanks so much for that, its in safe hand already. Thanks again