kalonji:

hello guys:

    I Live in Ghana, i know this is nigerian forum, but seems there are some ghanians over here . Well, i just moved to Ghana, and  ma trying to figure out how things are over here.
      If anybody from Ghana,(Tema-Accra area) can tell me where can i get satellite equipment, 1.8 m, 90 cm dish and diseq,lnb,etc. I have een here around one month bu i havent found any place where they sell this equipment, only dstv,gtv installers who ask me for ridiculous prices for all this things.
    I have anoher questions for people here in west Africa: anybody is doing cardsharing over here?i don't know if u people have experience with dreambox or similar decoders with ethernet cardsharing abilitys, at the moment im using my old Kaon decoder , but my dreambox is on the way, and when i have it fully installed, im planning to do some cardsharing. Ive been checking the net, i ve seen some people they are offering canal sat horizons and Dstv on cardsharing(i don't think they are offering as a local), but don't know how reliable are they.

If anybody can help me this please




I live in Accra. I don't know where sat equipment are sold in Tema but in Accra, go to Compudata at Osu. They are retailers for Strong Technologies.

As you rightly put, cardsharing has never being a hot topic. There could be a reason why. So if you can share your experience, we are all ready to learn.

memento:

Help!!! the signal of my fta just went off since morning ard 12noon, i use two dish, pas 7,10 and w4. I try to see if its the weather. But till now 5.04pm the signals arent back. the receiver seems to be working well and the tv too. All i get is the red, no green at all and i didnt tamper with anything. Please what do you suggest i do?? Its urgent.

enitan2002:

There was a time Discom engneering was retransmitting some FTA signals to those in lagos via cable platform, these stations include skymovies,discovery, sony entertainment e.t.c., but later on they made the viewers notified that they will soon bgin upgrading their transmission via digital but still remains on the platform of cable, there later came MBC 2 station, Trace Tv and GOD TV these 3 stations were in Trend bouquet then, but they were in terrestial platform, and remeber this that antenna then used majorly was GLOBAL CALIFORNIA AMPLIFIER, and it receives both terrestial and cable transmission, that was the main reason we were receiving all those stations then. But later on they all went way starting with trend, because then both discom and trend were on analogue, trend changed over to digital, so the TV couldnt even received it then, so later on discom went ahead to scrambled off the foreign stations and leaving the local ones for free but trust those ALABA guys, a new method was devised to counter the srcambling and the advent of using the video player in descrambling those signals was born.
After about two years discom now announced that they also will be moving to digital-cable platform, so as to enabled viewers to subcribe to those channels, but trust my Nigeria guys they didnt give a hoot, because they've been enjoying something free for that long and they don't see anything there worth subscribing, so many left their cable antennae at their repecting buildings there useless.
So after a while the quest of searching for another counter against the latest development was lost. But there has been a decoder in the market for about 11 months now in the market that works for this and that is where am going to.
If you remeber some months back justx24 said there were some cable channels in Ibadan and these include MBC2/4/action and so many other good foreign stations, he bought a decoder that he used to get them. Those channels were under trend package at Ibadan and they were still test-running their equipment then, but they were in digital-terrestial platform. and the name of the decoder that justx24 used then was BUSH IDAPTOR, but the thing there was that there were so many decoders that were being sold at Ibadan that works in getting those stations, but just because of the small size of the device he settled for it.
All those decoders at Ibadan i receiving those stations were device that are still in use in UK all because they allow access to freetoview channels in terrestial but not cable platform in UK. So after the test running by Trend in Ibadan they went encrypted thereby leaving all those decoders useless, though the station were still on the decoder but they were locked telling you its been encrypted.
I made a journey to Oshodi market and i came across a DVB-C decoder, homecast decoder eM-250 to be precise that works perfect for discom engineering, and guess what MBC2/4/and action were all there and so many movie dedicated stations including BET tv and Trace Tv these 2 are music stations, the number of stations there were more than 25 includng al-jazeera/cnn/and press. So I had a discussion with OLA he also went to confirm, I also let justx24 knew about it, so he thought if he could bring his BUSH IDAPTOR decoder from Ibadan to me in lagos maybe i will be able to get those stations, and he came to lagos purposely because of me last weekend all because me (aint that nice of a NAIRALANDER?).
I fixed my cable antennae back and i connected the down converter going to the the TV at the back of the decoder and the decoder goes into the back of the TV, i did an auto-scan and at exactly UHF 50 i received all the stations of Trend that is available on their satellite transmission : daystar, nollywood movies, cnbc africa, fox sports e.t.c but they were all locked i couldnt get the discom signals so i went back to my e-library and made a research, that was when i got the information i shared at the beginning concerning Terrestial/Cable, Trend is still on in lagos but not in analog-terrestial like before but now digital-terrestial, but discom is now digital-cable Xmission.
So my conclusion is this, that decoder i mentioned above, the homecast decoder is being shipped into the country by discom itself, and they distributed it to those guys in OShodi market, thats why if you get to Oshodi you will see different prices ranging from N10,500 to N14,500, and the decoder comes along with a card slot in case in the future if discom wants to go into encryption. But the actual price discom is selling the decoder is N7,000, but to me that's the quite expensive so what i will advice everyone intrested in this is don't go to Oshodi, nor Discom Office but rather go to ALABA int Market and go in search of a DVB-C decoder, you will surely get to see the stations being offered by Discom, and the price you will get this decoder at ALABA will be far cheaper, don't go for new ones but fairly used-ones ooooooooo.
This is a great secret that have been revealed by me and i guess somehow am spoiling business for the traders at Oshodi and Discom itself, but hiding vital information is a step towards the backward of technological innovation in this country and all I and majorly everyother person here is development, that is the main reason am opening up for you guys all, and if perhaps you didnt see my post again between now and friday, just know that i've been kidnapped(joking but serious) by these so-called guys i psoiled business for because i know that discom officials or their relatives are here.

So i await those guys that will make it an effort in going to ALABA intl market and come here and give us all feedback