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Sorry oooo! voting had already been concluded. We are only waiting for the results which is being collated to be announced

I love the spirit of the idiots at the helm of affairs "never say die" always find a way out.  How to watch free satellite TV including football Free Satellite TV

@Butoneday

Yes I bought it from US through this site
I got to the site while looking for information on cable box that was being used to descramble cable satellite tv in Nigeria. After I purchased the unit and couldn't install, that was when i started my search on net which landed my on nairaland.

Panamsat4/Intelsat 4 is at 72E, on lyngsat only C-Band is beamed to africa, but i am using a 90cm dish and got the signal on a higher frequency range (above 10xxx) that's why I'm asking this question.

@George

You have come a long way and been doing a tremendous work by your posts and response/solutions to newbies questions. Ranging from installation, disecq switch, decoders questions, lnb. You have vast knowledge experience due to possession of most equipments and trying out new ideas/suggestion. That’s why I suggested you should apply for the post of assistant moderator - technology section. Plus you have access and time to be on net (atleast an hour in a day) which is one of the criteria of a moderator. Please apply.
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Also remember the Sonicview SV4000 I told you about, it has a feature which enables it to identify satellites, I was trying to check and input frequencies for w3a and sirius4 while using single dish (pas7/10 is also attached through disecq) and going through the frequencies it identified Panamsat4 at 72E. How possible is this. I will check and post the frequency. NB: It seems all satellites have a frequency on which the satellite name and position is broadcasted for identification by special equipments and decoders with such features. Can you receive Panamsat4 at your location?
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@obijack

Track Sirius4 with this freq 12605V29950 and do a blindscan

How to Watch Satellite TV Free in Nigeria

Sky-walker:
i think lewie need to leave the x factor after this competition. i mean what the hell is going on? those 2 stupid boys in the finals? come on guys

Simon should have had danyl jamie and stacey not oliver murs. Stacey is more talented.

Cheryl did not choose ethan? How sad

for danny she did well sha but i felt one other girl evted was better then rachel

At the end of it all. its jamie to win and not danyl or stacey

sure

bing:
Hi George, pls i want to know like how much it will cost me to have a 1.8m & 2.4m dish also if i have to motorised it what will be the additional cost, any idea?

bing from Lagos

Get in contact with Lagos forum members. They are in a better position to help you

nice to be here, in the FTA progress flight.

@Adm/Mod

The link to season 4 should have been the last post on season 3 and the thread locked. People are still posting in season 3

emexi:
@microgiant ,,, have you been able to track etv africa with 4669x, pls i need to know and let me egually know of nilsat reception in yenogoa, please your feed is neccessary,


@EDUZO, SIR PLS DO NOT LET THAT BIRD FLY AWAY FROM ME , I NEED IT

Sorry i don't have 4669x and a big dish (3m) for nilesat yet, i'm planning to acquire both soon.

@toba

What you should understand is that Multi-Tv is already on sat so changing to Terrestial is not an option, also with satellite they have wider coverage, whereas terestial is limited and to it qwill be more expensive to cover the whole of Ghana with that system.

olofofo:
where did the everyone get the impression that it will be illegal for multitv to operate in Nigeria as a FTA channel. from the little knowledge that i have, you do not need local license to operate as an fta channel, CNN, BBC, ALJAZEERA are all received in nigeria, plus a lot of nigerian companies do advertise on cnn to be bale to reach nigerian audience. abi wetin una think?

What you should understand is that nobody can stop satellite beams over a countries airspace, but for you to operate as a provider by selling your decoders, cards, etc in a country, you have to register officially and abide by the country's broadcast regulations. If multi-tv don't register with the relevant authorities in the country then it becomes illegal. But if somebody buys the decoder and card and brings into the country to use there is nothing illegal about it. the same way you can buy a drug from outside nigeria without nafdac registration for use, but once you start selling it, it becomes a criminal offence.

pofolo:
@all    please,can someone close to uyo tell me were i can get a decoda for fta alone,no smart card slot n @ wat price. pls treat as urgent

@pofolo

You can not get decoder at Uyo without card reader, best option is to buy Strong SRT4663x from Strong dealers at =N=9,000, if you can afford buy the 4669x Model to receive multi-tv. Majority who receive FTA in Nigeria use their equipments because it's flexible and readily available. Contact their dealers in Uyo:

AllStar
39 Umoren Street
Tel0802) 331-9316
Mobile084) 554-952
Email:roneopil2001@yahoo.com

Gadana Electrofield Nig.
6, Nepa Line
Tel0803) 438-6543
Email:gadana1@yahoo.com

Majoe Services
22 Udoddiongnka street, Akwa -Ibom state
Tel0802) 717-5476
Email:tres_emma@yahoo.com

@All

For multi-tv to encrypt, they just change to card reading decoders or use embedded cards and from time to time just send new keys to the decoders.  Vivid decoders already contain cards.  As for the part of limiting their signals to Ghana, except they move to another bird because the beam on astra is for nigeria and is not steerable, also they cannot use all the transponders assigned to nigeria which would have made the sat owners to change the beam to Ghana only, Nigeria has more market than Ghana.

@Pito

What you need is a marine dish and it costs nothing less than $1,600.  check this Marine dish

@All

There is no need for too much debate on which is better between Daarsat Kaon receiver and Strong 4669X. The Daarsat is a HD box which is a plus, but for an FTA hobbyist its better you go for the box that is more flexible, has support and is easy to operate. Apart from the HD advantage of the Daarsat, you can not use another card, input keys, etc. Whereas with the strong you can input keys, get software updates, use different cards, etc. That is what FTA hobbyist all over the world do “go for the receiver with most support and flexibility”. The Kaon HD box had been on sale for some time now since late 2007 or early 2008 and there is no single file for it. Even tracking with it is hell, from what experienced installers have been posting, not to mention “no blindscan” (how can we catch those juicy feeds). Also there are few HD channels available because almost everything (movies, documentaries, news, etc) they are transmitting are recorded in SD apart from some sports channels that are planning to go HD. Although, the price is too high. I prefer the strong 4669x. This is just my personal opinion.

obnelly:
pito, can SD work like HD.

@ Obnelly

SD can not decode HD.
What you should understand is that you have DVB-S, MPEG-2 and DVB-S2, MPEG4 which are transmission streaming/broadcasting format,
while SD and HD refers to Picture quality in layman's terms.  Now with MPEG4 compression, more channels can be transmitted in a single frequency than MPEG2.  

Now lets take a look at Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD), to cut a long narration short, for you to view TV there are dots on the TV screen, (approximately 625 lines) now as the screen gets bigger, the picture gets poor.  Also if you view some standard definition pictures on HD most little details will be seen.

The discovery of DVB-S2, MPEG4 coincided with HD, so it became associated.  Previously, there was a problem with transmitting in HD because only one channel can be carried by a single transponder at a time, whereas the same transponder could be used to carry multiple SD signals.

to cut the long narration. some satellite receiver manufacturers already started manufacturing boxes that could receive DVB-S2 SD signals also there are DVB-S HD receivers but they where discontinued since it was not good economically from the manufacturers point as more people where shifting already to HD.

Currently all Multi-TV signals are SD transmitted in DVB-S2, MPEG4 QPSK format that's why it can be received with SD decoders but no video only Audio while Daarsat has only one HD Channel "Luxe TV HD" the rest are in SD but transmitted in DVB-S2, MPEG4 8PSK .

Don't forget that almost all tellys in nigeria are SD, except you own a Plasma or LCD TV

borderline:
@george,in dat advert,dey cald d satelite intelsat905 33.5w,but dere doesnt seem 2 b any of such on d web,i cald dere sat engr.dis morning,he said d same thing only dat he gave me anoda tp.4069 v 5632,now d thing is;either NTA hasn't put its house in order yet or there is a new launch of intelsat in d orbit(which i very much doubt) this ar d engineer's no 4 inquiry,d Ist one was d 1 cald dis morning: 08037263723,08037210339

Intelsat 905 is at 24.5°W, but there is a new satellite for that exact position Hylas1 mostly for broadband internet Hylas1

BUTONEDAY:
@Microgiant,
The receiver is made for dual lnb. It will also work for two separate dishes. But remember that Nile signal is very expensive for those in the south.

adewest:
@All,
Thank God that Nilesat management are beginning to respond to our
demand and suggestion as signal strength of the nile is beginning to
increase it's beaming towards Nigeria.It is interesting that those TPs
ie 11317V,11355V,11374H,11411H with all sym rate 27500 and 11334H-sym
rate-27485 of the showtime/orbit on Atlantic bird 4A is now receivable
in Bauchi with minimum of solid 2.4m surface. Though some down-time
could still be monitored at around 1130pm and peak period is within
8:30 PM with signal strength ranging btw 56-50% on various transponder
using 4663X receiver.Hoping that jsc sport +5+6+7+8 on freq 12456V - sr
27500 Nilesat will also do some beaming favor to Nigeria as same
(12456V) could not be receive within many Northern region exception of
Maiduguri (Borno state) capturing the most wanted transponder with a
token of 1.8m surface but still, some master key transponder required
for infinity card sharing server connection is not also avail there in
M/guri i.e 12341v MBC persia and 10930H ESPN even with 2.4m, where as
Bauchi can-receive 10930H with a token of 1.8m strong enough to
withstand rain fading, is that not funny.


@ Dejsam and all,
Reference my post above,please verify the intensity of the signal
within your region and keep the house posted.


@ Olofofo,
That sharing box works perfectly ok in Lagos ooo. It will
only demand an extra cost because of one idle dish some where.

What I wanted was clarification from Adewest if dual lnb cannot achieve the same purpose instead of installing another dish check the bolded parts. My perception from his post, it’s like the sharing tp is equally on the same bird-nile. Previously, my understanding from other forums and this forum, sharing tp use to be on another bird in which case you require a separate dish for that bird which carries the data signal (internet) and another dish for the bird you are interested in, making it two dishes. But, as you can watch different tps Vertical High(VH), Vertical Low(VL), Horizontal High(HH) and Horizontal Low(HL) using a single dish on two receivers, I thought why not apply same, except the sharing tp is on another bird which he has not disclosed.

@ Adewest

Shun sir, i beg no vex make i ask one small question. The receiver, what if one uses a dual output LNB since the two signals are coming from the same bird? What is your take?

@All

for the past two days that MyTV is open i have been watching their programs, it's actually crap.  Even the movies on MBCs, Vox, Go Africa LCF are better even with the french language. At least the air current movies, apart from the Nigerian movies which they don't air and who cares.

FTA forever. Live Football Matches, current action movies - soaps, music, documentaries, news.

@ All

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15:30   Hoffenheim vs Bochum (Go Africa, not sure if these are the teams but 1 live match from bundesliga advertised)
17:30   Tottenham H. vs Manchester U. (Go Africa, MBC1)
22:00   Sevilla vs Zaragoza (Go Africa, not sure if these are the teams but 1 live match from La Liga advertised)

I recommend George apply for assistant moderator of TV&Movies here.

@ George

It started to rain five minutes after my arrival, I couldn’t do the tracking.

In Bayelsa the strongest for W3A is TVM Malagasy Freq 10976 V 3333 last to go off in bad weather

MUVI TV is part of the MyTV package on test transmission, enjoy while it's free.

Got the above info direct from the horses mouth, MUVI TV News this morning 5:00am 5-9-2009

@ George

Thanks for your help, but still no success. I think i will contact pito, although i wanted to call him for the 3m or 4m for Nilesat or Badr installation

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@ litaninja
For W3A use TV Malagasy 10976 V 3333,and Sirius4 use Globecast 12605 V 29950. see Sirius4 Freq.

litaninja:
@all
Man, it has not been easy o!. I have read tutorials, watched other people do installations and all that. But I never bother try am on my own before,
like 4 of us have been fighting with the 1m all evening and we were only able to track Intelsat @ 68E using strong4663x,
I tried to locate w3a @ 7e > no show. I tried nss7 @ 22w, na lie. We all just left the thhing at around 11 :30 pm.
We never know as e go be tomorrow sha,
Any specific period tips for me on how to locate them easily, I have gone through a lot of the poasts here. But i am talking latest info that could be useful here. (Ikotun, Lagos),

if you are using 60cm it's not easy to track w3a, also you should contact people in your area and check the strongest TP to use for tracking. Good luck

blexxonmak:
@monsterg.The transponder you made mention of is definitely not on TELSTAR 10/KU.You probably might have succeeded in tracking Televisa Networks on EUTELSAT W3A.You could not get any pictures because the channels are encrypted via Viacess. A look at the TELSTAR 10/KU footprint map will convince you.  http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/t10_ku.html

don't be hasty with your conclusion, there are many Telstars, may be its Telstar 11N at 37.6°W, it has an African footprint see this map http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/t11n_afr.html

i have also been experiencing no signal on MBCs W3A, also Go Africa for sometime now.

@ Enitan
How you dey na? i no dey even see you for msg, haba wetin happen?

@ Sathob

Thanks for your indepth research and explanation, I really appreciate what you have done, keep up the good work.

twinstaiye:
Yeah, I have heard of it too. Was it not the one that use two dish?

See Pictures of Infinity

matthee:
Good day all.
please which Decoder is the best now for FTA's and which type is used for this CRTV (Crown Royals TV network) then where to get it and how much it might cost. I get this CRTV but the rest stations are on Audio, I hope there is a decoder that will get the stations out. Thanks guy i will be waiting for your usual cooperation. Long live all you Guru's in the house.

George_D:
@matthee,
[b]If you want to enjoy
them, get multi-tv digibox or daarsat decoder.

George, what he need is HD the highlighted part shows he is already receiving Astra.

@ matthee
What you need is HD Receiver either you go for Daarsat Package =N=18k or you contact this poster

adewest:
@ Blessonmak, limited qty of this my echolink 7020 HD model is currently avail. U can give me a call if u r intrested.