Gangsta101:

Enitan,

Yes, i do agree with you that no matter the size of your dish, there are still some satellites one will not be able to catch. My emphasis has always been on Hotbird, i have studied their map on lyngsat, and i believe on should be able to get a good enough reception with a 4M dish, but then again that is just my opinion. about using the site dishpointer, i don't know how they caliberated their site, but it doesn't always give you reliable values for dish sizes, and in most cases just tells you that you are outside the footprint. but if i remember well, Enigma once posted a link about a guy in Brazil who was able to receive some freqs on i think Hotbird with a 6m dish (or was it 8m, i can't remember now). If he can do it in Brazil, i think i should be able to do it in Nigeria (yes, i know it doesn't always follow, i still remember that obnelly receives MBC persia in Ibadan  and i can't receive it here in Kaduna).

Sylvie11,

Man, I understand your predicament, once that Nilesat bird starts with you, you will wish you never ever heard of it, but to receiver Nilesat, what you need is patience (which i see you have a lot of) and some guidance. since you have tracked Nss7 before, it gives you a good idea of where Nilesat should be. what i usually do is that i define where my south pole should be and use it as my outermost margin, then i use use NSS7 as the western-most margin, i draw some lines on the floor to delineate those, then i try to mark out a 10 degree chord between those 2 points where i feel Nilesat should fall into, and then concentrate most of my time on that arc. please note, after you get Nss7 you must take it to the weakest freq (not GTV sha), and then tweak your LNB so you are getting the best possible signal before you start trying out Nilesat. you start from where you got Nss7, start moving the dish gradually southwards in minute degrees, for each small step you take southwards, change the elevation of the dish gradually from the horizontal level, up to face the skies and downwards again. you have to do this slowly while watching the TV (i believe you have knowledge of this before if not you wouldn't spend 5 hours under the sun) But there are certain key points you must note. first the tracking freq is 10758 v 27500, secondly, the lnb skew is very crucial, i wish i could describe it, it is similar to that of NSS7 though, but just in case, check up someone who is currently receiving Nilesat and see.

Chidi4u,

what is your dish size and location?

badaru1:

@ sylve11

To track nile you have to use either sky x receiver or strong 4652. You can't get nile with 4653x,that receiver is no suitable for tracking. You also need to be patient.

salamander:

@gangsta

Do you get Eurobird2 @25.5 in Lagos? If yes, with what dish size?

maddoxoj:

@All
How una dey? I can see things are progressing nicely. I just want to to say that you can actually receive any signal on any satellite as long as you have the right size of dish, good lnb, receiver, accessories and a bit of reverse engineering in some cases. However, the catch is that the targeted bird must not be behind or beyond your horizon. Nigeria's horizon starts around Intelsat 7/10 (68°E) and ends around Intelsat 805 (55.5°W). When a bird is outside of your horizon it means your downlink equipment cannot "see" the bird so cannot communicate with it, no matter what. Bottom line is, you can track any bird all, you have to do is multiply EIRP (Beam Power) by the degrees of distance between your location and the weakest foot print of the bird to determine the size of dish that can possibly nail the bird. If you can get a 100meter dish it would pick anything you want (and you can make a nice Olympic swimming pool out of it too!!!!!).

Don't give up on any bird, just find a big dish.

ceejay80s:

@ all any new fta stations on strong decoder? And do i need to scan to get any new fta station? All i can recieve is eTV and christian channels, Your replies will be appreciated

Gangsta101:

Fasone,

Did u patch those 4652 at any time in the past? keys don't work on strong decoders with official software. (don't know about the new models though.) but if you have patched them before and they still don't work, try loading a patch from the web via rs232 cable or from another decoder that currently opens disney (4652 that is).

pitodenz:

@ enigma
thanks for ur response but is the cam the same as card reader?

fasone:

the sets are 4650 model and has mytv logo when starting up and i was able to get to key edit menu with 8282, do u think they have not been patched before?

Enigma:


@fasone
This can only mean that the receiver was patched at some point. Original software that will come with the receiver on manufacture will not allow keys to be put in or things like 8282. Having said that, I notice that most Strong receivers in Naija are patched and I have been wondering what kind of arrangement exists between the manufacturer and distributors to achieve this.

captainus:

@ Gangsta101, Enigma

I got the key to KBS World(Intel 7/10@ 68.5 c band). However  when I input the keys manually, it would not open the channel;though when I input the keys to AflamTV(W6) it worked.Could it be that my receiver(4653X) was not fully patched?

sathob:

@captainus
I have been spending sometime on the net to convince myself on certain facts, I will communicate any findings to you soon. But, thanks to all the big guys of sat in the house, for their contribution is helping a lot. Thanks to Maddoxoj, Enigma, Gangsta and all. By the way do you receive SABC 1,2,3,4 on your setup?