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Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by adubam(m): 3:58pm On Feb 04, 2021
psucc:


Please I am having a running battle with my decoder. Strong 4955. It shows "signal is weak". I invited the installer who came and work on the installation with his decoder and it works fine and cool but when he replaced it with mind all signal gone.

I took it to a technician who tested and said that the signal is ok but when plugged back home it goes off air. Just Tuesday,the installer came back to do the installation, after 3hours battle, he installed Eutelsat 5w and Astra 2 but after the machine was switched off, the signal all gone again.

He suggested I buy a new decoder.

Please I need advice on which that will give me that desired satisfaction?
Pls I need to buy one today. Can't afford to stay "noiseless". My budget is N10k or less

Signal loss/weak reception is a very complicated problem with strong Decoder but it rarely occurs. What you need to do:

Try download a different software version from the once you have in your current decoder. This is to check if it is a software problem.

If it persist then you might need to check the hardware but because the recent decoder panels are just complicated and most Nigeria technicians do not have the technical know-how to handle it then you may need to buy a new decoder.

With your budget of 10K you can get a C-sat decoder for 7K.

Note: I had early in my previous post here supported and condemned C-sat 8 pro decoders but if you must get one then do the following:

Get a good surge protect switch, stabilizer or better still place in under UPS.

Good Luck.
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by psucc(m): 4:07pm On Feb 04, 2021
dlollyboi:

Why not try reloading the firmware and if that doesn't work probably the tuner has issue. From the sat u tracking it seems you have a bud, buy a forever server decoder like mediastar, tiger, etc because the latest strong 497s doesn't support patch for biss, cccam, powervu,etc.
Thanks for this. Please how reliable is the mediastar or tiger decoders, their prices and model.
2. How can I reload the firmware just to try a luck?
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by dlollyboi: 4:21pm On Feb 04, 2021
psucc:
Thanks for this. Please how reliable is the mediastar or tiger decoders, their prices and model.
2. How can I reload the firmware just to try a luck?
Download the software from strong website, copy into a clean flash and rename to rom.bin
Switch off the decoder and insert the flash drive
Switch on the decoder while pressing the standby button, the upgrade should be done. They are reliable but it's selling point is the forever server if you have a big dish.
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by dlollyboi: 4:24pm On Feb 04, 2021
adubam:


Signal loss/weak reception is a very complicated problem with strong Decoder but it rarely occurs. What you need to do:

Try download a different software version from the once you have in your current decoder. This is to check if it is a software problem.

If it persist then you might need to check the hardware but because the recent decoder panels are just complicated and most Nigeria technicians do not have the technical know-how to handle it then you may need to buy a new decoder.

With your budget of 10K you can get a C-sat decoder for 7K.

Note: I had early in my previous post here supported and condemned C-sat 8 pro decoders but if you must get one then do the following:

Get a good surge protect switch, stabilizer or better still place in under UPS.

Good Luck.
Stabilizer and UPS can't protect decoder from surges. If you can not get a surge arrester, then always disconnect the decoder from mains when not in use
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by psucc(m): 4:37pm On Feb 04, 2021
Wonderful! I will give it a try. My dish size are 60cm and 1m.
dlollyboi:

Download the software from strong website, copy into a clean flash and rename to rom.bin
Switch off the decoder and insert the flash drive
Switch on the decoder while pressing the standby button, the upgrade should be done. They are reliable but it's selling point is the forever server if you have a big dish.
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by adubam(m): 5:00pm On Feb 04, 2021
dlollyboi:

Stabilizer and UPS can't protect decoder from surges. If you can not get a surge arrester, then always disconnect the decoder from mains when not in use

UPS does get APC UPS and thank me latter.
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by dlollyboi: 8:29pm On Feb 04, 2021
adubam:


UPS does get APC UPS and thank me latter.
Do you understand how surges work in decoder?
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by Xmen149(m): 8:47pm On Feb 04, 2021
dlollyboi:

Do you understand how surges work in decoder?

let me get

the lnbf for 45E is directly abobe 42.5E while that of 51.5E is dircetly above 45E right?

can you give strong tracking TP for 51.5E and 45E please i dey learn embarassed
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by harizonal123(m): 10:49pm On Feb 04, 2021
[quote author=Digitman post=98634704][/quote]
Which is your favorite channel there?
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by davosea(m): 10:58pm On Feb 04, 2021
Good pm members in the house whats the best frequency to track nigcomsat
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by davosea(m): 3:11am On Feb 05, 2021
Digitman:


It's working
good morning bro please what is the best frequency to track nigcomsat @ now?
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by dlollyboi: 6:19am On Feb 05, 2021
Xmen149:


let me get

the lnbf for 45E is directly abobe 42.5E while that of 51.5E is dircetly above 45E right?

can you give strong tracking TP for 51.5E and 45E please i dey learn embarassed
45E is currently off
51 - 11050v30000/11090h30000
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by beejay28: 7:50am On Feb 05, 2021
I got one from a friend.
Thanks
ChelseaArmy:
if you are ready what's your location!
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by ChelseaArmy(m): 7:57am On Feb 05, 2021
beejay28:
I got one from a friend. Thanks
ok
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by bestofluck: 8:13am On Feb 05, 2021
Who has csat c8 pro to sell ? Pls inbox me
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by Ojochogwusunny(m): 8:16am On Feb 05, 2021
bestofluck:
Who has csat c8 pro to sell ? Pls inbox me
I have one.....it's 13.5k plus the delivery fees...contact me on 09075812021

Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by Digitman(m): 10:19am On Feb 05, 2021
davosea:
good morning bro please what is the best frequency to track nigcomsat @ now?

12538 H 5000
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by Digitman(m): 10:42am On Feb 05, 2021
harizonal123:

Which is your favorite channel there?


For the record, the channels there are currently off. However, in terms of a favourite channel in that particular sat. My personal view will be out of place because the channel that really hyped that sat, was the sport station. Which is really not my thing anymore.

I am more of local/foreign news and foreign TV series. Which has shifted my attention to 4.8degree east C-band.

Where I can watch the likes of

Ait
Tvc news
Tvc entertainment
Hip TV
Wap tv

And there I was so outdated in the satellite tv world, until a brother here reminded me of what I have forgotten for so long to try.

So I connected a modem to my 4954 decoder and the free one year account that came with it gave me full access to watch the AFN package there. There I was so blinded by the hype that only forever server could do that back then.

Anyways make we leave the matter silently on that note that 4954 matter nor only end for just multistream

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Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by davosea(m): 12:03am On Feb 06, 2021
Good a.m members in the house how can someon connect a primary and secondary i.e room A and room B to the palour?
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by davosea(m): 12:04am On Feb 06, 2021
davosea:
Good a.m members in the house how can someone connect a primary and secondary dstv decoder i.e room A and room B to the palour?
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by davosea(m): 12:22am On Feb 06, 2021
Using a RF moderator and A.V cord plugged to my dstv,i noticed the picture in my tv room A and B aint clear atall it just seems a black and white picture on my tv please what do i really need to get a clearer images on both tv A and B?
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by Digitman(m): 7:34am On Feb 06, 2021
davosea:
Using a RF moderator and A.V cord plugged to my dstv,i noticed the picture in my tv room A and B aint clear atall it just seems a black and white picture on my tv please what do i really need to get a clearer images on both tv A and B?

From my point of view, there is no one answer to this technical issue you are having. So let me outline some of the things that could possibly bring about such.

= substandard Rf modulator

= wrong Av cord ( is it follow come? )

= negative and positive wires in your RF Cable, contacting each other.

= some Rf modulator will bring out more than one same channels on different frequencies when scanning on your TV. The first channel that pops up is never clear and it keeps scanning until it brings out the one with a clear picture quality. So keep your eyes on the TV and watch out for that. Because it will help you know if really the particular modulator you bought can or was doing that. So probably the clearer channel is there but you missed it.

You can still upload a picture of the modulator you're using here. It can still help to give the house a clarity of what you are working with. Thereby giving room for more information to give to you. That is if you have not succeeded in fixing the issue after observing some of the things I listed above.

Best of luck


By the way before I forget to ask, are you the one who did the wiring yourself ? or the house has already been wired and you just plugged in the rf out cable to the TV port on the wall?

If you're not the one that did the wiring yourself.. I will advice you to loose out the each TV port ... The one feeding the connection from the living room where your decoder is and the rest feeding the two TVs. Check to make sure that the cable wires are connected properly. Because I have seen different cases where the electrician that wired the house. Never bothered to connect anything, both in the rf socket and sometimes I had to trace the problem to the roof and notice that the wire coming from the living room. Terminated somewhere in the roof and not loop out to any of the rooms . Thereby eliminating any possibility of current flow.

The above situation can very much make every effort to be fruitless, even if you're using the most expensive modulator in the market.

So please don't overlook but try to confirm

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Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by Gsat: 8:02am On Feb 06, 2021
Good morning gurus, pls is our TV on 32° working on 90cm? Its working on 1.8m BT not receivable on 90 in my area.
Does csat c8+ support biss nd powervu
Tanx.
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by davosea(m): 8:14am On Feb 06, 2021
Digitman:


From my point of view, there is no one answer to this technical issue you are having. So let me outline some of the things that could possibly bring about such.

= substandard Rf modulator

= wrong Av cord ( is it follow come? )

= negative and positive wires in your RF Cable, contacting each other.

= some Rf modulator will bring out more than one same channels on different frequencies when scanning on your TV. The first channel that pops up is never clear and it keeps scanning until it brings out the one with a clear picture quality. So keep your eyes on the TV and watch out for that. Because it will help you know if really the particular modulator you bought can or was doing that. So probably the clearer channel is there but you missed it.

You can still upload a picture of the modulator you're using here. It can still help to give the house a clarity of what you are working with. Thereby giving room for more information to give to you. That is if you have not succeeded in fixing the issue after observing some of the things I listed above.

Best of luck


By the way before I forget to ask, are you the one who did the wiring yourself ? or the house has already been wired and you just plugged in the rf out cable to the TV port on the wall?

If you're not the one that did the wiring yourself.. I will advice you to loose out the each TV port ... The one feeding the connection from the living room where your decoder is and the rest feeding the two TVs. Check to make sure that the cable wires are connected properly. Because I have seen different cases where the electrician that wired the house. Never bothered to connect anything, both in the rf socket and sometimes I had to trace the problem to the roof and notice that the wire coming from the living room. Terminated somewhere in the roof and not loop out to any of the rooms . Thereby eliminating any possibility of current flow.

The above situation can very much make every effort to be fruitless, even if you're using the most expensive modulator in the market.

So please don't overlook but try to confirm
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by davosea(m): 8:15am On Feb 06, 2021
[quote author=davosea post=98791677][/quote]
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by davosea(m): 8:40am On Feb 06, 2021
Digitman:


From my point of view, there is no one answer to this technical issue you are having. So let me outline some of the things that could possibly bring about such.

= substandard Rf modulator

= wrong Av cord ( is it follow come? )

= negative and positive wires in your RF Cable, contacting each other.

= some Rf modulator will bring out more than one same channels on different frequencies when scanning on your TV. The first channel that pops up is never clear and it keeps scanning until it brings out the one with a clear picture quality. So keep your eyes on the TV and watch out for that. Because it will help you know if really the particular modulator you bought can or was doing that. So probably the clearer channel is there but you missed it.

You can still upload a picture of the modulator you're using here. It can still help to give the house a clarity of what you are working with. Thereby giving room for more information to give to you. That is if you have not succeeded in fixing the issue after observing some of the things I listed above.

Best of luck


By the way before I forget to ask, are you the one who did the wiring yourself ? or the house has already been wired and you just plugged in the rf out cable to the TV port on the wall?

If you're not the one that did the wiring yourself.. I will advice you to loose out the each TV port ... The one feeding the connection from the living room where your decoder is and the rest feeding the two TVs. Check to make sure that the cable wires are connected properly. Because I have seen different cases where the electrician that wired the house. Never bothered to connect anything, both in the rf socket and sometimes I had to trace the problem to the roof and notice that the wire coming from the living room. Terminated somewhere in the roof and not loop out to any of the rooms . Thereby eliminating any possibility of current flow.

The above situation can very much make every effort to be fruitless, even if you're using the most expensive modulator in the market.

So please don't overlook but try to confirm
you're really awesome bro this will really answer the question. thanks so much boss.
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by dlollyboi: 8:52am On Feb 06, 2021
Gsat:
Good morning gurus, pls is our TV on 32° working on 90cm? Its working on 1.8m BT not receivable on 90 in my area.
What's your location?
Gsat:
Does csat c8+ support biss nd powervu
Tanx.
Yes
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by SegaWarrior: 8:32pm On Feb 06, 2021
Please house, is 45°E 11555H30000 back NOW?

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Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by dlollyboi: 10:36pm On Feb 06, 2021
SegaWarrior:
Please house, is 45°E
11555H30000 back NOW?
No sir
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by dennisworld1(m): 3:03pm On Feb 07, 2021
I just got 6metre net dish. What and what will i recieve
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by dlollyboi: 5:05pm On Feb 07, 2021
dennisworld1:
I just got 6metre net dish. What and what will i recieve
You should have gotten a fibre dish. Net dish isn't good in attracting signal. You can try 10e 46e cband 13e
Re: Free To Air Satellite Tv General Thread by lateefykn84(m): 7:53pm On Feb 07, 2021
please any ways to unscramble mytv and tstv African

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