Simple step to install your dstv
We decided to come up with a complete DIY guide for
installing or setting up a satellite dish & decoder for DSTV, MyTV, Multi
TV & etcetera without paying an installer/technician after we recently
installed one for a student who complained of having not even half our
installation fees.
We concluded that a guide like this can help a lot of
persons install their satellite dishes without a bug of any kind.
Following this guide step by step will help you install and
setup your satellite Tv dishes without the usual missing channels, poor signal
and related issues that happens as a result of low technical know-how for
installing satellite dishes.
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Tools Needed
Extra Tools
How to Setup the Satellite Dish
How to Configure the Decoder, Activate smart card and
free-to-air channels for first viewing
Orbital Position & Frequencies for Popular Digital
Satellite TV Providers
Scanning for Satellite TV Channels & Completing the
Setup
DSTV Free-to-air Channels
How to activate a DSTV Smart Card for First Use
What if there’s
the E16 Error Code?
How to Record TV Shows and Programs
Tools Needed
The Satellite dish
and components (ie. Reflector, Lnbf and Decoder. They are usually sold
together)
A good hammer
4 Pieces of 3-inches nail
I packet of cable clips (the one with nails)
10/13, and 14/15 combination, flat or ring spanner(s)
A cutter (or electric pliers)
A Black Solution Tape (cellotape)
A Screwdriver
F connectors (a minimum of 2) and Coaxial cables (1 full
roll of Coaxial cable is about NGN1,000, $9)
A digital satellite signal meter (We used a strong decoder
and so will be using it for references throughout this tutorial)
Extra Tools
This part is necessary if you are going to use a pipe and
not the house roof, wall or wooden fetcher board before the roof.
The pipe must be fixed on an open space without trees and/or
other hindrances. Below is the tools necessary for mounting your satellite dish
in a open space outside the building or with a longer pipe.
A cup of Cement mixed with stones
a trowel
Cutlass or shovel (for digging of hole)
A paint of sand and a bucket of water
How to Setup the Satellite Dish
The satellite dish components will usually come in separate
parts and must be arranged in such a way that makes it easy to receive signals
and withstand strong wind.
The arrangement of the dish components depends on where you
intend mounting it on, if you are going to mount it on a root, wall or wooden
fetcher board of the building, look at the image below for how it should be
coupled.
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If you intend mounting it on a pipe outside the building,
look at the image below and use the tools listed in the extra tools section
above to make it solid and well grounded.
The last things needed to complete this section is to fit in
the screws and nuts in the reflector’s
(dish) rear and connect the LNBF accordingly. See images below for the tips.
Save
After mounting your satellite dish correctly, you can safely
move ahead to the next and final steps covered below.
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How to Configure the Decoder, Activate smart card and
free-to-air channels for first viewing
This is the part where your digital satellite signal meter
will come into play. Plug the Coaxial cable into the Lnbf base of the main dish assembly and then plug
the other end of the cable into the LNB in (Antenna) port in the back of a
digital satellite signal meter or a strong decoder.
Complete the second part also known as dish alignment by
locating east, west, points and degrees depending on the satellite tv provider
you intend doing the setup for.
Do note that for this tutorial, we used a strong decoder (as
a digital satellite signal meter) to install a DSTV satellite dish and then
connected the lnbf cable to the DSTV decoder to watch all the channels
available for our selected plan.
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