African Satellite World and Sat Gear

[gaza man]

Anyone who has experienced drop in signal for 10846v (BBC ent,extreme sport VH1) on 7E. On my end it is no longer showing and it used to be one of the strongest

same on ma end also e2 is showing ma 4922 but not on 4950 what can b the problem it used to show when I patch it with ver 2.8

 

[abu i-man]

Anyone who has experienced drop in signal for 10846v (BBC ent,extreme sport VH1) on 7E. On my end it is no longer showing and it used to be one of the strongest

I experienced this too. Made me spend the whole afternoon outside tweaking and tweaking. Only Bbc knowledge and e2 reporting strong signals my end.

 

[heviejob]

What dish sizes are you using? Could it be the migration has began?

 

[kalisto baba]

Morning members, i seem to have lost mbc channels on nilesat while cnn and aljazeera are cracking badly, any techie willing to assist me align the dish kindly pm me your number. i live in Kasarani nairobi. thx

 

[FTA-Nash]

Seems like the FTA MBCs on the Eutelsat 8West-A are pulling in a ‘disappearing act', similar to the one done earlier on Eutelsat 7West-A !? Last evening I even watched ‘The A-Team' on MBC2 at around 11Pm. From today 6Am, the channels have been renamed and there is a banner in Arabic advertising ‘MBC PRO Sports' channels!

The only part I can guess on that banner is ‘tune in to 11559'. I tried that on both the 7West and 8West Sats but the MBC are absent there! I have visited the website given: www.mbcprosports.net ; but all I see / understand there is a big clock counting down like a 'time-bomb!
Now showing 83hours remaining. Could be countdown to launch or something ...........
Maybe someone who understands the language can assist here ………………… Time to move the dishes again? ASAS re-loaded!

 

[abu i-man]

Seems like the FTA MBCs on the Eutelsat 8West-A are pulling in a ‘disappearing act’, similar to the one done earlier on Eutelsat 7West-A !? Last evening I even watched ‘The A-Team’ on MBC2 at around 11Pm. From today 6Am, the channels have been renamed and there is a banner in Arabic advertising ‘MBC PRO Sports’ channels!

The only part I can guess on that banner is ‘tune in to 11559’. I tried that on both the 7West and 8West Sats but the MBC are absent there! Maybe someone who understands the language can interpret the message for us………………… Time to more the dishes again?

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Hahaha. My man! You could only grasp the frequency? Anyway Mbc is in the process of rolling out sports channels. They have began test transmissions on 11470 v 27500 which i guess is interfering with the movie channels.
Disclaimer: Sina degree in arabic, so this info may not be 100% accurate.

 

[abu i-man]

Statement from Mbc last week....

MBC group on Thursday won the rights to
broadcast Saudi Arabia’s Professional Football
League and King Cup matches for the next 10
years. The deal is worth 4.1 billion Saudi Riyals (around
$1.093 billion). The value of the Saudi
Professional League and the King’s Cup has
increased from 150 million Riyals to 410 million
per season. The Saudi Arabian Football Federation issued a
statement on MBC attaining the broadcast rights
following its alliance with al-Riyadiah channel. “After reviewing all proposals to sell the broadcast
rights, we chose the best one presented from the
alliance between the Saudi [al-Riyadiyah] channel
and MBC group. The [agreement] is worth 4.1
Saudi billion riyals and is valid for 10 years,” the
statement read. “The Saudi professional football games, the
King’s Cup, the Crown Prince Cup and the Super
Cup will be broadcast on MBC channel. The
Saudi League First Division, Prince Faisal bin
Fahad Cup, the Youth League U20 and Youngster
League U17 will be broadcast on al-Riyadiyah,” the statement also said, adding that Ahmad Eid, head of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation,
will sign the agreement with representatives from MBC and al-Riyadiyah on Aug. 7 in Riyadh. The financial returns will be distributed to clubs
via two different contracts. Saudi professional
football teams will attain returns from MBC’s
contract while the Saudi League’s first and
second divisions will attain returns from the Al- Riyadiyah channel. In other news, MBC hired Saudi sports commentator Jaafar al-Suleih and Emirati sports commentators Amer Abdullah and Fares Aawad to commentate on football games. It also agreed to work with reporters Abdullah al-Odayabi, Abdulrahman al-Dehaim, Badr Rafea and Riyad al-Mezher.

 

[Vince9]

Hi Edson,
Thanks for the confirmation about the dail-up number. I would never guess this. i am going to try this tonight when i go back and will report back to you tomorrow. This number could be the only missing link in my connection. I am using an MTN modem.
I will surely give you feed-back on the results as soon as possible.:cool2:

 

[FTA-Nash]

Anyone who has experienced drop in signal for 10846v (BBC ent,extreme sport VH1) on 7E. On my end it is no longer showing and it used to be one of the strongest

Yeah. I have noticed the TP/above channels are now missing. And a couple of others too.

 

[Vince9]

morning guys.I have a question:how do I update my srt 4922 to get satellites which dont show on menu e.g 3.1e,paksat,apstar 7 etc ? is there some software I can download considering I have no wifi accessibility/connection.

Hi BRO,
I don't know about the software part but what i know is that you can add those missing Satellites or even rename existing ones that you don't need to the ones you need, position your dish to the new satellite, input the correct TPS, once you have green bars, blind scan. Then you will always find the new Satellite on your list
hope this helps otherwise, i can provide you more details on this.

 

[Boss Jacobs]

Fta Nash,it means from Saudi Arabia and the gulf states levant 11470,vertical 6/5-27500,from North Africa 11559 vertical 6/5 27500.to follow the most important football competitions for Arabia for the season 2014/2015

 

[Boss Jacobs]

Hahaha. My man! You could only grasp the frequency? Anyway Mbc is in the process of rolling out sports channels. They have began test transmissions on 11470 v 27500 which i guess is interfering with the movie channels.
Disclaimer: Sina degree in arabic, so this info may not be 100% accurate.

So is there anything that can be done to fix this....

 

[FTA-Nash]

Extra Lessons in FTA:
Recently, my entire 8-LNB set-up went ‘off-air' for over one week. All I could get was ‘No-Signal' on the SRT-4922. Tried a different decoder but the results were the same! Went up the roof with the WS-6906 Digital Sat-meter and confirmed that all the channels were up-and-running on all the LNBs up to the point of filtering-in into the 8 X 1 Eurostar DiSEqC switch;

I noticed that the 6-month old DiSEqC switch was corroded at the bottom – so I replaced it with a new one. Back to the house, the scan results were the same …. No Signal !
So who is the culprit here? Let's inspect the 4-year old, cheap, 30 meter ‘Jacobs' RG6 cable I have been using since the beginning of FTA world on this multi-LNB setup …. Well, since February 2010.

Guess what? You are right. Under that black insulation, the whole 30 meters of cable is charred / burnt / corroded ……... and such similar grotesque terminologies. Unbelievable!

I guess, either the cable could not cope with the daily traffic from my ‘demanding' set-up; or an alien Bug from outer space found its way through one of the LNBs into the DiSEqC switch and caused a thunderous blast in the circuitry during one of my many blind-scanning escapades / ‘hunting expeditions'.

Next step, rushed to one of the trusted shops on Luthuli Avenue, bought a 35 meter ‘genuine' Astel RG6 cable and replaced the old cable …………… and …… Bingo! ….….. The system roared back to life! Even the 7East-Europe beam goodies added 2-3% quality level above the former reading!

Life Lesson learnt: Always use genuine RG6 cable and FTA paraphernalia, ‘no matter how much it costs'.
You know, that cable carries up to 18 Volts of FTA traffic / electric energy at any one time!

 

[FTA-Nash]

Fta Nash,it means from Saudi Arabia and the gulf states levant 11470,vertical 6/5-27500,from North Africa 11559 vertical 6/5 27500.to follow the most important football competitions for Arabia for the season 2014/2015

Thanks Boss Jacobs. Lets wait and see what unfolds. Maybe they will add extra new channels to the existing MBC line-up to cater for the football season.

 

[Boss Jacobs]

Thanks Boss Jacobs. Lets wait and see what unfolds. Maybe they will add extra new channels to the existing MBC line-up to cater for the football season.

Fta nash what should we now do coz the mbcs have disappeared...

 

[abu i-man]

Fta nash what should we now do coz the mbcs have disappeared...

I guess we have to play the waiting game.
Wait and see they say!

 

[abu i-man]

Extra Lessons in FTA:
Recently, my entire 8-LNB set-up went ‘off-air’ for over one week. All I could get was ‘No-Signal’ on the SRT-4922. Tried a different decoder but the results were the same! Went up the roof with the WS-6906 Digital Sat-meter and confirmed that all the channels were up-and-running on all the LNBs up to the point of filtering-in into the 8 X 1 Eurostar DiSEqC switch;

I noticed that the 6-month old DiSEqC switch was corroded at the bottom – so I replaced it with a new one. Back to the house, the scan results were the same …. No Signal !
So who is the culprit here? Let’s inspect the 4-year old, cheap, 30 meter ‘Jacobs’ RG6 cable I have been using since the beginning of FTA world on this multi-LNB setup …. Well, since February 2010.

Guess what? You are right. Under that black insulation, the whole 30 meters of cable is charred / burnt / corroded ……... and such similar grotesque terminologies. Unbelievable!

I guess, either the cable could not cope with the daily traffic from my ‘demanding’ set-up; or an alien Bug from outer space found its way through one of the LNBs into the DiSEqC switch and caused a thunderous blast in the circuitry during one of my many blind-scanning escapades / ‘hunting expeditions’.

Next step, rushed to one of the trusted shops on Luthuli Avenue, bought a 35 meter ‘genuine’ Astel RG6 cable and replaced the old cable …………… and …… Bingo! ….….. The system roared back to life! Even the 7East-Europe beam goodies added 2-3% quality level above the former reading!

Life Lesson learnt: Always use genuine RG6 cable and FTA paraphernalia, ‘no matter how much it costs’.
You know, that cable carries up to 18 Volts of FTA traffic / electric energy at any one time!

Well! Well! Well! What do we know!
A few pages back i wrote about my predicament on the same problem you were experiencing. I bought a couple of new diseqc switches but till this very moment i am experiencing intermittent loss of signal.
Asante sana for this.
Off to buy new cable.

 

[FTA-Nash]

I guess we have to play the waiting game.
Wait and see they say!

Boss Jacobs / abu i-man, The worst that can happen is if the MBCs are moved to another beam that is out of reach from this part of the world, using the available dish sizes!

 

[lemayian]

I sometimes find corrosive substances in the DiSEqC switch and LNBs which sometimes affect the picture quality. I have always blamed the weather for my predicament and never suspected the quality of the cable. Thank you Bro', i will definitely check my setup.

 

[lemayian]

Mine too has been very unstable on 7 E on my 6 ft prime focus with Fuji single Lnb. I have tried tweaking with no success. What next?