How to Install a Satellite Dish for DSTV, MyTV, Etc. Yourself
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.
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.
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.
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.
After mounting your satellite dish correctly, you can safely move ahead to the next and final steps covered below.
Related Tips:
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.
The angular position, polarity and transponder values for popular satellite providers is listed below for your perusal.
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.
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)
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.
Related Tips:
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.
The angular position, polarity and transponder values for popular satellite providers is listed below for your perusal.
Orbital Position & Frequencies for Popular Digital Satellite TV Providers
For Multi TV: Use –- TURK SAT
- Orbital Position – EAST
- Transponder Frequency: 12553, 12525 or 12522
- Symbol rate: 19531, 27500 or 27000
- Polarity: Vertical
- EUTEL SAT W4 or Eutelsat W7
- Orbital Position – EAST
- Transponder Frequency: 12245, 11900, or 11747
- Symbol rate: 27500
- Polarity: Horizontal
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ReplyDeletePlease i found it difficult to use GTMEDIA V8 SETTLITE DIGITAL FINDER for DStv signal search. I do use Satellite ; Eutelsat 9B Ku,i do find signal for this satellite and it brings pictures on Gtmedia but if i connect with dstv decoder the signal is not there. Please help to understand the procedures on how to use GTMEDIA
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