To provide many satellite dish points

To provide many satellite dish points, (e.g. FREESAT,ZUKU,STARTIME or DSTV) around the house or in each room of your house you either need a quatro LNB on your dish or a quatro LNB dish kit  and a 5 input multiswitch (multiswitches are usually situated in a loft or cupboard or central area.)

QUAD LNBs

3 in 4 out multiswitch

The quatro or quad LNB (with 4 outputs) feeds the multiswitch(4: 8 port) using 4 LNB cable and it is best to put two outlets in each room as it may be that twin tuner receivers(that record one channel as you watch another) may be needed. (These are called twin tuner PVRs) If so s   Use twin coaxial cable to each room and use the twin wall plate outlets in each room.

For (e.g.) 6 rooms a 12 output multiswitch would be used. An aerial can be fed into the 5th input of the multiswitch if required. Using a wall plate which has a diplexer built in, two satellite points and an aerial point is available. The UHF aerial signal is added to the satellite signal by the multiswitch and goes down the same wire as the satellite signal. If two or three aerials are required e.g. TV, FM and DAB radio, a 3 way combiner can be fitted on the roof and the one cable from that unit goes into the 5th input of the multiswitch. Again the appropriate wall plate is needed to separate them all out again.

DIAGRAMATIC REPRESENTATION

      

        

 Advantages of using multiswitch instead of a splitter

• wider range of programming which will be available to people living in a home or apartment building. Everyone will have access to all stations. Frequency and polarization won't overlap, as they do with satellite splitters. Multiswitches also look better, since you won't have multiple satellite dishes taking up space on your patio or balcony. Less dishes mean more space and less maintenance.

• cost savings. You will only need to buy one dish, one multiswitch, quad LNB, coaxial cable, and receiver. You won't pay any extra to watch TV. For the price you pay, you'll get a significantly greater variety of programming than you do with a cable connection
• Signal is not attenuated as when using a splitter and therefore there is no need of signal amplifier.

NB:
With the above discussed system, each point will  need a receiver. i will share with you soon on how to use one receiver with other televisions.

RECEIVER ADVICE

 I have decide to write this article to assist my clients who have been calling, texting and emailing me to inquire about the various receivers we have in the market.
Today I have these to share with you:

There are 2 types of receivers,

1. Standard receivers

These can be free to air receivers or Free to air with a card slots and or cam slots. These receivers will tune to any channels on any satellites as they have the following software protocols built into them, Diseqc 1.0 and 1.1 for switching between multiple LNBs and Diseqc 1.2 and USALS for controlling a Diseqc motor on a motorised dish.
There is no extended program guide, only now and next. (However some receivers run a Linux operating system and it may be possible to find a "plug in" online which can offer an extended program guide for various program providers but this does need some research and IT skills.

2. Dedicated receivers like Freesat receivers. 

These receivers (Like Sky receivers). They have been built and licensed by a particular program provider. (A program provider usually has a number of channels on a satellite as do other program providers who share the same satellite and there may be individual channels on a satellite which are not part of a package). Dedicated receivers often have pre-programmed tuning capabilities and it may not be possible to scan in other channels / frequencies at all (e.g. freesat receivers) or if you can, only the frequencies it lets you and not others
(like Sky receivers - if you scan another satellite with a Sky receivers it will only scan in a % of channels, once the ones which coincidentally have the same frequencies as Sky channels).
Dedicated receivers usually do not have Diseqc 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 or USALS. Freesat and Sky receivers do not although other receivers on other satellites may have. (e.g. The dedicated "Strong" receivers for the French TNTsat package do have Diseqc and will tune to anything). Freesat receivers and Sky receivers are therefore not suitable for other satellites.
Dedicated receivers like freesat receivers do, however, come with a licensed extended program guide (EPG) which looks forward (usually about) a week. The latest generation freesat and Sky receivers also have an EPG which can look backwards a week (this requires and internet connection with a UK IP address). It is also called catch up TV.

Then there are single tuner receivers and twin tuner PVRs.

The latter lets you record one channel and watch another. Cheaper twin tuner PVRs may only have an external USB hard drive option. The top of the range receiver from any manufacturer is a twin tuner PVR with an internal hard drive option.

There are receivers with a standard operating system and receivers with a Linux operating system

This does not apply to dedicated receivers (only from option "1" above). Some receivers run a standard operating system and some receivers run a Linux operating system. The latter is more complicated, it is best if you have reasonable IT skills but you are rewarded with more features - Examples are - better IT connect-ability, steaming, and control from any computer in the world through a web interface.

Receivers Examples.

Good free to air (or card / CI) single tuner receivers -
(Note - single tuner receivers usually have USB and an external hard drive or USB stick can be connected so the the channel you are on can be recorded now or later).
Low cost -  freesat v7, v7 max, Fretek 220 fantassy, Sab sky 4780 HD (Sky is the model name - nothing to do with Sky TV) & others
If a larger budget is available -Technomate TM5402 and Technomate TM6902
Linux single tuner - Vu+ solo SE Version 2 
Good twin tuner PVR receivers -
Low cost twin tuner PVR -Icecrypt s3750
Ultimate twin tuner PVR -Icecrypt s6600
(The Icecrypt s6000 is Linux but unusually is as easy to use as a standard receiver).
and advanced Linux twin tuner PVR - Vu+Duo 2
Good dedicated UK single tuner receivers -
Freesat -Humax HB-1100S
Sky -DRX595
Good dedicated UK twin tuner PVR receivers -
Freesat -Humax HDR1100s
Sky - DRX895 

NigComSat-1R @ 42.5° East

New channels have been added on Nigcomsat 42.5 degrees E with frequency 12518 H 29500. These are the following:

Fox News Channel

Fox Life Africa

Arewa24

Wazobia TV

Wazobia Max

TVC Entertainment

TVC News

Televistia

Spice

Silverbird

Soundcity TV

Manara TV

ARTV Kano

NTA International

AIT International

CGTN

Nat Geo Channel

MoneyMart TV

Chirstianity

Sport 1

NW Sport 1

NW Cinema

NW Magazine

TVT

TVC Entertainment

TVC News

TFM Senegal

Olé TFM

DBS TV

Dieu TV

LoveWorld Plus

La Beninoise TV

La Chreteinne TV

Uniafrica TV

Rayuwa TV

Brekete Family TV

Kids Zone

Noma TV

Preach TV

Hargako TV

Ma TV

Peoples TV

  If your dish is facing that direction, just do a blindscan.
for now varzish sport HD now encrypted on both NSS-12 57E and yahsat 52.5 E.

Chinese package on NSS 12 57°E

Chinese television package have been added to MTN WORLD WIDE on NSS 12 @ 57 degree East C band, global beam with frequency 4097 R 30000. The channels can be accessible with powervu supported receivers. The channels are: Beijing TV, Zhejiang TV, CCTV 4, CCTV 6, China Movie Channel, CCTV Entertainment, Jiangsu TV, Shanghai TV. If your dish is facing  this position, simply run a blind scan on your decorder.

satellite finders

We now sell digital satellite finders at our shop. For more details please check on the right bar on "items we sell". Freesat v8 finder and discovery challenger are the two types that we sell for now.
Soon we will sell Combo finders I.e T2/S2 finders.
Welcome and God bless you all.

Startimes terrestial

Startimes have unscrambled all it channels on  terestial platform. Enjoy while they are still there.