19/10/2022
how to get free to air channels
Free to air channels in Cameroon
Nowadays, only a few will subscribe to paid channels because subscription fees keep rising.
But for how long will you keep spending money on paid channels when they’re many free ways in which you could get channels of your choice for free and free forever.
In today’s tutorial, we gonna be looking on ways an individual with little or no TECH Skills can successfully install FTA channels at home not only in Cameroon but all over the world for free without using expensive instruments like the satellite finder.
I will walk you through a successful installation process even if you’ve never hold a screwdriver before. Don’t worry about your field of expertise, little or no technical knowledge is required
Now, what are FTA channels?
FTA (Free To Air) also refers to channels and broadcasters providing content for which no subscription fee is expected, even though they may be delivered to the viewer by another carrier for which a subscription is required.
You watch channels for free as long as you can without paying a dime to anybody.
Skills Required:
little or no technical skill needed.
Technique:
Rotate while watching technique
(No satellite finder needed in this tutorial)
Before we dive into the installation process, let’s start by getting the necessary tools and equipment needed for this tutorial.
Tools Needed
No Name Quantity
01 A Star/Flat screwdriver 01
02 A 10 Spanner 01
03 Safety gloves /
Equipment Needed
No Name Quantity
1 TV set 01
2 LNB 01
3 Digital decoder receiver (DigiSat 9800) 01
4 Coaxial cable and screws 02 screws
5 Satellite dish 01
6 Video cable (AV) /
The POSITIONING
Now, let’s look at a very important aspect that must be taken into consideration before carrying out the installation successfully, THE POSITIONING, yes the positioning
You’ll not want to install a satellite dish inside the room and also in a place where it can easily be obstructed by objects.
Make sure the area where you are about to install your dish is free from objects that can obstruct the dish from facing the sky.
ASSEMBLING THE SATELLITE DISH
After purchasing the dish, you will find a manual that will help you assemble the dish.
Watch the video that shows you how to assemble a new dish from scratch. Coming soon.
mounted dish
MOUNTING THE DISH
After you must have been done with assembling of the dish, it’s now time to mount the dish up, facing the sky with an elevated angle to start receiving free-to-air channels.
Some people mount theirs on the roof tops which is not advisable. Its better to get a wooden or iron bar for that.
satellite dish already mounted
LINKING equipment together
connection diagram
Now, link the LNB mounted with the dish to your digital decoder receiver using the coaxial cable. Connect the coaxial cable using the screws from the satellite dish (LNB) to the receiver. Make sure it enters the LNB input of the decoder.
linking-connections
SETTING UP
Now, at this step we are almost getting to the final stage of receiving our channels for free.
Power up the TV and the receiver
Press “MENU” on the receiver’s remote control
Navigate to “SATELITE SETTING” and press enter
Now select “TRANSPONDER” and choose a satellite, eg Eutelsat 16A, Sesat 1 @ 16 degrees East
Enter the “FREQUENCY AND SYMBOL RATE”. For this example, we will use
Frequency = 11094MHz
Symbol Rate = 30000MHz
Now start rotating the dish from east to west and from a higher elevated angle to a lower elevated angle until you have a good quality signal indicated like the one below.
signal and quality of dish
Note: Make sure you lost eye contact with the TV while rotating the dish. ( this the easiest and free way to easily search for signal quality.
After you must have gotten the signal, save it and return to the satellite.
preparing to scan channels
Now press the button indicated for scanning on the remote and choose FTA (free to air) and also select “blind Scan”.
start scanning channels
Now press ok and it should begin scanning for free to air channels.
saving channels
After that is done, save it and start enjoying free channels forever.
