These two don't mix, they're like oil and water.
Honestly, it's getting very annoying.

Multichoice, for people who claim to offer entertainment, these rain breaks are really not entertaining.

I recall being in their offices in Westy raining hard outside yet their reception was not being affected at all.This works sometimes,when it starts raining hit menu 13 and let it rescan with the manyunyu see how that goes.

Depends on the dish size - the bigger your dish the less effect rain has on your reception.

Just curious, can i use my DSTV dish with a FTA satellite decoder to access other channels?

In Tz they have pay TV distributed "kienyeji" via cables and has some very interesting channels. Anybody with 411 on how they do this.

Asanteni

I do not have info on getting pay TV via "kienyeji", but I do have info on how to use your DSTV dish with your FTA decoder to accesses "other" - all possible FTA channels.

To access an FTA channel, that signal needs to reach your dish, since you are on KU, then a KU FTA needs to fall on your dish.

Along with the signal falling on the dish, you will need to know the channel's frequency, symbol rate and polarity.

If your FTA decoder has what is known as "blind scan", it will be able to search and pick up the FTA channels for you automatically, these will be the FTA channels in the satellite that your dish is tuned to. Note that some decoders with "blind scan" do not do that job effectively, resulting in some channels not getting picked up automatically, in such a case, you will need to have the channels details so that you can manually tune it.

To find FTA channels, you will first need to find satellites who's footprint cover your area, then investigate and get info on the FTA channels that are available in those satellites.

There is a site that has made finding FTA channels easy http://www.flysat.com/fta.php

You can find FTA channels based on country. Since you wanted Tanzanian channels, just click on Tanzania, then see the channels along with the satellites that carry the signal. Since Tanzania is right next door to Kenya, it is highly probable that your will also receive that signal. To ensure that the footprint covers your area, note down the name and location of the satellite that has the FTA channel that you want, e.g. Channel "TB1" can be found in "Intelsat 904" at "60 E". With this info, go to http://www.satbeams.com/footprints and search for that satellite at "60 E", once you have found and clicked on the satellites location, there will be a sub section, in order to see the full footprint, click on the appropriate subsection, in this case, it will be "global".

Now you can go through all FTA channels in all possible countries and investigate if the satellite that carries the signal has the footprint in your area. The only challenge that you will have will be re-adjusting the dish to the different satellites, unless you have multiple dishes, one for each satellite or unless you have one of these costly devices:

http://www.raysat.com/sp...le_satellite_tv_antenna

RaySat's mobile satellite antenna's can be mounted on vehicles thus allowing live mobile satellite tv on the move. It can lock to any KU signal that falls on it, without need of any physical adjustments. Because it can be mounted on vehicles and lock on satellites without physical adjustments, there is no rule that says that it cannot be used at home for multi satellite reception.

RaySat also got solutions for mobile, on-the-move VSAT, pretty cool.

To find all the FTA channels in a particular satellite, simply locate the satellite in http://www.flysat.com/satlist.php. The satellite that carries DSTV's signal is the "Intelsat 7/10 (IS-7/10) @ 68.5° East " http://www.flysat.com/is68.php Once in the satellite’s page, the FTA channels are the ones in grey, not sure if there are other FTA channels in other colors, the frequency and the polarity are in the second column from the left, the symbol rate is the third column from the left. On the symbol rate, when you see e.g. 6680 3/4 it mean that the "0" at the end can be either "3" or "4".

Kenya's FTA channels and their satellites http://www.flysat.com/tv-ke.php

All the best.

@D32, thanks alot for the detailed answer. (though i understood very little!)

Just curious, what worthwhile English channels can you access in Kenya.

Which is the best FTA decoder available locally?

Also, can you set up the scenario you described at a friendly fee?

@Scar
It's always a pleasure.
Regarding your question, no, I do not deal with this.

@mungaits
Just curious, what worthwhile English channels can you access in Kenya.

Some are in KU, while some are in C band, all of them have variety programming. This is not a complete list.

http://www.fetv.tv/Programs.cfm
http://www.abnafrica.tv/
http://www.metroworld.tv/
http://www.wbs-tv.co.ug/
http://www.grts.gm/index...amp;id=26&Itemid=57
http://www.znbc.co.zm/television.htm
Botswana TV

Which is the best FTA decoder available locally?
While I may not know what is available locally, I can mention what is perhaps the best in the world, it is known as the "DreamBox". It is linux powered, it's got awards and has 3'd party add-ons.

Some of the add-ons are apps that probably literary puts the decoder and tv in the owners portable device. With the apps, you can control the decoder, get program information, program schedule, record shows, watch live streamed or recorded shows from anywhere in the world where you have internet access on your mobile device. Or if at home, you can stream through your lan, to a wi-fi hotspot, to your wifi-enabled mobile device, and just move anywhere around the home without missing anything.

iPad, Phone and iPod Touch App: http://www.dmliveapp.de/blog/about/
Android: https://play.google.com/...et.reichholf.dreamdroid - Note that there is an android trojan virus that has the same name as this app, do not worry, all the apps that were infected whith this trojan were removed from the app market.

App demo:
http://www.youtube.com/w...feature=player_embedded

To get a dreambox, you many need to purchase it from an international retailer who is able to ship internationally. If the retailer cannot deal with international orders, then you will need to use a parcel forwarding service.

http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/en

Also, can you set up the scenario you described at a friendly fee?
Sorry, I do not setup such, but you can try find a local qualified installer.

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In addition to what was posted, just feel like I need to emphasize that not all FTA channels are on the KU band hence:

Quoting

"To access an FTA channel, that signal needs to reach your dish, since you are on KU, then a KU FTA needs to fall on your dish."

This means that, if a satellite with FTA channels on C band has a footprint that covers your area, while your dish is a KU, you will not be able to watch the C band FTA channels, unless you also have a C band dish.

While there are decoders that can specialize for each band, most decoders can handle both.

Another popular and affordable way of handling multiple satellite reception is by using motorized kits with dishes. This provides the mechanism to allow the dish to be easily re-positioned, either manually, partially or fully automatic. All that you will need will be two dishes, one for KU, and the other for C band.

Now they are advertising A Do It Yourself approach on how to sort out the error(s). Saw it today - I guess the also have a wazuan working for them, or they are guests.

Even if they do whatever am eagerlly waiting for a convenient alternative.

They are doing it on air. Saw the advert on one of the Channels in the morning.