@Kysse eh, no can do. Mimi hapana mwanasiasa. There're many ways of serving one's country.

hehehe... Trust me... very good at all the above... Very good. When he talks people stop and listen...

@rankaz I can see you're our consultant on this. And I guess I must open my heart now

At last, I've given in to pressure from my family to install these dish stuff in my upcountry home. We've been missing the game when we're in mashinani.

Please tell me which is the best cost efficient to achieve the below:
1. Get local stations
2. Watch world-up
3. Get a couple of Internaitonal channels e.g. Peace TV
4. Minimum or zero monthly fee

NOTE: Ignore my ignorance, I'm not guru in these TV stuff.

My mashinani is 25km from one of these towns in Kenya (Mombasa, Nakuru, Eldoret, Ruiru, Machakos, Meru, or Narok).

What do you say about these offers:
1. Startime decoder
2. GoTV
3. DVB-T2 standard
4. Which other will give me free-to-air

Would muvi-tv work around those towns above? What are all the equipment needed to make muvi-tv run?

Good evening @Alph. Here I am, finally. Pole kwa kuchelewa. To your queries:

1. Local stations are difficult to nab on one satellite unfortunately. This is because they beam their signals on many different satellites and this would necessitate using more than one dish to nab them on FTA satellite tv, as opposed to say our Tz brothers who have all of theirs on Intelsat 906 and thus only one dish/LNB suffices.

Here's a link to the different satellites on which to find Kenyan channels.


2. World Cup is available on many different channels on FTA satellite tv, including but not limited to: Tv Oromiyaa (Amos 5 @17E, C-band), Muvi Tv (IS-20 @68E, Ku-band and Eutelsat 7A @7E, Ku-band, UBC, etc incl. some in foreign languages such as French and Arabic).

3. A while back, I used to receive Peace Tv on IS-20, Ku-band and I believe the transmission is still there though I do not for the moment have a Ku-band LNB at this position. This is actually one of the very easily receivable satellites.

as for other international channels, the possibilities are endless mblo. Every single satellite you aim at is full of int'l channels and the only limitation will be the language of broadcast and/or whether the beam is receivable in your area.

Check here for a list of satellites receivable at your location as well as the appropriate dish sizes for the same.

4. FTA Satellite tv is exactly that, free. It is devoid of any payments, the only cost you incur is equipment purchase and installation.


In so far as gotv and startimes are concerned, they obviously aren't free. Moreover, these two, along with signet, are terrestrial based (DVB-T2) and not satellite based (DVB-S2) and as such, do not require a satellite dish to receive but rather only the usual UHF aerial. Anything that requires a dish to watch is satellite based.

Hope that's comprehensive and easy enough. Still, queries are welcome. Worry not about ignorance, I'm ready to answer any queries you may have on this. It's a very rare human being who knows everything about everything, if at all.