• September 6

Dish TV India – Installation experiment.

For this Onam, I decided to buy a dish tv India package. As usual I wanted to explore things without any help. Hence decided to install it myself, thinking I will get help from internet if needed. :)

Bought the STB (set top box), dish & viewing card (all this comes as a single package) and filled out the subscription application form.
Dish TV India Equipment
Wednesday was the installation day. Being a newbie to assembling dish, it took around 6 hrs to figure out where to attach different parts! Finally by noon everything was set for tracking satellite.

Now comes the azimuth & elevation stuff! Azimuth is the horizontal angle. Starting from North direction to South azimuth is 180 degree. Elevation is vertical angle to which dish must by pointed towards the sky.

The satellite to which we need to point was NSS6, where the dish tv DVB signals are coming from. NSS6 contains two DTH signals one of dish tv India (encrypted) and another of DD Direct +, one being a subscription service and other a free service. Thus by using single receiver, you could get both signals.

NSS6 is situated on 95 degree east orbit. Thus from our position, we have the azimuth of 119 degree and 63 degree elevation.

Day-1 : Wednesday (After Noon) : Trying to catch the satellite.
Being a newbie, it was a very stupid move to try tracking satellite. Even after 3-4hrs of pointing dish to different parts of the sky, I could not get any signal strength of more than 15%. (This is what you get even if you don’t have LNB connected to receiver. :-P )
Day 1 comes to end and I could not get any signals.

Day-2 : Requesting Help from staff
As one of the staff has similar system at home, I thought I would ask him and request help on installing the dish.

They tried to catch the satellite by pointing to known regions. In one instant we got the signals up to 74%, but the dish assembly was slightly messed up so that it would prevent us from decreasing elevation for fine tuning.

I re-assembled the dish and tried the same region again. But unfortunately even after 20-30minutes, there was no signal. Stopped doing further and decided to request expert help.

Day-3 : Expert installation
Dish tv guys came and changed the F connectors first. Then rotated the LNB about 90 degrees. Surprisingly in 15 minutes, they got signal with more than 75% strength. It was in the same direction we got signal first. Perhaps the LNB was the problem.

Couple of days later, I re-did whole stuff and I could get the signals very well. Now I’m confident to successfully position dish anywhere in India. :)

Lesson Learned: Don’t waste your time on things that you don’t know. Ask expert opinion first. Learn and try to replicate what they did.




Comments

  1. aji February 23rd

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    how dth dish tracking were satlite finding. images detials


  2. Tuning February 23rd

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    Hi Aji,

    If you are new to this don’t do it yourself. Its a difficult process and once you learned from experienced people, you can easily do it next time.

    My advise would be call professional installation.

    - Tuning


  3. iamonthesky August 17th

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    Sir,
    I am living at a place in Kashmir at 34.15 N(Latitude) and 74.25 E(Longitude).
    Plz let me know what is the procedure of counting Azimuth and Elevation for the following Satellites:
    Asiasat3S(105.5E)
    Asiasat2S(100.5E)
    Intelsat10/7(68.5E)
    Thaicom5(78.5E)
    Help plz
    Bhim


  4. Nandeswar September 12th

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    I switch on the tv and the stb. What I saw is that it need to be installed. Now, I have to set all the parameters LNB, Polar, Sattelite, search options.Making no delay I went to my friends TV Room carrying only STB and Remote Control, then I tried all the LNB with a plate already pointing in the right direction. also I tried the user LNB freq.-07950-10600. when it come to Universal LNB it is pretty done but it read smart card and show “download fail!”can anyone point me where I’m wrong?


  5. suvendra kumar patnaik November 26th

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    sir,
    i am trying another channal comming in dish tv.


  6. suvendra kumar patnaik November 26th

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    please see the joo channal and tarang and monoranjan channal.


  7. sailesh December 17th

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    I Would like to know about dish tv pacakeges


  8. Tuning December 18th

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    Hi Sailesh,

    Visit http://www.dishtv.in for more info.


  9. vishal December 18th

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    i want to re-charge my box by the net


  10. shad December 25th

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    Hay pal,

    Thanks for your detailed information of your experience. I believe it would be a lot helpful for the newbies like me. (If we do the same as you did). specially the name of sat and location is very valuable for those who are hooking DTH..

    Love shad


  11. Pal January 4th

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    Hi All,

    My Home direction is in East side so can I found any indian satelite in EAST direction or any angle so I can see indian televison but I have only one direction is EAST.
    So anybody can help me

    Pal


  12. MAHADEE March 1st

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    Hi,
    I stay in Malaysia. If i bring the DishTv india here then will it work if i make the correct satellites positioning? Please let me know.
    Thanks?


  13. Developer Smartcard March 2nd

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    Super-Duper site! Will come back again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.


  14. Aba March 21st

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    Hi, recently I purchased Dish tv package. I tried my stb to connect with an existing connection from my friend’s place. but it didn’t work. is there any tuning has to be made with my new STB? please advise.


  15. muzanab March 29th

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    hi,

    i live in cairo(egypt) as and would like to know the size(of the dish) and the direction of installing dishtv


  16. S. Samal September 15th

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    Dish tv should carry two more famous oriya tv channel; Tarang Tv, and Super Star Josh tv in its oriya language pack. I am a Dish tv customer in Rourkela, Orissa, but unable to watch my own language favorite tv channels like, Tarang tv, Tarang Music, Super Star Josh tv, Kamyab tv and Kanak tv etc. Where as other language tv channels are carried on in full-fledged manner. Dish tv should give same importance to the oriya viewers also.


  17. saroj k shrestha October 31st

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    hi i live in u.a.e i have been using dish tv line for one and half year till now no thing problem in dish tv chanel but now in receiver no power line display(means when turn on the power, only power light is blinking and not loading the receiver). plz can u send me the solution of this problem.


  18. alok panda November 16th

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    A, Panda
    November 16,2,009 at 8.40am

    Dish tv should carry two more famous oriya tv channel; Tarang Tv, and Super Star Josh tv in its oriya language pack. I am a Dish tv customer in Rourkela, Orissa, but unable to watch my own language favorite tv channels like, Tarang tv, Tarang Music, Super Star Josh tv, Kamyab tv and Kanak tv etc. Where as other language tv channels are carried on in full-fledged manner. Dish tv should give same importance to the oriya viewers also


  19. rajesh November 20th

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    dear.sir i am in ugandan how im got dish tv satellite plz help as


  20. selva November 26th

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    I am in malaysia.It dish tv work at malaysia?
    my friend said,it works at saudi arabia,kathar,kuwaith very clear.


  21. Tuning December 22nd

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    Hi Saroj,

    It seems the receiver need an upgrade. Contact Dish TV and ask them for a solution.

    - T


  22. Tuning December 22nd

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    Hi -

    It should work in Malaysia.


  23. omer December 27th

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    hi folks I live in Canada and baught a new dish tv receiver and now want to instal it. Is there any one who would teach me how to instal the dish in here, such as the direction, the angels, the LNB and the dish. Thanks folks I appreciate your help if you would Email me in OMERJOHN@GMAIL.COM


  24. chetan pandya January 2nd

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    last four years i uesed its.
    it is small chiter then others.


  25. alok panda January 5th

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    sir
    HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

    Dish tv should carry two more famous oriya tv channels; Tarang Tv, and Super Star Josh tv in
    new yeae coming for oriya channels provaed for DISHTVINDIA DTH-1 (ZEETV)
    ALOK PANDA
    GA439,sailashreevihar C.S.Pur Bhubaneswar (Orissa)
    MB:9861575935
    Email-aloktikupanda@yahoo.co.in


  26. Altaf January 10th

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    Hi Folks any one will help me:
    I got set box, Dish TV Antenna-whole package was working already. Now I shifted to new house near the arabian sea, thinking that in the clear sky I will get all Dish TV stations. Now all the tech. expert visits me and conclude that I will not get the signal as I got only a open balcony only. Do you have solutions how to tune? for all Indian sites we are crave to watch.. Thanks. Sincery,


  27. Nikhil January 11th

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    If I buy TataSky receiver /Dish TV receiver or Dish on Wheels and bring it to canada, would it work?

    Thanks


  28. alok panda January 18th

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    sir
    happy new year new oriya channels list
    tarang tv, tarangmusic, joshtv oriya, kamyab,
    & kanak tv oriya new year five oriya channels provaed for dishtv india dth-1 zeetv


  29. Aju March 8th

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    Hi my dish tv was working fine. now I moved to new house, where many sattelite were inst. asia net, eurostar, can i can i get signal for dish tv? Please help.


  30. Dhan Kumar Tamang March 11th

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    i have connected dis in saudi arabia for nepali and hindi channel but the technician has installed only kantipur and bangali channel because the maintener is Bangali so, how can i setup for all or most hindi channel and also nepali other channel. If u have any channel setting code plz kindly give to me because i am innocent for it. I need the process from remote to receiver for setting the channel. But i have the big size of dis from it coming only kantipur.

    Thanking you..


  31. Hiroko Crofford April 17th

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    You folks can see cable channels online over on these websites.

    http://justin.tv
    http://bit.ly/dk3OCQ

    Booyah..


  32. afsal June 12th

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    how dth dish tracking were satlite finding. images detials


  33. ajanthan June 16th

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    Hi sir am living in srilanka.

    i need to know what are the angles and setting. Dishtv.


  34. Anis June 23rd

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    Hi to all dishtv team,
    I m in Tanzania please tell me how to install dish tv, its can accessable dish tv. please please reply me i will very thankful to u if guide me proper.
    thanks


  35. Anis June 23rd

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    here many people like dish tv so many people are interested to be a delaer is it possible to get a deler in Tanzania?


  36. Tuning June 25th

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    Hi Anis,

    Honestly, we think dish TV sucks. Better ones are TataSky and Airtel Digital. Also, most of these will be starting HD services very soon. (TataSky already started) So contact them through their websites about the possibility.

    - Tuning


  37. Prashant June 27th

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    Dishtv should include two more Odia tv channel tarang tv abd josh tv odia channel. Both are amazing and very popular channel of Odisha


  38. Rintu August 10th

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    Please add taranga taranga music odia channel immeditly


  39. Dilip August 20th

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    Plz Replay Me Dish TV LNB Frequency Hi & Lo


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