Are you active duty military and DoD civilians assigned/deployed overseas, military retirees living overseas, and family members accompanying these personnel overseas?
If yes, I can PM you how to set it up set it up but you will need to prove to AFN through an ID/Authentication process who you are before they will activate the decoder to receive AFN.
The dish and LNB can be bought from CIGNAL or any other Satellite company in the PI. It's compatible to receive AFN.
AFN switched to Digital several months ago and the old Analog decoders no longer operate. They are basically paper weights.
The only Decoders that will operate are the new AFN7500HD or the CISCO D9865.
First of all, thank you for the quick reply. Yes I do have a registered decoder, the new AFN7500HD. My concern is what size and type of dish and LNB is best for my location (Pangasinan) to get the best reception during the rainy season (C Band or KU Band). And, will I also be able to pick up other free digital channels in addition to the AFN channels.
First of all, thank you for the quick reply. Yes I do have a registered decoder, the new AFN7500HD. My concern is what size and type of dish and LNB is best for my location (Pangasinan) to get the best reception during the rainy season (C Band or KU Band). And, will I also be able to pick up other free digital channels in addition to the AFN channels.
Thank you Joe... This is exactly what I needed... I will follow your advice and contact a local Sat dealer to have them do the entire installation. The myAFN - Schedule has all that I would need for viewing. And the set-up instructions seem easy enough to follow in the event I am forced to do it myself. Thanks again and have a Blessed day.
Has anyone had AFN successfully installed recently? I havethe correct AFN7500HD box, but my Cignal TV installer has not been able to find the satellite to complete the installation twice. I have much information and tried talking to the Defense Media Activity twice about the problem. Still we can’t get it hooked up. I would like to get the name and number of a Cignal installer who has completed an installation. Thank you.
Have you registered the decoder with AFN? Did you get any signal when trying to align the dish? What satellite was he pointing it to? Was he using the correct azimuth/height/LNB setting? Is he using a Ku-band LNB?
Enter Batangas and find the roof of your home. Zoom in and place the green icon on your roof. Scroll in the satellite section until you find 113.1E KOREASAT 5A
Click on the green icon and it will display the azmiuth/elevation to set the dish to point at 113.1E KOREASAT 5A
Follow instructions in this 2015 video.
If the decoder is registered & settings are correct, you will get the dish setup signal bars. If you try to view any of the channels it will show a blue screen, then take less than an hour until your authorization key is set then broadcasting is displayed. This happens each time you remove the decoder plug.
For my initial set up, I put a TV the AFN decoder & satellite dish on a chair in the yard and played with the settings & alignments to enure all worked. Afterwards i had the dish installed on a pole.
Remember to check if trees or something is in between. You can ask supplier which compass direction the satelite is - and hope they tell correct Some chance a signal can get through trees but the signal would get to much disturbed when it's windy so the trees move.
The decoder has been confirmed as registered by the Defense Media Activity (AFN). He could not get a signal when pointing to the satellite. He was trying to find 113.1E KOREASAT 5A. DMA told me to use 113.1E KOREASAT 5 instead. The Cignal installer instead found 210SW KOREASAT 5 at an elevation of 82. There is a large tree in the path of 113.1E, but the installer said it would not affect it the signal. He used the settings to my house to the satellite that were given from Dishpointer, but he was asking me about the LNB setting. What is your LNB position/setting? DMA told me to find it on their website. It seems like I must have read everything and didn’t find it. He was using my existing Cignal satellite dish and LNB to find the signal before he installed a new dish. I have since learned there is a guy who does installation in the Angeles City area so i may also reach out to him. If 113.1E KOREASAT 5 is indeed what we want, we may need to install the dish behind the house for an unobstructed view. I definitely want it for football season so hopefully we can get it installed soon. Thanks for the reply!
My LNB skew setting will deffer from yours due to location. Watch the LNB video. It appears Dish pointer requires their app download to get the LNB setting, or rotate it yourself until you get the best signal.
I had the DMA in California verify the glitch resolution. I simply cannot get any green in my program search bar, and no satellite alignment. Reaching out now to RAO Manila if I can find a contact. I don't see a link for AFN richard.
If this applies to you or anyone you know kindly let them know to check into it.
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