Advice from the field
Written by the technicians who work these streets. Practical guides on storm signal loss, salt-air dish placement, decoder choices, Extra View and coastal maintenance — no jargon, no upselling.
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Everything below comes out of real callouts between Slangkop and Sun Valley — the faults we see most, and what we do about them.
Every winter, the first serious north-wester through Kommetjie takes a batch of DStv systems with it. Here is what is really going on behind the E48-32 on your screen — and the…
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On most Cape Town streets you can put a dish almost anywhere with line of sight. Within a few hundred metres of Long Beach, that is not true. Salt, wind and shade narrow the options…
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Three decoders, three price points and a lot of confusing marketing. Here is the honest version: what each box does, what it needs from your dish and cabling, and which one is the…
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Extra View is the most misunderstood product DStv sells. It is not a second subscription, it is not a streaming account, and it will not work off a splitter. Here is exactly how it…
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A satellite 36,000km away does not move. Your dish does. On the South Peninsula, half a degree of drift after a hard winter is normal — and it is the single most common reason a system…
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Anybody can buy a dish, a drill and a ladder. Accreditation, coastal-grade materials and a workmanship warranty are what separate an installation that lasts a decade from one that…
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