WHATSAPP VERSION 4.0 SCAM MESSAGE : WWW.ARCTICPILGRIM.COM/VERSION-4

WHATSAPP VERSION 4.0 SCAM MESSAGE : WWW.ARCTICPILGRIM.COM/VERSION-4


Today I got a Fake/ Scam message shared from my friend through WhatsApp group. Reading it at the fist sight understood it's a fooling unauthentic message spreading over WhatsApp. There is a website link in the message, when I try to access it from computer it says 'Page Not Found'. But it's accessible form Phone. The message is as follows.


" Hey ,Finally most awaited WhatsApp version 4.0 has been released , Now With WhatsApp version 4.0 you can enjoy lots of new features like Video calling,Check who saw our WhatsApp dp and status,Send more than 10 pics at once ,sticker and theme support ,free SMS, Delete message in both sides ,encrypted texts etc.You can install WhatsApp version 4.0 only with invite.I am inviting you now. Download and install WhatsApp 4.0 safely at https://arcticpilgrim.com/version-4/ "

Don't Try this Scam!

I strongly recommend you Do Not Try to Use this Website, the reason is that, they are merely scammers. As long as there is no official announcement from WhatsApp company regarding a new version of WhatsApp, nobody can provide you a new WhatsApp version.

What Happens if You Try this

There's nothing worth with this message. If you enter the website for downloading the new WhatsApp version 4.0, at the very beginning, you must finish inviting 5 groups and 10 person sending this message. Then you will be forwarded to do something else like downloading an app or completing a survey etc.

These kinds of internet scams are trying only to promote their own or any third party applications (may be malware apps too) or to make us do some survey for any Third-party survey company, finally we never get the New WhatsApp.

I asked one of my friends who had tried this link, She told me that she did't get the download link even after the download is finished, instead the website just suggested her to update the WhatsApp. Actually it's fooling us. So please don't try or send this message to others and waste time.

FAKE MESSAGE: "HELLO, I. AM VARUN PULYANI DIRECTOR OF WHATSAPP.."

FAKE MESSAGE: "HELLO, I. AM VARUN PULYANI DIRECTOR OF WHATSAPP.."

Hi recently I found a fake propagating message on WhatsApp saying WhatsApp has been sold to Facebook so you should send a specific message to 10 of your contacts so that you will get your WhatsApp icon changed into 'F' and if you didn't do so your account will be deleted from their server. The message again continues like this - "Message from Jim Balsamic (CEO of WhatsApp) we have had an over usage of user names on WhatsApp Messenger. We are requesting all users to forward this message to their entire contact list. If you do not forward this message, we will take it as your account is invalid and it will be deleted within the next 48 hours. Please DO NOT ignore this message or WhatsApp will no longer recognize your activation."

I don't understand why people keep sending these sorts of fake messages without knowing its authenticity. The whole message is as below.

FINAL NOTICE
"Dont ignore please read it carefully" Hello, I. Am VARUN PULYANI director of whatsapp, this message is to inform all of our users that we have sold whatsapp to Mark Zuckerberg for 19 billion $. WhatsApp is now controlled by mark zuckerberg. If you have at least 10 contacts send this sms and logo of your whatsapp will change to a new icon with facebook's "f" within 24 hours.Forward this message to more than 10 people to activate your new whatsapp with facebook services or else your account will be deleted from new servers.
This is the final notice! Hello everyone, it seems that all the warnings were real, the use of WhatsApp cost money from summer 2014. If you send this string to 18 different on your list, your icon will be blue and will be free for you. If you do not believe me see tomorrow at 6 pm ending WhatsApp and have to pay to open it, this is by law This message is to inform all of our users, our servers have recently been very congested, so we are asking you to help us solve this problem. We require our active users to forward this message to each of the people in your contact list to confirm our active users using WhatsApp, if you do not send this message to all your contacts WhatsApp will then start to charge you. Your account will remain inactive with the consequence of losing all your contacts. Message from Jim Balsamic (CEO of Whatsapp ) we have had an over usage of user names on whatsapp Messenger. We are requesting all users to forward this message to their entire contact list. If you do not forward this message, we will take it as your account is invalid and it will be deleted within the next 48 hours. Please DO NOT ignore this message or whatsapp will no longer recognise your activation. If you wish to re-activate your account after it has been deleted, a charge of 25.00 will be added to your monthly bill. We are also aware of the issue involving the pictures updates not showing. We are working diligently at fixing this problem and it will be up and running as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation from the Whatsapp team” WhatsApp is going to cost us money soon. The only way that it will stay free is if you are a frequent user i.e. you have at least 10 people you are chatting with. To become a frequent user send this message to 10 people who receive it (2 ticks) and your WhatsApp logo should turn blue
to connect your whatsaap with facebook log in here
http://updateyourself.wapka.mobi
Forward this message to More than 25 WhatsApp contacts.
Company promoting their website
Get Rs.497.54 talktime. Its true.
Watch in today Times of India newspaper. Page 7.
Check your balance after 10min

The message also telling the way to earn some money by promoting a website sending to 25 of your contacts. But the funny fact here is - looking to the URL of the website, it is clear that the website is made under a free website provider, that is why the wapka.mobi is there as tale of the URL, here you see, the website they themselves are not spending any money at least to book a Domain Name by giving ~$8 (500 Rupees), they are giving their promoters 500 rupees per 25 contacts.!! It is amazing. Really a foolish thing.

All I can say is that, don't be a victim of these fake messages. If WhatsApp or Facebook has planned to change your icon they simply release new update of their App. They don't want their users to take effort to apply their new features.

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How to Create Whatsapp Group Join Invite Link (Full Guide)

How to Create Whatsapp Group Join Invite Link (Full Guide)

Whatsapp Group Join Invite Link

Hey Guys, In This Guide I will tell you about how you can create link to join your WhatsApp group publically. If you have created a Whatsapp group, and you want to add many people like people from Facebook Groups, etc. then you have to add each and every person in your contact in then add them in the group. But now, adding people in Your Whatsapp group is much easier with the help of whatsapp group invitation link. You can Just Create One link, Which you can share anywhere, if anyone click on that link from his / her WhatsApp mobile then they will be able to join your WhatsApp group. Now it’s Very easy to add other people in WhatsApp groups, cause you just need one link and other people can join your group or you can join other people’s groups.

You may have already heard about this feature from somewhere or not, but this feature is now available. I will explain the step by step guide for create whatsapp group join invitation link with the help of Gbwhatsapp, Which will also help you to do some other great things in your device like running dual whatsapp account, hide online status, copy multiple message without date / name of sender, make whatsapp status all day online, apply themes and much more. GBwhatsapp is one of the best whatsapp mod ever. Before you may have usedWhatsapp Plus apk too, which is also whatsapp mod app but gbwhatsapp comes with lots of more great and cool features.

Advantages of Whatsapp group Join Link Method

This Whatsapp group join trick have many advantages, checkout some of the benefits for create WhatsApp group link and let other people join your whatsapp chat.

• Time Saving, No Need to Save Contact of the person in your Phone before adding in the group.
• Anyone Can join your group with just simple link, no need of any password or any other mess.
• No Approval required anyone can join without giving you the notification to add the member of not like Facebook group .

Disadvantage – Anyone can join your group and spam it.

Solution – you can also revoke your group join link, so anyone will not be able to join your group from your link whenever you want

How to Create Whatsapp Group Join Invitation Link

For Let other people join your WhatsApp group via your Invitation link, you simply have to generate the link of your Whatsapp group, which I have explained below. I Have explained the full guide by using Gbwhatsapp, which is quite similar to Whatsapp and modded version of it. Whatsapp is one of the best app for android doing for chatting, calling, etc. Before I was also shared how to add unlimited members in whatsapp group

, but now those kinda tricks blocked from WhatsApp, and you can add maximum 256 members in one WhatsApp group.

• At First, Download, and Install GBWhatsapp apk in your Phone from here – Download GBwhatsapp
• After Download and Install GBWhatsapp in your Device, Simply Verify your mobile number from this GBwhatsapp.
• After that, Open Group Conversation, Then Press Menu Button, and Goto Group Info.

• Now Simply Click on + Button From Top Right Corner.

• Click on Invite to Group via link button and then copy given the link.

• Now Send that link to any of your friend, he / she will be able to join your group via given link and can enjoy group chat. Your Friend Will get One prompt before adding to WhatsApp group – Do you want to join the group.

And Finally After Accept your invitation, your friend will be able to Chat in the group, like below Screenshot.

NOTE: IF YOU REMOVE ANYBODY FROM YOUR GROUP WHO USED THE LINK TO HAVE JOINED YOUR GROUP, THAT PERSON CAN'T USE THE LINK TO JOIN AGAIN.

Final Words

So This was the Full Guide, Which you can follow for creating WhatsApp group joining link for anyone. Anyone can open your link and join your group publically. But Remember that you can add maximum 256 Members in one WhatsApp group maximum. So After your group reaches 256 Members, Anyone will not be able to join your group via your link, until any group member leave the group or you remove him / her. So Simply Enjoy this excellent guide and stay tuned for more cool stuff like this, Thanks for visiting this Blog and Peace out.

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WOW GOOD NEWS ON SATELLITE WORLD !!!

WOW GOOD NEWS ON SATELLITE WORLD !!!

Sixteen (16) pay TV channels on Eutelsatb16 @ 16 degree East, sub sahara Africa beam have been unscrambled ( opened). The frequencies are 12562 H 30000, 11293 H 45000. Just blindscan your receiver and enjoy it last. The channels have dollar sign on them but don't worry, just click on them and watch. The channels include:

1. Fox Sport 1
2. Fox Sport 2
3. Fox Crime
4. Fox Entertainment
5. Fix n Fox I
6. Duck TV
7. Boing TV
8. Jim jam
9. NatGeo Gold
10. Kiss TV
11. Nina TV
12. African Movie Channel
13. African Movie Series
14. KBS World
15. Fashion one
16. MSNBC.

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How to connect several Dishes to my STRONG Receiver using DiSEqC Switches ?

 A DiSEqC Switch  (Digital Satellite Equipment Control) is a device, which enables you to connect multiple LNBs to a common satellite receiver. 

Connecting your  Digital Satellite Receiver to several dishes give you the opportunity to increase the number of FREE-TO-AIR Channels to view.

In Nigeria and in Western Africa you can receive more than 20 different Satellites broadcasting FREE-TO-AIR channels. So why prevent yourself from increasing your number of TV Channels ?

How Does a DiSEqC Switch work ?

A DiSEqC Switch is a peripheral device which enable the selection of one of a multitude of connected LNB  sources (950-2300MHz Inter­mediate Frequency) on the basis of digital commands generated by the receiver.

All Digital Satellite Receiver are not DiSEqC compliant, especially poor quality STB provided by Pay-TV operators. All STRONG Receivers are DiSEqC compliant.

                         

Settings

You have to go to the Installation/Settings page of your STRONG receiver. Then you have to select the input of the LNB (1, 2, 3, 4 etc) according to the LNB which receives the signal of a particular satellite.

For instance, if the LNB which  receives the signal of Astra 2F is connected to the input 1 of your DiSEqC Switches, you will have to select in the setting page input 1 for Astra 2F.

If you receive with a single LNB two different satellites (which are close in the space one from each other; for instance Amos 5 & Eutelsat 16), you will have to configure your receiver with the two satellites connected to the same input.

FREE TO AIR ON QSAT/MULTITV, UNCATEGORIZED

FREE PREMUIM MOVIE CHANNELS ON 90cm/1meter

As days run into weeks and weeks into months so we are exposed to cheaper satellite television in Africa. Gone were the days when we rent and spend our hard earned money buying movies. Movies are indeed very educative, inspiring, motivating and entertaining whiles some movies seems to be  so scaring especially horror movies and likes.

Satellite televisions has now become common in almost every homes today and it has helped reduced the cost on buying movies. However we have two main satellite tv transmitions.We have free to air satellite transmitions and what we called pay view transmitions like dstv multichoice, cana+ Afrique and My tv which are all pay view and it comes with monthly subscription depending on the type of package choosen. It is a known fact that premuim channels can only be found on pay view receivers whiles free to air satellite channels offers nothing but uninteresting and boring programmes. It is quite difficult for an average income earner like myself in this current economic situation to cough out money every month just for watching satellite television programs and for this reasons, i did some some research and finall came accross a complete satellite package that will thrill you all day long with latest bluckbuster movies and drama.

MBC SATELLITE PACKAGE.

Mbc satellite package is a free a to air satellite package from India with over 31 channels. Most of this channels broadcast in english and Araibic language but however, they show foreign english movies in a crystal clear picture quality.

WHAT ARE THE CHANNELS ON THIS PACKAGE?

MBC DRAMA, MBC ACTION, MBC  MAX, MBC 2 MBC3,MBC4  MBC BOLLYWOOD

Mbc 2,mbc Action and mbc max are dedicated channels for movies 24/7

Requirement To watching This Channels .

*You need  any stand alone either mpeg 2 or mpeg 4. The good thing is that any mpeg2 receiver can can track and open this channel.All mbc channels comes in a crystal clear picture quality and more sharper than dstv picture  quality. Receivers like qsat, multitv receiver, strong receivers, and any mpeg2/mpeg4 receiver can open this channels

*You need at least 1.meter dish and a good lnb.

Track using 11474 H 27500 and please use a good receiver and a good lnb if not signal would not shoot. Mbc is located at 5 d east so you should be careful when tracking this package.

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HOW TO MAINTAIN A PERFECT SATELLITE TV SIGNAL DURING THE RAINY SEASON

The rains are back and many subscribers are beginning to suffer from occasional loss of signal from their satellite dish. Some services like DStv, MyTV and others are usually prone to weather interferences like rain or windstorm. This is because such satellite TV signals are transmitted through the KU-Band which naturally has weak weather-proof capabilities. However, apart from natural rain interferences lies the common problem of satellite dish installation disruptors. This is seen when your decoder losses signal after a heavy wind or rainfall. This kind of problems have made most subscribers pay through their noses to have them fixed while some have packed up their DStv and other satellite systems out of frustration.

 

Today, I shall tell you how best to beat the stubborn bad weather or rain, maintain steady satellite decoder and TV signals and keep the installers away from your doorstep. If you are planning to purchase a new satellite decoder system or already have one, this trick will be of great help towards making you enjoy your satellite TV services through steady decoder signals.

Reconsider the Installed Location of the Satellite Dish

There is need to re-access the location of your previously-installed satellite dish or even a newly-purchased dish. Depending on the location of your home or office, consider the usual direction of airflow as well as the possible place to locate satellite signal. Ensure that your dish is installed where it would not experience the direct impact of the blowing wind or rain drops.

                                   

Installation in progress

 

The direct slap of the wind or clashes of the raindrops gradually sags or weighs down on the nuts, screws and bolts holding the dish in place. This leads to periodic loss of signal irrespective of how tightly it was installed. Secondly, the splashing effect of the raindrops increases the cracking effect on the images on the screen.

Engage a Qualified Installer

Another major factor that ensures strong and lasting installation is your ability to engage a qualified technician or installer. In my previous post, I explained in details how to find the perfect and competent satellite TV installer or technician for your installation needs. A reliable installer relates to a quality job and in turn, a long-lasting installation.

Use Well-Sized F-Connectors for the Satellite Installation

F-connectors are small screw-like round bolts used in joining wires to devices like the decoder and the dish LNB. the effectiveness of your signal depends on how appropriate and well-sized the F-connectors are. Tell your installer to show you how the F-connectors look like and then ensure that the appropriate ones are being used. Some crafty installers might use loose or rusted F-connectors and then affix them with cello tapes thereby hiding the ugliness of their DStv and other satellite installation works.

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Avoid Passing your connection cables through sharp metallic objects or security barb wires

One thing that damages the satellite components and disrupt your signal is the lightning. Lightning penetrates the system mostly through faulty LNBs and connection cables passed through sharp metal objects. These metal objects pierce the wires through which lightning current leak into the satellite TV system and leads to over-voltage. When this happens, one could loose the entire decoder and dish system or if lucky, could only disrupt your signal for a reasonable length of time.

 

Generally, every qualified installer knows how to guard against any possible danger to your satellite decoder and TV system. However, your knowledge of how to maintain a perfect DStv and other satellite decoder signals during the rains would ensure that no installer takes advantage of your ignorance. It would also enable you to take well-informed decisions whenever any challenges are being faced. Feel free to share this post and comment for a more wholistic interactivity and share of more ideas.

HOW TO FIND A GENUINE AND COMPETENT INSTALLER OR TECHNICIAN TO FIX YOUR DSTV, OTHER SATELLITE DECODER AND TV PROBLEMS

When your DStv or other satellite TV decoders become faulty, finding the perfect technician or installer to fix the problem could be a herculean task. Due to the large subscriber base of such digital satellite and terrestrial TV services, many self-acclaimed engineers have taken to repairing satellite decoders and fixing many other TV-related problems. Unfortunately, while a lot of these engineers are not qualified enough to handle such problems, a lot others become threats to your home, office or private security. Hence, it is very important that you take care in locating and selecting a genuine and competent installer or technician to fix your DStv decoders or some other types of satellite or terrestrial TV services.
This post will comprehensively expose the major factors to consider in order to find a perfect match for that TV decoder problem you are having. Remember that it is very certain that at one point or another, your TV services must encounter one fault or another, therefore it is very necessary to know how to find the right installer , technician in your area to fix your DStv, MyTV, Startimes, STRONG, NileSat, ArabSat, JVC or other decoder issues.

ENSURE THE ACCREDITATION STATUS OF THE INSTALLER

As far as DStv or other satellite or terrestrial TV services are concerned, there are standard organizations that accredit or certify installers. This certification follows after series of practical and theoretical examinations as well as real-time practical experiences for a period of time. The tested and confirmed technicians are awarded certificates and in some cases issued with serial numbers which is registered on either the government or an organized private sector database. When in need of installers to fix your DStv, or any other decoder, enquire about the accreditation or certification status or number. This helps to entrust confidence, security, integrity and dignity in labor in the field.

INSTALLER IS REGISTERED WITH AN EXISTING PHYSICAL FIRM

Avoid engaging roadside self-acclaimed installers or technicians. Whenever you have need tofix your DStv or any other decoder issues, ensure you walk into a well-established office, undergo all necessary due process and then take an installer home. It is a huge security risk to engage installers or technicians or unknown identity. Unverifiable installers have turned out to be rapists, murderers and perpetrators of all forms of crime in the home of their unlucky employers.

ACCESS THE INSTALLER FOR SOME DESIRED PERSONAL QUALITIES

Apart from security implications, the competency of an installer can be measured to a large extent on the personal disposition of the technician. DStv and most other satellite or terrestrial decoders are built on complex and high technology which would require a well-educated, experienced and mature person to comfortably handle. The way one speaks and dresses and expresses himself could reveal his level of competence, sincerity and trustworthiness. If you are comfortable with an installer’s personal qualities, accreditation status and company of attachment, then you must have found the prefect installer or technician to fix your DStv decoder issues or any other decoder brand problems.

Top software to Open TV3 on strong 4920, 4922 & 4922A

Top software to Open TV3 on strong 4920, 4922 & 4922A

Since system upgrade done by Multi-TV some decoders are not opening TV3 even if the Biss key is inserted.God being so good I have stumble upon software that will open TV3  on specific decoders. In this article, I will be sharing links to software that will fix TV3 not opening on strong 4920, 4922 & 4922A . Please be warned that the strong software only works for the strong models listed above. 
Do not attempt to load it on an incompatible strong decoder unless you know what you are doing or you are ready to do so at your own risk. If there is power outage while you are at it, there is 100% likely hood that your device will be soft-bricked. Finally; do not load this software on a copy / clone/ fake strong decoder. If you load it on a fake strong decoder, that decoder will die.  

Click here  to download the software

Drop your comment when it works for you.

Copy music from an iOS device without iTunes

Copy music from an iOS device without iTunes

The only app  that controls iOS devices on your computer iTunes.  But when you're far from the computer that contains all your music and must  copy music from that device, iTunes is of no help.The solution is to use Sharepod: a free program that can access any iOS device.  I used Sharepod to export aii my  library  old iPod to reload through a new computer. Below is steps to follow.

1. Connect the device to your computer with the USB cable.

2.Select the files you want to export and click Copy to computer.

3.  Click Ok


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How to Watch DSTV Channels on Strong Decoder via Powervu

How to Watch DSTV Channels on Strong Decoder via Powervu

As result of revolving nature of technology, life wealth living in the home of technology . In fact it is very easy now a days to watch dstv channels which are meant for riches on your strong decoder There is a powervu software that  will enable you input a valid powervu key into your strong  SRT4920_4922_4922A_decoders..Code named 190p.stb. With this software you can watch powervu channels and powervu channels also shows dstv channels

If your strong 4922 with a valid powervu key is not opening

the desired powervu channels then you need to install this software and re-enter your powervu keys.
==>An original strong 4920, 4922 or 4922A decoder
==>A usb flash driv
==>Download the software
==>Install the software into your origional strong decoder. You need a working powervu keys to be entered manually. those who uses strong to watch powervu channels know how to get this keys. If you do not know how to get the keys, then please buy a decoder with auto roll function instead.  
                         Or better still. 
==>You scan your channels and press 8282 on your strong remote control.
 ==>Scroll down until you see powervu
==>Press ok button
==>Enter your powervu ecm keys 
==>Press ok>>save and exit
==>Restart your decoder and you are done.

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HOW YOU CAN TRACK AT LEAST FOUR SATELLITES ON 1 METER DISH

 

 

 

Many of us already have an idea of what this article entails. I mean, we all know that you can attempt to use on lnb to get two separate but close satellite degrees(for example 28e and 36e). You can also use at least

two separate lnb on on lnb holder to get two separate satellite position.

 

 

 

 

WHAT IS THE CONTEXT OF THIS ARTICLE?

We all know that a 1 meter dish can successfully track eutelsat 9e, 60cm dish can track either of 28e, 1e or 5e. This article is going to focus on how you can track 9e, 5e. This article will briefly illustrate how you can track four close and not too close satellites using a well designed LNB holder and a 1 meter dish. The satellite in question are: Astra 2e/2f/2g at 28.2e, eUTELSAT 16A at 16e, Eutelsat 9B at 9.0e, Astra 4A/SES-5 at 5.0e

NOTE: Please if you are not an installer, do not try this yourself unless you have unlimited time to get this sorted out.pay for the service of a professional satellite installer to help you get it done. It is not as easy as it seems but its 100% possible.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS  TO GET THIS DONE

1. You need the frequencies for all this position which you can get either on this site or on www.lynsgat.com. For example , the frequency to track 5e is (12379 H 27500).
2. You need to get the service of a satellite installer except you are one yourself.
3. You need the special well-designed 4 ways / 4in1 lnb holder(mostly available in Lagos Nigeria. You can also get it from big strong dealers) Alternatively, you can have a shrewd welder help you construct it.
4. Then Track and enjoy. The picture after tracking will look like the one below:

CONCLUSION

This is not a close-end process. I mean you can come up with your own improvisation like 5 lnb older(this will be only on a bigger dish than 1 meter though) and so on. Secondly, you should be aware that tracking this satellite is not a per-requisite for unscrambling the scrambled channels on them you can only watch the fta channels on them or use special accounts / devices to watch the scrambled channels on them. Some of the channels watchable with special account are startimes on 5e and Afn(powervu) /9e non-sports with cccam

How to watch free channels on DStv Africa. Channels & Settings.

How to watch free channels on DStv Africa. Channels & Settings.

For those who do not know already, there a few unencrypted channels on Eutelsat W4 and Eutelsat W7, both located at 36° East. DStv was formerly on W4 but is now beaming its signals from W7. The information I am sharing relates to how to view the unencrypted channels that share the same satellite as Multichoice’s DStv, and not how to illegally hack into DStv’s encrypted channels.

DStv decoders are designed, manufactured and sold to receive Multichoice services only. Therefore, I offer no guarantee that all the channels I am sharing would necessarily work on your DStv decoder. The DStv HD decoder for example, does not offer a “Public bouquet” and even for the single view decoders that do, one might be unable to watch the unencrypted channels once subscription is overdue. It would thus make the most sense to simply buy a good MPEG4-compatible digital satellite receiver and connect same to your satellite dish. There would be more on that later.

Some unencrypted TV channels currently available on Eutelsat W4 & W7.
Some unencrypted TV channels currently available on Eutelsat W4 & W7. Image: davidajao.com

The free channels from China

The easiest unencrypted channels to watch are the following 3 TV channels from China Central Television (CCTV), the major state television broadcaster in mainland China:

CCTV News (formerly CCTV 9): this channel is targetted at an English-speaking international audience and mainly broadcasts news and current affairs programmes
CCTV-F: programming targetted at a French-speaking international audience
CCTV-4: an international channel broadcast in Chinese language
Any DStv decoders can view the CCTV channels whether your subscription is expired or not. So long your satellite is pointed towards 36° East.

If you are using a good Free-To-Air (FTA) digital satellite receiver, a blind scan should reveal the CCTV channels. Else, enter the following parameters to your receiver:

In South Africa – Frequency: 11637 Symbol rate: 22000 Polarization: Vertical FEC: 3/4
Rest of Africa – Frequency: 11940 Symbol rate: 27500 Polarization: Horizontal FEC: 3/4 and Frequency: 11862 Symbol rate: 27500 Polarization: Horizontal FEC: 3/4
The free channels from East Africa

In recent times, a few channels have emerged on Eutelsat W7 from Kenya, and beamed at the African continent:

NTV Kenya: a leading TV channel in Kenya offering news and general entertainment
KBC Channel 1: a TV service from the wholly-state owned Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
K24: a news and current affairs channel from Kenya
KTN Kenya: an all-round channel in Kenya. Arguably the leading TV station
NTV Uganda: a general entertainment channel targetted at Uganda
Parameters:

Frequency: 11731 Symbol rate: 8751 Polarization: Vertical FEC: 3/5
Frequency: 11716 Symbol rate: 3141 Polarization: Vertical FEC: 3/4
The free channels from Francophone West Africa

A bouquet of mostly French-speaking African channels exist on Eutelsat W4.

La Chaîne de Futur (LCF): a tv channel from Togo
Mboa TV: an entertainment TV channel based in France and exclusively dedicated to black-afro artists
RTS 1 (Senegal): Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise (RTS) is the Senegalese public broadcasting company
2STV: a TV channel in Senegal broadcasting mainly cultural programmes, interviews with local music and other artistic stars, and talkshows
Touba TV: a privately-owned TV channel in Senegal
ORTB TV: Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Bénin (ORTB) is a the mainstream terrestrial television channel and radio operator in Benin
LoveWorld Plus: Christian-themed programming in  English language from Nigeria
Parameters:

Frequency: 12437 Symbol rate: 23437 Polarization: Horizontal FEC: 3/4
Kindly note that the channels are subject to change without notice. Thus, re-scanning your receiver regularly ensures that you are constantly in the loop as to the current channels.

As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome.