Election Counts Coverage - 27.5W

Zaphod

For the day that's in it, lots of satellite uplinks on 27.5W, many at high signal strength and FTA (4:2:0)

11549, V, 3270 Longford Wmeath 4:2:0
11079, V, 3720 Dubl Sw 4:2:2
11085, V, 3720 Dubn 4:2:0 Lth 4:2:0
11097, V, 3720 Tipp North 4:2:0
11103, V, 3720 Wexford 4:2:2
11109, V, 3720, Wicklow 01 4:2:0
11500, V, 3720 LSOF (laois-Offaly) 4:2:0
11509, V, 3720 ARQIVA UKI Roscommon 4:2:2

Zaphod

watty

Nice

Zaphod

Additional feeds on 1W Intelsat 10-02

11464, V, 5632 Mayo 4:2:0
11517, V, LIMK (limerick), 3720 4:2:2
11523, V, 3720, 4:2:0 (Galway)
11529, V, 3720 Gal4 4:2:2 (As gaeilge)

Zaphod

Zaphod

Haven't seen the RDS at all - presumably they strung a few yards of cable from Donybrook to Ballsbridge.

No sign of 'Plastic Sheeting' from Cork City centre either.

11085, V, 3720 Dubn 4:2:0
11097, V, 3720 Carlow/Kilkenny 4:2:0
11103, V, 3720 Wexford 4:2:2
11109, V, 3720, Donegal NE 4:2:2
11500, V, 3720 LSOF (Laois-Offaly testcard) 4:2:0
11509, V, 3720 Dun Laoghaire 4:2:0

11091, V, 3720 LTH (Louth) 4:2:2
11543, V, 3720 DLSW (Donegal South West) 4:2:2
11549, V, 3720 Longford WMEA (westmeath) TC 4:2:0
11554, V, 3720 KILS (Kildare South) 4:2:2

zilog_jones

Is it not unusual to be using 4:2:0 for broadcasting? I suppose picture quality isn't that important for that kind of stuff though, and they had a good few links going at the same time.

Can most DVB-S capture cards handle 4:2:2 or is the decoding all done in software anyway? I take it most cheapo FTA boxes (like the Lidl ones) can't?

L1011

Only box I know of that does 4:2:2 is the old QualiTV MPEG2 HDTV box. Software-defined sat cards all can, dunno if hardware ones do.