Still listing 195.000 as a DTT frequency

SRB

Sorry - that title should read 198.500

I'm curious about this still being in the frequency list descriptor, are they actually testing on VHF somewhere in the Country ?

Descriptor: Frequency List Descriptor
Terrestrial: 198.500 MHz
Terrestrial: 474.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 546.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 666.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 682.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 690.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 730.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 738.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 746.000 MHz
Descriptor: Private Data Specifier Descriptor
Private Data Specifier: Unknown
Descriptor: User Private Descriptor: 0x83

STB

SRB wrote: »

Sorry - that title should read 198.500

I'm curious about this still being in the frequency list descriptor, are they actually testing on VHF somewhere in the Country ?

Descriptor: Frequency List Descriptor
Terrestrial: 198.500 MHz
Terrestrial: 474.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 546.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 666.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 682.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 690.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 730.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 738.000 MHz
Terrestrial: 746.000 MHz
Descriptor: Private Data Specifier Descriptor
Private Data Specifier: Unknown
Descriptor: User Private Descriptor: 0x83

No.

Record the stream and use TSreader it will you a Network ID and more info.

SRB

STB wrote: »

No.

Record the stream and use TSreader it will you a Network ID and more info.

Eh, that is the RTÉ NL list taken from the TS of the Mux running on Ch 54, Kippure, what I'm asking is are they actually running a Mux on VHF, as that list would suggest, or was it just never updated.

fat-tony

I'd suggest it was never updated. My local relay transmitter (Greystones on CH52 - 722MHz) displays 738MHz in the frequency descriptor. I posted in a different thread about it - http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68461859&postcount=8

I think RTENL have been putting various values in the descriptor fields over the period of the tests, presumably to check the effect (if any) on TV tuner and STB firmware. The 198500KHz value appeared maybe 6 - 8 months ago. I recall that there was some thread about it, but the consensus was that there was no VHF DTT testing in progress.

Mike 1972

Bearing in mind this is the same RTE who still identify their analouge channels as NET2 and TNAG

They seem to set stuff like this up initially and never think of checking if it needs to be updated.

The Cush

fat-tony wrote: »

The 198500KHz value appeared maybe 6 - 8 months ago. I recall that there was some thread about it, but the consensus was that there was no VHF DTT testing in progress.

That discussion was last May - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65797960#post65797960

SRB

Yes, but the Frequency List Descriptor which I posted above, has only recently been added, which is why I wondered if they were actually running a test somewhere on VHF. It did seem odd that someone would bother adding an unused frequency to the list after all this time of testing.

*plottens the thickening further..*

Often when I do a full scan here,the tuner stops on some vhf channel or other and then carries on.
I have a Vhf aerial with fair to poor kippure reception due to it being vertical and pointed to Leinster.
I can get good kippure vhf analoguethough with the aerial pointed and alligned correctly

watty

Spectrum Analyser Time.

There is only DAB and Analogue TV on Band III here (limerick) on my Analyser. The UHF DTT is quite distinctive.

Tom Slick

Deleted User wrote: »

Often when I do a full scan here,the tuner stops on some vhf channel or other and then carries on.

Would DAB signals give it something to think about?

maybe I don't know.
The vhf aerial would certainly be pointed l.o.s towards the south east commercial Dab tests.

bkehoe

Does the tuner display the channel numbers as it scans?