Uk Mendip Digital Switch Over Information

[Lao Pan]

24 days to go to the start of DSO here in the West of England - and I have just found that we will be now doing it in 3 stages.
This means that the ini spreadsheet made by Graham has channel info that will only be used after Autumn 2011 (not his fault - only published by ofcom on Feb 9th 2010 & not yet updated on http://www.ukfree.tv)

The dates are as follows:-
Stage 1: 24th March 2010 - Channels 55,56,61,62,65,67
Stage 2: 7th April 2010 - Channels 54,56,58(HD),59,61,62
Stage 3: Autumn 2011 - Channels 48,52,54,56,58(HD),61

You will have to use 'explicitly scan DVB-T Offset frequencies' setting on the Misc tab for Stage 2

I have made an ini file for each stage put them in BDA/DVB-T folder.
In Config under capture sources edit they will be listed as "Southern England after DSO"
"Mendip Stage 1" etc.

Hope they are of help to somebody

[Graham]

A good job done well.

The Ofcom doc is ...

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/ifi/tech/dsod...stv3.0.pdf

The tables in the doc show the channels (i.e frequencies) after DSO and add in a footnote in tiny print that half the values in the table for Mendip are wrong for the first year after DSO.

It's a damn good job that Lao Pan read the small print.

[DanielP]

Thanks for this.....very useful indeed.

Daniel

[martint123]

I'm beginning to think I'm lucky, living out in the middle of nowhere, where switchover is still a long way off. Hopefully sub will have the scanning function fully sorted and automagic by then

[ReggiePerrin]

Thanks LP.

Hopefully they'll also boost the power when the switch over is complete (Bath)

[Lao Pan]

The Public Service Channels (61,54,58) go from 10kw to 100kw on the 7th April. The others stay on 10kw until the Autumn 2011 switch when they go up to 12.5kw - finally going to 100kw in 2012 - still quite a long time to wait for perfect reception.

[escapeMCP]

Lao Pan,

Thanks for the ini files... I found them when searching for the old & new channel numbers in Google . FYI I needed to enable explicitly scan offset freq's to get S1 to work. Many thanks, saves me 20 mins finding out channel numbers etc.

Now if only I could get the channel scanner to work and not crash as soon as I assign a scanned channel to an EPG channel! (any ideas anyone?)

Thanks LP,

Aidan

[chunkymonkey909]

Hi,

can someone be very kind and upload a copy of their Scan.cache file for the Mendip transmitter (Freeview UK). I did a rescan yesterday, after stage 2 of the digital switch over, and have lost half the channels I used to receive.

Thanks

Martin

[Graham]

Yesterday was stage 1 for me ... and I would also be grateful for a scan cache file.

[Suricatta]

Hi,

can someone be very kind and upload a copy of their Scan.cache file for the Mendip transmitter (Freeview UK). I did a rescan yesterday, after stage 2 of the digital switch over, and have lost half the channels I used to receive.

Thanks

Martin

Here you go