[kaffeine-user] TV Frequency Change in Adelaide, Australia.

[Rick <ar...@ad...>]

Dear Kaffeine Team,
now that digital TV introduction is nearing completion throughout 
Australia some analog TV transmissions are starting to be switched off 
releasing those frequencies for other uses.

I live in Adelaide where SBS, the Special Broadcasting Service, has 
accepted the opportunity to shift one of its two transmissions from UHF 
to VHF. All Adelaide TV stations now have a main presence on VHF and are 
repeated on UHF to areas in the Adelaide Foothills that are shaded from 
the main VHF transmitters located elsewhere in the Adelaide Hills.  This 
change simplifies antennas and any distribution amplifiers in the 
Adelaide area that have, until now, been a problem for SBS with only a 
UHF presence.  Some other regions of Australia, for various reasons, are 
likely to follow shortly.

This SBS frequency change affects Kaffeine's "scanfile.dvb" file.  The 
entry for SBS in your current file shows "564500000".    It should now 
read "184500000" as follows.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   [dvb-t/au-Adelaide]
T 177500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
T 191625000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
T 219500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
T 226500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
T _184500000_ 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE
[dvb-t/au-AdelaideFoothills]
T 711500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
T 732500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
T 760500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE
T 781625000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
T 795500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(The SBS UHF frequency "760500000" is unaffected by this change.

I have tested this change in "scanfile.dvb" and it works fine for me.

You can verify this data change by looking up:
http://www20.sbs.com.au/transmissions/index.php?pid=2&id=548

Keep up the really good work.  I have enjoyed watching TV on a variety 
of computers running Linux and Kaffeine and hope to continue to do so.

(I attempted to register on your site earlier today.  I now realise that 
was probably inappropriate.  I am unlikely to ever use that 
registration, so it can be deleted.)

Rick Matthews