Freesat or Freeview

One very good station on sat that is not on Freeview is Euronews. It is
amazing how much is going off elsewhere in Europe that is never even
mentioned in the UK media.




Talking of news channels, has anyone ever watched a few minutes of Russia
Today? Maybe its me, but I find it reminds me of BBC News24's format, for
example, BBC N24 have the HardTalk programme, whereas Russia Today has
CrossTalk. Also the rolling captions are of a similar style, but in
different corporate colours of course......

Stephen

On 23/04/2011 16:29, Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:18:47 +0100, Count de
wrote:

Can anyone give me the Freesat transponder frequency for C4 HD please

It is 12606, V, 27500, 3/4.

It is in DVB-S2 rather than the DVB-S used for most other channels. If
you are doing a manually initiated scan of that transponder frequency
you might need to tell your box to use DVB-S2.


Shame, my Blackgold TV card does not support DVB-S2

Silk wrote:
On 23/04/2011 19:28, J G Miller wrote:
On Saturday, April 23rd, 2011 at 18:22:26h +0100, Silk wrote:

That's because no one cares what happens in the rest of europe.

Surely those who live in the rest of Europe care about what happens
in the rest of Europe?

Most people don't care about anything if it doesn't directly affect them.

If people in other countries wish to care about what happens in thoses
countries, why is it my business?

You sound like the perfect demographic match for BBC News 24's target audience.

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In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:18:47 +0100, Count de Monet
wrote:

Can anyone give me the Freesat transponder frequency for C4 HD please

It is 12606, V, 27500, 3/4.

It is in DVB-S2 rather than the DVB-S used for most other channels. If
you are doing a manually initiated scan of that transponder frequency
you might need to tell your box to use DVB-S2.

I found the test transmissions on my Vision HD box some time ago, but they
are both now blank screens. Tried finding it again using the above
settings - but that appear to be the same as one I had before. I have
tried both the DVB-S2 options. Anything else I can try?

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:08:15 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:18:47 +0100, Count de Monet
wrote:

Can anyone give me the Freesat transponder frequency for C4 HD please

It is 12606, V, 27500, 3/4.

It is in DVB-S2 rather than the DVB-S used for most other channels. If
you are doing a manually initiated scan of that transponder frequency
you might need to tell your box to use DVB-S2.

I found the test transmissions on my Vision HD box some time ago, but they
are both now blank screens. Tried finding it again using the above
settings - but that appear to be the same as one I had before. I have
tried both the DVB-S2 options. Anything else I can try?

I have no suggestions. Perhaps someone else has.

I've just selected C4 HD on my Humax HDR in both Freesat and non-Freesat
modes.

In non-Freesat mode the box reports the frequency as 12607, which is
what I set manually, and is the same as listed by Lyngsat:
http://www.lyngsat.com/28east.html

When in Freesat mode the box reports the frequency as 12606, as I quoted
in my earlier post.


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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

Peter Duncanson wrote:

In non-Freesat mode the box reports the frequency as 12607
When in Freesat mode the box reports the frequency as 12606

MythTV under linux lists found C4HD during a full scan, and lists the
transponder as follows

mysql SELECT frequency,polarity,symbolrate,modulation,mod_sys,f ec
FROM dtv_multiplex
WHERE mplexid=70;

+-----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------+
| frequency | polarity | symbolrate | modulation | mod_sys | fec |
+-----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------+
| 12606650 | v | 27500000 | qpsk | DVB-S2 | 3/4 |
+-----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------+

so that might explain the rounding between 12606 and 12607 MHz

On Sunday, April 24th, 2011 at 11:13:54h +0100, Mark Carver wrote:

You sound like the perfect demographic match for BBC News 24's target
audience.

Although BBC News 24 tends to have some news items about Americans which
are totally irrelevant, and potentially offensive, to little Englanders
though.

J G Miller wrote:
On Sunday, April 24th, 2011 at 11:13:54h +0100, Mark Carver wrote:

You sound like the perfect demographic match for BBC News 24's target
audience.

Although BBC News 24 tends to have some news items about Americans which
are totally irrelevant, and potentially offensive, to little Englanders
though.

It has been many months since the BBC dropped the 24 from the BBC News
channel but I've no doubt it will be referenced for years to come.

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Adrian

On Sunday, April 24th, 2011 at 17:05:05h +0100, Adrian wrote:

It has been many months since the BBC dropped the 24 from the BBC News
channel

Indeed so.

Maybe because they wanted to distance themselves from France 24 or CT24

http://www.ct24.cz/

(Warning: not safe for people who care nothing for the rest of Europe)

CT24 always looks very BBC like because of the red and the banner style
across the bottom of the screen.

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
o.uk...
Peter Duncanson wrote:

In non-Freesat mode the box reports the frequency as 12607
When in Freesat mode the box reports the frequency as 12606

MythTV under linux lists found C4HD during a full scan, and
lists the
transponder as follows

mysql SELECT
frequency,polarity,symbolrate,modulation,mod_sys,f ec
FROM dtv_multiplex
WHERE mplexid=70;

+-----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------+
| frequency | polarity | symbolrate | modulation | mod_sys |
fec |
+-----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------+
| 12606650 | v | 27500000 | qpsk | DVB-S2 |
3/4 |
+-----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------+

so that might explain the rounding between 12606 and 12607 MHz



Now this may seem a thick question but I thought all Freesat
signals came/come from the Astra2 cluster. If so why does C4HD
appear to come from Eurobird 1?



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