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All free TV channels in the UK
Tuesday 16 June 2015 6:16PM

Recently FTA "TV5 MONDE", Sky channel 796, is worth a mention.

Sky info: "French language channel with films, drama, live news and sport, music, travel, kids TV & much more. A bit of France chez vous."

Shows modern and classic French films with English teletext subtitles on page 892.

Not on Freesat. Found here:

11426.33 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 28.2E

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Astra 2G finally arrived at 28E on Monday.

Eutelsat 28A (Eurobird) will soon be relieved of it's duties by Astra E, F and G.

Some transponder moves have already occurred as indicated in the NITs of the two DVB networks at 28.2E.


Freesat-Diffs 17-06-2015 11 26 to 18-06-2015 15 14:

Changed:
11222.17 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2311 --> 11223.50 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2311
11261.17 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2301 --> 11263.50 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2301
11662.00 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2411 --> 11508.50 V 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2411
11680.77 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2412 --> 11973.00 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2412

Found:
11225.00 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2106
11265.00 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2108

Lost:
11223.67 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2312
11259.67 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2302


ASTRA-Diffs 17-06-2015 11 26 to 18-06-2015 15 14:

Changed:
11222.17 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2311 --> 11223.50 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2311
11261.17 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2301 --> 11263.50 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2301

Found:
11225.00 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2106
11265.00 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2108

Lost:
11223.67 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2312
11259.67 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2302


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ASTRA-Diffs 22-06-2015 16 22 to 23-06-2015 13 32

Changed:
11584.62 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2407 --> 11464.25 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2407
11603.85 V 29500 3/4 DVB-S2 0.20 QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2408 --> 11479.00 V 23000 8/9 DVB-S2 0.20 QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2408
11662.00 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2411 --> 11508.50 V 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2411
11680.77 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2412 --> 11973.00 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2412

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Freesat-Diffs 24-06-2015 18 14 to 25-06-2015 14 59

Changed:
11508.50 V 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2411 --> 11670.75 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2411
11973.00 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2412 --> 11685.50 V 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2412

Found:
11836.50 H 27500 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2007

Lost:
12304.50 H 27500 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2031


ASTRA-Diffs 24-06-2015 18 14 to 25-06-2015 14 59

Found:
11836.50 H 27500 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2007

Lost:
12304.50 H 27500 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2031



Combining previous Freesat changes gives net changes:
11662.00 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2411 --> 11670.75 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2411
11680.77 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2412 --> 11685.50 V 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2412

So they are more or less back where they came from.

27500 x 2/3 = 22000 x 5/6 so the same capacity, but 5/6 needs a higher S/N

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J
Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Thursday 25 June 2015 7:18PM

Linda: I agree with jb38.

You said "I wonder is there a problem because This Morning is in two parts, separated by the 11am news!!!".

There are others like that you can try, for example:

Wed 01 Jul 2015 21:00 - 22:05
Title The Last Stand
Channel 030 5*
crid = /V6HJF#1, Type : 31 (item)
eventID = BB20, 770 MHz, uhf 58

second half, after "Access", is

Wed 01 Jul 2015 22:10 - 23:10
Title The Last Stand
Channel 030 5*
crid = /V6HJF#1, Type : 31 (item)
eventID = BB22, 770 MHz, uhf 58

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J
Other projects
Friday 26 June 2015 11:43PM

Brian, I feel your pain. Your health is the only important consideration. Hope things get better soon for you.

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J
Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Saturday 27 June 2015 12:19AM

jb38: Some similar reports:

"the Humax DTR-T2100 is a nightmare trying to record This Morning"
Failed Recordings. - BT YouView - Digital Spy Forums

"My wife has cancelled This Morning now because this FreeTime Foxsat is still refusing to record both successfully"
Humax clash HDR-1000S - Freesat+ Recorders - Digital Spy Forums

Interesting that "The Last Stand" is not split in the Sky EPG


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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Saturday 27 June 2015 11:19PM

jb38: Thanks. I take it that "programme" (item) rather than "series" record works, although to be sure we will have to wait and see.

With regard to having to select both parts see:
http://www.nordig.org/pdf….pdf
"
11.3 Split Recording Usage Example
It is possible to split a programme (a movie, sport events etc) into several parts and still signalize that they all belong to same PVR programme event. This split could be for example due to a slightly longer news break in a movie or that the programme has to be continued on another service.
As long as all programme parts of a split programme has:
- same programme CRID,
- all includes an Instance Metadata Identifier (IMI) extension and
- the gap is less than 3 hours
The NorDig PVR is required to record all parts, after the user has programmed any of the parts to be recorded. (The NorDig PVR is supposed to merge these parts as one and the same record entity for the user in its list of recordings)
...
Source: DTG D-Book 6.2.1 and NorDig Unified Specification
"


That a programme is split is signalled by a "#" character terminating the item CRID.

"CRID is terminated by a "#" character which is followed immediately by the IMI" - ETSI TS 102 323 V1.5.1 (2012-01)

I put some code in my EIT parser to dump a list of all split programmes.

"This Morning" is the only TV programme at present which is both split and has series CRIDs

service_name = "ITV"
onid.tsid.sid = 9018.8203.8267 = 233A.200B.204B
default_authority = "www.itv.com"
{
programme = "This Morning"
crid = "/172971489#1", item, dates: Mon 29 Jun 10:30, Mon 29 Jun 11:00
crid = "/18081854", series, dates: Mon 29 Jun 10:30, Mon 29 Jun 11:00, Tue 30 Jun 10:30, Tue 30 Jun 11:00, Wed 01 Jul 10:30, Wed 01 Jul 11:00, Thu 02 Jul 10:30, Thu 02 Jul 11:00, Fri 03 Jul 10:30, Fri 03 Jul 11:00
crid = "/172971491#1", item, dates: Tue 30 Jun 10:30, Tue 30 Jun 11:00
crid = "/172971497#1", item, dates: Wed 01 Jul 10:30, Wed 01 Jul 11:00
crid = "/172971501#1", item, dates: Thu 02 Jul 10:30, Thu 02 Jul 11:00
crid = "/172971570#1", item, dates: Fri 03 Jul 10:30, Fri 03 Jul 11:00
}

There are, however, these radio programmes:

service_name = "BBC R1X"
onid.tsid.sid = 9018.4168.5888 = 233A.1048.1700
default_authority = "fp.bbc.co.uk"
{
programme = "Charlie Sloth"
crid = "/D0NT7Q#1", item, dates: Mon 29 Jun 16:00, Mon 29 Jun 18:00
crid = "/L4S33R", series, dates: Mon 29 Jun 16:00, Mon 29 Jun 18:00, Tue 30 Jun 16:00, Tue 30 Jun 18:00, Wed 01 Jul 16:00, Wed 01 Jul 18:00, Thu 02 Jul 16:00, Thu 02 Jul 18:00, Fri 03 Jul 16:00, Fri 03 Jul 18:00
crid = "/D0NT88#1", item, dates: Tue 30 Jun 16:00, Tue 30 Jun 18:00
crid = "/D0NT8D#1", item, dates: Wed 01 Jul 16:00, Wed 01 Jul 18:00
crid = "/D0NT8F#1", item, dates: Thu 02 Jul 16:00, Thu 02 Jul 18:00
crid = "/D0NT8T#1", item, dates: Fri 03 Jul 16:00, Fri 03 Jul 18:00
}

service_name = "BBC Radio 1"
onid.tsid.sid = 9018.4168.6720 = 233A.1048.1A40
default_authority = "fp.bbc.co.uk"
{
programme = "Greg James"
crid = "/D0NIJD#1", item, dates: Mon 29 Jun 16:00, Mon 29 Jun 18:00
crid = "/KOYKLK", series, dates: Mon 29 Jun 16:00, Mon 29 Jun 18:00, Tue 30 Jun 16:00, Tue 30 Jun 18:00, Wed 01 Jul 16:00, Wed 01 Jul 18:00, Thu 02 Jul 16:00, Thu 02 Jul 18:00
crid = "/D0NIOA#1", item, dates: Tue 30 Jun 16:00, Tue 30 Jun 18:00
crid = "/D0NISW#1", item, dates: Wed 01 Jul 16:00, Wed 01 Jul 18:00
crid = "/D0NIV8#1", item, dates: Thu 02 Jul 16:00, Thu 02 Jul 18:00
}

The full list of split programmes from Winter Hill for the coming week is here:

North West SPLITS 2015 06 27 202641 - Pastebin.com



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Freesat-Diffs 25-06-2015 14 59 to 29-06-2015 17 35

Changed:
11389.00 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2113 --> 11386.50 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2113
11390.33 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2316 --> 11386.50 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2316
11426.33 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2306 --> 11426.50 V 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2306

There is no change to the FreesatHome transponder in the Freesat NIT

The FreesatHome transponder is unique:
-the basis of the Freesat Network
-not included in the ASTRA Network
-has (or had) an Orbital Position of 28.5 degrees East

Blind-scan shows the frequency is now 11426.50 MHz

This is what I had expected to see:
11427.83 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.5E :TSID = 2315 --> 11426.50 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK 028.2E :TSID = 2315


Where are the ASTRA-Diffs?

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J
Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Tuesday 30 June 2015 7:45PM

jb38: Thanks for the update.

Films on five are often split, but, being films, don't have series CRIDs. There would be no end of complaints if only the first part of a film recorded.

As noted previously, "This Morning" is unique in also having series CRIDs.

Were your test recordings of "This Morning" "series" or "programme" records?

I agree with your advice to Linda. A clean machine tuned to the correct frequencies, and no others, is essential.

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