DAB UK distribution

[satman197171]

Driving past a TX site the other day which broadcasts DAB (BBC, D1 and SDL) it had a satellite dish on the side, what satellite would it be getting its feed from ?

 

[ozumo]

Could be 28.2 east, 11425H 27500 - talkSPORT Dist, D1 DAB, SDL nATL & BBC NDRA are all on there.

 

[satman197171]

nothing showing on Lyngsat or king of satellites website, where did you get that information from >?

 

[ozumo]

My old Humax Foxsat HD finds them (but can't open them), This site lists them:

TV channels and Radio bitrates DAB+ DTT FIBER Satellite Cable OTT.

Bitrate measurements of TV channels and Radio DAB+ DTT FIBER Satellite Cable OTT.

www.digitalbitrate.com

They may also still be on 4.8 east see:
https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/arqiva-national-dab-feeds-on-4-8°e.170781/

 

[Adam792]

They're all on 28.2°E as @ozumo says - they're also on 9°E 12092H (which replaces 4.8°E 12303 where they used to be until a few months ago) which I think is the main feed for them as they only appeared on 28°E later on. This transponder on 9°E (formerly Astra 4) is also used to feed the remaining BBC AM transmitters (for local radio etc.), as well as TalkSport and Absolute's AM transmitters.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Odd that the broadcasts from Astra 2, and 9E are not on Flysat, yet Hispasat is (only know this since I caught the Spanish DAB + transmissions during a 30W search yesterday - 12530 V ).

FlySat Hispasat 30W-5/30W-6 @ 30° West

www.flysat.com

It is a dying servce though, a lot of countries have refused to take it up, many more have tried and found it non-profitable

 

[Adam792]

Odd that the broadcasts from Astra 2, and 9E are not on Flysat, yet Hispasat is (only know this since I caught the Spanish DAB + transmissions during a 30W search yesterday - 12530 V ).

FlySat Hispasat 30W-5/30W-6 @ 30° West

www.flysat.com

It is a dying servce though, a lot of countries have refused to take it up, many more have tried and found it non-profitable

Those ones on Hispasat aren’t actually DAB+. I think someone has confused them with it because the tool to decode them is part of eti-tools which are the tools used for the DAB satellite streams too.

The Hispasat Spanish and Portuguese ones are just standard AAC audio but as DVB-IP (so inside an IP tunnel over a PID). These are just feeds for FM in Spain/Portugal as far as I’m aware. Rádio Comerical (and maybe some of the other Portuguese ones) has the FM RDS data in the IP packet headers in the stream.