Spanish DTV Transition

[mrhoover]

This website is the Spanish Digital TV website.

http://www.televisiondigital.es/Terrestre/Index.htm

Analog is going off in 3 stages.Andalucia near me in Portugal goes on 30th June next year.

Madrid on channel E2 is due to bite the dust on 3rd April 2010
according to the website.

Hugh

[Mike-CT]

Madrid on channel E2 is due to bite the dust on 3rd April 2010
according to the website.

Which gives us one more year to try for it. Thanks for the info, Hugh!

[mrhoover]

RTP has quite a few more years on E2 and E3
DTV here "may" start only towards the end of next year and certainly
by 2010.

As I understand it the RTP and commercial channel multiplex
carrying the 5 national channels(4 now but the last one due on at the start of DTV)
will be right at the top end of the Uhf band.In mountainous areas think
it will take a lot of "fill in" relay transmitters to get anywhere near the lowband coverage
of E2 and 3.

Don't forget RTP E2 uses vertical polarisation but by the time it's
bounced its way across the Atlantic may not matter too much.

RTP E3 is horizontal.

Hugh

[Mike-CT]

Are there any Spanish channel E3s ?????
With A2 open, those could be a possibility.
What are the possibility of any European E3s? Any left???

[mrhoover]

Hi Mike

Well....No Spanish ones any more.

Liege in Belgium is on at the moment,for how long not sure.
Think all Norway will have left analogue by next year.

Sweden,Finland,Switzerland,Germany gone

Denmark E3 is there.How long??

Italy IA B there for some years & their 46-47MHz semi pirate
stations.

Croatia E4,Tunisia E4

After that you're into the Mid East E3 Jordan & Syria
Iran lots of E2's & at least 1 E4

There are quite a lot of R1's and R2's left.Czech etc etc

Africa..Cameroon E2,Equatorial Guinea E2 and 4 with noisy/grating
carrier but they are due for some sort of rebuild??

RTP will be the easiest on E3 I'm sure.Transmitter is at Lousa near the city of Coimbra
in the center of Portugal roughly.

Hugh