D Day for Thessaloniki(added with more info) More you will find on this page http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/digea
Yesterday 15-12010 is the D-day (digital day switchover )though in pilot stage for nationwide TV channels relaying in Thessaloniki. Most of the western part of the city including parts of the north areas including us in Filiro and Retziki are now able to watch the 7 TV channels via 2 transmitters using MPEG 4 compression technology and COFDM mode. The 7 TV channels are Ant1 Mega SKAI STAR MACEDONIA Alter and Alpha which last year started a consortium called Digea TV to promote the digital switchover in Greece for the commercial TV channels (separate from the national TV network). Thessaloniki is the second point with Athens to follow in several months but in the first semester of 2010. First press release was on 16-12-09 and all members of the consortium started banners from the 1rst of this year to inform for the digital switchover that just made from the point of Filipion central part s of the city but on the mountain) but leaving the older main point of Hortiatis (E of the city) still using analogue mode More for this including two coverage maps in this page http://www.digea.gr/news/details/3/8.html As for now 15-1-2010 and 0700 LT the switchover has been completed using two 'transponders' on 25 and 29 for the digital format, previously used by Macedonia TV , another (?? No info ) as spare while all other freqs use a notification The full digital coverage is expected to be carried out by 2012 or 2015 As per Digea site , this is the second digital network system . The first transmission system has installed in Xylokastro (near Corinth on Peloponisos )3 months ago and the next system will be installed in Athens Larisa and Patra It should be noted however that the Greek national TV network ERT is already transmitting in Mpeg 2 digital format in Thessaloniki since mid 2007 using the transmission facilities from Hortiatis in the TV channel 56 using a special digital package with 3+1 channels (Prisma+ ,Cine+, Sport+ ,and RIK the Greek cypriot national TV channel) ..... Tested my father in law's TV monitor with built in decoder yesterday 15.1 morning 0700 LT . channel 25 was with 3+1 TV channels in the clear (Anntenna , Alpha Alter and spare ), while ch 29 due to some in band-QRM showed halted or low-framed video (channels available MAk TV , Mega Sky Star) , though today signal was 100% . This is possibly caused due to a 2 antenna mixed system used so far to pick signals from the two main transmission systems. The TV set with built in MP4 decoder offers better picture than an external decoder connected with SCART Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd ________________________ http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas (replacement of geocities) http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics) http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos http://www.myspace.com/310100806 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854 http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865 (social news ) http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' ) http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1 ........ Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
