From: "Gregor Lawatscheck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've got one of the early UK DVB-T Novas rev 1.2 with a Grundig > 29504-401 frontend > > Strange thing is: On testing I got an EPG reading from SWR on VHF III > 177.50 MHz this morning. > > So it can tune to VHF but either the signal I have is too weak (I need a > better aerial) or more likely there really is no support for VHF on those > early Grundig frontends. Not sure how the EPG reading came in though...
That's something I've been wondering about for some time. If you look here: http://www.grundig.de/nim/index.html You'll see that Grundig is offering several flavors of their NIMs - "Full Band", "Full Band Pal Plus" and "Full Band UHF only". So there _are_ apparently Grundig NIMs available which can receive VHF channels. The question is if TechnoTrend indeed only utilized the UHF-only versions, or if they maybe (accidentally?) used a full band model on some cards... The reason for you reception problems might not necessarily be that your NIM does not support it. It could also be that the PLL needs to be programmed differently (especially the output port pins, which traditionally serve as the band selection), or that the LSI demodulator has not been programmed properly for 7MHz bandwidth. Since apparently everyone thought the card could not do VHF/7MHz anyway, maybe the frontend module does not even attempt to program the NIM for VHF/7MHz...? Regards, -- Robert Schlabbach e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin, Germany -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
