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World of DX-ing

April 27 2025

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MHz Block UTC ITU Ensemble + Location Details Remarks km TII
199.36 8C 0955 F Métropolitain 2, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre/Croix de Mission (77) 257km 0508
199.36 8C 1006 F Métropolitain 2, Bagnolet(Paris)/Tour Mercuriales Ouest (93) Tent. due to colliding subID 288km 0510
197.65 8B 1027 F Métropolitain 1, Laval/le Chênot (53) Tent. due to colliding subID 510km 0201
199.36 8C 1027 F Métropolitain 2, Le Mans/la Noé (72) Tent. due to colliding subID 468km 0901
197.65 8B 1050 F Métropolitain 1, Tours/les Rochettes (37) Tent. due to colliding subID 493km 1009
199.36 8C 1059 F Métropolitain 2, Mâcon/le Gros Mont (71) Tent. due to colliding subID 516km 0101
199.36 8C 1107 F Métropolitain 2, Paris/Hotel Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile (75) Tent. due to colliding subID 293km 0501

Map

April 24 2025 – AbracaDABra 3.2.0

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Petr Kopecký has just released AbracaDABra 3.2.0.
You can download AbracaDABra 3.2.0 from Petr’s Github release page.
Petr welcomes your feedback and bug reports on his Github issues page.

What’s new in 3.2.0? Make sure Expert mode UI is on!

° A redesign of the Ensemble Information widget.

New Ensemble Information
New Ensemble Information

Bitrate statistics for the current service are displayed (1).
The colour bar shows the sub-channel allocation in the ensemble – the rectangle with cross pattern is data sub-channel (2), the others are audio (3).

° The NMEA serial port baud-rate is configurable. Make sure to set the corract COM when using NMEA serial port GPS receiver as location source.
Users can also set the timestamp in UTC in this TII tab.

NMEA serial port baud-rate is configurable

° When another application ( a browser e.g.) has overtaken your screen just click on the AbracaDABra main widget in the taskbar and it will pop pup again with all other previously opened AbracaDABra widgets.

° The Ensemble logo from the SPI is supported and shown in the main window and as tool tip.
There’s no example of such a logo to be found at my location.

Ensemble logo
Ensemble logo

° Bug fixes.

April 20 2025 – Qt-DAB-6.9.2 update

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Jan Van Katwijk has just updated Qt-DAB-6.9.2.
You can download it from Jan’s Github releases page.
Comments and feedback are appreciated on Qt-DAB Github issues page.

Channels and TIIs on the map
Channels and TIIs on the map

When a transmitter is received on several muxes this now shows on the map (1):
channel and TII are on the map.
Often more than one transmitter is received on a particular MUX.
Qt now shows which particular location is received in real time (2).
At my location 9A WDR Regional reception thus constantly changes between Aachen, Bärbelkreuz, Bonn, Oelde… .
The number of transmitters (3) received is now more realistic than before.

Showing selected transmitters MUXes
Showing selected transmitters MUXes
Do not show all TIIs on the map
Do not show all TIIs on the map

If you don’t like all this info on the map and it’s a bit too cluttered, you can switch off this new feature (showAll).

April 11 2025 – Qt-DAB-6.9.2 update

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Jan Van Katwijk has just released an update for Qt-DAB-6.9.2. You can download it
from Jan’s Github releases page. Comments and feedback are appreciated on
Qt-DAB Github issues page.

What’s new?

° If you don’t like the fake TII codes (‘not in database’) being shown, you can now hide them by not ticking the ‘all tii’ button.

Hide (or not) fake TII codes
Hide (or not) fake TII codes

° TII codes are now also shown on the logging map.

TII codes on the map
TII codes on the map

° The loader has been visually updated.

° There’s a new 6.9.2 user manual. Download it here.

April 11 2025

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MHz Block UTC ITU Ensemble + Location Details Remarks km TII
197.65 8B 0108 F Métropolitain 1, Sablé-sur-Sarthe/le petit Martin (72) Tent. due to colliding subID 506km 0202
197.65 8B 0201 F Métropolitain 1, Blois/Erigny (41) Tent. due to colliding subID 450km 1002
197.65 8B 0209 F Métropolitain 1, Saint-Denis-d’Orques (72) Tent. due to colliding subID 487km 0209
204.64 9B 0332 D Antenne DE, Heilbronn/Schweinsberg (bwü) Tent. due to colliding subID 386km 4303
197.65 8B 0408 F Métropolitain 1, Laval/le Chênot (53) Tent. due to colliding subID – or Nogent-le-Rotrou? 510km 0201
197.65 8B 0408 F Métropolitain 1, Nantes/Sillon de Bretagne (44) Tent. due to colliding subID 621km 0301
204.64 9B 0433 D Antenne DE, Stuttgart/Frauenkopf (bwü) Tent. due to colliding subID 406km 4301
197.65 8B 0452 F Métropolitain 1, Tours/les Rochettes (37) Tent. due to colliding subID 493km 1009
197.65 8B 0452 F Métropolitain 1, Saint-Épain/le Buisson (37) Tent. due to colliding subID 528km 1001
197.65 8B 0641 F Métropolitain 1, Saint-Denis-d’Orques (72) Tent. due to colliding subID 487km 0209
190.64 7B 0727 D hr Radio, Rimberg (hes) 333km 0614
208.06 9D 0727 D Mein NRW DAB+, Köterberg (Lügde-Rischenau) (nrw) 333km 3608

Map

April 10 2025

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MHz Block UTC ITU Ensemble + Location Details Remarks km TII
199.36 8C 2126 F Métropolitain 2, Antran/la Barbotterie (86) Tent. due to colliding subID 548km 0404
197.65 8B 2142 F Métropolitain 1, Angers/le Ronceray (49) Tent. due to colliding subID 553km 0307
197.65 8B 2150 F Métropolitain 1, Ancenis/les Brulons (44) Tent. due to colliding subID 577km 0308
199.36 8C 2226 F Métropolitain 2, Pont-l’Évêque/Reux (14) Tent. due to colliding subID 377km 0906
199.36 8C 2226 F Métropolitain 2, Saint-Malo/les Bergerons (35) Tent. due to colliding subID – Tours? 544km 0402
199.36 8C 2226 F Métropolitain 2, Arconsat/Pardelières nord (63) Tent. due to colliding subID 572km 0104
199.36 8C 2248 F Métropolitain 2, Paimpol/Parc Langen (22) Tent. due to colliding subID 608km 2202
199.36 8C 2306 F Métropolitain 2, Thiers/sous Chabannes (63) Tent. due to colliding subID 578km 0910

Map

April 8 2025

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MHz Block UTC ITU Ensemble + Location Details Remarks km TII
197.65 8B 0730 F Métropolitain 1, Saint-Denis-d’Orques (72) Tent. due to colliding subID 487km 3608
197.65 8B 0741 F Métropolitain 1, Sablé-sur-Sarthe/le petit Martin (72) Tent. due to colliding subID 506km 0202
199.36 8C 0700 F Métropolitain 2, Plounérin/la Poste Neuve (22) Tent. due to colliding subID 650km 0209
199.36 8C 0700 F Métropolitain 2, Guingamp/le Lannec (D100) (22) Tent. due to colliding subID 628km 1201
199.36 8C 0730 F Métropolitain 2, Blois/Erigny (41) Tent. due to colliding subID 450km 0403
204.64 9B 0734 HOL DAB Lokaal 35, Den Haag/DVB-T mast (zho) 121km 1203
208.06 9D 0731 D Mein NRW DAB+, Köterberg (Lügde-Rischenau) (nrw) 333km 3501

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