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February 15 2021

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MHz Block UTC ITU Ensemble + Location Details Remarks km
195.94 8A 2054 F LILLE Etendu, Lille/Bouvigny le Mont 62 159km
194.06 7D 2058 F LILLE Local 2, Lille/Fort de Mons-en-Barœul (59) 119km
195.94 8A 2058 F LILLE Etendu, Lille/Fort de Mons-en-Barœul (59) 119km
192.35 7C 2103 F Lille-Local, Lille/Lambersart (59) 124km
178.35 5C 2126 D DR Deutschland, Siegen Süd (nrw) 233km
204.64 9B 2130 D Antenne DE, Siegen Süd (nrw) 233km
204.64 9B 2130 D Antenne DE, Köln/Colonius (nrw) 155km
204.64 9B 2130 D Antenne DE, Düsseldorf/Rheinturm (nrw) 145km
204.64 9B 2132 D Antenne DE, Dortmund/Florianturm (nrw) 200km
178.35 5C 2135 D DR Deutschland, Ebbegebirge Herscheid (nrw) 214km
178.35 5C 2135 D DR Deutschland, Dortmund/Florianturm (nrw) 200km
190.64 7B 2155 D hr Radio, Großer Feldberg (Taunus)/hr (hes) 277km
190.64 7B 2156 D hr Radio, Rimberg (hes) 333km

Lille/Bouvigny le Mont [62] - TII 42 14Lille/Bouvigny le Mont [62] – TII 42 14

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February 14 2021

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Some light lift this morning.
MHz Block UTC ITU Ensemble + Location Details Remarks km
195.94 8A 0836 HOL 8A Randstad NL, Hilversum/Media Park (nho) 142km
197.65 8B 0909 HOL 8B Wageningen, Wageningen/Bemonte Residence (gel) 128km
204.64 9B 0912 D Antenne DE, Langenberg/Hordtberg (nrw) 173km
204.64 9B 0912 D Antenne DE, Düsseldorf/Rheinturm (nrw) 145km
178.35 5C 0938 D DR Deutschland, Ebbegebirge Herscheid (nrw) 214km

Lift on February 14 2021

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December 7 2020 – QT-dab 3.7 Final

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Final QT-dab 3.7 has been released. What’s new?

SNR error has been fixed. EPG is implemented but still experimental.
Scanning has been improved with the option to make several skiplists.
Mind you: after installing check your device setting. All MUXes were set wrong on my pc. LNA was set to 4 instead of previous 1 on ALL muxes. I had to change the settings for each mux.
Always good to download and check the manual 😀

Download QT-dab 3.7 here.

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December 1 2020 – QT-dab 3.7 Pre

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Today Jan Van Katwijk released QT-dab 3.7 Pre. Download it here.

What’s new?
Qt-DAB 3.7 brings – apart from a number of minor changes – two new items
a. an SNR viewer, a widget can be selected that will show the development of the SNR over time. If configured, the output can be stored in afile and there is – for Linux – a small application that will show the content of the file
b. a skipTable for the scanner. In many cases it is known beforehand that a channel does not contain a DAB signal. In the skipTable (made visible with the configurtion widget) it can be indicated which channels can be skipped while scanning.
As usual, an AppImage and a Windows installer is available for both qt-dab and dabMini are here available.
The documentation is updated and the up-to-date users guide can be found in the docs section in the source tree.

A single scan produces a results file with all the ensemble data in full.
Continous scans produce ‘summary’ files like this:
7A Zuid NL ; ensembleId 8017; channel 7A; frequency 188928; nr services 13; time 2020-dec-03 16:02; transmitters (7+2); SNR 8;

QT-dab 3.7 Pre
QT-dab 3.7 Pre