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Hi 700MHz clearance on Black Hill, Scotland happened 5th September, however, I note that the frequencies reported by this website are identical to what they were before the clearance changes, but that some channels (BBC News HD, Channel 4+1HD) are no longer receivable as they were before.

Can someone confirm that the MUX frequencies have indeed NOT changed as a part of these works. I use a MUX config file with the 9 MUX'es listed as text within on a PC based tuner - hence my interest.

The no-longer receivable channels are also on the same MUX as previously.

Nigel

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Hi

There are no services at 562MHz or 586MHz (com7 + com8) despite full carrier (as listed in channel breakdown above). I can only assume that com7 and com8 have moved, but my system needs to know the frequencies so I can't re-tune until until I know which frequencies (in MHz) com7 and com8 have been moved to.

Nigel

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Hi

To answer my own question, on 5th Sept:

com7 moved from C32 (562.0MHz) to C55 (746MHz) eg BBC News HD
com8 moved from C35 (586.0MHz) to C56 (754MHz) eg BBC4 HD

Just verified this with individual frequency tuning.

And here was me thinking that this was a 700MHz 'clearance', not moving MUX'es further into the 700MHz spectrum!

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See, half way down this page for the info re the moving of com7 and com8

Ofcom announces 700 MHz clearance schedule 2017-20

specifically: "Channel 55 and 56 will be used for the interim HD multiplex com7 and com8:"

eg expect another re-tune when these MUX'es move again - likely back down below 700MHz

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