[mythtvnz] Sky 12546 transponder gone

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:35:16 +1300, you wrote:

>I noticed that my MythTV box has failed to record anything from the
>Sky's History channel in the last couple of days, so I did a scan of
>all the Sky transponders and there is nothing now being broadcast on
>the 12546 frequency where the History channel used to be.  And I can
>not find any of the channels that were on 12546 anywhere on any of the
>other Sky transponders either.  But my Sky decoder can still play
>those channels.
>
>So I was wondering if anyone had any idea where they have moved to? Is
>there a new frequency that Sky is using now?  Maybe this is part of
>the move to allow everyone to have HD for free, and they have moved to
>a new DVB-S2 transponder to be broadcast in HD?  I did do a blind
>scan, but could not find any new transponders.  But blind scans need
>the right parameters to find things, so it would not have found a new
>transponder that was using different settings from the old ones.

I worked it out.  The 12546 transponder has been changed to broadcast
DVB-S2 instead of DVB-S.  I still need to look and see which channels
on 12546 are now HD.