Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Alan, who writes:
Thomas,
You have been reviewing radios on your site lately, which has prompted me to produce an up-to-date table of all frequencies allocated to radio and TV broadcasting.
Worldwide radios need to tune any frequency up to 240 MHz. DAB+ in the 1.452 – 1.492 GHz band has been a failure. TV is as indicated.
Some chip manufacturers are making FM reception for the CIS and Japanese markets, they need to tune down to 47 MHz to cover all of band 1 for DRM.
Please note that DRM and DAB+ can transmit coloured slide shows to the screen in DAB+ and DRM receivers provided they have a colour screen included.
Alan
Thank you for creating and sharing this reference sheet, Alan!
Worldspace was the first to use the 1.452 – 1.492 MHz band. After its failure, it was allocated to DAB/DAB+. The bottom half of the band was for terrestrial transmissions and the upper half from satellites. All DAB broadcasts have ceased and this band was never used for DAB+. Such a high frequency was the cause of the Canadian failure because the signal is much like that from a mobile phone in that it is not good at penetrating buildings and will not go through terrain or even wet dense foliage.
The Canadians were forced to use that band because the popular band for DAB/DAB+ is 174 – 230 MHz most of which is used then by analog TV. It is still used today but for digital TV making it unsuitable for Region 2 due to overcrowding.
Excellent, Alan! Thanks for your hard work. It will be a blessing to many.
Dan…
Thanks for this list. It will be very handy and much used here.