{"id":883,"date":"2013-08-07T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T03:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2013-08-07T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T11:07:09","slug":"ugandas-digital-free-to-air-tv-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s Digital Free-to-Air TV is almost here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With testing for digital TV transmission for the greater Kampala area under way, Uganda&#8217;s migration to digital TV is back on.  <\/p>\n<p>For the open source <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geek\" title=\"geek\" target=\"_blank\">geeks<\/a> out there, I have re-published a script I wrote some years back to scan for DVB-T channels.  If you live in the greater Kampala area; feel free to check it out from my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zikusooka\/\" title=\"GitHub\">GitHub<\/a> repositories.  <\/p>\n<p>To use this tool, you will need a DVB-T2 tuner &#8211; USB dongle or PCI-based card.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Broadcasting is currently on the frequency 674000000; in addition to the already existing pay tv  frequencies of 490000000 , 498000000 , 522000000, 538000000, 546000000, 570000000, 586000000, 634000000, and 690000000.   <\/p>\n<p>We are really in the initial stages, as most broadcasters are not yet on at this time.  Also analogue TV users should expect to be temporarily <a href=\"http:\/\/chimpreports.com\/index.php\/news\/11998-gov%E2%80%99t-to-switch-off-analogue-televisions.html\" title=\"off this week\" target=\"_blank\">switched off this week<\/a> as transmission masts are re-fitted with new panels.<\/p>\n<p>Happy testing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With testing for digital TV transmission for the greater Kampala area under way, Uganda&#8217;s migration to digital TV is back on. For the open source geeks out there, I have re-published a script I wrote some years back to scan for DVB-T channels. If you live in the greater Kampala area; feel free to check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}