Not certain if this is the best thread and apologies if not, but very curious as to how people in the Warragul/Drouin areas go with TV reception.
Warragul and Drouin are on the fringes of both Mt Dandenong and Mt Tassie (both are in the Melbourne licence area and Warragul is also on the very fringe of the Regional Victoria licence area) and looking at mySwitch they don’t seem to get great signal from either transmitter (most parts seem to be either variable or poor reception from both).
Given they are both towns of a decent size I’m surprised there’s no translators there especially when other places like Healesville and Warburton also in the Melbourne TV market have translators despite most parts of those towns seemingly getting good signal from Mt Dandenong (based on coverage maps).
I know actual coverage can vary from projections- does anyone know whether people in those towns have greater difficulty than most with reception or if reception seems to be stable enough from either Mt Dandenong or Mt Tassie?
In my experience, actual reception is generally a bit better than ‘variable’ or ‘fair’ as indicated by MySwitch, probably likely that most parts of both towns have good reception, or translators would be required.
Figured I needed to check this with Seven having sport on two channels, for the short time there’s still cricket on.
The horse racing on 7twoHD is the priority on bits, but live racing on Racing.com also has a high bit rate. 7SD is clearly being clamped - I’ve never seen it go above 2Mbps average on any sample I’ve done.
Seven Network
Name
Video
Audio
7/71
7 Melbourne
1.8Mbps MPEG-2 SD
256k MP2
70
7HD Melbourne
3.7Mbps H.264 HD
384k AC3
72
7twoHD Melbourne
5.0Mbps H.264 HD
192k AC3
74
7mateHD Melbourne
2.8Mbps H.264 HD
384k AC3
75
7Bravo Melbourne
2.6Mbps H.264 HD
40k HE-AAC
76
7flix Melbourne
1.3Mbps H.264 SD
128k MP2
77
TVSN
0.8Mbps H.264 SD
40k HE-AAC
78
RACING.COM
2.1Mbps H.264 SD
64k HE-AAC
Obviously Cricket isn’t as high demand for motion as something like football would be, but even then I don’t know how you can watch this
I mentioned that too in the Seven Cricket thread. 7 SD in Melbourne was unwatchable during the cricket. At the risk of repeating myself, in wide shots the players were just blurry spots of nothingness. And there was one point when Ben Stokes was full frame and moved. The picture just totally fell apart. Time for Seven Melbourne to dump the SD mess and just go HD like most other places.
Apologies if this has been posted but I have noticed that the consolidation of 7 and 10 services onto one RF channel in the WIN monopoly areas has been formalised and reflecting on the ACMA radcomm database. Formalised on 26 November 2025.
SDS/MGS29 South East
RDS/LRS32 Renmark/Loxton
MTN/MDN29 Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area
Maybe it’s because it didn’t update until December 10th, 2013 when Analogue TV got shutdown in Melbourne and the Remote & Central Region outside in WA. Also, what is the region that PRiME was not on?
