I re-read this thread and a couple of others related to this issue. It seems that posts are not explicit enough to get a point across. For people that already know the information, of course the posts make sense. But for someone trying to CLEARLY understand the total scope of the situation, the information provided is not clear.
By going through the exercise of creating a table, it pointed out to me which 'channels' are being changed, which are no longer being used, and how the spectrum is being divided. Certainly NOW that I see the table and re-read the posts it makes sense. It did not the first time.
While 851.###0 does in fact indicate that you carry the frequency out 4 places past the decimal point, that fact was not clear when I initially read it. Just saying that the frequency ends in a 0 is not good enough. dougr1252's post didn't make complete sense to me at first either, but certainly added up perfectly when comparing the post to the table. As I said, a picture is worth 1000 words.
Please look at Channel 720 Vs 719, 868 vs 866, there seems to be a disconnect. Also Ch 958 looks like it should not be there, if so where?
One thing of note, some people ID the first channel as 0, while others ID it as channel 1. I am looking at this from a technical level, so you might need to add 1 to every channel number. Perhaps that is your disconnect between 719 & 720.
I was surprised to see that there were a lot of unused higher channel numbers. It took some digging to get to this point, and there certainly could be errors in the high channel numbers. If you have information that shows something different, please provide the source of your info. My goal here was to get a table that I can use on rebanded systems; so channels above 559 weren't the priority.
