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This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 410,000 homes.

Other maps:Oxford DABOxford AM/FMOxford regionBBC South (Oxford)Central (South micro region)

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

What do the colours on the map mean?

The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.


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Which Freeview channels does the Oxford transmitter broadcast?

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

MuxAerial positionFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 horizontal max
C53+ (730.2MHz)295m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		100,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One South (Oxford), 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 BBC Red Button 1, plus 12 others

PSB2
D3+4
 horizontal max
C60- (785.8MHz)295m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		100,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV (Central (South micro region)), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Central west),

PSB3
BBCB
 horizontal max
C57 (762.0MHz)295m256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4		100,000W
Channel icons
101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 horizontal -3dB
C50 (706.0MHz)295m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		50,000W
Channel icons
10 ITV 3, 20 G.O.L.D. (not free), 25 Dave ja vu, 26 Home (not free), 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5*, 31 5USA, 34 ESPN UK (not free), 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 21 others

COM5
ArqA
 horizontal -3dB
C59- (777.8MHz)319m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		50,000W
Channel icons
11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, 302 BBC Red Button 2, plus 9 others

COM6
ArqB
 horizontal -3dB
C55 (746.0MHz)319m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		50,000W
Channel icons
15 Film 4, 18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 21 VIVA, 24 ITV 4, 41 Sky Sports 1 (not free), 42 Sky Sports 2 (not free), 47 4seven, 83 Al Jazeera English, 85 RT English , plus 22 others



Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Oxford transmitter?


BBC South (Oxford) Today 0.4m homes 1.6%
from Oxford OX2 7DW, 6km west-southwest
to BBC South (Oxford) region - 6 masts.
BBC South (Oxford) Today shares 50% content with Southampton service

ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 102km south
to ITV Central (South) region - 25 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford
Central (South) is split for news: 405,700 Oxfordshire homes gets Merdian Thames Valley, 282,800 Gloucester-, Hereford-, Worcester- and Shropshire homes Central West.

How will the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

years1950s~851984-971997-981998-20112011-1329/5/13-2013-18
aerial groupVHFC/D EC/D EWC/D EC/D EW
C2BBCtv
C29D
600C31com7
C341
C37com8
C48C
700C49C5C5
C50 SDNSDN
C51-Alocal
C52-B
C53C4C4C4+BBCA+BBCA+BBCA
C55ArqBArqBArqB
C57BBC1BBC1BBC1BBCBBBCBBBCB
C59-ArqA-ArqA-ArqA
C60ITVITVITV-D3+4-D3+4-D3+4
800C62SDN
C63BBC2BBC2BBC2
C682

orange background for multiplexes names moregreen background for transmission frequencieslilac background for power levels in watts800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 14th September and 28th September 2011.

  • Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Oxford including Abingdon, Didcot could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Oxford transmitter using C51
  • COM7, COM8 projected for 2013-16.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 500kW
com7, com8, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 100kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 50kW
Analogue 5(-11dB) 40kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*(-17dB) 10kW
Mux C*, Mux D*(-18dB) 8kW
Mux A*, Mux B*(-19.2dB) 6kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Oxford transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Dec 2006Central Independent Television
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Oxford was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.


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Jim
Tuesday 12 October 2010 8:36PM Cheltenham
Briantist - GL54 1AB. Stow on the Wold. The aerial picks up from the Oxford transmitter, as it has done before the work there. We are high up here so I can't think why there is no Mux 2 signal yet other progs are perfect.
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Derek
Tuesday 12 October 2010 9:49PM Didcot
Gave up in the end and went for a complete reinstall by selecting first time install from the menus'

This seems to have allowed the receiver to locate the correct MUX channels and at last I have ITV back. So far so good
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pete
Tuesday 12 October 2010 10:39PM
I have just solved the digital stuttering problems on ch 68 Mux 2 from Oxford. I was told that mysignal was too strong! As I don't have attenuators I used those 3 way cheap y shaped tv splitters. I plugged the aerial into one and then plugged that one into another one then plugged a lead from that to my tv. BINGO! mux 2 clear and perfect. All stations from Oxford perfect. And to think I was about to spend money on an amplifier.
Many thanks to my mate Jerry for this tip. I didn't realise that too strong a signal can cause blocking and freezing. I only thought too weak a signal did that.
Now I'm going to order a proper variable attenuator from ebay. They are about £4.
Hope this tip is useful. Give it a try for mux 2 problems. It worked for me.
I used those y shaped splitters because I have a few of them in my shed and they are notorious for reducing signal strength quite drastically. Exactly what I needed to solve the stuttering problem I had
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martin
Tuesday 12 October 2010 11:01PM
re reference to pete : too strong signal ... what area you in ..... as in hp19 i do get ch68 but juttery on ch5 and even worse on itv1 ..... this is with booster on ... and im running a tri bladed ariel.. no matter how hard i try i cant get a signal on my meter ( dvb one) which shows only 1 flutuating to two lights ... thats without a booster ... my ariel is approx 5 mrs above the roof ... and has clear line of sight ... cant work out why the rubbish signal ... anyone got n e ideas ????
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Rachel
Wednesday 13 October 2010 3:42AM
Briantist: "It did, just you were not paying attention."
It is not that I was not paying attention, it's that for sixteen years up to Feb. of this year I received totally uninterrupted TV with a small loft aeriel, even through all the spells of inversion effect you list. I was never aware of the inversion effect until I stumbled on your website in Feb. when my reception went cock eyed with the work at Beckley. It seems to me (and alot of other contributors to this thread)that the signals from Beckley are not as good as they used to be, so we, who have had equipment working well for years, are now having to get higher standard equipment, adjust aeriels etc...
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Paul
Wednesday 13 October 2010 6:52AM Banbury
I think it's been said before here. The new aerial mast they have put up is still not running on full power and won't be until 2011 when they do the full switch over and possibly introduce HD. Until then we are all on a half service, although of course we pay a full licence fee.

No one at all is interested in people living in the fringe areas that can no longer receive channel 4 or ITV or any of the others on this MUX. The only way forward that I can see is if someone starts a campaign, possibly a facebook one, to shed bad publicity on Arqiva.

Without this, nothing will ever happen.

I cannot afford Freesat.
Briantist
Wednesday 13 October 2010 7:59AM
Rachel: Yes, you do rather keep going on about it. I'm going to stick with my couple-of-decades-of-industry-experience thanks, rather than go with idle-user-speculation. Ta.
Briantist
Wednesday 13 October 2010 8:09AM
Paul: There is no "possibly introduce HD", the service starts from this transmitter on Wednesday 28th September 2011, just as it started at switchover for all the others.

There is a really, really good reason for the Multiplex 2/A fringe problems - the transmission mode selected does this on purpose - see www.ukfree.tv link icon Freeview modes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
Briantist
Wednesday 13 October 2010 8:10AM
martin/pete: Boosters might have been OK for digital TV, but they more-often-than-not cause the destruction of digital ones.

Remember that for reliable Freeview reception it is the QUALITY of the signal that is require, not the STRENGTH.
Briantist
Wednesday 13 October 2010 8:12AM
Jim: There should be no problems with C68, I would check www.ukfree.tv link icon Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

C68 often proves problematic, just because it at the top end of the transmission signal range.
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Andrew
Wednesday 13 October 2010 8:27AM Banbury
I have a 2003 BMW motorcycle, will it continue to work once once switchover occurs ?
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John Puckrin
Wednesday 13 October 2010 9:22AM Horncastle
Ihave a p[roblem receiving Sky News from Belmont transmitter 9 miles distant. Problem has just developed. All other digital channels sre strong. Is there a reason for this?
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Paul
Wednesday 13 October 2010 10:38AM Banbury
Brian you missed the irony of my comment.

HD service will start in start in September if nothing goes wrong... say like the transmitter bursting into flames....

In the meantime, what ever you say makes no real difference to the fact that I and my neighbours do not have ITV or channel 4 on the digital service.

Thanks for reading.
J
Jim
Wednesday 13 October 2010 2:55PM
Briantist - Ta for the info but it seems that Mux2 (Ch 68) is causing problems for many people, not just on the Oxford transmitter. You state that it 'often proves problematic because it is at the top end of the signal range' - Mux2 includes ITV1, Ch4 & Ch5, so are these big TV companies aware of the loss of their programmes audience (therefore loss advertising / sponsor coverage)? If so I would of thought they would of demanded a better signal service for their money by now! Shouldn't somebody with a bit of clout be doing something about this?
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Rachel
Wednesday 13 October 2010 3:35PM
Briantist "Yes, you do rather keep going on about it."

Yes I do, cos the whole thing has been a shambles and a month after it was all 'fixed' this thread is still alive and kicking with anecdotes of continuing problems, so I'm not the only one :-)
Briantist
Wednesday 13 October 2010 4:25PM
Rachel: There were problems, but you're tilting at windmills now.
Briantist
Wednesday 13 October 2010 4:30PM
Jim: Right, it is worth pointing out at this point that Mux2 is broadcast in 64QAM mode, which provides more channels, but appears about 3dB weaker in comparison to 16QAM.

The multiplex operator made a decision to do this - they wanted more channels over less coverage - when the BBC and others switched to 16QAM to increase coverage.

So, yes, they know and they made a decision to do it.
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Rachel
Wednesday 13 October 2010 5:38PM
Briantist: There ARE problems remaining for some, though I have solved my own. And yes it is a futile battle because it would appear that nothing will improve, for those who still have problems, until next year :-)
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martin
Wednesday 13 October 2010 6:36PM
directed at briantist : is it worth me spending out a few more pounds and raising the external pole for my tri band ariel ? also is there a gegraphical map that can show my position of my house and direction of the oxford transmitter ..... that way i can be dead certain i get in the right direction ? thanks in advance !!! :0)
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Howie B
Wednesday 13 October 2010 6:59PM
Someone higher up this thread asked if anyone was getting good reception from Beckley. Here at OX9 3**, I can say with hand on heart that from day one of ONdigital I have always had perfect pictures apart from the day of the fire. The pull-pull switch in our bathroom dumps a load of clag into the mains and that causes our pictures to freeze momentarily. Current equipment - an ancient Philips ONdigital box linked via scart to an equally ancient pana 28" CRT. Aerial is 10 element in the loft group A which we brought with us from maidenhead cos the builder was too mean to supply one. Even tho Beckley is group C/D for analog it has always been fine. Lucky? May be. I know the philips box goes in the bin after 28 Sept 2011, but I'll throw myself off that bridge when we get there. Oh and there had better be HD from beckley that day or we'll all be there with our placards screaming abuse at anyone who's around. Maybe we should do that now. Take your woollies tho', it's darned cold up there these days!
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martin
Wednesday 13 October 2010 7:17PM
rofl @ howie's last part :0) i got some wollie's !!!! least u get signal :0(
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PJay
Wednesday 13 October 2010 10:42PM Witney
With the absence of any other quick fixes, i might just have to try this attenuator trick. I dont get stuttering on 68, i simply dont get 68, period. Its a cheap way at least to see if it improves. If not, then it was cheap enough to find out. I still think some top heads should roll, but thats me.
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Paul
Thursday 14 October 2010 7:08AM Banbury
Sad to say that if I want channel 4 and ITV back again I will have to pay for a freesat installation and a freesat box. If I want one that records that's even more money and if I want one that does HD AND records then I need to pay EVEN more for the install and box.

Add to this is the cost of the largely redundant freeview box that will either gather dust or be chucked away.

Real people here. Real people with not much money. People who just want a bit of TV to brighten their lives are being affected by a company that appears not to give a shit.

That's me done one this forum.
Briantist
Thursday 14 October 2010 7:20AM
Rachel: It is quite possible that, given the number of people using the Oxford transmitter, that is nothing-at-all had happened over the last 12 months, a proportion of them would now have system failure, because failure of aerial systems is a function of time.

This is because weather damage - which includes rain incursion and physical wind-created movement, high temperatures, low temperatures -all cause gradual equipment failure.

Compound this with the low level of the pre-switchover digital services and some people will have problems, even when (as now) the signals remain as they were.

Those with problems can:

1) Wait until Wednesday 28th September 2011 with your fingers crossed;

2) Add Freesat to your home as a secondary system of access (oh, and lots of extra channels);

3) Upgrade your existing aerial.

Those with problem can't:

1) Get switchover brought forward;

2) Have the pre-switchover power turned up
Briantist
Thursday 14 October 2010 7:20AM
Paul: Sorry to hear that you are going to have to open you wallet. The options are listed here - How much is it going to cost to get High Definition TV? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
Briantist
Thursday 14 October 2010 7:23AM
PJay: You might need the attenuator after switchover anyway, so it might not be a bad purchase.
Briantist
Thursday 14 October 2010 7:24AM
Tudor: The problems have been down to unusual weather conditions causing Inversion - What is the Inversion Effect and why does it effect my Freeview TV reception?
| ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Rachel
Thursday 14 October 2010 9:08AM
"That's me done on this forum.
Posted by Paul (5 posts)"

Me too!!
No sympathy for, or action from, anyone with any know how or ability to improve things for us lay people. I have paid my money and taken my choice, I am sorted :-), I hope others with problems can find a solution soon too. Bye...............
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adam
Thursday 14 October 2010 9:46AM
Brian is right on this and at least he is honest:

get sky,virgin,freesat or wait till next year when its at full power.
it is unfortunate but if it cant be changed till then well theres nothing we can do no matter how much we complain.
Briantist
Thursday 14 October 2010 12:36PM
Rachel: If you want sympathy, please try Samaritans Home Page--> - this is a technical support site.
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Mike Dimmick
Thursday 14 October 2010 2:51PM Aylesbury
martin:

1. Enter your postcode at www.nearby.org.uk link icon http://www.nearby.org.uk/coordinates.html

2. Scroll down to below the map of the UK and copy the 8-character grid reference from the fourth box. It starts with two letters, then has six digits.

3. Go to www.megalithia.com link icon Terrain - shows radio profile between two UK sites to optimise you DTT, Freeview, DAB or analogue TV reception and select Midlands, Eastern England from the drop-down, then click Oxford. Paste the reference from step 2 into the 'NGR of base station' box. Enter the height-above-ground of your mast. Click 'go' to show the terrain plot.

4. Below the terrain plot, click the 'view a map of area between <your grid reference> and SP567105' link.

Trying this for HP19 9JQ indicates that there is some terrain blocking the direct signal path. This does not mean you get no signal, but it's less than it would be if the obstruction wasn't there. Also, the signal is more likely to have reflections, which - if the reflected path is too different from the main path - will cause errors. The height of this obstruction means that you'd need to raise the aerial to 20 metres or more to clear it, and there would still be reflections from the obstruction itself.

After switchover, the tolerance of reflections is increased due to the change in mode. (RG47SH)
Briantist
Thursday 14 October 2010 3:21PM
martin: You can also put your grid reference, postcode or latlong into the box at the top right, and when it comes up with a prediction select "terrain".
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PJay
Thursday 14 October 2010 10:27PM Witney
BRIANTIST - yeah mate, will do. Its cheap enough as stated, and though i have the top range Humax PVR 9300T, a little may go a long way. :-)
What is partly mystifying me, and partly annoying me too, is that i live in a block of 11 flats, with just one aeriel between us all. I live on the top foor ( 2nd ) so would and 2 neighbours of mine in the block live on ground, and they have TV's with built in Freeview, and their reception is like nothing happened ! I asked both of them if they can receive ITV, C4, C5, ITV2, and all the other channels i'm missing completely, and they get them all. Go figure. They dont have any missing channels at all. How irritating is that ! :-)
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PJay
Thursday 14 October 2010 10:28PM Witney
scuse my my weird typing above
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pete
Thursday 14 October 2010 10:52PM
I solved my digital stuttering problems on ch 68 Mux 2 from Oxford. This fix also works for no ch 68 programmes because if the signal is too strong then the receiver simply can't cope and you will get nothing. PLEASE TRY THIS TRICK. IT WILL ONLY COST A COUPLE OF PONDS EVEN IF YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE THE Y SPLITTERS MENTIONED BELOW. PLEASE TRY THIS BEFORE WASTING YOUR MONEY ON BOOSTERS AND AERIALS THAT WILL NOT BE NEEDED AFTER THE SWITCHOVER ANYWAY AS CH 68 WILL BE GONE AND FOR MANY THE TRANSMISSIONS WILL BE BACK IN RANGE OF WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE. I was told that mysignal was too strong! As I don't have attenuators I used those 3 way cheap y shaped tv splitters. I plugged the aerial into one and then plugged that one into another one then plugged a lead from that to my tv. BINGO! mux 2 clear and perfect. All stations from Oxford perfect. And to think I was about to spend money on an amplifier.
Many thanks to my mate Jerry for this tip. I didn't realise that too strong a signal can cause blocking and freezing. I only thought too weak a signal did that.
Now I'm going to order a proper variable attenuator from ebay. They are about £4.
Hope this tip is useful. Give it a try for mux 2 problems. It worked for me.
I used those y shaped splitters because I have a few of them in my shed and they are notorious for reducing signal strength quite drastically. Exactly what I needed to solve the stuttering problem that I had.
Briantist
Friday 15 October 2010 8:26AM
PJay: It may indicate that the problematic signals are arriving into your system from something other than the aerial, and those on the ground level are shielded.

If this is the case then I would start by suspecting your aerial "fly" leads.
Briantist
Friday 15 October 2010 8:33AM
pete: Excellent advice.
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Morph
Friday 15 October 2010 10:16AM
Given up, got Freesat. J/P, you're a muppet. Cheers.
B
Boagongrui
Friday 15 October 2010 12:22PM
This transmitter has no Problems
Tell that to the Queen.
B
Boagongrui
Friday 15 October 2010 12:30PM
This transmitter has no current reported problems
Sorry Only 6090000 and counting
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PJay
Friday 15 October 2010 3:16PM Witney
BRIANTIST - when you say ' fly ' leads, do you mean the cheap aeriel coax leads or the Scart leads ? Or both ? I'm not sure how to upgrade coax their connectors to quality leads, as they all appear to be cheap crap, and i've used them for years, as i guess most people have. Perhaps i should get dedicated Coax + Connectors, and stop using the flimsy B&Q fly leads ? What do you reckon ?
Thanks B.
Transmitter engineering
Friday 15 October 2010 5:13PM
OXFORD transmitter - Over the next week Oxford main transmitter: TV (analogue) working normally, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) Possible weak signal, Radio (digital) Possible weak signal. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 15 October 2010 5:13PM
OXFORD transmitter - Over the next week Oxford main transmitter: TV (analogue) working normally, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) Possible weak signal, Radio (digital) Possible weak signal. [DUK]
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adam
Friday 15 October 2010 5:15PM
back to normal next week then :)
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Mike Dimmick
Friday 15 October 2010 5:16PM Reading
PJay: See if you can borrow a neighbour's fly lead for a bit, and/or their box. If it works fine in your flat, it's your equipment. If not, contact your landlord or their agent: the cabling may be losing too much signal between the distribution amplifier and the master socket. Or, as has been said a few times, it may be too loud overall.

Could well be time to get the engineer in to check the levels and tweak the gain settings on the distribution amplifier or amplifiers.
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PJay
Friday 15 October 2010 9:21PM Witney
OK Mike D - thanks !
J
J/P
Thursday 21 October 2010 11:43PM
Morph, let's get this straight: I advise you to try using an attenuator, it doesn't work, and then weeks later you call ME a "muppet" because you decided to get Freesat instead of fix the problem with your aerial? Is that supposed to be a childish insult? Rude replies are exactly the reason why I gave up trying to help people here. So the trick with the attenuator didn't work for you, but many people find it does work, such as Pete above. A pox on your brand new Freesat installation.
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Shaun Cunningham
Friday 22 October 2010 12:23PM
I live in Wantage,is it possible to pick up the "Freeview HD" stations?, if not when will that happen? - Thankyou
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adam
Friday 22 October 2010 12:36PM
freeview hd wont be working till at least next september in wantage off the oxford aerial system.
and unless you have a freeview hd tuner built in the tv or seperate box you wont get them as well as you need a freeview hd decoder as normal freeview tuners cant decode the hd signals.
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Mike Dimmick
Friday 22 October 2010 12:49PM Reading
Shaun Cunningham: There are no early HD transmitters in this region, and you're probably too far away from any that have either early HD services, or have completed switchover.

The Oxford mast will begin transmitting HD services when switchover completes on the 28th of September next year.
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PJay
Friday 22 October 2010 3:43PM Witney
J/P hang in there - 99% of us appreciate your efforts mate.



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