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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 Box (Wiltshire, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Box (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 700 homes.

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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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Box transmitter Freeview broadcasts

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
 vertical max
C43 (650.0MHz)149m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		2W
Channel icons
1 BBC One West, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 12 others

PSB2
D3+4
 vertical max
C40 (626.0MHz)149m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		2W
Channel icons
3 ITV (West), 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 (West),

PSB3
BBCB
 vertical max
C46 (674.0MHz)149m256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4		2W
Channel icons
101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, plus 1 others



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The Box (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Regional news from the Box transmitter


BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 26km west
to BBC West region - 60 masts.

ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 22km west
to ITV West region - 61 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

years1984-971997-981998-20102010-1327/3/13-2013-18
aerial groupB EB EB EB EB E KB E K
C40BBC1BBC1BBC1 D3+4D3+4
C43ITVITVITVBBCABBCABBCA
C46BBC2BBC2BBC2BBCBBBCBBBCB
700C50C4C4C4D3+4

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 24th March and 7th April 2010.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4 6W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4.8dB) 2W

History of Channel 3 in the Mendip transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-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. Box 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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Transmitter engineering
Monday 14 September 2009 9:09AM
BOX transmitter - 14th September 2009 : Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 18:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - All Digital services - n/a [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 18 November 2009 10:34AM
BOX transmitter - 18th November 2009 : Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 18:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - BBC1, BBC2, ITV & Channel 4 Digital services - N/A [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 6 April 2010 9:39AM
BOX transmitter - Over the next week Box relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
Ian Jones
Tuesday 3 May 2011 10:38AM Manchester
I live in the Manchester area (M34 2PR) in what I thought was a good signal area. I recently bought a new Freeview HD Panasonic receiver but the HD signal is very weak (Strength 1 according to the receiver). I read somewhere that the HD signal is not yet at full strength in this area. Is this correct? I also cannot receive the low strength local Channel M broadcasts which makes me think that my aerial might need replacing as it's over 25 years old.
Briantist
Wednesday 4 May 2011 7:08AM
Ian Jones: All Freeview HD signals are at full strength on switched-over transmitters. Channel M is on very low power and only available in a limited area.

If your aerial is very old, it certainly may need replacing.
Transmitter engineering
Monday 18 July 2011 5:30AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:10 today to 04:18 today HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:10 today to 04:18 today [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 19 July 2011 4:40AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:10 yesterday to 04:18 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:10 yesterday to 04:18 yesterday [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 20 July 2011 4:33AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:10 on 18 Jul to 04:18 on 18 Jul HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:10 on 18 Jul to 04:18 on 18 Jul [BBC]
Victor Sperber
Monday 17 October 2011 11:56AM Oxford
OX3 7BG
I had a rooftop aerial installed and a new set top box Philips DTR (201/220/221/22 all on the instruction leaflet). Since installing and retuning TV has worked pretty well except for the fact that I get very occasional picture disappearing with text about program appearing and then everything back to normal. Also I sometimes get a streak appearing on the picture. Also there is often a background hum which comes and goes. I have looked at 'Freeview intermittent interference' page and I don't think it's induction interference or mobile phone interference.
Tony
Sunday 27 November 2011 6:37PM
Hello I have just purchased a samsung internet tv UE40D5520R, I have a phillips hard disc dvd recorder and a virgin hd+ box, can you please help me out with the cable connections.
Ian
Tuesday 29 November 2011 11:25AM Corsham
Is there anywhere I can find out when additional channels will be available on my local transmitter ? Currently we get 18 TV channels via the Box transmitter which relays from Mendip - would be nice to know if this is going to change anytime soon

thanks
KMJ,Derby
Tuesday 29 November 2011 11:39AM
Ian: There are no plans to include transmission of the COM muxes on local relay transmitters. To do so would more than double the cost of transmitting these muxes and given the small number of extra viewers served the mux owners do not consider that to be cost effective.
Ian
Tuesday 29 November 2011 11:58AM Corsham
Dave and KMJ - Thanks for the answers
ajkeown
Tuesday 6 March 2012 4:14PM Omagh
Transmitter engineering
Sunday 29 April 2012 5:28AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:12 today HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:12 today [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Sunday 29 April 2012 7:29AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:12 today to 06:31 today HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:12 today to 06:31 today [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Monday 30 April 2012 4:29AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:12 yesterday to 06:31 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:12 yesterday to 06:31 yesterday [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 1 May 2012 4:29AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:12 on 29 Apr to 06:31 on 29 Apr HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:12 on 29 Apr to 06:31 on 29 Apr [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 31 October 2012 4:49AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 today to 02:47 today [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 1 November 2012 4:49AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 02:47 yesterday [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 2 November 2012 4:49AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 on 31 Oct to 02:47 on 31 Oct [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:02PM
BOX transmitter - Freeview - No reported problems -. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:58PM
BOX transmitter - Freeview No problems on any service. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 27 March 2013 4:32AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:15 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 27 March 2013 7:32AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:15 today to 03:10 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 27 March 2013 7:31PM
BOX transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:15 today to 03:10 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 today to 16:05 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:48 today to 14:06 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 28 March 2013 10:31AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:15 yesterday to 03:10 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 yesterday to 16:05 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:48 yesterday to 14:06 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 28 March 2013 1:31PM
BOX transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 yesterday to 16:05 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:15 yesterday to 03:10 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:48 yesterday to 14:06 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 29 March 2013 4:32AM
BOX transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:15 on 27 Mar to 03:10 on 27 Mar, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 27 Mar to 16:05 on 27 Mar, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:48 on 27 Mar to 14:06 on 27 Mar. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Sunday 31 March 2013 1:31PM
BOX transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 27 Mar to 16:05 on 27 Mar, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:15 on 27 Mar to 03:10 on 27 Mar, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:48 on 27 Mar to 14:06 on 27 Mar. [BBC]
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