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Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Wednesday 14 September 2011 9:08PM
Oxford

There's currently a channel overlap between the old MuxB and the new BBC A :-

Found duplicate LCN: 9
Both called 'BBC FOUR'

Found duplicate LCN: 71
Both called 'CBeebies'

Found duplicate LCN: 81
Both called 'BBC Parliament'

Found duplicate LCN: 700
Both called 'BBC Radio 1'

Found duplicate LCN: 701
Both called 'BBC R1X'

Found duplicate LCN: 702
Both called 'BBC Radio 2'

Found duplicate LCN: 703
Both called 'BBC Radio 3'

Found duplicate LCN: 704
Both called 'BBC Radio 4'

Found duplicate LCN: 705
Both called 'BBC R5L'

Found duplicate LCN: 706
Both called 'BBC R5SX'

Found duplicate LCN: 707
Both called 'BBC 6 Music'

Found duplicate LCN: 708
Both called 'BBC Radio 4 Ex'

Found duplicate LCN: 709
Both called 'BBC Asian Net.'

Found duplicate LCN: 710
Both called 'BBC World Sv.'

To keep my Toppy happy I had to manually delete the ones received from the mux on Ch 52 and kept the ones on the new 8k mux on Ch 53.

Guess this could confuse other boxes for the next couple of weeks?

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M
Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Wednesday 14 September 2011 9:12PM
Oxford

PS You must do a factory reset and rescan

After pruning I only have lcn 303 on Ch 52

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M
Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Saturday 24 September 2011 11:41AM
Oxford

Things will change next week due to Mux frequency/channels shifting - but the COM muxes have a planned "power-up" event next year

18 Apr 12

which surely means that some people will have to wait till then...

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M
Switchover starts in the Oxford area | Switchovers
Saturday 24 September 2011 11:45AM
Oxford

@Barry - the lowest Mux Channel No in use at Oxford is currently C29. From 28 Sep 11 it will be C53+ as the TX goes back to C/D range

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M
Switchover starts in the Oxford area | Switchovers
Sunday 25 September 2011 11:28AM
Oxford

There wasn't anything supposed to happen to Mux2 on C68 at DSO1, and from here it seems to be exactly same a before @75-80% signal strength (BBC mux @98%). It was always the weakest channel and was better before any DSO works at Beckley

So its either the weather, DSO changes elsewhere or Freeview box incompatibility C68 still on 2K mode till next week).

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M
Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Sunday 25 September 2011 11:41AM
Oxford

As per my reply to same post in other thread - nothings been done to that Mux yet.

Sure your Sony has latest firmware and is not confused by coming across an 8k mode mux while scanning before getting to C68?

There will be upset Sony idtv users next week when they find there TVs can't received analogue or digital tv without an extra box...

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Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Wednesday 28 September 2011 9:44AM
Oxford

Turning off the ITV mix on C68 revealed some of its former problems - my box still saw 10-20% noise signal on that channel, not sure what maybe Midhurst on wrong polarization?

I have a bit of a problem with the new received signal strengths - the BBC A/PSB1 mux on C53+ has a signal strength on my Toppy almost double any other mux. If I use a variable attenuator to get it off 100% nothing else is watchable, and with the smallest attenuator I have 3dB (donated by NTL) I start to lose quality on PSB2 (ITV etc) on C60.

Anyone else see this, maybe its my aerial - originally aligned for best quality on weakest Analogue channel or C68, so maybe misaligned to avoid interference!

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@Tricia

see

TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

Then head down to Argos or out to Tesco and choose a new box from 17.99 before they sell out! (OX13PJ)

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Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Thursday 29 September 2011 12:01AM
Oxford

Just noticed on a Technika HD box that ArqA and ArqB on C55 and C59 are using 3/4 FEC compared to all others using 2/3 FEC. This is correct according to digitalUK until COM power up when ArqB comes in line with the others. My understanding is that FEC 3/4 has less error correction than 2/3 (25% vs 33%) to squeeze more data out of the link.

Technika signal strength Nos on same aerial connection quite different than Toppy look more like dB than percent, but trend the same BBC on C53 significant stronger than others C60 same as C55 (should be x8 or 9dB stronger) C59 weakest, but everything reported as 95% quality - which I suspect is the maximum (perfect picture).

C53 now so strong single can receive good quality signal on internal loop antenna on ground floor opposite side of house to transmitter!

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Arqiva have issued a press release confirming all work done

Press Releases Archive 2010 (OX13PJ)

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