2026LON Bonus: Analysis of Freeview DVB-T/T2 Free-to-Air Broadcasts in London

While in the previous sequence of posts, I covered my time seeing the various sights in and around London, this is a bonus installment which I had hoped to bring before my recent trip to Singapore, which was delayed due to an SSD failing on me. Why only survey the sights and sounds of London on foot, when we can also do so by radio? As it turns out, I was travelling with my trusty TBS 5520SE multi-standard TV tuner, not simply because I was interested in seeing what free-to-air Freeview TV was like in the UK, but also because of my main mission. There was a slim chance we would be on TV (which, unfortunately did not eventuate) so we wanted to be sure we could capture it in full quality while I was there. Thankfully, the hotel I was staying at (Mowbray Court) had TVs in each room with an aerial cable that gave the true free-to-air signal, rather than some internal private TV distribution system. So I ended up lugging home about 1.2TiB of transport stream recordings for analysis. Thanks…