Full Freeview on the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmitter which serves 48,000 homes. 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Guildford (Surrey, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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.
Which Freeview channels does the Guildford 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Guildford (Surrey, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Guildford transmitter?
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 46km northeast (43°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 47km northeast (44°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
How will the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | |||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C32 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C33 | _local | ||||||||
| C37 | SDN | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | SDN | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 4 Apr 12 and 18 Apr 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 200W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Friday, 23 December 2011
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jb3811:09 AM
howard barratt: If your BBC is reasonably good then its liable to be through luck, as the trade view reception predictor (for what its worth!) only indicates mux Ch40 (ITV3 etc) as being good from Hannington, the BBC and ITV as being poor and the remainder as variable.
Crystal Palace, the only other station that's shown as possible to receive, is even worse with only the BBC and two commercial muxes indicated as being possible, but in the category of "poor".
As far as Hannington is concerned the situation isn't shown as changing until April 4th next year, Crystal Palace though still being iffy, as although it gets slightly better it deteriorates again in June.
You are obviously in a difficult reception area, and so only the time consuming exercise of experimenting with different aerial positions is liable to help the situation as nothing can really be guaranteed to work in circumstances such as yours, your snowy analogue reception being a clue as to how bad the signal you are receiving is.
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Friday, 13 January 2012
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Peter Eaton8:27 AM
Leatherhead
We have just bought a Humax HDR-FOX T2 in the hope of getting Freeview HD channels. I understand from Humax customer support that the HD multiplex is not available from the Guildford transmitter. Will it be at some point in the future? Otherwise, perhaps it would be more sensible for us to point our aerial at the Crystal Palace transmitter.
Postcode: KT24 5SN
Our aerial is on the roof. Freeview standard definition reception is excellent from the Guildford transmitter.
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Peter's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb3810:28 AM
Peter Eaton: You are presently not really predicted to receive anything other than the BBC multiplex from Guildford and with this shown as being poor, although from April 18th ITV plus the HD service comes into the equation, but once again all indicating poor and not changing at any time.
However come April 4th it is indicated that you should be able to get excellent reception across the board from Crystal Palace when it switches to high power operation.
Just out of interest, you should carry out a signal strength check on the channel you do get, as if its weak but stable, this will be giving the impression of the signal being good.
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Peter Eaton10:34 AM
Thank you jb38. That is most helpful and prompt information.
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Sunday, 29 January 2012
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cass7:08 AM
hi we retuned our humax box after it froze last night we have now lost itv, 4, 5 and someothers we ahve been having this problem on and off for 6 months we live in the KT22 post code
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cass: Is it a PVR-9300T or PVR-9300T/500 by any chance?
If so, it is on the list of firmware updates being broadcast:
DTG :: DTT Receiver Downloads
I am wondering if it was in the process of updating or was about to update when you switched it off.
If you turn it off at the wall when you aren't using it, then you would be best advised to leave it turned on so (hopefully) it will perform the update whlst unattended.
Look at the version that it is running. The one being broadcast is UPTTF 1.00.026. Is it older than this? If so, I would suspect that it is going to attempt to update.
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JoeB11:42 PM
Camberley
Looking to get FreeView Services in GU17 0HL - What equipment (Aerials) will I need - I already have FreeView ready Tv and HDD Recorder
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JoeB's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 30 January 2012
JoeB: If you wait until 18th April 2012, you will be able to get 80% of the Freeview services from the Crystal Palace transmitter with a normal rooftop aerial.
The Hanninton will give you, from 22nd February 2012, the public service Freeview channels, but not a full service.
All you need is a "Class I" rooftop aerial. It would be sensible to use satellite-grade coaxial cable as you might stand a good chance of getting the whole Freeview service from the Crystal Palace transmitter.
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Thursday, 2 February 2012
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Lance Spencer11:48 AM
Ref: previous posting... I receive from the Hannington transmitter.
As at 11am all MUX2 transmissions seem to be back to normal... I have a 10 element aerial with an amplifier which gives me a signal quality of 2/3 on MUX1 A / C and 1/2 on MUX2 / B. MUX D seems to be the best quality of 4/5; Signal strength is several points higher than the quality... usually about 3 points.
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Sunday, 26 February 2012
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Lance Spencer10:27 AM
I think that I can see why SDN and ArqA an ArqB are low power from Hannington until 4th/18th April... it's because the adjacent very low power Guldford transmitter has the same 3 channels (41 / 44 / 47) allocated to its MuXs. On 4/18 April they will switch to Ch48 / 46 / 52 respectively.
The Guildford MuXs are SDN / D3&4 /ArqA respectively.
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