Full Freeview on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter which serves 4,490,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) mast?
CRYSTAL PALACE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 23 Dec 07:21. . AM: Radio 4 on MW has now closed. Please retune to FM, Digital Radio, digital TV, BBC Sounds or smart speakers to continue listening. More information can be found on the front page of this
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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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Crystal Palace 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Crystal Palace transmitter?
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 12km north-northwest (335°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 11km north-northwest (345°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
Charlton Athletic | Transposer | Redeveloped north stand Charlton Athletic Football Club | 130 homes |
Deptford | Transposer | south-east London | 100 homes |
Greenford | Transposer | 12 km N Heathrow Airport | 203 homes |
Hendon | Transposer | Graham Park estate | 50 homes |
White City | Transposer | 9 km W central London | 80 homes |
How will the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 21 Mar 2018 | ||||
VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | ||||
C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C22 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C25 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C29 | LW | ||||||||
C30 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | -BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | com7 | |||||
C35 | com8 | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 | 1000kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
com7 | (-13.7dB) 43.1kW | |
com8 | (-14dB) 39.8kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LW | (-17dB) 20kW |
Local transmitter maps
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Tuesday, 12 April 2016
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Barry8:01 PM
I am looking for foreignfreeview channels which are available on Freesat. For example:-
France24
CNN
NHK (Japan)
Does Crystal Palace broadcast same channels as Freesat?
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jb3811:37 PM
Barry: The complete list of programme channels viewable via Freesat can be seen by opening the undermentioned link, the three mentioned, i.e: France 24 - CNN Europe - NHK (Japan) being on 205 - 207 - 209 respectively.
Satellite channels not included in Freesat's programme guide listings can "sometimes" also be viewed by manually entering the transponder frequency etc used by the programme into the boxes "non-Freesat" tuning mode, although details on what to enter can only be given for specific programmes.
Freesat Channels - a516digital
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Thursday, 14 April 2016
MikeP
9:52 AM
Trowbridge
9:52 AM
Trowbridge
Barry:
Satellite programmes are not delivered from ground-based transmitters such as Crystal Palace. All satellite services are delivered from orbiting satellites over 22,000 miles above the Equator, in the case of the Astra satellites used by both Sky and Freesat they are positioned roughly above East Africa. To receive the Freesat signals you use your carefully aimed dish and not the UHF aerial that you may have that is pointing towards Crystal Palace.
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Thursday, 5 May 2016
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keynet12:42 AM
Channel 5 HD has just popped up on my TV, replacing BBC3 on PSB3 546MHz
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Saturday, 14 May 2016
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Bill Martin10:24 PM
Experiencing problems - poor signal/breakup - on Crystal Palace COM5/ArqA (Ch22) this evening (Sat. 14MAY) .
All other muxes seenm to be OK.
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Sunday, 15 May 2016
MikeP
4:15 PM
Trowbridge
4:15 PM
Trowbridge
Bill Martin:
It is essential that you provide a full post code so that we contributors can determine where you are in relation to the transmitter and hence find out if there are any particular problems that can affect your reception. Without that, useful assistance is impossible.
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Thursday, 19 May 2016
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Vic6:21 PM
Am on the Crystal Palace transmitter and sick and tired of Freeview. Every other day there is a programme update and I retune. Used to have 138 channels, then it was 116 and I retuned again today and it's now just 82. Channels which before were crystal clear (BBC) are now all pixelated whilst other channels (everything on mux 33) have been completely lost and can't be tuned in for love or money.
Some mux are clear one day and then the next they will be barely watchable. It's all one big sadistic lottery, why do the broadcasts keep changing from day to day and why are they watcheable one day and the next completely gone?
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MikeB6:38 PM
Vic: Its like you have a problem with your aerial - check signal strength. If your getting fewer and fewer channels, then something is wrong. Could be a fraying cable.
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Vic8:09 PM
Thanks MikeB, signal strength and quality varies all the time. Some days it'll be 100%, others it'll drop to barely 10%. Coax cables are all screened as are the wall plates. I'll try to test with an indoor aerial and see how that goes, I don't get why the channels are fine one day and then gone the next. If it was the external aerial deteriorating, surely it'd be getting worse and worse whereas tuning seems to be a lucky dip and sometimes I get 82 odd channels, other times it's 116.
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Friday, 20 May 2016
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MikeB10:02 AM
Vic: Sounds odd, but you could have a mixture of two problems. If all your muxes are vanishing, then then that sounds like a failing system. If it comes and goes, could well be something like water in a cable - when it dries out, its fine, but its only going get worse over time.
On the other hand, 100% is far too high - see 'too much of a good thing' on this site. We dont know where you are, so cant say what sort of signal you should get, but look at the possibilities and narrow it down.
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