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Freeview Light on the Kings Lynn (Norfolk, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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52.824,0.487 or 52°49'28"N 0°29'15"E

PE35 6EJ

The symbol shows the location of the Kings Lynn (Norfolk, England) transmitter which serves 3,300 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 Kings Lynn (Norfolk, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Kings Lynn 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C41+ (634.2MHz)	100m	DTG-	300W
	1 BBC One (SD) East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C44 (658.0MHz)	100m	DTG-	300W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Anglia east), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C47 (682.0MHz)	100m	DTG-	300W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

The Kings Lynn (Norfolk, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Kings Lynn transmitter?

BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 59km east-southeast (109°)
to BBC East region - 27 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output

ITV Anglia News 0.8m homes 3.2%
from NORWICH NR1 3JG, 59km east-southeast (109°)
to ITV Anglia (East) region - 26 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (West)

How will the Kings Lynn (Norfolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	6 Jun 2018
	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E K T
C39	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves
C40
C41					BBCA
C43				BBCB
C44					D3+4
C46				D3+4
C47					BBCB
C49_{tv_off}				+BBCA
C52_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves

_{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 9 Nov 11 and 23 Nov 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	339W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-0.5dB) 300W

Local transmitter maps

Kings Lynn Freeview Tacolneston TV region BBC East Anglia (East micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tacolneston transmitter area

Oct 1959-Feb 2004	Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Kings Lynn 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Comments

Sunday, 8 December 2024

Transmitter engineering

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5:10 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 02:18 until 8 Dec 02:51. Off the air due to a fault from 3 Dec 09:55 until 3 Dec 14:53. . : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 02:20. Off the air due to a fault from 3 Dec 09:54 until 3 Dec 14:53. [BBC]

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11:20 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 02:18 until 8 Dec 02:51. Off the air due to a fault from 3 Dec 09:55 until 3 Dec 14:53. . : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 10:06 until 8 Dec 10:18. Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 08:12 u [BBC]

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Monday, 9 December 2024

Transmitter engineering

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5:09 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 12:03 until 8 Dec 12:39. Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 08:12 until 8 Dec 08:43. Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 02:18 until 8 Dec 02:51. . : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 10:06 u [BBC]

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Friday, 13 December 2024

Transmitter engineering

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5:10 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 12:03 until 8 Dec 12:39. Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 08:12 until 8 Dec 08:43. . : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 10:06 until 8 Dec 10:18. Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 08:12 u [BBC]

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11:20 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 12:03 until 8 Dec 12:39. Off the air due to a fault from 8 Dec 08:12 until 8 Dec 08:43. . [BBC]

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