Full Freeview on the Pendle Forest (Lancashire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Pendle Forest (Lancashire, England) transmitter which serves 45,000 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 Pendle Forest (Lancashire, 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 Pendle Forest (Lancashire, 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 Pendle Forest 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 Pendle Forest (Lancashire, 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 Pendle Forest transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 41km south (184°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 41km south (184°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Pendle Forest (Lancashire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | +ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C30 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100W | |
| Mux A* | (-10dB) 50W |
Local transmitter maps
Pendle Forest Freeview Pendle Forest DAB Pendle Forest AM/FM Winter Hill TV region BBC North West GranadaWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Thursday, 27 October 2011
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Di12:49 AM
Burnley
Two digital TVs both lost signal tonight; both on different aerials yet old analogue TVs using digi boes are fine on both aerials. What's going on? We are on Pendle Forest
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Di's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Diana: There were no transmitter faults last night - I am unclear as to what the cause of the problem would be, for general information please can you look at the Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page?
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Thursday, 21 June 2012
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Craig8:02 PM
I live in Trawden (BB8) Is it possible to switch the transmitter than my house uses from Winter Hill to Pendle Forest?
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Mark Fletcher8:29 PM
Barnsley
Craig,Trawden.If your horizontally polarised aerial that faces Winter Hill is a group C/D type tipped green then the answer is no because Pendle Forest major relay is an all group A mast and group C/D aerials (coloured green at its tips) will fail to pick up anything on an all group A mast let alone Pendle Forest relay itself.
If it is a group W wideband aerial currently facing Winter Hill that you have (coloured black at its tips) then you can use it for Pendle Forest but you will have to change the polarity from horizontal to vertical as Pendle Forest is polarised vertically.
However you may find that group W wideband aerials have a poor response on group A frequencies,more so on an all group A mast like Pendle Forest itself which is only a 100w (0.1kw) relay mast.You're best bet if you decide to change from Winter Hill to Pendle Forest is to purchase a group A (red coloured tips) aerial preferably a Yagi 18A vertically polarised for Pendle Forest.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Craig: Look at www.aerialsandtv.com for information.
As Mark says, if you have a C/D aerial, then it will be unsuitable for Pendle Forest.
What aerial you need probably depends on what sort of signal you have. In the best areas, use a log which are naturally wideband, but have a flatter response than yagis.
If it's not so good, then a Group A yagi aerial as suggested by Mark might be what you're looking for.
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013
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Michael Howe8:11 PM
Since the re-tune on 10 April we seem to have lost all HD brodcasts (from Pendle Forest I think). I retuned the PVR and it doesn't find the programmes, I left the TV with original tunings but there is "no signal". Not sure if others are experiencing this problem, waiting an answer from the BBC but it's not that easy to find who to report to !
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Michael Howe: There was no retune required for Pendle Forest as no channels have changed.
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Sunday, 20 March 2016
Friday, 16 December 2016
My area is BB12 7HA - should I be able to receive True Christmas?
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Christopher's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 17 December 2016
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StevensOnln111:01 AM
Christopher Holden: There aren't any transmitter broadcasting True Christmas that cover your postcode.
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