Full Freeview on the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmitter which serves 70,000 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 Reigate (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 Reigate (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 Reigate 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 Reigate (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 Reigate transmitter?
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 31km north (9°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
How will the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 21 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | E | E | W T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C23 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C24 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C26 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C27 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C30 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C35 | _local | ||||||||
| C42 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | |||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 | |
| Analogue 5 | (-3dB) 5kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 200W | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Sunday, 26 January 2014
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Charles9:12 PM
Crawley
Forgot to mention above that I am getting my COM7 broadcasts from Crystal Palace.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Charles: Remember that Crystal Palace broadcasts horizontally and Reigate so vertically. It might be worth adjusting the aerial to point to Crystal Palace.
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Monday, 27 January 2014
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Charles11:55 AM
Crawley
Thanks Dave. As I receive my broadcasts from Reigate by default which is vertical and where the signal is also strongest I will leave it as it is.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 19 March 2015
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Ron Howe12:42 PM
Gatwick
I just want to know which basic aerial to buy for reception in Horley RH6 9AA.
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Ron's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
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Mark Heselden5:15 PM
Has anyone any idea of how the Freeview muxes line-up at Reigate will end up in 2019 if 700MHz band 4G goes ahead? All the main programme channels are currently in it.
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Dave Lindsay
5:59 PM
5:59 PM
Mark Heselden: ...the channels being used moving downwards...
(Sorry, haven't got a crystal ball to see information which isn't published yet, and may even not have been planned!)
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Dave Lindsay
6:02 PM
6:02 PM
Mark Heselden: COM channels are already out-of-group as far as the former four-channel analogue goes, so if you receive all channels then you shouldn't be expected to have an issue if the PSBs move downwards.
There are rumours on here that the COMs might end up in the 20s and using DVB-T2, so the main thing is to move to a Freeview HD (DVB-T2) receiver.
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Mark Heselden8:29 PM
Thanks, Dave. It's just that Crystal Palace is also strong in the area, using Band A as well, so it's going to be very crammed in the old Band A if all the muxes were kept separate. I wondered if it would be made an SFN with Crystal Palace using the same muxes frequencies. This was done with Heathfield/Tunbridge Wells.
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Thursday, 18 June 2015
Dave Lindsay
10:25 AM
10:25 AM
Mark Heselden: It has been suggested by some who post on this site that the COMs might become nationwide SFNs.
And at the present time, Group A was effectively made smaller by the ring-fencing, at switchover, of 31 to 37.
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Tuesday, 22 December 2015
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Gary Higginson11:07 PM
Redhill
I'm having trouble recently with reception of just the BBCA multiplex, channel 60, from the Reigate transmitter. I wonder if anyone knows any reason and how long this might last.
I'm in Redhill (RH1 2DG) just below the Reigate transmitter (I can see the red light on top if I look out my upstairs windows), with a loft aerial.
Up until a week and a half ago, reception was good, but then we got a lot of interference, increasing over the weekend, but only on channel 60, the BBCA multiplex. All the other multiplex channels are good.
I tried an automatic retune and my Freeview HD box retuned this BBCA multiplex to channel 23, from the Crystal Palace transmitter, even though my aerial is vertical for Reigate and the Crystal Palace orientation appears. horizontal, and according to your coverage maps I'm not expected to receive it at all. It's not perfect, signal quality is often less than 50%, though I've tweaked my aerial direction to maximise it.
Trying to tune back to channel 60 since its signal quality seems to have got worse.
Any clues?
Regards,
GaryH
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Gary's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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