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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Reigate (Surrey, England) mast?
Reigate transmitter - Reigate transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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
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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Saturday, 27 November 2021
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Chris.SE3:34 PM
A Naran:
The transmitter is not currently listed for Planned Engineering and there doesn't seem to be any faults listed by the BBC.
Sky News is on a different multiplex (groups of channels) from the BBCA multiplex.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplexes.
The description of your problem suggests a fault on your installation.
You mention "sets" - do you have a distribution amp/splitter and where is it located? If you have one, check that it still has power and check the connections to it.
Other than that, check that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction with the rods (or squashed Xs) vertical (for Reigate) and that your downlead looks undamaged and isn't flapping in the wind.
Also check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them.
See what signal strengths (if any) and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate potential issues with your aerial or downlead.
If you post the figures for each it may give us a clue.
Aerial misalignments, problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just AN individual or several multiplexes.
If you've altered anything around in your installation since the problem started, check that you don't have any HDMI leads close to any aerial or flyleads, especially if the aerial and flyleads aren't high quality double screened types. HDMI is known to sometimes cause interference.
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Tuesday, 27 June 2023
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Hare11:59 AM
Dorking
During this time of high pressure we have two TV sets pixelating, one worse than the other. They are both old sets but it seems strange that both are suddenly showing the same problem. The less problematic is connected to a BT box. We have a signal booster in the attic and I've checked all connections.
Post code is RH5 5DZ
Any suggestions please
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C
Chris.SE1:40 PM
Hare:
The age of the sets will have little or no bearing on this problem, if it's the same aerial for both, then both will see the problematic reception which may vary slightly depending on how well each set can decode signals with interference.
Check you are correctly tuned to Reigate's UHF channels, especially for the COM multiplexes - SDN, ArqA & ArqB as you can receive Crystal Palace with variable reception, and such current weather conditions can cause interference from more distant transmitters in the UK or Europe and you'll be more vulnerable if not correctly tuned.
The Local mux is on UHF C35 (not mentioned above) but note reception of it may be variable under normal circumstances
Which channels are you having a specific problem with?
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Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
11:20 AM
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REIGATE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Oct 10:05. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Oct 10:01. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:20 PM
5:20 PM
REIGATE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Oct 10:05 until 23 Oct 15:29. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Oct 10:01 until 23 Oct 15:29. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 24 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
11:20 AM
11:20 AM
REIGATE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 24 Oct 09:37. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Oct 10:05 until 23 Oct 15:29. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 24 Oct 09:30. Slightly [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:20 PM
5:20 PM
REIGATE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 24 Oct 09:37 until 24 Oct 13:35. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Oct 10:05 until 23 Oct 15:29. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 24 O [BBC]
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Monday, 28 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:20 PM
5:20 PM
REIGATE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 24 Oct 09:37 until 24 Oct 13:35. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 24 Oct 09:30 until 24 Oct 13:35. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
2:20 PM
2:20 PM
REIGATE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 24 Oct 09:37 until 24 Oct 13:35. . [BBC]
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Monday, 11 November 2024
Transmitter engineering
10:48 AM
10:48 AM
Reigate transmitter - Reigate transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Loss of Redundancy [DUK]
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