Freeview Light on the Upavon (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Upavon (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 1,800 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 Upavon (Wiltshire, England) mast?
UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 25 Dec 16:39 until 27 Dec 02:08. . 
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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.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Upavon (Wiltshire, 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 Freeview channels does the Upavon 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 | C23 (490.0MHz) | 167m | DTG- | 28W |
 1 BBC One (SD) West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C30 (546.0MHz) | 167m | DTG- | 28W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (West), 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 (West), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C26 (514.0MHz) | 167m | DTG- | 28W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West, 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Upavon (Wiltshire, 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 Upavon transmitter?
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 61km west-northwest (292°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 57km west-northwest (291°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Upavon (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C30 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 70W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 28W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012
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Virginia Thorne9:14 AM
Hi, I have just moved to Upavon. Why are we limited here in the Freeview Channels available? eg Why no ITV3? Are there any plans for expansion?
Thanks
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Virginia Thorne: Upavon is one of 1000 or so small Public Service only transmitters. The other services are run by the Commercial broadcasters who decide where they wish to place their transmitters. They cover 90% of the population using 80 of the biggest (by population) transmitters. For them to transmit from other transmitter sites, it would roughly double their cost. They declined to increase their coverage.
For a fuller explanation, see here:
Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
However, I tried an Upavon post code in the Digital UK Tradeview predictor (predicts coverage of transmitters) and there may the possibility that you are on the fringes of Rowridge which is on the Isle of Wight and serves a large area, much of it being on the mainland. It would depend on exactly where you are.
I have spotted one or two aerials on Rowridge in Upavon by looking at Google Streetview. This rather confirms that it might be a possibility to receive from it. Rowridge broadcasts Meridian whereas Upavon relays Mendip which is West region.
It is possible to combine two aerials on different transmitters, however, in this case the channels (frequencies) used by Rowridge and Upavon don't permit this.
However, they are both in the same direction (to within a couple of degrees) from your location and come 18th April the Commercial channels from Rowridge (those that aren't transmitted by Upavon) will be on full power vertically. Before switchover Rowridge's signals were only horizontally polarised, meaning that aerials needed to be horizontal. After switchover it transmits both horizontally and vertically, the Commercial channels being stronger in the latter. As Upavon is vertically polarised, a single vertically polarised aerial may work for both.
In the first instance, you should try manually tuning to UHF channels 25, 22 and 28 on 18th April. These are the three channels of Rowridge's Commercial services and they will come on high power on that date.
I must warn you that there are a few possible stumbling blocks that I can think of:
1. There are some PVRs that don't work too well where they have some channels from one transmitter and some from another. It's therefore not a problem if you don't record the channels.
2. You may need your aerial replacing for one that is sensitive enough to pick-up (or "hear") the weaker Rowridge signals.
3. There may, coming down your aerial lead, be a disparity between the strength of the Upavon signals and the Rowridge ones; the former may be much stronger. The strength of Upavon's signals *may* result in reducted sensitivity of your receiver which in turn makes it more difficult (or problematic) receiving Rowridge's.
This is akin to a bright light with a much dimmer one next to it. The bright light (e.g. a car headlight) makes one's eyes less sensitive to light and hence less sensitive to the already dim light.
As I say, these are possibilities. I would certainly hold out a little hope of more channels come 18th April.
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Saturday, 24 March 2012
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Virginia Thorne4:21 PM
Thanks Dave.
I will try after 18th to get the extra channels.
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Monday, 24 December 2012
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john parker12:07 PM
Pewsey
on mon/tues last we lost local signal on our two vodaphone pay as you go mobile phones. reason given by vodaphone was old sim cards and upgrade for g4. phones now operative with new cards locally. assurances need to be given that g4 change is not going to reduce our 100 per cent reception of digi/hd tv from the upavon transmitter????
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john's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 19 February 2018
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Paul FARRANT4:13 PM
Does anyone know if enford transmitter is down asfew houses without tv. Also who do we report it TO
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln15:00 PM
Paul FARRANT: The Upavon transmitter appears to have been off briefly last night, so it's possible that there is work taking place there today that hasn't shown up yet. Do not attempt to retune.
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Wednesday, 25 December 2024
Transmitter engineering
8:08 PM
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UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 25 Dec 16:39. . [BBC]
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Friday, 27 December 2024
Transmitter engineering
8:20 AM
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UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 25 Dec 16:39 until 27 Dec 02:08. . [BBC]
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