Full Freeview on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter which serves 4,490,000 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 Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) mast?
CRYSTAL PALACE transmitter - AM: Radio 4 on MW has now closed. Please retune to FM, Digital Radio, digital TV, BBC Sounds or smart speakers to continue listening. More information can be found on the front page of this Reception Advice website. from 15 Apr 00:00. . 
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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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Crystal Palace 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Crystal Palace transmitter?
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 12km north-northwest (335°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 11km north-northwest (345°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Charlton Athletic | Transposer | Redeveloped north stand Charlton Athletic Football Club | 130 homes |
| Deptford | Transposer | south-east London | 100 homes |
| Greenford | Transposer | 12 km N Heathrow Airport | 203 homes |
| Hendon | Transposer | Graham Park estate | 50 homes |
| White City | Transposer | 9 km W central London | 80 homes |
How will the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 21 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C25 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C29 | LW | ||||||||
| C30 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | -BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | com7 | |||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 | 1000kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
| com7 | (-13.7dB) 43.1kW | |
| com8 | (-14dB) 39.8kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LW | (-17dB) 20kW |
Local transmitter maps
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Tuesday, 8 February 2011
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L M Gregory10:40 AM
Tonbridge
I live in Tonbridge post code TN9 2NN - I live on a hill and hense have to have my tv from Chrysal Palance. resently i lost all of my Digital TV. I have my analogue. I get my digital freeview tv though my digital recorded. in the last few days i have re-tuned my tv several times and have managed to get back BBC4, some radio and a children's program. I used the text page on my anaglogue to check the areral and that appeared from my untrained eues to be ok. can you give any suggestions why I am not now getting digital.
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L's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
L M Gregory: You should really be using the Bluebell Hill transmitter for reliable Freeview reception.
Can you please see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Thursday, 10 February 2011
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kevin10:05 AM
For the past 24 hours I have been unable to receive most of the freeview channels, the main bbc channels have been bad for a whil ebut noe channel 4, E4 channel 5 amongst others. I haver checked my setup and connections and can see there are no issues there I have also tried other freeview boxes to ensure there aren;t any problems there. This problem seems to happen intermittently and proves to be very frustrating at times.
I live in the EN4 area so believe that Crystal palace is the transmitter.
Thanks,
Kevin
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Pete7:43 PM
I live less than a mile from the CP transmitter and use an indoor aerial. I've experienced awful reception (i.e., they're unwatchable) on all channels on all TV's in the house for the past 2 days. Nothing has changed here, there's no new equipment that might be interfering. It's really not a good advert for digital if it can't deliver to recievers a mile away if the weather's not right.
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Pete: Sorry, but the low power digital service (before switchover) will never work reliably with an indoor aerial.
If you want to have a reliable service, you need to use a rooftop aerial.
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Mike Dimmick10:48 PM
Reading
Pete: I have 5 muxes right now from CP on a roof aerial, 39 miles away. Mux A isn't working, but this is the one that works least well, typically. The aerial is an 18-element contract type, and the cabling runs down to the downstairs flat, through a booster, and up to mine.
I admit that Mux 1 has been pretty erratic over the last couple of months.
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 11 February 2011
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mihaid12:09 PM
London
Briantist: I mentioned atmospheric conditions because the other factors mentioned on the link you suggested to me do not apply,equipment etc. In fact as Derek mentions he's checked his equipment and still had signal problems. Also Kevin. I had reception problems today at 11am, and I can guarantee that again nothing was turned on/off etc. I can't believe it's High pressure because it is overcast and it also rained. It seems that this low power broadcast is very unreliable even with rooftop aerial which I have.
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mihaid's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
mihaid: It is not your local weather conditions that matter, but the conditions near the remote transmitter causing the problem.
I did mention this some days ago when it was the case.
If you still have problems see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Sunday, 13 February 2011
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smw10:36 AM
I've recently bough a Humax HD recorder. It has delivered great HD pictures all week but from 12/2 they became unobtainable - the error says low strength, all the other channels are fine. I retuned the box this morning and it can no longer find the 4 HD channels. Any ideas - I live in the Sidcup area.
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