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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Sunday, 2 January 2011
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dave maden5:37 PM
Accrington
when will pendle forest transmitter be sending freeview hd channels . thanks
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dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 6 January 2011
dave maden: It has been doing it since Wednesday 2nd December 2009.
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Sunday, 20 February 2011
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dave maden7:24 PM
Accrington
im going to put a new aerial up facing this transmitter , will any digital aerial do or would an older aerial with vertical fins do as good a job as i can see transmitter from roof and live in oswaldtwistle . thanks
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dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
dave maden: There is no such thing as a "digital aerial".
As it says above "To receive signals from this transmitter, the aerial must be mounted for vertical polarization - the elements going from top to bottom. "
You just need, as long as the aerial is on the roof, a "bog standard" area, either group A or wideband.
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Saturday, 26 February 2011
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dave maden7:33 PM
Accrington
thanks briantist , would a group W aerial do , as long as i turn it so as the fins are verticle . thanks
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dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Sunday, 9 October 2011
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Mark Fletcher4:17 PM
Burnley
dave maden.Oswaldtwistle,Accrington.Sorry im far too late in reply but if you had previously installed a group W wideband external aerial,vertically polarized for the Pendle Forest (major) relay and it works wonders then i'm very pleased for you.The reason i am enquiring is that Pendle Forest relay with mux's presently on ch's 21,22,24,25,27,28 plus future mux's on this relay on ch's 30 (local),33,35,36 (com7,8,9) all fall within the traditional group A aerial frequencies (between ch's 21-37),and as such a group A aerial would actually have a higher gain for all the Pendle Forest relay transmissions,than the group W wideband aerial which according to ATV (Aerials and Television) of Sheffield,are somewhat useless on the lower especially group A frequencies (lower gain for example).If your current group W wideband is giving good results,then there is no need to change it.If not then you can change it to a group A aerial,or diplex your current group W wideband aerial with a group A aerial both vertically polarized and both erected externally of course,but not too close to each other using black satellite grade cable.ATV of Sheffield do sell TV to TV diplexers,a channel 38 diplexer will do.
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Mark Fletcher4:41 PM
Burnley
Slight correction to my location to my above post dated Sunday 9 October 2011,at 4.17pm.I now reside in Halifax but between April 2003 and August 2004 i resided in Burnley BB11 4EA postcode,so my location above is now incorrect.Apologises all round.
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011
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Diana11:58 PM
We have two digital TVs both of which completely lost signal tonight. Oct 26 around 11pm on the Pendle transmitter. Both were on separate aerials one on chimney and one on back wall of house and in different rooms. Got Blue screen and message "no signal". However on plugging in two old Analogue TVs through a digi box in each room and on each aerial, the analogue TVs both worked fine.
Any ideas why the analogue tvs are picking up a signal but not the digital ones?
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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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