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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. . BBC


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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C23 (490.0MHz)324mDTG-200,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) London, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C26 (514.0MHz)324mDTG-200,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (London), 4 Channel 4 (SD) London ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 London ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (London), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C30- (545.8MHz)324mDTG-200,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD London, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV London), 104 Channel 4 HD London ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H max
C25 (506.0MHz)314mDTG-8200,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H max
C22 (482.0MHz)321mDTG-8200,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H max
C28- (529.8MHz)321mDTG-8200,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LW
 H -10dB
C35 (586.0MHz)324mDTG-1220,000W
Channel icons
from 31st March 2014: 8 LONDON LIVE,

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 12km north-northwest (335°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
regional news image
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 AthleticTransposerRedeveloped north stand Charlton Athletic Football Club130 homes
DeptfordTransposersouth-east London100 homes
GreenfordTransposer12 km N Heathrow Airport203 homes
HendonTransposerGraham Park estate50 homes
White CityTransposer9 km W central London80 homes

How will the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-1321 Mar 2018
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TW T
C1BBCtvwaves
C22ArqAArqA
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCA
C25SDNSDN
C26BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4D3+4
C28-ArqBArqB
C29LW
C30C4wavesC4wavesC4waves-BBCBBBCB
C33BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavescom7
C35com8
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area

Sep 1955-Jul 1968Associated-Rediffusion†
Sep 1955-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1992Thames†
Jul 1968-Feb 2004London Weekend Television♦
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Carlton†
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc♦
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc†
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Crystal Palace was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Sunday, 4 December 2011
M
Mikethemix
7:08 PM
Leatherhead

I cannot receive any HD channels today. A full retune does not find any of the HD channels 50- 54. Any clues?

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

8:19 PM

Mikethemix: Try manually tuning to Ch31.

It is a possibility that you won't be able to pick up HD until switchover next year.

The Crystal Palace HD multiplex does not serve as big as area as the other (standard definition) multiplexes it broadcasts.

In particular, the Reigate digital transmitter uses the same frequency, so the amount of signal that Crystal Palace throws out in that direction will be much less than in other directions. You may well be having problems because of this measure.

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Nicki Hardy
10:30 PM

At about 6.00pm today, we lost all digital chanlels with "no or bad signal". We have 4 TV's in the house, one is attached to a digibox, the other 3 are IDTV/freeview tv's. We can get analogue channels (BBC1 & 2, better than ITV/C4/C5 and that is it. I have tried retuning one of the TV's to no avail. Any help?

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

11:02 PM

Nicki Hardy: In situations such as that which you describe, I would not retune any TV. The symptoms suggest a problem (of some sort) with the signal. Running the retuning scan simply causes more problems because now you have to retune it when you get the signal back.

If you have an amplifier for distribution to the 4 outlets, I would check that it's powered on. Then try bypassing it by connecting the lead from the aerial to the output to one of the TVs. Then go to the TV and see what you get.

You might need an adapter to connect the lead from the aerial to the lead to the TV (wall socket) because they might be the same gender.

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Wednesday, 7 December 2011
M
MiketheMix
7:56 PM

Re: Dave Lindsay
Thanks for your constructive suggestions. I have tried tuning channel 31 manually, looking for T2, and the STB sees nothing.

We have been receiving all four HD channels without problems since the Humax HDR Fox T2 was installed in August 2011. So this is a new phenomenon. Is it possible that the STB's HD capability has failed? (51.2855,-0.3923BQ) 

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Thursday, 8 December 2011
M
Mikesparky
11:20 AM
Hornchurch

I have had probelms with ITVHD wirh lip sync. I thought it was the Sony SVRHDT500B unit but all other HD channels were perfect. My supplier contacted Sony that gave him wrong info like using the coaxial audio out to the TV. This of course is no good as TV's do not have coaxial audio in. Its only there for audio amplifiers or dolby sound systems.
I contactec ITV who say there is no transmission faults at present.
I contacted Sony who said try doing a factory reset, this done made no difference. Then many hours later after trying three times;all the HD channels could not be found!
--- Answere to all of this is my aerial was split to other devices and up till Sunday night worked other than lip sync problem. This morning by removing the splitter with the down lead now going straight in to the Sony unit, the channels have now all returned and lip sync on ITVHD is not perfect still but slightly improved. My signal strength has always been around 45% with error around 26% and still is.

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Friday, 9 December 2011
J
jol
12:26 PM

Hi Briantist,can you tell me what DDR stands for with regards to Crystal Palace Transmission Frequencies after 18 APRIL 2012
( C31/C34 ) .Thanks.

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Sunday, 11 December 2011
M
Mikethemix
9:00 PM

Thanks Mikesparky, as you suggested I discovered a wiring problem with the aerial cable - a dodgy plug / cable joint. All sorted now and all channels coming in loud & clear!
Many thanks.
Mike (51.2855,-0.3923BQ) 

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Mikethemix
9:02 PM

And of course I should have thanked Dave Lindsay too! (51.2855,-0.3923BQ) 

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Thursday, 15 December 2011
A
Allan
4:11 PM
Erith

I seem to have lost a lot of my freeview programs. I have rescaned and now have only 80 channels.

Can you please help

Allan

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