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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 - Crystal Palace transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 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
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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Sunday, 4 December 2011
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Mikethemix7:08 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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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 Hardy10:30 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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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
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
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Mikesparky11:20 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
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jol12:26 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
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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And of course I should have thanked Dave Lindsay too! (51.2855,-0.3923BQ)
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Thursday, 15 December 2011
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Allan4:11 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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