Freeview Light on the Seagry Court (Swindon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Seagry Court (Swindon, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Seagry Court (Swindon, England) transmitter._______
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 Seagry Court (Swindon, 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 Seagry Court 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 | C39+ (618.2MHz) | 154m | DTG- | 20W |
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 | C42 (642.0MHz) | 154m | DTG- | 20W |
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 | C45 (666.0MHz) | 154m | DTG- | 20W |
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 Seagry Court (Swindon, 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 Seagry Court transmitter?
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 59km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 56km west-southwest (253°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Seagry Court (Swindon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | B E K T | |||||
C39 | BBCA | ||||||||
C40 | SDN | ||||||||
C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +BBCA | |||||
C42 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
C44 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
C45 | BBCB | ||||||||
C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
C51tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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?
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 20W | |
Analogue 1-4 | (-4dB) 8W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012
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brian fisher9:24 PM
Swindon
which transmitter should I use ,MENDIP VERY POOR ,aerial on pole above bungalow sn25 3er
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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Jim F7:53 PM
Brian Fisher: Signal from Mendip should be good at your postcode, but aerial will need to be horizontal polarisation (prongs horizontal) and pointing South-West.
If your aerial has vertical polarisation and is pointing North-East, it will be receiving the Seagry Court relay which does cover your location (but only with Freeview Lite MUXs).
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Sunday, 4 November 2012
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David Dean3:01 PM
I receive my TV signals from the Seagry Court transmitter and since the latest work carried out on the 31st of Oct 2012 my signal strengths have been reduced causing picture dropout/freezing. Has all the work been completed ,or is the transmitter working on reduced power?
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013
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SteppeFox9:35 AM
Swindon
I seem to have lost my signal from Seagry Court. I assume this is because Mendip has been retuned overnight?
From my aerial Seagry Court is almost in line with Ofxord, so after retuning I now only pick up 6 multiplexes from Oxford. So no big problem; only tonight when we would like to watch news in the West (makes mental note to try and retune tonight again).
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SteppeFox9:51 AM
Just looked it up on Digital UK - West :
I shouldn't have retuned. TV services at some other local transmitters (like Seagry Court) may be subject to temporary disruption but should be restored by late afternoon on 27 March. (SN253DJ)
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SteppeFox: The Seagry Court transmitter is a relay of Mendip. Therefore it receives the signal from Mendip and rebroadcasts it on its own channels. Because PSB1 (BBC standard definition services) has changed channel from Mendip, Seagry Court and all its other relays need retuning so that they receive PSB1 on the new channel.
You may find that you can receive the full service directly from Mendip.
Oxford is horizontally polarised (requires aerial horizontal) and Seagry Court is vertically polarised (aerial vertical). So if you are picking up Oxford with the Seagry Court-facing aerial then reception may not be as good as it might because it's the wrong polarisation.
Unfortunately, due to an upcoming channel change with COM4 from Oxford, it might not be feasible to combine the feed from a Seagry Court aerial and one for Oxford (so as to give you West programming and COM channels that Seagry Court doesn't carry).
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Thursday, 28 March 2013
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SteppeFox9:07 AM
Swindon
Retuned again last night and everything is fine again.
Thanks, Dave, for your helpful comments (most of it I was aware off). I have our aerial horizontal and because we are pretty close to Seagry Court no problem with a week signal. Currently the aerial is below the roof line so pointing it towards Mendip would mean that I would have to move to the front of the house (no chimney), which I prefer not to do.
As far as I can see the new COM4 position on Oxford won't interfere with Seagry either, so no problems expecting.
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Saturday, 30 March 2013
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Dave9:10 PM
Swindon
I still can't get any BBC channels in Swindon after the retune on freview or BT vision. How do I report this?
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Sunday, 23 June 2013
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Rob4:17 PM
ITV Chan 4 Chan 5 signal dow all weekend from early Saturday morning (22nd June) No information online whatsoever.. It is disgusting the way viewers are left in the dark. I have got no answers for them. Rob "Complete Aerial Service" Swindon
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