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
Crystal Palace Freeview Crystal Palace DAB Crystal Palace AM/FM Crystal Palace TV region BBC London LondonWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Friday, 6 April 2012
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Philip Wylie11:41 PM
Beckenham
Live in Beckenham in block of flats with rooftop aerial.
BR3 4HY. Today bought Humax HDR-FOX T2 box and HD very flaky. Signal only 55% and almost direct line of sight.
Is there a reduction in signal power to Freeview durung the changeover period 4-18 April?
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KMJ,Derby11:50 PM
Philip Wylie: No reduction in power, just a noticeable difference between the new Mux BBCA at 200kw, the un-switched standard definition muxes at 20kW and the current low power HD mux at 10kW. You should see a considerable improvement from 18th April 2012, when all muxes are planned to be transmitting at 200kW.
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NB11:59 PM
I live 2 miles from Crystal Palace. BBC 1 and BBC2 were the stations I could always reply on Freeview without arduous fiddling and BBC3 and BBC4 were almost as good, but since the 4th of April they have all been completely unavailable (and I don't understand why) and retuning/resetting just loses other fragile channels. While most BBC output can be watched live films can't. Will the promises about better TV reception be like those made about CDs? This seems to be reminiscent of the Olympic ticket fiasco. Someone sensible might have considered augmenting the Freeview signal when removing the terrestrial signal. It would have also been sensible not to make people lose reception just before a series of English Bank Holidays.
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Saturday, 7 April 2012
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NB12:17 AM
I live 2 miles from Crystal Palace. BBC 1 and BBC2 were the stations I could always reply on Freeview without arduous fiddling and BBC3 and BBC4 were almost as good, but since the 4th of April they have all been completely unavailable (and I don't understand why) and retuning/resetting just loses other fragile channels. While most BBC output can be watched live on Iplayer, films can't. Will the promises about better TV reception be like those made about CDs? This seems to be reminiscent of the Olympic ticket fiasco. Someone sensible might have considered augmenting the Freeview signal when removing the terrestrial signal. It would have also been sensible not to make people lose reception just before a series of English Bank Holidays.
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Mark Fletcher4:17 AM
Halifax
NB.In your circumstance you most certainly have excess signal being only 2 miles from Crystal Palace itself.Either use a set-top box or fit an attenuator.If possible try manual scan frequency 23 it should work hopefully.
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Mark Fletcher4:19 AM
Halifax
NB.My mistake above.I meant set-top aerial not the box.Apologises for my wee error.
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Chris.SE4:37 AM
Peter Suthers:
Delete the duplicates and see if that solves it.
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Martyn Smith10:52 AM
Has anybody else lost their digibox guide list for BBC2 since the 4/4 switchover? Still getting the signal ok, just no info so can only programme manually on that channel; nuisance...
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Martyn Smith10:58 AM
Regarding excess signal to my home here in E Croydon; I tried it with the aerial switched off and hence just acting as a passive receiver, the quality on 34 went up a little but that on 23 and 22 went right down...in any case the balance seems just about ok now, a little boiling here and there but nothing to ruin any programme.
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Martyn Smith11:01 AM
Maybe it's best to just sit through the problems with gritted teeth between now and 18/4, and if there are any problems after that then start looking long and hard for solutions...
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