Full Freeview on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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mh2:11 PM
I am in Ash Vale (Between Guildford & Aldershot). I have a digital tv that was picking up all the freeview channels available prior to April 4th. After April 4th I lost BBC1 BBC2 and retunes didn't work. Today (April 18th) I have lost all channels. My tv won't retune and shows a very poor signal strength. (transmitter Crystal Palace). I use a recently upgraded community ariel. Have tried several retunes to no avail.
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mh: What's the make and model of your TV? The description you give suggests that it may be that it won't receive post-switchover signals.
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ad2:28 PM
I just retuned my freeview tv via factory reset and had no problems i have all channels. Just did my sister's tv too and she's missing pick tv and yesterday!! Er..... what to do? Help?! we both have the same tv
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mh: That model is on Digital UK's "2k-only" list of equipment so will not receive post-switchover signals:
http://www.digitaluk.co.u…ment
2k mode was used for signals before switchover and they are in 8k mode after switchover. Hence on 4th April BBC standard definition services switched to 8k mode which is why your TV wouldn't tune to them.
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James 3:04 PM
For Those using linux dvb software such as kaffeine the scan file (eg ~/.kde/shared/apps/kaffeine/scanfile.dvb) needs to have the following values for CrystalPalace
[dvb-t/uk-CrystalPalace]
T 482000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 490000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 506000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 514000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 529800000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
(all non-HD freeview channels)
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Mack3:11 PM
just re-tuned Windows Media Centre and still got 2 BBC One's, and 2 BBC Two's. This happened on the 4th April, and was told it would go away with today's re-tune.
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mh3:32 PM
ok - so i need a set top box. Any recommendations, or will any make/price do please?
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Rob Davis3:33 PM
Slingbox classic is working correctly again while set at UK. The upgrade fixed whatever it didn't like.
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mh: Any box will do, particularly if you just want to watch programmes as they are broadcast. I can't give you any recommedations.
If you want a recorder such as one with a hard drive (that stores the programmes within itself), then if you get ones with two tuners in you can watch one channel on the TV whilst recording another, or you probably can record two channels at the same time (depending on the model).
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