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 - Crystal Palace transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Screen may go black 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
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, 27 June 2012
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Luke Bellamy9:04 PM
Ware
Hi, seem to be suffering a similar problem to that descibed by Terry J Russell. I'm at SG12 0XY and my freeview HD signal (CH30, 545.841 MHz) keeps dropping, causing no signal to be displayed on my TV. This happens on a Sony 32EX403, I can watch the signal quality bar drop from 100% to 0, bounce around 30 and then back to 100% when the picture comes back. The strength sits at 100% all the time. I have no issues with SD reception.
I also have Freeview HD PVR, which does not seem to be as sensitive, but I do get some breakup. Not sure if this is interference, or the TC itself.
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Thursday, 28 June 2012
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Mark Fletcher2:26 PM
Lytham St. Annes
Luke Bellamy.Ware,SG12 0XY.
Your second and last paragraph at least could be down to atmospherics/inversion effect due to the recent brief settled spell due to end very soon.
As for your first paragraph if you do receive transmissions directly from Crystal Palace itself is your aerial horizontally polarised and if so is it a group A type Yagi or group A type X-Beam aerial as such (red coloured tips).One possibility could be that BBCB (HD) multiplex generally are more prone to picture pixellations,break ups and No Signal mode than the present five remaining SD multiplexes.
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Friday, 29 June 2012
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Richard10:55 PM
This evening (29 June) after about 22.30 the signal strength on Ch 25 (10 ITV 3, 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5*, 31 5USA, 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, 16 QVC, 23 Bid TV, 60) declined and the picture became unuseable. Crystal Palace report "no problems". Is this interference from an outside source on just one channel or something else?
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Richard: I imagine that it is likely to be the lift conditions. See the page on the inversion effect.
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Sunday, 1 July 2012
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John Quattromini12:04 PM
What is the best sort of indoor aerial to use to get freeview channels in Leatherhead? We have just moved inmto a new flat in the town and only have a Virgin cable connection. Would prefer not to have to subscribe to Virgin unless absolutely necessary but unable to put up an external aerial.
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Richard10:19 PM
Crowthorne
The same problem as last night has happened again. At about 9.30 pm the signal began to break up on Ch 25 Mux SDN. It recovered about 20 mins later. Crystal Palace report no problems. Has anyone else experienced the same effect?
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Monday, 2 July 2012
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KMJ,Derby12:02 AM
Richard: The prediction for reliable reception of C25 from Crystal Palace at your location is not brilliant - officially it is classed as poor. This is due to the risk of interference from Rowridge which shares the same frequency. A check on the William Hepburn's Tropospheric ducting forecast shows slight ducting between London and the South coast for late evening so this could be the explanation for your wobbly signal on SDN. The other possible explanation would be interference from a faulty street lamp which would have switched on about the time in question. It might be of interest, if you continue to have problems with reception from Crystal Palace, that Hannington is predicted to give good reception of the COM muxes at your location.
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Mark Fletcher12:52 AM
Halifax
John Quattromini.Unfortunately nowadays indoor set-top aerials have become much inferior than what they used to be it's difficult for me to specify which is the best.But if you look up the ATV Aerials and Television of Sheffield website they do retail superior quality indoor set-top aerials and they do provide a mail order service too.
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Michael7:49 PM
I'm in crystal palace area. Sound keeps dipping up and down through freeview. Works fine on dvd player. What's wrong? Tried everything.
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Tuesday, 3 July 2012
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Mark Fletcher12:17 AM
Halifax
Michael.A full postcode preferably is required to ascertain the reception possibilities in your location.
One indicator to your predicament if you are using Crystal Palace main mast is the Transmitter Engineering text immediately above your text dated Monday 2 July 2012,10.28am.
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