Freeview Light on the Elton (Cheshire West and Chester, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Elton (Cheshire West and Chester, England) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Elton (Cheshire West and Chester, 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 Elton (Cheshire West and Chester, 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 Elton 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 | C27 (522.0MHz) | 25m | DTG- | 13W |
 1 BBC One (SD) North 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 | C24 (498.0MHz) | 25m | DTG- | 13W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Granada), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Granada), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C21+ (474.2MHz) | 25m | DTG- | 13W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North 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 Elton (Cheshire West and Chester, 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 Elton transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 42km northeast (55°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 42km northeast (55°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Elton (Cheshire West and Chester, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 31 Mar 2018- | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 63W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-6.9dB) 13W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Friday, 5 April 2013
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Mary Martin12:46 PM
Frodsham
This morning I lost signal from Channels 21, 24 & 27 on my DVD recorder. I manually tune to avoid Wales with their different programming wrt BBC. Is this a permanent loss? Automatic tuning has now given me Welsh channels only.
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Mary's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Michael12:56 PM
Mary Martin: Presumably it was a temporary problem, and you should be able to manually retune and get them back? At least you have the option of a Welsh transmitter if there's any problems.
On the 10th of April retune event at Winter Hill, the BBC channels will be lost until late afternoon, but should come back on their own.
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Mary Martin: If you unplug your aerial when the automatic tuning scan gets to 30% it will avoid picking up the Welsh channels.
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Thursday, 11 April 2013
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Mary Martin12:31 AM
Frodsham
Many thanks for trying to help. It wasn't temporary. I tried on several days. Welsh channels are fine except for BBC 1 & 2 where the programmes are often different from our Granada TV Times. Rugby, Welsh festivals etc are not to our taste. We live near Helsby Hill & Granada reception is restricted to this transmitter. I'll try again tomorrow to see if we can get Granada back. Again many thanks for your comments. Much appreciated.
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Mary's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Mary Martin: If you unplug your aerial once the scan has got to 30% you will avoid it getting a chance to pick up the Welsh channels. All of Elton's channels are below the first 30%. This will give you the Public Service (PSB) channels which, as you know, are all Elton carries.
You may be able to receive the other channels (Commercial/COM ones) from the Welsh transmitter Moel-y-Parc. Only try to do this once you have run the scan through once with the aerial unplugged after 30%.
If your receiver has manual tuning then go to it and tune in UHF channels 51, 52 and 48.
If your receiver doesn't have manual tuning, but there is a function to add new services (or something similar) then run it with the hope that it will do another scan without wiping what's already been stored. That is, hopefully it will add the COM channels from Moel-y-Parc.
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