Freeview Light on the Calne (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Calne (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 6,400 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 Calne (Wiltshire, 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 Calne (Wiltshire, 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 Calne 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 | C24 (498.0MHz) | 136m | 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 | C27 (522.0MHz) | 136m | 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 | C21+ (474.2MHz) | 136m | 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 Calne (Wiltshire, 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 Calne transmitter?
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 42km west (276°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 39km west (273°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Calne (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 5 Jun 2019 | |||||
| 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 | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| 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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 50W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 20W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Wednesday, 20 November 2013
MikeP: Judging by the radiation pattern and ensuing coverage map above, it would appear that the Calne transmitter does serve JamesD.
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Thursday, 21 November 2013
MikeP
10:31 PM
10:31 PM
Dave Lindsay:
Yes, it does, but I stated that the location is poor for Mendip reception, which is what he was asking about earlier. A look on Google Street View indicates that every house with an external aerial is aimed at the Calne realy and I cannot see any on that street aimed at Mendip, which is as I expected because of the geography of the area.
The Calne 'relay' does not carry commercial services so does not provide the BT Sport signals that JamesD was seeking. So his only solutuions are to forego BT Sport or pay the higher price for BY Infinity (although an Openreach engineer has told me that BT Internet customers with an ADSL service of at least 5.6 Mbps can get BT Sport free. As James is less than 1 mile from the exchange he should have a pretty good ADSL speed.).
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Friday, 4 April 2014
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Dave R11:11 PM
Following the discussion and living in calne i am all to aware of the freeview lite mast.
Some areas can get a useable signal from mendip, but this may not be reliable, + likely require a massive aerial with booster. Can be Very expensive. Other parts of the town have little to zro chance Using mendip. While calne freeview has less chs its mostly easy to get with a simple compact external aerial. Distant rception of mendip signal on a massive aerial may also introduce wind loading issues, and various other Tech issues such as ch duplication where stray signals from s.wales, + s.coast are picked up and get mudled up with the mendip chs or maybe interfer with them.
I noticed in recent months 2 large aerials on High poles next to each other on the bypass, Both pointing to oxford. This is at the chippenham end of the bypass.
Obviously (or not) calne is not alone in its situation. The closest major other example is the city of Bath.
In calne satellite Had already become Very popular, before digital switchover in 2010. This was due to the lack of analogue ch5 and lack of early digital tv (eg itvdigital). Most houses therefore appear to now have a mini dish, for either sky or freesat.
There r 4 hd freeview chs also on calne, but more chs beyond a few tweaks (eg Film4 which got added) are next to no chance until the gov goes for Hd switchover, i dont expect any news on this until after the next election. That said the news may not be in favor of freeview at all with its long term future up for grabs due to the money that can b made by rolling out 5g mobile, and savings that could b made by forcing us all to use satellite tv and online tv in the future.
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Saturday, 5 April 2014
MikeP
8:37 PM
8:37 PM
DaveR
I live in Bremhill parish but nearer to Lyneham and get all our services either from Sky with a minidish or Freeview from Mendip with an 11 element C/D yagi that is now some 40 years old.
The terrain of Calne and the surrounding hills is the problem as TV signals do not like 'bending'. Hence the large number of 'fill in' relays that were built in the analogue days, and most now used as Freeview Lite sources. As you rightly state, the Calne transmitter is one of those and as it serves few people, in commercial pay-back terms, there is little justification for the commercial broadcasters to provide their signals at great expense - they have to pay to be carried on any multiplex.
So the reception from Mendip is severely affected by the hill with Bowood House and Derry Hill village getting in the way of direct line of sight. Hence some have opted for attempts to get reception from Oxford, but again there are hill problems because of the 'bump' at the top of Abberd Way and beyond (roughly, attempting to look through the hill above Broad Hinton on the road to Malborough). Obviously, to get anything people have invested heavily in receiving aerial equipment that might get signals most of the time but be subject to high wind loading factors. In my former work as a service engineer and then Technical Training Manager for a major TV rental company that was based in Swindon I saw a great many customers in similar situations in the East Midlands and Surrey/Sussex/Kent areas I worked in before promotion and then retirement.
All these matters are not political so any general election outcome is extremely unlikely to affect the future development of Calne, if any.
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Sunday, 22 March 2015
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lee12:31 PM
I live in calne and have read that out local transmitter is down
Can I ask how long it will be before we can watch TV again it's been off most of the day now
Thanks
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sarah Dowie5:39 PM
I live in Caine and still have no TV or radio.Is anyone doing anything about it?
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j davies5:58 PM
I have no TV live in calne been off since 10.30 this morning. When will it be back on. Says no problems on transmitter I think there could be one
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Dave Lindsay
6:44 PM
6:44 PM
I checked Radio & TV Investigation Service and Digital UK and neither report a problem. I also checked SSE Distribution's power outage checker and no fault is recorded for the transmitter site. Sunday's an odd day for engineering work, I would have thought.
So I'm none the wiser...
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Mary H7:11 PM
I After worrying that our aerial had been damaged or the Calne Transmitter had been vandalised, I phoned a Rep at radioand tvhelp.co.uk who said that the Electricity company and cut off the power to the Calne transmitter but they were working to reconnect it. Still think the websites should have been able to tell us that.
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Sunday, 19 April 2015
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Belynda Giles10:37 PM
Devizes
No freeview transmission since mid day of Friday 17th April. Can you furnish a reason for this.
Post code SN10 1QW all house numbers 37-47
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Belynda's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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