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 25/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering 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, 2 April 2014
NICK ADSL UK
4:37 PM
4:37 PM
for the record the Crystal Palace transmitter transmitter is showing low power my end in west Sussex normally 10 but for the last few days showing 2 hence the message of retuning keep showing up on various boxes
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Tuesday, 8 April 2014
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Dolby728:47 AM
Is it possible to for an old rooftop aerial (possibly 25 years old, standard-type) to pick up the HD channels and all mux's except channel 26 PSB2 with SD ITV, Channel 4 etc? As that's what has happened to me, bizarre.
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Dave Lindsay
1:34 PM
1:34 PM
Dolby72: Yes. An aerial works by frequency and digital channels are in the same range as the former analogue from Crystal Palace which means a replacement shouldn't be required.
Where are you? I wonder if the signal is too strong due to your close proximity to the transmitter.
C26 used to be for BBC One analogue. How was its picture?
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Dave Lindsay
1:49 PM
1:49 PM
Dolby72: Quite a few people are caught out by their TV being HD but not having the capability to receive HD signals.
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Wednesday, 9 April 2014
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Dolby729:49 AM
Dolby72: Sutton surrey, so about six miles. I have since got an indoor one and its picked up everything fine and with a good signal strength. As far as the roof aerials on my property go there are two from old - not just one split to both rooms for some reason. One feeds the front room and every channel is fine, and the other feeding the bedroom which has the drop out on channel 26's mux no matter how many times i retuned automatically, or manuallyl. I can't quite see from the front of the building but the aerial may be pointing slightly out of whack or be damaged even. Thanks for your time on this though.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2014
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Christine Clarke4:56 PM
Why can't I pick up free view on my portable free view tv when I'm in Wimbledon Park Wimbledon I can't be too far away from crystal palace can I. Cant get any signal at all
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jb388:23 PM
Christine Clarke: The area referred to is approximately 5 miles away from the Crystal Palace transmitter and as such in theory anyway, should be in a high signal strength area.
However could you clarify exactly what's meant by a "portable Freeview TV"? does this refer to one of those small (9" or less screen size) TV's that use a pull out aerial? if you do, then are you using its "search for channels" facility or is Crystal Palace already pre-tuned.
The other point being, "if" whatever you are using is of the type mentioned and which "some of" also offers the option of using the TV with a normal aerial rather than pull out, check that you have the aerial selector switch (if it has one) set to match whatever aerial you are using.
It would though be of assistance to know the brand "and" model number of the TV in question.
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Thursday, 24 April 2014
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Christine Clarke7:01 PM
Christine Clarke: hi. My tv is an August 10 inch with built in free view. Its also hd. I've got a superb picture at home running it on batteries and any one of the 3 ariels supplied. Want to use it in Wimbledon Park so tried retuning it when there last year. I live in west Sussex so we're on Midhurst here. HELP.
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Christine Clarke7:10 PM
Sorry forgot to say model is DA100C a current model
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Friday, 25 April 2014
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jb388:20 AM
Christine Clarke: Thanks for the update, however with reference to the content of, when you tried retuning the TV at Wimbledon Park last year "if" this was carried out using the aerial supplied with the set then reception cannot always be guaranteed using this type of aerial even although it might well have been satisfactory at home, as reception is not only dependant on terrain conditions (trees / high buildings etc) associated with where you are located within the Wimbledon Park area but also the screening effect of the walls in the building you are tuning the set in.
Judging by what you have said, if the W / Park location does not have an external (or loft) aerial installed then your best policy is to try and retune your TV whilst its temporarily connected into one in the same area as yourself, this being purely for the purpose of storing the channels into the set thereby making it considerably easier to experiment with the positioning of the aerial supplied with same by knowing that the TV is pre-tuned.
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