Full Freeview on the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmitter which serves 120,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmitter._______
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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Caldbeck 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Caldbeck transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 97km east-northeast (77°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Lookaround 0.2m homes 0.7%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 17km northeast (45°)
to ITV Border England region - 33 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees
Are there any self-help relays?
| Boreland | Active deflector | 25 km NE Dumfries | 22 homes School |
| Carsphairn | Transposer | 35 km SE Ayr | 84 homes |
| Crosby Garrett | Active deflector | 35 km N Dumbarton | 42 homes |
| Deepdale | Active deflector | 20 km SW Penrith | 20 homes |
| Eskdalemuir B | Active deflector | 45 km NW Carlisle | 31 homes |
| Keld | Active deflector | 30 km E Sedbergh | 17 homes |
| Stainton | Transposer | 8km W Penrith | 251 homes (low lying area of housing) |
How will the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 25 Mar 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | W T | W T | W T | A K T | ||||
| C11 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C23 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C24 | -D3+4 | ||||||||
| C25 | -BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C26 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C27 | -BBCA | ||||||||
| C28 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C29 | -ArqB | LOCAL2 | |||||||
| C30 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | -BBCB | ArqB | ||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | |||||
| C33 | _local | ||||||||
| C34 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | _local |
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 Jun 09 and 22 Jul 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB, PSB3 sc | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, PSB1 sc, PSB2 sc | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com8 | (-11.5dB) 35.8kW | |
| com7 | (-12dB) 31.9kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A* | (-15.2dB) 15kW | |
| Analogue 5, Mux 1* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| Mux B* | (-21.9dB) 3.2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW |
Local transmitter maps
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 28 November 2013
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Michael11:37 AM
Ted Holt: Click the R+T Investigation link to the side of your post: Radio & Television Service
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Friday, 29 November 2013
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Tina Windsor7:41 PM
Keswick
I am at CA12 4HW in Keswick. We lost our signal on Tuesday 26th whilst watching the evening news. It has been off ever since except for a 57 min period last night. Been on all the websites and even called Radio and television service but they can't give any useful info..one neighbour has signal one doesn't..very frustrating
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MikeB9:26 PM
Tina Windsor: If you click the links by the side of your first question, you can check various things (which is why its so useful to put in your postcode - others take note!).
One of them is 'R+T Investigations' - which tells you whats happening to various transmitters, depending on where you are. Caldbeck was apparently unaffected, but Keswick and Threlkeld were off air 'from 09:36 yesterday to 14:18 yesterday' for engineering(?).
If you are tuned to either of those transmitters, you should of course have the signal back, and if your using Caldbeck, there should have been no problems anyway!
Why your neighbour does not have a signal is another matter - check which transmitters your all using - if the one with a signal is using one transmitter, and you two are using another, then your problem is likely to be a transmitter or its reception.
If its not the transmitters, logically it must be your own system where the problem lies (although You did get a signal for an hour, so its not a broken cable, but its likely to be a loose cable, a corroded connection, or perhaps something where moisture has got in (dried out enough to give you a decent signal for a bit, but then failed again?).
Check with those around youd you and your own system. The reception gurus can certainly give a better answer if it does turn out to be the transmitter or reception.
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Saturday, 30 November 2013
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Tina Windsor9:56 AM
Keswick
MikeB: Thanks for your comments. our postcode is CA12 4HW and all neighbours have to receive signal via Keswick transmitter relayed from Caldbeck due to our location. Signal is blocked directly from Calbeck by Skiddaw Fell.I have spoken directly with R+T and they say that just because it states transmitter was off air from 09.36 to 14.18 isn't specific and it does state that there are issues on them. Other areas of Keswick also have the problem. Some on, some off. We even have 2 TV's that work sometimes and the remaining 6 don't. All same make of TV. All linked to same arial. One TV that works from an internal ariel, well did last night. No BBC this morning..It's all very starnge and frustrating.
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Sunday, 16 February 2014
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Willie Bone8:54 AM
Brian, Viewing Scottish programmes from Calbeck have ITV Border (Scotland) available in standard definition with ITV Granada (currently) as the high definition ITV service,
I did a tuner scan in earlyJanuary to capture the regional enhancement of ITV Border (Scotland) which now screens Scottish Border political programmes to Scotland only.
Point is, STV HD was not included as in the channel line up from Caldbeck!
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014
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Ogilvie Jackson10:14 AM
Carrier on channel 32 on Caldbeck !
Must be the extra HD channels on there way ???? but WHY such low ERP ??
Hope so
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014
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Karl Stanley12:21 AM
Carlisle
Hi,
I live in CA2 7JT and have a TVONICS set top HD recorder which gets confused between the BBC England and Scotland channels (both SD and HD) so I have to manually tune to the correct muxes to omit the Scottish channels, which, up until now has worked a treat. Having just done sa retune, I can see that channels are being listed incorrectly i.e BBC1 Scotland and BBC2 Scotland are on COM5 / C26. Can the list be correctly updated to reflect the current channels on each mux please ?
Regards,
Karl.
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Dave Lindsay
10:56 AM
10:56 AM
Karl Stanley: Is there a "region" or "network" preference setting which might need turning on? (I'm not familiar with the model.).
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Friday, 3 October 2014
Hi,
Thank you for helpful website.
I live at Cleator Cumbria CA23 3DT.
I have no knowledge of Freesat etc.
I presently use Sky TV & Broadband at £41 per month.
Can I cancel Sky TV and use their dish.
Will the dish serve more than one TV. (Sky is only supplied to one of our TVs at this time)
The other TVs are supplied by a aerial within the roof space.
Regards
Richard
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Richard: Hi Richard.
It's not Sky's dish, it's yours. You can do with it as you please.
Just stop paying them and you can watch all the channels listed here All free TV channels | ukfree.tv - 12 years of independent, free digital TV advice .
You can change your broadband to whoever you like. thinkbroadband :: The UK's largest independent Broadband / ADSL troubleshooting website (incorporating news, reviews and comparisons) is a good place to find out your options.
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