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 11/11/2024 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
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Wednesday, 8 June 2016
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Geoff Walker12:44 PM
Leatherhead
Having reception problems with receiving programs on CH22, CH23 and poor reception on CH29. Have done full retune and now have lost all programs transmitted on those Channels. Post code KT22 8UN
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Thursday, 11 August 2016
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Alex Android10:23 PM
St. Albans
Andrew: AL3 5PP loft Televes DAT45 with powered masthead 5050 MRD gets good signal strength and quality from Crystal Palace for HD channels 101, 102, 103, etc, but not al Jazeera HD channel 108 (COM7). What aerial(s) could get COM7 and COM8 multiplexes for me? Thanks for any advice.
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MikeB10:37 PM
Alex Android: What do you mean by 'good signal and quality'? We need numbers. And if you getting BBC 4 HD and BBC News HD fine, you should be getting AJ fine as well - they are all Com 7
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Monday, 19 September 2016
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Alison9:17 PM
I have no TV reception and live in Brentwood Essex with my TV tuned to Crystal Palce.
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Richard Cooper9:31 PM
Alison: Good evening, Alison. No faults have been reported on the Crystal palace full Freeview transmitter at present. You are advised to see if your neighbours have lost their signals too. if they haven't, then you need to check your own installation: all aerial leads and connections, etc. If your neighbours have lost their signal too, then you need to ascertain whether you share a communal aerial system with them. if you do, then you need to contact your landlord, who is responsible for ensuring that you have a tv signal in a rented home. Richard, Norwich. PS: If you have your own aerial and it is faulty, then it's your own responsibility I'm afraid. if you conclude that there is a problem on the Crystal Palace transmitter, Google "Radio & TV Investigation Service" and use the 'Contact Us' facility on the site you're taken to in order to inform the BBC that Crystal Palace needs investigating.
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Tuesday, 20 September 2016
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nicholas1:46 AM
Hi,in london there is a problem with reflected signals which vary every second and on analogue was
simply chronic,there are ways using two aerials but for non-technical difficult,i suggest satellite may be better,tks
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MikeP
10:48 AM
10:48 AM
nicholas:
Several years ago there was a problem with reception of BBC2 on UHF from Crustal Palace but affecting just a few houses on one street in South Croydon. These were in Beechcroft Road, Mulgrave Road and Woodstock Road, south of Fairfield Halls that had just been built.
After much investigation by BBC and others (including the major TV rental companies) it was found that the curved copper roof of the Halls was causing signal bending. That meant that a small section of the roads mentioned did not get any signals at all at normal aerial heights. The solution was to mount the aerial on each house either lower (only worked on 3 houses if I remember correctly) or much higher on very long poles with stay wires to stop the aerial from moving in the wind.
Such effects are not uncommon in areas with tall buildings or curved metal roofed buildings. When Canary Wharf was built, much of the Lee Valley area lost TV reception as the office building blocked the signals from Crystal Palace, so a new repeater transmitter had to be built. That's a classic example of planning rules not being very helpful to ordinary people.
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Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Monday, 7 November 2016
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Micheal Fife11:48 PM
London
Post code: SE4 1TQ
Transmitter: Crystal Palace
I have not been able to receive channel 33 (BBC4HD, BBCNews24HD etc) for some months now. Neither by 2-year old smart tv (Panasonic) or Humax PVR (bought a few days ago) can tune into the channel. I have tried all the factory reset, manual tune proposed solutions to no avail. I bought a new co-ax cable, and our block has recently had a new aerial installed. Nothing has worked. Please help.
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Micheal Fife11:50 PM
London
Forgot to add: signal strengh for ch33 reads 0 on the pvr, and flashes between 0 and 10 on the TV.
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