Freeview Light on the Lambourn (West Berkshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Lambourn (West Berkshire, England) transmitter which serves 1,300 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 Lambourn (West Berkshire, 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 Lambourn (West Berkshire, 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 Lambourn 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 | C32 (562.0MHz) | 171m | DTG- | 2W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South, 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 | C34 (578.0MHz) | 171m | DTG- | 2W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 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 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C35 (586.0MHz) | 171m | DTG- | 2W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 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 Lambourn (West Berkshire, 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 Lambourn transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 68km south (172°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 73km south-southeast (164°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford
How will the Lambourn (West Berkshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | A K T | |||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C54tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C58tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 8 Feb 12 and 22 Feb 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 7W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-5.4dB) 2W |
Local transmitter maps
Lambourn Freeview Hannington TV region BBC South Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hannington transmitter area
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Friday, 13 December 2013
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jb387:44 PM
Mike Oughton: Many thanks for the update and pleased all is "seemingly" OK for now.
As far as signal strength readings from a TV is concerned, the problem with this is that most sets give somewhat inflated indications of what the actual strength really is and which in reality is usually much lower, the only Freeview device I can think of that does give a reasonably accurate indication of signal strength when compared to that obtained using a proper signal meter (albeit it calibrated in dBuV) is the slightly older Humax non HD boxes such as the PVR9200 / 9300T ranges, e.g: a full scale (just anyway) indication on a Panasonic / Sony / LG etc TV only indicating 84% or so on the Humax which is roughly equivalent to around 72dBuV or so, the top side of the target level for Freeview reception but not overloading.
That said, if a full scale strength indication on a TV is accompanied by the quality continually dipping backwards then signal overloading conditions should indeed always be suspected, because when a TV is genuinely suffering from the effects of receiving an excessively high signal level this causes instability to occur in the tuner corrupting the data that's used to measure quality, with in severe cases this dropping to zero quality whilst being accompanied by an indication of 100% strength, LG TV tuners more than most being extremely intolerant to slight overloading.
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Thursday, 23 November 2017
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liz krauesslar9:21 AM
unable to get itv channel for most of November despite retuning several times. signal breaks up, weak or no sinal frequently displayed.
since the last 3 retunes this week, itv is not even listed now. post code rg177bt. great shefford, hungerford berks.
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MikeB2:19 PM
liz krauesslar: Put your postcode into the site, and it will bring up what sort of signal you should get, but almost certainly your system is at fault, and thats why you've lost various channels.
Check your cables, starting from behind the TV. It could be no more than a loose cable connection or a damaged cable. If you can't find any problems and nothing has got better, then you might need to call out a professional.
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MikeP
6:05 PM
6:05 PM
liz krauesslar:
You should be using the Hannington main transmitter (but you have posted in the page for Lambourn).
The Hannington transmitter should be giving an excellent signal at your location whereas the Lambourn transmitter is hardly receivable in Great Shefford, Hungerford.
So please check that your TV is correctly tuned to the Hannington signals, look at Which Freeview channels does the Hannington transmitter broadcast? to find the right channel numbers to use.
Please also check that your aerial is aimed correctly at Hannington and that there are no problems with your aerial cables through to the TV set.
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Saturday, 5 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
8:21 PM
8:21 PM
LAMBOURN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 5 Oct 16:12. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
11:20 PM
11:20 PM
LAMBOURN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 5 Oct 16:12 until 5 Oct 21:25. . [BBC]
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