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Freeview reception at ST17 9BA


For reliable and stable Freeview reception, you need an unobstructed path between the TV aerial on your roof and the digital TV transmitter. The map below shows the transmitters predicted to provide a signal at this location.

You can click on any transmitter symbol to show the coverage area as a green overlay on the map. Double click on a transmitter symbol to go to the transmitter information page.

You can also view the ten closest potential '4G-at-800' mobile phone masts within 1.5km of the selected location - these masts may be used for 4G-at-800 mobile broadband services from 2013-2015.

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There are 7 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of ST179BA (page shows closest 10)

What do the map symbols mean?

 EE,  Multiple operators,  O2,  3,  Vodafone,  location on line-of-sight,  Selected location,  Freeview transmitter,  Freeview light transmitter,  Engineering/fault today.

These icons show the potential locations for 5G-at-700MHz services that may interfere with Freeview reception. For actual mobile device reception prediction (at 800-960MHz and 1710-2170MHz) see these phone operator's mapping sites: Three O2 EE VM

Predicted Freeview channel list

1BBC One (SD)The Wrekin West MidlandsPSB1
2BBC TwoThe Wrekin West MidlandsPSB1
3ITV 1 (SD)The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
4Channel 4 (SD)The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
5Channel 5The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
 
6ITV 2The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
9BBC FourThe Wrekin West MidlandsPSB1
10ITV3The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
11Sky MixThe Wrekin COM5
12QuestThe Wrekin COM6
 
13E4The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
14Film4The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
15Channel 4 +1The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
17ReallyThe Wrekin COM5
18More4The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
 
19U&DaveThe Wrekin COM5
20U&DramaThe Wrekin COM4
215USAThe Wrekin COM4
23BBC ThreeThe Wrekin West MidlandsPSB1
25U&WThe Wrekin COM6
 
26ITV4The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
27U&YesterdayThe Wrekin COM6
28ITVBeThe Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
29ITV2 +1The Wrekin COM4
30E4 +1The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
 
31E4 ExtraThe Wrekin COM5
325STARThe Wrekin COM4
335ActionThe Wrekin COM4
34GREAT! moviesThe Wrekin COM6
35ITV1 +1The Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
 
36Sky ArtsThe Wrekin COM5
38Channel 5 +1The Wrekin COM4
39DMAXThe Wrekin COM6
40Quest RedThe Wrekin COM5
41LegendThe Wrekin COM4
 
42GREAT! actionThe Wrekin COM4
43Food NetworkThe Wrekin COM5
44HGTVThe Wrekin COM6
465SELECTThe Wrekin PSB3
47Film4 +1The Wrekin COM5
 
48ChallengeThe Wrekin COM5
494sevenThe Wrekin COM5
52GREAT! christmasThe Wrekin COM6
56That's TV (UK)The Wrekin COM6
57U&Dave ja vuThe Wrekin COM4
 
58ITV3 +1The Wrekin COM4
59ITV4 +1The Wrekin COM4
60U&Drama +1The Wrekin COM5
63GREAT! romance mixThe Wrekin COM6
64BlazeThe Wrekin COM4
 
65That's TV 2The Wrekin COM5
67TRUE CRIMEThe Wrekin COM4
68TRUE CRIME XTRAThe Wrekin COM4
70Quest +1The Wrekin COM5
71That’s 60sThe Wrekin Central (West)PSB2
 
73HobbyMakerThe Wrekin COM6
74&UYesterday +1The Wrekin COM5
75That's 90sThe Wrekin COM6
76That's TV 2 MCRThe Wrekin COM5
81Blaze +1The Wrekin COM4
 
82Talking Pictures TVThe Wrekin COM6
83Together TVThe Wrekin COM4
84PBS AmericaThe Wrekin COM6
91WildEarthThe Wrekin COM4
93ITVBe +1The Wrekin COM4
 
101BBC One HDThe Wrekin PSB3
102BBC Two HDThe Wrekin PSB3
103UTV HDThe Wrekin PSB3
103STV HDThe Wrekin PSB3
103ITV 1 HDThe Wrekin PSB3
 
104Channel 4 HDThe Wrekin PSB3
105Channel 5 HDThe Wrekin PSB3
106BBC Four HDThe Wrekin PSB3
107BBC Three HDThe Wrekin PSB3
108BBC Scotland HDThe Wrekin PSB3
 
110Channel 4 HD (Wales)The Wrekin PSB3
201CBBCThe Wrekin West MidlandsPSB1
202CBeebiesThe Wrekin West MidlandsPSB1
204CBBC HDThe Wrekin PSB3
205CBeebies HDThe Wrekin PSB3
 
209Ketchup TVThe Wrekin COM4
210Ketchup TooThe Wrekin COM4
211YAAAS!The Wrekin COM4
231BBC NewsThe Wrekin West MidlandsPSB1
232BBC ParliamentThe Wrekin West MidlandsPSB1
 
233Sky NewsThe Wrekin COM5
235Al Jazeera EngThe Wrekin COM6
251Al Jazeera EnglishThe Wrekin COM4
255FRANCE 24 (in English)The Wrekin COM4
265Rok Sky +1The Wrekin COM4
 

 

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Comments
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
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MikeB
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10:32 PM

UKFree.TV gets a mention...http://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2014/06/24/fix-freeview-signal-youre-digital-tv-problems

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Thursday, 26 June 2014
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Mike
11:47 AM
Southampton

Ive lost BBC1 BBC2 retuned the TV . I can only get 36 channels now I was getting over 100

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Saturday, 28 June 2014
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Brian T
4:41 PM
Llandudno

had good freeview reception from outside aerial for past 12 months from north west transmitter but now signal poor & can't pick up previous channels. I live in North Wales. Is there transmitter problems in North West region?. Thanks.

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MikeB
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6:45 PM

Brian T: If you click the link to R+T investigation, there appears to be no problems, so perhaps check your system.

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jb38
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6:50 PM

Brian T: Although no faults been indicated by the Winter Hill transmitter there has been a posting by David Roberts (Colwyn Bay) about bad reception from same of the BBC HD channels on Mux C54 including possible reasons for, this seen by opening the undermentioned link.

If indeed your reception from this transmitter has been good over the last twelve months then I feel that this was with an element of luck, because at 56 miles away from the transmitter and with the signal from the TX passing over an expanse of water, variation in the level of signal received is not exactly uncommon, but though on this occasion its possibly dropped slightly under the threshold for reception level, the usual way of getting over the problem being to fit a mains powered variable booster (0 -15db or so) in line with the aerial feed into the TV.


Winter Hill (Bolton, England) Full Freeview transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice

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Monday, 30 June 2014
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Derek McLean
5:22 PM

Why is Craigkelly not appearing in the above list? It shows my most likely transmitters as Angus, Blackhill and Durris.

But Craigkelly is my nearest mast, at 25 miles, and it's the one that offers me the Edinburgh STV programme. And it does give me strong signals - although, perversely, the STV signal on rf24 is not as good as that from Durris.

As for Angus, well, that's a joke. Mind you, my aerial is pointing to Blackhill, so I can't expect to get a signal from Angus. This makes it all the more surprising that I get a good signal from Durris, 73 miles away on an almost perpendicular bearing. (NT621742) 

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Dave Lindsay
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5:41 PM

Derek McLean: The predictor on this site rules out transmitters to which there is no line-of-sight, which would appear to be the case for Craigkelly (just):


Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location


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Briantist
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5:56 PM

Derek McLean: There is an "advanced mode" - if you use an aerial 20m above your location - My Freeview | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice ...

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Brian M. Leahy
9:29 PM

I keep asking why my TV reception is so bad and I never find an answer. Could anyone please tell me what I need to do to get one?

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MikeB
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10:19 PM

Brian M. Leahy: OK - I found on one or two of your previous posts your postcode - which is whats really needed when asking about reception problems (you also posted similar questions on two different threads), and you seem to have an old LCD Panasonic TV.

You dont really say what the problem is, but it seems that channels go, or at least the subtitles do, and you keep retuning.

If you click on the link to Home to Mast plot, you'll see that your only about 20km from Oxford, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the way. The DigitalUK link confirms that Oxford should be excellent for you, and the aerial should be on a bearing of 28 degrees.

Check that you are actually tuned to the Oxford transmitter - its on RF Channel 53, so its possible the TV has picked something else. The reception guru's will tell you how to manually tune if you need to.

However, since both you and the neighbour are having a similar problem, there is another possibility, that your simply getting too much signal. Panasonic's are sensitive, and your only 20km away from the transmitter. If you got a big newish aerial, (and certainly if you have a booster), then you could just be getting too high a signal strength at certain times. See this page for help with this problem : Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | Digital switchover | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice

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