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Freeview reception at WS2 9BD

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 11 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of WS29BD (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

1	BBC One (SD)	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
2	BBC Two	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
3	ITV 1 (SD)	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
4	Channel 4 (SD)	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
5	Channel 5	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2

6	ITV 2	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
7	Big Centre TV	Sutton Coldfield	LB
9	BBC Four	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
10	ITV3	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
11	Sky Mix	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

12	Quest	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
13	E4	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
14	Film4	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
15	Channel 4 +1	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
17	Really	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

18	More4	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
19	U&Dave	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
20	U&Drama	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
21	5USA	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
23	BBC Three	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1

25	U&W	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
26	ITV4	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
27	U&Yesterday	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
28	ITVBe	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
29	ITV2 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4

30	E4 +1	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
31	E4 Extra	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
32	5STAR	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
33	5Action	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
34	GREAT! movies	Sutton Coldfield	COM6

35	ITV1 +1	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
36	Sky Arts	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
38	Channel 5 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
39	DMAX	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
40	Quest Red	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

41	Legend	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
42	GREAT! action	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
43	Food Network	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
44	HGTV	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
46	5SELECT	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3

47	Film4 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
48	Challenge	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
49	4seven	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
52	GREAT! christmas	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
56	That's TV (UK)	Sutton Coldfield	COM6

57	U&Dave ja vu	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
58	ITV3 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
59	ITV4 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
60	U&Drama +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
63	GREAT! romance mix	Sutton Coldfield	COM6

64	Blaze	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
65	That's TV 2	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
67	TRUE CRIME	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
68	TRUE CRIME XTRA	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
70	Quest +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

71	That’s 60s	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
73	HobbyMaker	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
74	&UYesterday +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
75	That's 90s	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
76	That's TV 2 MCR	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

81	Blaze +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
82	Talking Pictures TV	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
83	Together TV	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
84	PBS America	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
91	WildEarth	Sutton Coldfield	COM4

93	ITVBe +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
101	BBC One HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
102	BBC Two HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
103	STV HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
103	UTV HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3

103	ITV 1 HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
104	Channel 4 HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
105	Channel 5 HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
106	BBC Four HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
107	BBC Three HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3

108	BBC Scotland HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
110	Channel 4 HD (Wales)	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
201	CBBC	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
202	CBeebies	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
204	CBBC HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3

205	CBeebies HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
209	Ketchup TV	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
210	Ketchup Too	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
211	YAAAS!	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
231	BBC News	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1

232	BBC Parliament	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
233	Sky News	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
235	Al Jazeera Eng	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
251	Al Jazeera English	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
255	FRANCE 24 (in English)	Sutton Coldfield	COM4

265	Rok Sky +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4

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Comments

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

MikeB

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10:32 PM

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

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Thursday, 26 June 2014

Mike
11:47 AM
Southampton

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

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Mike's: M's Freeview map M's terrain plot M's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage

Saturday, 28 June 2014

Brian T
4:41 PM
Llandudno

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

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Brian's: B's Freeview map B's terrain plot B's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage

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 there has been a posting by David Roberts (Colwyn Bay) about bad from same of the BBC HD on Mux 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 powered variable (0 -15db or so) in line with the 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

Derek McLean
5:22 PM

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

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

As for Angus, well, that's a joke. Mind you, my 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 (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 " - if you use an 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 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 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 go, or at least the subtitles do, and you keep retuning.

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

Check that you are actually tuned to the Oxford - 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 ), then you could just be getting too high a signal strength at certain times. See this page for 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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