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Freeview reception at WV16 5LW

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 1 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of WV165LW (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, 30 July 2014

Katy
9:02 PM
Preston

We seem to have lost all BBC national service - no , no free view BBC . Based on the outskirts of and happened at about 8am 30th July 2014.

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Thursday, 31 July 2014

Keegan Griffin
9:27 PM
Hull

Lost all bbc in hull area Wawne & bransholme. Retuned and nothing?

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Friday, 1 August 2014

Robert Smeaton
4:24 PM
Cupar

Post code KY14 7BE
Further to my E mail of the 29 July, I unplugged the and performed a .
I re - connected the aerial and ran another scan. The re-scan did not find BBC1 or BBC2 !!! Re-ran the scan again and it found BBC1 and BBC2.
The is still breaking up on BBC1 & BBC2. Several of my neigbours are experiecing the same problem.
We all pay the same full licence fee. We should all be receiving a satisfatcory picture and sound on these two .
Please be kind enough to respond to this and my previous E mail
Yours in that you can fix this problem.

Mr R J Smeaton

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Monday, 4 August 2014

John Eason
12:21 AM

For some reason this web site is suggesting completely the wrong transmitters for my location, despite marking my location and that of my local mobile masts correct on the map. It used to be fine up to around 18 months ago, but even if I clear the site cookie and the post code field and start again from scratch it always suggests and (and maps their coverage on the map) despite the fact that I live around 12 miles due of the in the East Midlands!
Any ideas?

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Tuesday, 5 August 2014

LJA
7:21 AM
Cambridge

No BBC in CB23 for weeks now.
Tried on various televisions, neighbours experiencing same issue.

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jb38

_{sentiment_very_satisfied}Platinum

8:53 AM

LJA: BBC1 from the Sandy is being received perfectly OK up in the area, but though as this same complaint has recently been mentioned by one or two other viewers, I suspect that the reason for the problem is down to atmospheric conditions allowing the of some distant transmitter (possibly foreign) operating on the same Mux as Sandy's BBC, the clashing of the two wiping reception of the BBC out in "certain" areas.

"If" when you first experienced this problem you had tried retuning your TV? then this will have erased the BBC Mux channel from the tuners memory, and with the only way of recovering same being by carrying out a series of further retunes until you do, this being the reason why a person should never carry out a retune on their TV or box unless specifically requested to do so by a caption having appeared on their screen.

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KMJ,Derby

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7:08 PM

LJA: I suspect that the most likely out of area that could affect from during periods of high pressure is . It is worth noting that Rowridge at 200kW has effectively double the normally expected to replicate the former coverage, plus the additional vertically polarised signal of equal magnitude. Sandy Heath meanwhile at 180kW has slightly less power than would have been expected. This could potentially increase the likelyhood of for viewers prone to receiving long distance signals from the S/SW. Do you still have a BBC1 in your ? If you do, what is indicated for the channel? If your automatically re-tunes when additional frequencies are detected,-or if you re-tuned when the normal BBC1 was blocked by interference, it is possible that an incorrect version is now stored in the channel list. The conditions for long distance reception only occured on a few occasions for a short time overnight during the last few weeks, so if you have had no reception constantly over this time it suggests either incorrect tuning (unlikely for several TVs unless they were ALL retuned), a local interference problem on , or possibly trees have grown in the signal path which are blocking reception of C27 more than the other frequencies. As neighbours are also experiencing problems it is worth checking the tree situation, even if in practice it might mean waiting for Autumn for normal reception to be restored, at least with the existing aerial installation.

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MikeB

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11:48 PM

R J Smeaton: Your only 3km from the transmitter. Although its low , your really pretty close. This page might : Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | Switchovers | ukfree.tv - 12 years of independent, free digital TV advice

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Thursday, 7 August 2014

Fran Shuttlewood
10:34 AM
Daventry

Good morning,
I recently took my out for safety purposes as we were going away and storms were predicted. When we put the aerial back in we had lost our connection to the and are now connected to Midlands. That's fine, but we have lost lots of that we regularly watch. I have re-tuned lots of times, but no luck.

Any suggestions please?

Many thanks in anticipation

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KMJ,Derby

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5:31 PM

Fran Shuttlewood: First check that everything is back as it was before your break. Is the still in place and pointing in the correct direction? If the aerial is fed via any other equipment, such as a box, VCR or the supply to a splitter check that the equipment is powered up. Then if you have a manual tuning facility on your do a manual tune for each of the frequencies, these being , , , , and if you have HD also tune and . If you dont have a manual tune facility you could try doing a re-tune with the aerial lead unplugged for the first third of the , in order to miss out the local transmissions which could be confusing the tuner. Aim to plug it back in around in the scan if this is indicated by the tuning bars.

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