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Freeview reception at NN17 2HX


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 6 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of NN172HX (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)Sandy Heath CambridgePSB1
2BBC TwoSandy Heath CambridgePSB1
3ITV 1 (SD)Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
4Channel 4 (SD)Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
5Channel 5Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
 
6ITV 2Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
7Big Centre TVSutton Coldfield LB
7Estuary TV DoncasterBelmont LDN
7Notts TVWaltham LNG
9BBC FourSandy Heath CambridgePSB1
 
10ITV3Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
11Sky MixSandy Heath COM5
12QuestSandy Heath COM6
13E4Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
14Film4Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
 
15Channel 4 +1Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
17ReallySandy Heath COM5
18More4Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
19DaveSandy Heath COM5
20DramaSandy Heath COM4
 
215USASandy Heath COM4
23BBC ThreeSandy Heath CambridgePSB1
25WSandy Heath COM6
26ITV4Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
27YesterdaySandy Heath COM6
 
28ITVBeSandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
29ITV2 +1Sandy Heath COM4
30E4 +1Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
31E4 ExtraSandy Heath COM5
325STARSandy Heath COM4
 
335ActionSandy Heath COM4
34GREAT! moviesSandy Heath COM6
35ITV1 +1Sandy Heath Anglia (West)PSB2
36Sky ArtsSandy Heath COM5
38Channel 5 +1Sandy Heath COM4
 
39DMAXSandy Heath COM6
40Quest RedSandy Heath COM5
41LegendSandy Heath COM4
42GREAT! actionSandy Heath COM4
43Food NetworkSandy Heath COM5
 
44HGTVSandy Heath COM6
465SELECTSandy Heath PSB3
47Film4 +1Sandy Heath COM5
48ChallengeSandy Heath COM5
494sevenSandy Heath COM5
 
52GREAT! romanceSandy Heath COM6
56That's TV (UK)Sandy Heath COM6
57Dave ja vuSandy Heath COM4
58ITVBe +1Sandy Heath COM4
59ITV3 +1Sandy Heath COM4
 
60Drama +1Sandy Heath COM5
61GREAT! movies extraSandy Heath COM6
63GREAT! romance mixSandy Heath COM6
64BlazeSandy Heath COM4
65That's TV 2Sandy Heath COM5
 
67TRUE CRIMESandy Heath COM4
68TRUE CRIME XTRASandy Heath COM4
70Quest +1Sandy Heath COM5
71That’s 60sSandy Heath COM6
73HobbyMakerSandy Heath COM6
 
74Yesterday +1Sandy Heath COM5
75That's 90sSandy Heath COM5
78TCCSandy Heath COM4
81Blaze +1Sandy Heath COM4
82Talking Pictures TVSandy Heath COM6
 
83Together TVSandy Heath COM4
84PBS AmericaSandy Heath COM6
89ITV4 +1Sandy Heath COM4
91WildEarthSandy Heath COM4
101BBC One HDSandy Heath PSB3
 
102BBC Two HDSandy Heath PSB3
103STV HDSandy Heath PSB3
103UTV HDSandy Heath PSB3
103ITV 1 HDSandy Heath PSB3
104Channel 4 HDSandy Heath PSB3
 
105Channel 5 HDSandy Heath PSB3
106BBC Four HDSandy Heath PSB3
107BBC Three HDSandy Heath PSB3
108BBC Scotland HDSandy Heath PSB3
110Channel 4 HD (Wales)Sandy Heath PSB3
 
201CBBCSandy Heath CambridgePSB1
202CBeebiesSandy Heath CambridgePSB1
204CBBC HDSandy Heath PSB3
205CBeebies HDSandy Heath PSB3
209Ketchup TVSandy Heath COM4
 
210Ketchup TooSandy Heath COM4
211YAAAS!Sandy Heath COM4
231BBC NewsSandy Heath CambridgePSB1
232BBC ParliamentSandy Heath CambridgePSB1
233Sky NewsSandy Heath COM5
 
235Al Jazeera EngSandy Heath COM6
267Al Jazeera EnglishSandy Heath COM4

 

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Comments
Saturday, 24 January 2015
Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

8:53 PM

Michael: Again, it is all down to commercial operators operating where they see fit. Sky doesn't "block" channels it's that they're only available on a subscription basis.

Channel 5 was offered the slot on the PSB3 multiplex which is nationwide and carries HD streams of BBC One, BBC Two, ITV/STV/UTV and Channel 4, but it turned it down which is why BBC Three/CBBC is carried there.

With reference to the example of Dave, it is available free-to-air on one of the Commercial Freeview multiplexes, which serve all but about 8% of the population which can receive terrestrial signals. What you must remember and which is logical is that it's objective is to maximise revenues so as to turn as big a profit as it can.

It pays to go on the Commercial Freeview multiplex. We must assume that it's better off to make itself available via satellite on a subscription basis (via Sky) than pay to be free-to-air on satellite (Freesat and Sky).

The point is that the cost of paying to be available to most Freeview viewers is obviously worthwhile when set aside the advertising revenue it generates from those viewers.

And, if it were to make itself available on free-to-air satellite then it would be worse off than it is now because it would have to pay to be on there and wouldn't get any revenue from Sky (if indeed revenue flows to it).

It's all a case of cost-benefit analysis, as it always is in business. We must assume that the status quo is the best for it, and the above explanations would seem to be the reasoning behind what may appear to be a bizarre situation (Freeview users getting it free-to-air but satellite ones having to pay).

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Tuesday, 3 February 2015
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Mark Heselden
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6:43 PM

Most Freeview receiver devices (TVs, Freeview boxes, Recorders, etc.) can display signal strength and quality. Signal strength is obvious, but what contributes to the quality level? Depending on the equipment being used the quality level displayed can vary widely between receiving devices despite them deriving their signal from the SAME aerial.

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Mark Heselden's 21 posts GB flag
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MikeP
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:33 PM

Mark Heselden:

The 'measure' of signal quality is a very subjective matter dependent entirely on how the software used in the particular TV/STB has been written. They all vary, even within the same make but different models.

It is meant to give some indication of how well, or otherwise, the decoder system is sorting out the actual data carried within the multiplex signal for the programme that you are watching/'measuring'.

I have a TV with a DVB-T2 tuner/decoder built in and a STB that is DVB-T only. If I check the signal quality of the same programme, I used BBC1 SD from Mendip for my check just now, the quality is shown as 90% on the TV and 75% on the STB, both being fed from the same log-periodic aerial through an active splitter. Swapping the feeds round so the STB had the input that was originally to the TV (so eliminating any variance due to cabling, etc) gave exactly the same figures. That shows the software design and implimentation is the variable factor.

All you can deduce from the quality indication is whether the signal is able to be decoded or not. Elsewhere on this site is a discussion about what happens when you have too much signal, usually shown by a 100% strength reading. In some cases the TV/STB shows a message suggesting there is no signal when in reality it has too much signal and it can't decode it so the quality is shown as 0, hence the 'No Signal' message that is actually incorrect. A similar situation occurs when there is too little signal though most receivers will show some programmes but not others, the weaker ones not being decoded. In that scenario the strength is usually well below 40% but I've seen quality as much as 60% even though it is having problems decoding!

So, to summarise, it's only an approximate hint but can be misleading. All you do know is that if it shows a very low quality you could have problems viewing some programmes. You also know that if the signal is too strong then that could lead to reception problems as well.

Hope that helps?

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MikeP's 3,056 posts GB flag
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
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Mark Heselden
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

7:15 PM

Mike P

Thanks very much Mike. That does shed some light on it. I had been puzzling over the quality level issue for a while.

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Friday, 13 February 2015
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marilyn feaveryear
10:34 PM
Norwich

my signal went of at 7.30am today along with my neighbours and a few others in my area,we have tried to reset are t,v but stillhave no signal,are aerials are on the roof,hope you can resolve this a.s.a.p as my neighbour is elderly and needs her t,v for company

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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

11:36 PM

marilyn feaveryear: As no faults are indicated (as yet) on either the Tacolneston or Norwich Central relay, nor is any engineering work taking place at either station, then this is inclined to point to something having happened to the aerial system, is the aerial system or the cables from, communal in any way?

The other point being, that if you have tried resetting the TV's, (your neighbours and yours) then this will have deleted the channels already stored in the tuners, this then requiring frequent retunes in an attempt to recover them, whereas the signal would have returned of its own accord if the receiving devices (TV or box) had not been retuned.

Its never advisable to try resetting a TV nor carrying out a retune when a no signal message is seen, as the reason for the problem is very seldom ever connected with the actual TV or box.

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jb38's 7,179 posts GB flag
Saturday, 14 February 2015
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annoyed
3:49 PM

Everytime I enter a post code etc. regardless of where in the UK this shows me that my transmitter is the Crystal Palace one. Well I've got news for you - it isn't! I certainly do not receive signals from London in Shetland, Aberdeen or near the South Coast of England. Get it sorted please.

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Sunday, 15 February 2015
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Paul Murphy
8:11 PM
Bourne End

Similarly Bourne End in Bucks mostly gets Freeview reception from the Wooburn Freeview Lite relay of Crystal Palace and NOT the High Wycombe relay. If you look at the map generated by putting in my postcode, in fact most of Bourne End is showing as having no reception at all from the High Wycombe transmitter! Please look into it (or advise who does). An explanation of what's gone wrong would also help as if it's just one person responsible for this tools accuracy when there are more than 1000 transmitters to be taken into account, that's a little different to if it's a large corporation responsible for feeding the information and accuracy checking.

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Monday, 16 February 2015
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Colin Swan
7:01 PM
Carrbridge

I entered my postcode PH23 3NA and you gave me the Light Freeview coverage from the Grantown relay - however I note some houses in the area do have aerials pointing to Knock More (horizontally polarised) which will give them the FULL Freeview service.
Can you tell me what type of aerial would be needed for Full Freeview at PH23 3NA (Lochanhully Woodland Club, Carrbridge)?
Thank you.

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Tuesday, 17 February 2015
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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

12:07 AM
Dundee

Colin Swan: I have already replied to a similar query made by you on Sunday 8th Feb @ 9.37pm, my reply fully explaining the situation having been made on Mon 9th Feb @ 09.21pm

Knockmore (Moray, Scotland) Full Freeview transmitter

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