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Freeview reception at ME2 3NJ


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 8 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of ME23NJ (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)Bluebell Hill South EastPSB1
2BBC TwoBluebell Hill South EastPSB1
3ITV 1 (SD)Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
4Channel 4 (SD)Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
5Channel 5Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
 
6ITV 2Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
9BBC FourBluebell Hill South EastPSB1
10ITV3Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
11Sky MixBluebell Hill COM5
12QuestBluebell Hill COM6
 
13E4Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
14Film4Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
15Channel 4 +1Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
17ReallyBluebell Hill COM5
18More4Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
 
19DaveBluebell Hill COM5
20DramaBluebell Hill COM4
215USABluebell Hill COM4
23BBC ThreeBluebell Hill South EastPSB1
25WBluebell Hill COM6
 
26ITV4Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
27YesterdayBluebell Hill COM6
28ITVBeDover Meridian (East)PSB2
29ITV2 +1Bluebell Hill COM4
30E4 +1Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
 
31E4 ExtraBluebell Hill COM5
325STARBluebell Hill COM4
335ActionBluebell Hill COM4
34GREAT! moviesBluebell Hill COM6
35ITV1 +1Dover Meridian (East)PSB2
 
36Sky ArtsBluebell Hill COM5
38Channel 5 +1Bluebell Hill COM4
39DMAXBluebell Hill COM6
40Quest RedBluebell Hill COM5
41LegendBluebell Hill COM4
 
42GREAT! actionBluebell Hill COM4
43Food NetworkBluebell Hill COM5
44HGTVBluebell Hill COM6
465SELECTBluebell Hill PSB3
47Film4 +1Bluebell Hill COM5
 
48ChallengeBluebell Hill COM5
494sevenBluebell Hill COM5
52GREAT! romanceBluebell Hill COM6
56That's TV (UK)Bluebell Hill COM6
57Dave ja vuBluebell Hill COM4
 
58ITVBe +1Bluebell Hill COM4
59ITV3 +1Bluebell Hill COM4
60Drama +1Bluebell Hill COM5
61GREAT! movies extraBluebell Hill COM6
63GREAT! romance mixBluebell Hill COM6
 
64BlazeBluebell Hill COM4
65That's TV 2Bluebell Hill COM5
67TRUE CRIMEBluebell Hill COM4
68TRUE CRIME XTRABluebell Hill COM4
70Quest +1Bluebell Hill COM5
 
71That’s 60sBluebell Hill COM6
73HobbyMakerBluebell Hill COM6
74Yesterday +1Bluebell Hill COM5
75That's 90sBluebell Hill COM5
78TCCBluebell Hill COM4
 
81Blaze +1Bluebell Hill COM4
82Talking Pictures TVBluebell Hill COM6
83Together TVBluebell Hill COM4
84PBS AmericaBluebell Hill COM6
89ITV4 +1Bluebell Hill COM4
 
91WildEarthBluebell Hill COM4
101BBC One HDBluebell Hill PSB3
102BBC Two HDBluebell Hill PSB3
103UTV HDBluebell Hill PSB3
103ITV 1 HDBluebell Hill PSB3
 
103STV HDBluebell Hill PSB3
104Channel 4 HDBluebell Hill PSB3
105Channel 5 HDBluebell Hill PSB3
106BBC Four HDBluebell Hill PSB3
107BBC Three HDBluebell Hill PSB3
 
108BBC Scotland HDBluebell Hill PSB3
110Channel 4 HD (Wales)Bluebell Hill PSB3
201CBBCBluebell Hill South EastPSB1
202CBeebiesBluebell Hill South EastPSB1
204CBBC HDBluebell Hill PSB3
 
205CBeebies HDBluebell Hill PSB3
209Ketchup TVBluebell Hill COM4
210Ketchup TooBluebell Hill COM4
211YAAAS!Bluebell Hill COM4
231BBC NewsBluebell Hill South EastPSB1
 
232BBC ParliamentBluebell Hill South EastPSB1
233Sky NewsBluebell Hill COM5
235Al Jazeera EngBluebell Hill COM6
267Al Jazeera EnglishBluebell Hill COM4

 

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Show good and blocked paths from ME2 3NJ for aerial height of ...

10m20m (Angel of the North)25m30m40m56m (Hyde Park Flats, Sheffield)62m (Monument)90m (Royal Liver Building, Liverpool)107m (Meridian Quay Tower, Swansea)115m (Bridgewater Place, Leeds)127m (Glasgow Tower)143m (Guy's Hospital)158m (Blackpool Tower)170m (Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth)180m (The Gherkin/BT Tower) 193m (Tower 42)235m (Canary Wharf)310m (The Shard)(default view)

Comments
Saturday, 13 June 2015
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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

11:17 AM

TimH: The content of your update is inclined to suggest that the problem is really being caused by the signal fed into your TV being a tad over powerful for "its" HD tuner to cope with, this resulting in instability in same, the reason for highlighting "its", being that the overload level tuners are able to cope with varies from one brand of set to another, HD tuners being far more critical to this sort of thing over SD, although SD can also be affected if any multiplex channel is being received at a slightly stronger signal level than the others.

If your signal is really strong, purely for a test, you might be able to resolve a picture of sorts by connecting a short length (4 feet or so) of wire into the TV's aerial socket, or better still, if you could access a set top aerial, otherwise you have no option other than to purchase a signal attenuator (around £2-4) to insert in line with the TV's aerial input connection, a value of around 6dB or so might possibly suffice.

By the way, you should also check the set up menu of the TV in question to make sure that it isnt of the variety that incorporates an internal booster facility, if it does, switch it off.



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Monday, 15 June 2015
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John h
11:39 AM

Hi
I have a Freesat box which I recorded some programs but was unable to watch them while at home so I decided to take my box with me on holiday and tried to watch them on the TV in my accommodation. Unfortunately the box would not play the recordings. Is this because I was not in the UK or is it that the recording is not actually on the box but a link to a recording on the satellite.

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Friday, 19 June 2015
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Alan
8:13 AM
Gosport

just a change of email address.

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Saturday, 20 June 2015
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TimH
5:36 PM
Dunoon

jb38:
Many thanks for the suggestions. The main TV is a Samsung UE40C8000 (why they can't choose easier model numbers I don't know). It doesn't say that it has an on-board booster, so I'm assuming that it doesn't. As we can see the transmitter from the window in the lounge, I had thought about buying an indoor aerial to check that the current aerial feed into the lounge socket wasn't the cause of the problem. Will probably do that now. Amazon offer one with a detachable booster at a reasonable price. I think the walls have insulation inside which has an aluminium foil backing, so this may muck up the signal through the wall - siting the indoor aerial on the window ledge won't pass internal approval! But as a temp measure, should be OK. Thanks again.

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MikeB
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7:48 PM

TimH: The tuners in the Samsung and the Sony might be slightly different, and so your problem might not be showing up on both of them. Sony's are really sensitive but robust (if your HX series is anything like mine), but Samsungs can be a little more skittish.

The Samsung certainly has no internal boosting , but a simple indoor aerial for about a tenner might at least give you a chance to check out the problem. The idea of splitting the signal is a good one (its what I do), because you can see what the tuners are doing seperately. Might be worth changing the fly lead on the Samsung, to see if thats causing a problem.

BTW, the Samsung model no. makes sense if you speak Samsung! Its a European model 40in TV, which came out in 2010 (J is 2015, so work backwards missing out G, since its apparently very rude in Korean). The 8 series is always pretty much the top level Samsung range, and this one has a 200hz screen, which was top notch at the time. Still a very nice set indeed! Add a Freeview HD tuner in some way, and it should fly.

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Sunday, 21 June 2015
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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

12:18 AM

TimH: Thanks for the update re model number etc, and having looked at the manual for the model in question can confirm that its not fitted with a switchable signal amplifier.

As far as your problem is concerned, it certainly wouldn't do any harm to try using an alternative jumper lead such as suggested by MikeB, although if this makes no difference to the problem, then the next stage is to try the set top aerial test, as Samsung HD tuners can, and frequently do, react in an adverse fashion to signals that come into the category of being "slightly over the top" strength wise.

This first witnessed by the fact that when the Craigkelly (Fife) transmitter switched over to high powered operation, a number of viewers in the Leith area of Edinburgh using Samsung devices complained (not via website) that their HD reception had vanished, attenuators in line with the aerial rectifying the problem.

Not saying that this is definitely the reason for your problem, but the possibility of it being has to be eliminated from the equation.

PS: I fully appreciate what you are meaning by - siting the indoor aerial on the window ledge won't pass internal approval! - but though as you have said, its only being done as a temporary temporary measure.

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Thursday, 25 June 2015
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TimH
11:20 AM
Dunoon

jb38 and Mike B
Thanks for all your advice, most appreciated. I found a powered signal booster in my box of stuff (don't ask) and connected this before I started to spend more money! To my surprise, when I retuned the Samsung, it found both missing multiplexes. Signal strength on these is now >70% and the BER on the HD multiplex is hovering around 50, so much less than the 2000+ it was before. Both multiplexes have a good picture. Early days yet, but fingers crossed. It must be as you said that the Samsung is a bit more delicate than the Sony in regards signal strength. I can only assume that the high BER was due to the Samsung trying to latch onto what it thought was a weak signal. To copy a song title from the Carpenters, it is good to get "Yesterday once more". Thanks again.

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Eric
8:23 PM

I've decided to try attenuator(s) in my co-ax TV aerial lead. I remember seing some simple in-line attenuators (probably on this website), but I have failed to find such a product on the internet. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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andy
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8:30 PM
Chester

Eric: 6db Attenuator for UHF TV Freeview Digital Signal | eBay

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MikeB
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9:04 PM

I bought these: 12dB Coax Plug Inline ATTENUATOR: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

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