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Freeview reception at NG8 4BG


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 10 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of NG84BG (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)Nottingham East MidlandsPSB1
2BBC TwoNottingham East MidlandsPSB1
3ITV 1 (SD)Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
4Channel 4 (SD)Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
5Channel 5Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
 
6ITV 2Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
7Notts TVNottingham LNG
7Big Centre TVSutton Coldfield LB
9BBC FourNottingham East MidlandsPSB1
10ITV3Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
 
11Sky MixNottingham COM5
12QuestNottingham COM6
13E4Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
14Film4Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
15Channel 4 +1Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
 
17ReallyNottingham COM5
18More4Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
19U&DaveNottingham COM5
20U&DramaNottingham COM4
215USANottingham COM4
 
23BBC ThreeNottingham East MidlandsPSB1
25U&WNottingham COM6
26ITV4Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
27U&YesterdayNottingham COM6
28ITVBeNottingham Central (East)PSB2
 
29ITV2 +1Nottingham COM4
30E4 +1Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
31E4 ExtraNottingham COM5
325STARNottingham COM4
335ActionNottingham COM4
 
34GREAT! moviesNottingham COM6
35ITV1 +1Nottingham Central (East)PSB2
36Sky ArtsNottingham COM5
38Channel 5 +1Nottingham COM4
39DMAXNottingham COM6
 
40Quest RedNottingham COM5
41LegendNottingham COM4
42GREAT! actionNottingham COM4
43Food NetworkNottingham COM5
44HGTVNottingham COM6
 
465SELECTNottingham PSB3
47Film4 +1Nottingham COM5
48ChallengeNottingham COM5
494sevenNottingham COM5
52GREAT! christmasNottingham COM6
 
56That's TV (UK)Nottingham COM6
57U&Dave ja vuNottingham COM4
58ITV3 +1Nottingham COM4
59ITV4 +1Nottingham COM4
60U&Drama +1Nottingham COM5
 
63GREAT! romance mixNottingham COM6
64BlazeNottingham COM4
65That's TV 2Nottingham COM5
67TRUE CRIMENottingham COM4
68TRUE CRIME XTRANottingham COM4
 
70Quest +1Nottingham COM5
71That’s 60sNottingham Central (East)PSB2
73HobbyMakerNottingham COM6
74&UYesterday +1Nottingham COM5
75That's 90sNottingham COM6
 
76That's TV 2 MCRNottingham COM5
81Blaze +1Nottingham COM4
82Talking Pictures TVNottingham COM6
83Together TVNottingham COM4
84PBS AmericaNottingham COM6
 
91WildEarthNottingham COM4
93ITVBe +1Nottingham COM4
101BBC One HDNottingham PSB3
102BBC Two HDNottingham PSB3
103UTV HDNottingham PSB3
 
103ITV 1 HDNottingham PSB3
103STV HDNottingham PSB3
104Channel 4 HDNottingham PSB3
105Channel 5 HDNottingham PSB3
106BBC Four HDNottingham PSB3
 
107BBC Three HDNottingham PSB3
108BBC Scotland HDNottingham PSB3
110Channel 4 HD (Wales)Nottingham PSB3
201CBBCNottingham East MidlandsPSB1
202CBeebiesNottingham East MidlandsPSB1
 
204CBBC HDNottingham PSB3
205CBeebies HDNottingham PSB3
209Ketchup TVNottingham COM4
210Ketchup TooNottingham COM4
211YAAAS!Nottingham COM4
 
231BBC NewsNottingham East MidlandsPSB1
232BBC ParliamentNottingham East MidlandsPSB1
233Sky NewsNottingham COM5
235Al Jazeera EngNottingham COM6
251Al Jazeera EnglishNottingham COM4
 
255FRANCE 24 (in English)Nottingham COM4
265Rok Sky +1Nottingham COM4

 

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Comments
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
S
Sam
8:51 PM
Oswestry

Sam: Its working now. can i ask does the HDMI Resolution have anything to do with this as my grandad has a new tv and was wondering if he could have easily changed it by accident

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MikeB
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

8:58 PM

Sam: No, the resolution cannot change - either your box is picking up HD channels, or its not. Assuming you had HD channels (BBC1 HD, etc) which then didn't appear, and then came back, start with your system. HD channels tend to vanish first with a dodgy signal, so if your aerial connection, etc was acting up, then that might explain it. Is the box acting up? And could I ask if you are using HDMI, scart or both to connect the box? You should only every use one lead, and if your using scart, then you wont 'see' any HD channels. Use only HDMI.

If its coming and going, check signal strength (too high can be bad as well), to work out what the problem is.

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Thursday, 7 January 2016
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Mark Hewing
6:55 PM
Derby

Hello,
I have recently, within the last two weeks, lost all of my HD channels. Seemingly all on the BBC/B multiplex.
I'm at DE21 2HE post code.
Have a loft aerial and my configuration has not changed in any way.
All was working perfectly before this loss.
Any ideas on how to get the channels back?

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Saturday, 9 January 2016
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Julie Hicks
10:57 AM
Chesterfield

My postcode is S44 5BS, I have been having problems in the evening watching channel 4 and itv and other itv and 4 channels where I cannot watch them at all. They go all pixelated and then nothing on screen yet Tuesday and before that everything was fine. Why would this happen? I would be grateful of any ideas thanks.


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Monday, 11 January 2016
K
Keith
2:06 PM
St. Helens

MikeP:

Thanks for getting back to me Mike. I can confirm that there are significant trees in the vicinity of our house, but I really would not have thought their density or height would be such that they adversely affected the quality of our reception. We have one small (almond) tree in our front garden which does not extend to any where near the height of our aerial, some distance (50 yards approx.) from our house are a number of large trees, which from my layman's geography would be in the general direction of Winter Hill. Obviously, I know that trees do grow, but we never experienced any reception problems in the days of analogue TV.

Sorry about my post-code not appearing (WA9 5UH); I can't see where on the web-site it requests this.

As for the 4G issue; from my research, I understand that I should have received a post-card from At800, advising me that the switch-on of 4G could affect my TV reception; as I did not receive any such postcard and as the publicity of At800's services has been non-existent, I knew nothing about the potential 4G problem. I only found out about the 4G hiatus when I personally contacted an aerial installer who remedied the problem by installing a filtering device. having been alerted to the problem, I then did my research and it was only then I found out about the existence of At800.

I would have preferred to stay with Freeview, but I am disappointed and feel 'let down' after the hundreds of 's I have now spent on attempting to at least restore normality; sadly, the problems persist with a few TV channels. This is why I feel compelled to explore the possibility of Virgin. Again, as a layman, I know nothing about the speed of my broadband connection; however, I can confirm that I did watch a 2 hour long film off YouTube last Saturday and only experienced buffering (for approx. 3 seconds) on one occasion. In any event, I like to think that Virgin would advise me as to all the options/what best suited et.c.

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Mazbar
sentiment_satisfiedGold

3:39 PM

Keith: you have a choice to make if you want to solve your freeview problem, either plague the person to come back and make sure you have proper reception, the thing is he does sound like he doesn't know what he's doing. Second choice is get someone new in to sort it out, the only problem with this is if they are like me I won't use other people's equipment so would scrap everything as I tell my customers is I only warranty my own equipment.

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MikeP
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4:29 PM

Keith:

The proximity of trees only some 50 yards away does suggest that reception can be affected by them. My house has trees some 50 yards away and if I try to use the original aerial that 'looks through' those trees I get poor SD reception and no HD reception. So I use an aerial mounted the other side of the house making it further away from the trees and doesn't 'look through' them but rather looks to one side of them. Now I get excellent HD as well as SD reception.

Such problems existed in the analogue TV days (I was a senior Field Service Engineer in those days so met such problems fairly often) but the effect on reception was less dramatic than it is with digital.

I'd suggest getting a good aerial contractor to have a look at your aerial system and consider moving it to a place where it does not 'look through' your nearby trees.


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Thursday, 28 January 2016
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Donna
1:26 PM
Newtownabbey

Hi

I live in Newtownabbey BT37. My freeview signal is breaking up on a lot of the channels. Does anyone know if a plug in aerial booster would improve this.

many thanks
Donna

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MikeP
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8:54 PM

Donna:

You are only 10 km from the Divis transmitter and just 2 km from the Carmoney Hill one, so both are rather close. You also have several mobile phone transmitters nearby, thought the map at Freeview reception at BT37 0HU does show you are outside of the service areas a little. I would suggest you check the signal strength readings shown by your TV set (look in the User Manual for your TV to find out how to show those but *do not* perform a retune). You should also check which channels are tuned in to find out which transmitter is being used. Look at Coverage Checker - Detailed View to see the channel numbers used for each multiplex.

The signal strength should not be higher than 80% nor lower than 50% for any of the multiplexes. If they are all correctly tuned to the same transmitter and the strength is above 80% then an amplifier would make things much worse, an attenuator is likely to make things better.


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Friday, 5 February 2016
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Mary
6:15 PM

Not sure who to ask, please redirect me if you can.... As of this morning- 5th Feb - my TV has message "no or weak signal, check antenna". Didn't have time to investigate before work. Returning home, same message. Checked bedroom TV, same message. We have had very high winds over the last few days but I'm hoping this isn't us. It's pitch black outside so can't see until morning. My question, any chance this is the transmitter and not my aerial? We're on digital HD freeview and our town is SKIPTON (BD23)

Thank you in advance,

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