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Freeview reception at PL7 2AG

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 4 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of PL72AG (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)	Plympton South West	PSB1
2	BBC Two	Plympton South West	PSB1
3	ITV 1 (SD)	Plympton West Country	PSB2
4	Channel 4 (SD)	Plympton West Country	PSB2
5	Channel 5	Plympton West Country	PSB2

6	ITV 2	Plympton West Country	PSB2
9	BBC Four	Plympton South West	PSB1
10	ITV3	Plympton West Country	PSB2
11	Sky Mix	Plympton	COM5
12	Quest	Plympton	COM6

13	E4	Plympton West Country	PSB2
14	Film4	Plympton West Country	PSB2
15	Channel 4 +1	Plympton West Country	PSB2
17	Really	Plympton	COM5
18	More4	Plympton West Country	PSB2

19	Dave	Plympton	COM5
20	Drama	Plympton	COM4
21	5USA	Plympton	COM4
23	BBC Three	Plympton South West	PSB1
25	W	Plympton	COM6

26	ITV4	Plympton West Country	PSB2
27	Yesterday	Plympton	COM6
28	ITVBe	Plympton West Country	PSB2
29	ITV2 +1	Plympton	COM4
30	E4 +1	Plympton West Country	PSB2

31	E4 Extra	Plympton	COM5
32	5STAR	Plympton	COM4
33	5Action	Plympton	COM4
34	GREAT! movies	Plympton	COM6
35	ITV1 +1	Plympton West Country	PSB2

36	Sky Arts	Plympton	COM5
38	Channel 5 +1	Plympton	COM4
39	DMAX	Plympton	COM6
40	Quest Red	Plympton	COM5
41	Legend	Plympton	COM4

42	GREAT! action	Plympton	COM4
43	Food Network	Plympton	COM5
44	HGTV	Plympton	COM6
46	5SELECT	Plympton	PSB3
47	Film4 +1	Plympton	COM5

48	Challenge	Plympton	COM5
49	4seven	Plympton	COM5
52	GREAT! romance	Plympton	COM6
56	That's TV (UK)	Plympton	COM6
57	Dave ja vu	Plympton	COM4

58	ITV3 +1	Plympton	COM4
59	ITV4 +1	Plympton	COM4
60	Drama +1	Plympton	COM5
63	GREAT! romance mix	Plympton	COM6
64	Blaze	Plympton	COM4

65	That's TV 2	Plympton	COM5
67	TRUE CRIME	Plympton	COM4
68	TRUE CRIME XTRA	Plympton	COM4
70	Quest +1	Plympton	COM5
71	That’s 60s	Plympton	COM6

73	HobbyMaker	Plympton	COM6
74	Yesterday +1	Plympton	COM5
75	That's 90s	Plympton	COM5
78	TCC	Plympton	COM4
81	Blaze +1	Plympton	COM4

82	Talking Pictures TV	Plympton	COM6
83	Together TV	Plympton	COM4
84	PBS America	Plympton	COM6
91	WildEarth	Plympton	COM4
93	ITVBe +1	Plympton	COM4

101	BBC One HD	Plympton	PSB3
102	BBC Two HD	Plympton	PSB3
103	STV HD	Plympton	PSB3
103	UTV HD	Plympton	PSB3
103	ITV 1 HD	Plympton	PSB3

104	Channel 4 HD	Plympton	PSB3
105	Channel 5 HD	Plympton	PSB3
106	BBC Four HD	Plympton	PSB3
107	BBC Three HD	Plympton	PSB3
108	BBC Scotland HD	Plympton	PSB3

110	Channel 4 HD (Wales)	Plympton	PSB3
201	CBBC	Plympton South West	PSB1
202	CBeebies	Plympton South West	PSB1
204	CBBC HD	Plympton	PSB3
205	CBeebies HD	Plympton	PSB3

209	Ketchup TV	Plympton	COM4
210	Ketchup Too	Plympton	COM4
211	YAAAS!	Plympton	COM4
231	BBC News	Plympton South West	PSB1
232	BBC Parliament	Plympton South West	PSB1

233	Sky News	Plympton	COM5
235	Al Jazeera Eng	Plympton	COM6
267	Al Jazeera English	Plympton	COM4

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Comments

Tuesday, 5 January 2016

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_satisfied}Platinum

8:58 PM

Sam: No, the resolution cannot change - either your box is picking up HD , 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 , so if your connection, etc was acting up, then that might explain it. Is the box acting up? And could I ask if you are using HDMI, 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

Mark Hewing
6:55 PM
Derby

Hello,
I have recently, within the last two weeks, lost all of my HD . Seemingly all on the BBC/B .
I'm at DE21 2HE post code.
Have a 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

Julie Hicks
10:57 AM
Chesterfield

My postcode is S44 5BS, I have been having problems in the evening watching and itv and other itv and 4 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

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 of our . We have one small (almond) tree in our front garden which does not extend to any where near the height of our , 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 . Obviously, I know that trees do grow, but we never experienced any reception problems in the days of 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- 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 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 , 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 . 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_satisfied}Gold

3:39 PM

Keith: you have a choice to make if you want to solve your problem, either plague the person to come back and make sure you have proper , 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 can be affected by them. My house has trees some 50 yards away and if I try to use the original 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 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

Donna
1:26 PM
Newtownabbey

Hi

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

many thanks
Donna

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MikeP

_{sentiment_very_satisfied}Platinum

8:54 PM

Donna:

You are only 10 km from the 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 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 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 .

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 would make things much worse, an attenuator is likely to make things better.

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Friday, 5 February 2016

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 , check ". 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 and not my aerial? We're on HD and our town is (BD23)

Thank you in advance,

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