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Freeview reception at SE16 4SB

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 63 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of SE164SB (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)	Crystal Palace London	PSB1
2	BBC Two	Crystal Palace London	PSB1
3	ITV 1 (SD)	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
4	Channel 4 (SD)	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
5	Channel 5	Crystal Palace London	PSB2

6	ITV 2	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
8	LONDON LIVE	Crystal Palace	LW
9	BBC Four	Crystal Palace London	PSB1
10	ITV3	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
11	Sky Mix	Crystal Palace	COM5

12	Quest	Crystal Palace	COM6
13	E4	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
14	Film4	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
15	Channel 4 +1	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
17	Really	Crystal Palace	COM5

18	More4	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
19	U&Dave	Crystal Palace	COM5
20	U&Drama	Crystal Palace	COM4
21	5USA	Crystal Palace	COM4
23	BBC Three	Crystal Palace London	PSB1

25	U&W	Crystal Palace	COM6
26	ITV4	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
27	U&Yesterday	Crystal Palace	COM6
28	ITVBe	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
29	ITV2 +1	Crystal Palace	COM4

30	E4 +1	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
31	E4 Extra	Crystal Palace	COM5
32	5STAR	Crystal Palace	COM4
33	5Action	Crystal Palace	COM4
34	GREAT! movies	Crystal Palace	COM6

35	ITV1 +1	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
36	Sky Arts	Crystal Palace	COM5
38	Channel 5 +1	Crystal Palace	COM4
39	DMAX	Crystal Palace	COM6
40	Quest Red	Crystal Palace	COM5

41	Legend	Crystal Palace	COM4
42	GREAT! action	Crystal Palace	COM4
43	Food Network	Crystal Palace	COM5
44	HGTV	Crystal Palace	COM6
46	5SELECT	Crystal Palace	PSB3

47	Film4 +1	Crystal Palace	COM5
48	Challenge	Crystal Palace	COM5
49	4seven	Crystal Palace	COM5
52	GREAT! christmas	Crystal Palace	COM6
56	That's TV (UK)	Crystal Palace	COM6

57	U&Dave ja vu	Crystal Palace	COM4
58	ITV3 +1	Crystal Palace	COM4
59	ITV4 +1	Crystal Palace	COM4
60	U&Drama +1	Crystal Palace	COM5
63	GREAT! romance mix	Crystal Palace	COM6

64	Blaze	Crystal Palace	COM4
65	That's TV 2	Crystal Palace	COM5
67	TRUE CRIME	Crystal Palace	COM4
68	TRUE CRIME XTRA	Crystal Palace	COM4
70	Quest +1	Crystal Palace	COM5

71	That’s 60s	Crystal Palace London	PSB2
73	HobbyMaker	Crystal Palace	COM6
74	&UYesterday +1	Crystal Palace	COM5
75	That's 90s	Crystal Palace	COM6
76	That's TV 2 MCR	Crystal Palace	COM5

81	Blaze +1	Crystal Palace	COM4
82	Talking Pictures TV	Crystal Palace	COM6
83	Together TV	Crystal Palace	COM4
84	PBS America	Crystal Palace	COM6
91	WildEarth	Crystal Palace	COM4

93	ITVBe +1	Crystal Palace	COM4
101	BBC One HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3
102	BBC Two HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3
103	STV HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3
103	UTV HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3

103	ITV 1 HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3
104	Channel 4 HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3
105	Channel 5 HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3
106	BBC Four HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3
107	BBC Three HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3

108	BBC Scotland HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3
110	Channel 4 HD (Wales)	Crystal Palace	PSB3
201	CBBC	Crystal Palace London	PSB1
202	CBeebies	Crystal Palace London	PSB1
204	CBBC HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3

205	CBeebies HD	Crystal Palace	PSB3
209	Ketchup TV	Crystal Palace	COM4
210	Ketchup Too	Crystal Palace	COM4
211	YAAAS!	Crystal Palace	COM4
231	BBC News	Crystal Palace London	PSB1

232	BBC Parliament	Crystal Palace London	PSB1
233	Sky News	Crystal Palace	COM5
235	Al Jazeera Eng	Crystal Palace	COM6
251	Al Jazeera English	Crystal Palace	COM4
255	FRANCE 24 (in English)	Crystal Palace	COM4

265	Rok Sky +1	Crystal Palace	COM4

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Comments

Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Jeff Whittle
10:06 PM
Ayr

Hi, our house number is 11. The is in the . We can receive the Local MUX with excellent (8 That's TV Scotland, 50 Great TV, 52 Great Movies Classic & 61 Great Movies +1, but not the Darvel Main channels! Previously, we could receive the Darvel Main transmitter channels until 1 week ago, but they would often freeze or have a broken up , they had been like that for about 3 months or more and have got progressively worse until they have gone. We thought it was down to the weather conditions, but now we have totally lost the Darvel Main transmitter channels and cannot manually retune them. We have tried the reset procedure. The good news is we used to have a huge woods which may have blocked the signal, but it has just been chopped down, but this has made no difference to reception.

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Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Chris.SE

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3:11 PM

Jeff Whittle:

Hi. Whilst you've given us a house number (not absolutely required) we do need the full postcode to look at the predicted .
The was on Planned last week (not listed this week - but sometimes the work isn't completed and the list isn't 100% accurate) however to receive the Local mux and not the main muxes seems odd, are you getting it on UHF just to confirm it's Darvel?
Please give a full postcode so we can look at predicted reception in more detail.

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Jeff Whittle
9:54 PM
Ayr

Hi Chris, thank you for your response, sorry I posted 3 times, but it came up as an error each time I posted, but I did not realise that it had gone through. Postcode is KA7 4EE, we are on a north to NNE facing slope about half way up. Several years ago, we had our professionally installed. The installer wanted us to have a mounted aerial, but we suffer a lot with blustery weather and it would have lasted about 5 minutes, so he installed a 2 metre long aerial in the . He said at the time the trees in the woods might affect the , but it has been OK, until a few months ago. 3 weeks ago all the trees were cut down and I would have expected the signal to improve, but it hasn't.

Yes, it is definitely UHF , as I manually tuned our TV to 31 and that's why I listed the we receive with a strong signal so you could confirm I had actually tuned to UHF C31. On our LG TV when you manually tune it shows the signal strength and signal . I have tried to manually tune it to on the other UHF Channels 22, 25, 28, 32, 34 35 & 55, with no success. Tonight suddenly UHF came back but with low signal quality fluctuating between 17-33%, signal strength is 100% and I have just managed to manually tune UHF , again with low signal quality of 17-33%, but high signal strength 100%. UHF shows 0% strength and 0% signal quality, , , , show 100% signal strength momentarily with 0% signal quality but as soon as I press the update button, the signal strength drops to 0% after a couple of seconds. For the TV channels on UHF C25 & C28 they freeze or have a broken up , I guess this is due to the low signal quality of 17-33%. Could I ask if the Darvel Mux different to the main Darvel in terms of vertical or horizontal modulation? Could that be why we are receiving a strong Darvel Mux signal, but a poor Main Darvel transmitter? Thanks

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Thursday, 5 May 2022

Chris.SE

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2:45 AM

Jeff Whittle:

Hi Jeff, yes that error message is a nuisance, the site owner has been having problems with it since a software , just ignore it and wait several minutes before checking your post has appeared.

Thanks for the extra detail. A few thoughts here.

All muxes from are horizontally polarised. The Local mux although using lower has good coverage because of the transmission it uses, but this results in less capacity, hence only a small number of .
You are predicted to get very good of all muxes from Darvel.

Generally, if there is low , it suggests , which if strong enough will result in the signal going to zero as the set just sees it as noise. There is/was a small amount of predicted tropospheric ducting weather conditions recently (resulting in signals from other transmitters on the same channels being received causing interference) but whether it's affected you is difficult to say as the predicted areas were a bit further south from you. It may well have cleared now in any event but the effects could be compounded by whatever work was being done if there was reduced signal.

But, the other case can be with too much signal and you are saying you have 100% for some of the muxes. Now that the trees have been cut down this could be what's making the difference. Additionally, another possibility is the installer will have originally positioned the direction for best signal and now the trees have been cut down that may have changed slightly (but that doesn't really tally with 100% signal!). Never the less, it's worth check your aerial is pointing correctly which for you would be a compass bearing of ~52 degrees (7 degrees E of NE) but the beamwidth of the aerial should allow a small margin of error.

Back to specifics of too much signal. Do you per chance have a distribution amp/splitter?
Whether you do or not, a large aerial of course can still provide too much signal. Now the transmitter is pretty well NE from you (well within the beamwidth of the aerial) and you are predicted to get good signals from it for all but COMs5&6. You could try a manual tune on - the BBCA/PSB1 mux (which is at Darvel) and if you get that with 100% Quality and less than 100% signal this could confirm the too much signal from Darvel theory. If you get nothing at all try which is the BBCB mux.

If you have a distribution amp/splitter and it has a variable control, try turning the gain down and see if your Darvel muxes improve. Under normal circumstances you should be getting 100% Quality on all muxes. It doesn't matter too much what the signal level goes down to (even 50% on the LG should be good, but you can tweak it up until you see a drop in quality and then just drop it a touch.).

If you have no amp or no gain control, if it's easy to move, you could try just turning the aerial off beam a bit (maybe northwards but whatever your might allow) and see what the effect is. If you an achieve satisfactory stable reception of all muxes like that, then no more to do. If you can get some muxes and not others then using an attenuator would be the next option - a variable one would be best. If you need one, I'll try and give you a link to what you need, but post back how you get on experimenting a bit, first.

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Jeff Whittle
8:42 PM
Ayr

Hi Chris, thank you for the detailed response. We don't have amp/splitter with control. I will try the points you have suggested over the weekend and let you know.

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Friday, 20 May 2022

John
10:20 AM
Nottingham

live always used receive 100% strength from 66 to 91% 29 to 41. Just purchased new Humax and now get a ch55 with free sports on it. Has this just been added or ?? Can someone say is this normal or not and is signal ok.

Many Thanks

John

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1:39 PM

John: UHF channel 55 is the COM7 which is closing at the end of next month. Nothing has been announced regarding what will happen to FreeSports or any of the other channels currently carried on COM7. Those strength readings are within the normal range so if the reading stays high and you don't experience any problems I would keep your setup as it is.

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Monday, 13 June 2022

Mick
7:34 AM
Kettering

HI, Postcode is NN15 6TZ. External Mounted
Cannot get any & several of the others pixelate break up.
According to Freeview I should get good on all channels.

Have repointed aerials - bearing 130 & bearing 350.
Installed an indoor that has slightly improved but still wont hold HD channels
Have retuned channels (gained 6 form previous).
Are the bearings correct for the transmitters?
Just wondering as I still have ghosting on SD & cant maintain HD pictures.
Thx

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1:42 PM

Mick:

Two immediate points, you can't have ghosting on signals, please explain more about exactly what you see on screen.
Which HD are you specifically getting a problem with, is it eg. 101-105 inc. and for how long, when did it start?

You are predicted to get good of the BBCB HD/PSB3 mux from both transmitters, but also only the PSBs from , the rest are Variable. All good from except COM7 which you can forget as this temporary mux is due to close at the end of June as the licence expires and have said it won't be extended.

You've mentioned you've re-pointed the aerials so I assume you've checked that the connections are OK - no water ingress and the coax is fine, it should be double screened low loss.
As you are tuning two transmitters I assume you are manually tuning, if not, automatic tuning might not always get the right signals, check you aren't inadvertently tuning or .
BBCBHD is on UHF from Waltham and from sandy Heath. Neither is supposed to be on Planned at present but lists have been wrong before now!

Have a look in your TV tuning section and see what Signal Strength and (or BER/Error) figures you are getting for each of the UHF channels.

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Wednesday, 22 June 2022

jimmy
6:01 PM
Dumbarton

G82 1QQ Church Court is my mother in law's new home can she pick up blackhill or roseneath here or is it only?

Thanks!

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