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Freeview reception at DL8 2ST


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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 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)Bilsdale North East and CumbriaPSB1
2BBC TwoBilsdale North East and CumbriaPSB1
3ITV 1 (SD)Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
4Channel 4 (SD)Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
5Channel 5Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
 
6ITV 2Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
9BBC FourBilsdale North East and CumbriaPSB1
10ITV3Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
11Sky MixBilsdale COM5
12QuestBilsdale COM6
 
13E4Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
14Film4Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
15Channel 4 +1Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
17ReallyBilsdale COM5
18More4Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
 
19DaveBilsdale COM5
20DramaBilsdale COM4
215USABilsdale COM4
23BBC ThreeBilsdale North East and CumbriaPSB1
25WBilsdale COM6
 
26ITV4Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
27YesterdayBilsdale COM6
28ITVBeBilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
29ITV2 +1Bilsdale COM4
30E4 +1Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
 
31E4 ExtraBilsdale COM5
325STARBilsdale COM4
335ActionBilsdale COM4
34GREAT! moviesBilsdale COM6
35ITV1 +1Bilsdale Tyne TeesPSB2
 
36Sky ArtsBilsdale COM5
38Channel 5 +1Bilsdale COM4
39DMAXBilsdale COM6
40Quest RedBilsdale COM5
41LegendBilsdale COM4
 
42GREAT! actionBilsdale COM4
43Food NetworkBilsdale COM5
44HGTVBilsdale COM6
465SELECTBilsdale PSB3
47Film4 +1Bilsdale COM5
 
48ChallengeBilsdale COM5
494sevenBilsdale COM5
52GREAT! romanceBilsdale COM6
56That's TV (UK)Bilsdale COM6
57Dave ja vuBilsdale COM4
 
58ITV3 +1Bilsdale COM4
59ITV4 +1Bilsdale COM4
60Drama +1Bilsdale COM5
63GREAT! romance mixBilsdale COM6
64BlazeBilsdale COM4
 
65That's TV 2Bilsdale COM5
67TRUE CRIMEBilsdale COM4
68TRUE CRIME XTRABilsdale COM4
70Quest +1Bilsdale COM5
71That’s 60sBilsdale COM6
 
73HobbyMakerBilsdale COM6
74Yesterday +1Bilsdale COM5
75That's 90sBilsdale COM5
78TCCBilsdale COM4
81Blaze +1Bilsdale COM4
 
82Talking Pictures TVBilsdale COM6
83Together TVBilsdale COM4
84PBS AmericaBilsdale COM6
91WildEarthBilsdale COM4
93ITVBe +1Bilsdale COM4
 
101BBC One HDBilsdale PSB3
102BBC Two HDBilsdale PSB3
103STV HDBilsdale PSB3
103UTV HDBilsdale PSB3
103ITV 1 HDBilsdale PSB3
 
104Channel 4 HDBilsdale PSB3
105Channel 5 HDBilsdale PSB3
106BBC Four HDBilsdale PSB3
107BBC Three HDBilsdale PSB3
108BBC Scotland HDBilsdale PSB3
 
110Channel 4 HD (Wales)Bilsdale PSB3
201CBBCBilsdale North East and CumbriaPSB1
202CBeebiesBilsdale North East and CumbriaPSB1
204CBBC HDBilsdale PSB3
205CBeebies HDBilsdale PSB3
 
209Ketchup TVBilsdale COM4
210Ketchup TooBilsdale COM4
211YAAAS!Bilsdale COM4
231BBC NewsBilsdale North East and CumbriaPSB1
232BBC ParliamentBilsdale North East and CumbriaPSB1
 
233Sky NewsBilsdale COM5
235Al Jazeera EngBilsdale COM6
267Al Jazeera EnglishBilsdale COM4

 

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Comments
Monday, 24 April 2023
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Chris.SE
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1:10 PM

Ted Slater:

Hi, yes it would annoy me too! I wouldn't expect Quest to have any answer, this is undoubtedly down to some quirk or fault with the Humax Aura 4k PVR on the assumption that when you do the full reset the tuning memory is completely cleared - were you able to/did you check that before retuning again?

Is it still the same LCN TV Channels numbers or is it common to one multiplex (COM6?).

I would have expected Humax to have come up with an explanation, how old is the box?

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Monday, 3 July 2023
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Steve Donaldson
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4:06 PM

Chris B: In terms of restoring the HD channels on your TV then these are on UHF channel 41 (634MHz) and you should try a manual scan of that channel.

Resetting and rescanning will make no difference because the TV is set to receive the channels of the transmitter. All that this results in is the memory being cleared and missing channels in the TV's memory. The issue lies elsewhere, I would suggest.

You have complained before about missing channels and whilst we don't know whether it could be based on your location (as it hasn't been provided), be aware that other cables such as HDMI, Ethernet and USB running alongside an aerial lead could cause such issues. If you have such cables running nearby, then see if the manual scan of UHF channel 41 gives indication of strength and quality, and see if moving them away from the aerial lead increases the quality (or if strength and quality aren't shown separately, see if the signal strength bar increases when they are moved away).

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Steve Donaldson
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4:20 PM

Chris B: Knowledge of your location in the form of postcode, or nearby postcode, would allow us to see what sort of signal you might be expected to receive.

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Chris.SE
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10:16 PM

Chris B:

Also worth noting that Windermere is a relay of Caldbeck which is listed for Planned Engineering! I don't know how the signals to Windermere are fed, but it's possible that work at Caldbeck might affect them, so Windermere should also be listed, but we know that the lists are not always 100% accurate.

As Steve Donaldson has said a manual tune of UHF C41 is the sensible option.
Automated tuning if signals are missing or badly pixelated often just clear the correct tuning, if you were correctly tuned before, it's never advised to retune when you have badly pixellated signals or no signal.
Recent weather conditions caused interference to some signals in some areas and if you were affected and you retuned during that, as already mentioned, it's probably cleared your tuning.

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Tuesday, 4 July 2023
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Steve Donaldson
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12:13 AM

Chris.SE: Windermere is a relay of Kendal.

Kendal is no longer a relay of Caldbeck. At switchover a sub region for BBC North West and ITV Border was created, with Kendal as the parent. This was so as to maintain the regional coverage as it was with analogue, where ITV and C4 were taken from Caldbeck and BBC1 and BBC2 from Winter Hill.

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Chris.SE
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1:13 AM

Steve Donaldson:

Thanks for the correction, I shall in future cross-check more than one document for information such as that. At least OFCOM's 700MHz Clearance spreadsheet (which has other errors!) and DUK/Arqiva's clearance pdfs have that correct as well.
That doesn't throw the theory out of the window totally, Kendal was listed for Planned Engineering in the last week of May and first week of June, again I don't know how Windermere is fed from Kendal.

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Chris.SE
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1:20 AM

Steve Donaldson:

Just to add, it's great to have your obvious knowledge and experience around here. It's been a bit thin on the ground in recent times with just 2 or 3 of us most of the time trying to answer queries.

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Saturday, 8 July 2023
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Steve Donaldson
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12:53 PM

Chris.B: The 700MHz Clearance spreadsheet is one of the documents I was referring to myself. The Freeview predictor lists only the ITV region, although it omits the sub-region where applicable.

The BT network diagrams from the 1980s show SHF links between Caldbeck and Lancaster:

Lancaster (IBA): BT Microwave Sites

According to mb21, Windermere receives Kendal off-the-air:

mb21 - The Transmission Gallery

The Kendal transmitter group is as follows:

Kendal
---- Coniston
---- Hawkshead
---- Kendal Fell
---- Sedburgh
-------- Millthrop
---- Windermere
-------- Crosthwaite
-------- Grasmere

The indentations are denote the relays. Millthorp is a relay of Sedburgh, and Crosthwaite and Grasmere are relays of Windermere, hence the double indentations.

The sources for this are the 700MHz Clearance spreadsheet, which shows the relays, and mb21, which informs as to whether a relay is fed directly from Kendal or from another relay.

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Chris.SE
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2:09 PM
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Steve Donaldson:

Great detail, thanks. Lets hope mb21 is up-to-date, it usually is.

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Wednesday, 2 August 2023
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Ted Slater
12:52 PM

Chris.SE

Apologies for the delay since April! Other issues crowding life and a certain degree of sloth around this particular problem - noli nothis permittere te terere and all that.

I've currently given up with Humax support - like you I'm convinced it's a problem with the Aura (only 9 months old) but, as they can't guarantee that a full reset of the box will retain my recordings (they "think" it will be ok!!) I haven't had the nerve to try it. A full retune with a cleared memory doesn't fix the problem.

In the meantime, I'm content to use Quest+1 - the problem seems to be solely on COM6.

Thanks again

Ted

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