Full Freeview on the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmitter which serves 120,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) mast?
Caldbeck transmitter - Caldbeck transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 27/11/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Caldbeck transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Caldbeck transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 97km east-northeast (77°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Lookaround 0.2m homes 0.7%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 17km northeast (45°)
to ITV Border England region - 33 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees
Are there any self-help relays?
| Boreland | Active deflector | 25 km NE Dumfries | 22 homes School |
| Carsphairn | Transposer | 35 km SE Ayr | 84 homes |
| Crosby Garrett | Active deflector | 35 km N Dumbarton | 42 homes |
| Deepdale | Active deflector | 20 km SW Penrith | 20 homes |
| Eskdalemuir B | Active deflector | 45 km NW Carlisle | 31 homes |
| Keld | Active deflector | 30 km E Sedbergh | 17 homes |
| Stainton | Transposer | 8km W Penrith | 251 homes (low lying area of housing) |
How will the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 25 Mar 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | W T | W T | W T | A K T | ||||
| C11 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C23 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C24 | -D3+4 | ||||||||
| C25 | -BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C26 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C27 | -BBCA | ||||||||
| C28 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C29 | -ArqB | LOCAL2 | |||||||
| C30 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | -BBCB | ArqB | ||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | |||||
| C33 | _local | ||||||||
| C34 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | _local |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 24 Jun 09 and 22 Jul 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB, PSB3 sc | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, PSB1 sc, PSB2 sc | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com8 | (-11.5dB) 35.8kW | |
| com7 | (-12dB) 31.9kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A* | (-15.2dB) 15kW | |
| Analogue 5, Mux 1* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| Mux B* | (-21.9dB) 3.2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW |
Local transmitter maps
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSunday, 16 February 2014
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Willie Bone8:54 AM
Brian, Viewing Scottish programmes from Calbeck have ITV Border (Scotland) available in standard definition with ITV Granada (currently) as the high definition ITV service,
I did a tuner scan in earlyJanuary to capture the regional enhancement of ITV Border (Scotland) which now screens Scottish Border political programmes to Scotland only.
Point is, STV HD was not included as in the channel line up from Caldbeck!
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Monday, 10 March 2014
Transmitter engineering
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
CALDBECK transmitter - Over the next week Caldbeck main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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Monday, 28 April 2014
Transmitter engineering
10:55 AM
10:55 AM
CALDBECK transmitter - MainPossible service interruptions [DUK]
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Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Transmitter engineering
12:45 AM
12:45 AM
CALDBECK transmitter - MainPossible service interruptions [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
2:11 PM
2:11 PM
CALDBECK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:59 today to 12:00 today. [BBC] MainPossible service interruptions [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
4:03 PM
4:03 PM
CALDBECK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:59 today to 12:00 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:53 today to 13:55 today. [BBC] MainPossible service interruptions [DUK]
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Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Transmitter engineering
1:52 AM
1:52 AM
CALDBECK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:59 yesterday to 12:00 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:53 yesterday to 13:55 yesterday. [BBC] MainPossible service interruptions [DUK]
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Thursday, 8 May 2014
Transmitter engineering
2:50 AM
2:50 AM
CALDBECK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:59 on 06 May to 12:00 on 06 May, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:53 on 06 May to 13:55 on 06 May. [BBC] MainPossible service interruptions [DUK]
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014
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Ogilvie Jackson10:14 AM
Carrier on channel 32 on Caldbeck !
Must be the extra HD channels on there way ???? but WHY such low ERP ??
Hope so
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014
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Karl Stanley12:21 AM
Carlisle
Hi,
I live in CA2 7JT and have a TVONICS set top HD recorder which gets confused between the BBC England and Scotland channels (both SD and HD) so I have to manually tune to the correct muxes to omit the Scottish channels, which, up until now has worked a treat. Having just done sa retune, I can see that channels are being listed incorrectly i.e BBC1 Scotland and BBC2 Scotland are on COM5 / C26. Can the list be correctly updated to reflect the current channels on each mux please ?
Regards,
Karl.
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