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 14/10/2024 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 withheldMonday, 30 April 2018
S
StevensOnln14:12 PM
Ogilvie Jackson: According to Digital UK, COM7 & COM8 will see a slight decrease in power when they change frequencies at Caldbeck next year.
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Monday, 21 May 2018
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Ron heron11:34 AM
I live in Whitehaven. My TV aerial is directed onto Calbeck transmitter. I always loose about half of the TV channels whenever there is good sunny warm weather, mostly BBC channels remain unaffected, but ITV and the rest are broken up or lost altogether. in 'normal ' weather ( cloudy/ p'ing down! ) all channels are received ok. Why do I loose channels in fine weather ??
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MikeP
12:12 PM
12:12 PM
Ron heron:
Please give a full post code so we can see the predicted reception conditions at your location. Also check what the signal strengths are as shown on your TV, usually found on the manual tuning page - but do not retune. If your sugnal strength is above 85% then your have too much signal and that is known to cause the symptoms you describe.
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Tuesday, 7 August 2018
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Harold 4:37 PM
Ca156pw roof mounted wideband aerial Goodmans free view hd box when tuned to caldbeck shows all but 7 and 8 national as west Cumbria but national7&8 as separate region. And box will only allow one region to be tuned so can not view all channels without retuning box.
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StevensOnln15:07 PM
Harold : The change to the region data on COM7/8 was made several months ago in preparation for COM7/8 becoming single frequency networks (SFN). It would appear that some older receivers are unable to cope properly with this change (you aren't the only person to have this problem).
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Sunday, 14 October 2018
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D Christiansen7:35 AM
why don't we get all the channels like the rest of the country
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MikeP
11:20 AM
11:20 AM
D Christiansen:
It all depends on where you live and what transmitter your receive Freeview from. There are over 1100 transmittters around the UK and most are relay (Freeview Light) transmitters that have a limited number of multiplexes, usually 3. Only the Full Service transmitters have at least 6 multiplexes and only 30 of those have the additional temporary multiplexes for COM7 and COM8.
The only way to tell is if you give a full post code for your location. Then we can look up which of the transmitters are receivable at your location and hence tell what channels you might get.
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Friday, 2 November 2018
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Lynn Bolger8:35 AM
MikeP: trying to find out how many channels we could receive and what transmitter we would get a signal from. Have Filled in the form multiple times, just get an error occurred message. We have a house name not a number.
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StevensOnln110:32 AM
Lynn Bolger: Try the Digital UK coverage checker (it's more up to date than the one on this website). Tick the detailed view box to see transmitter details.
Digital UK - Coverage checker
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Tuesday, 30 July 2019
C
Chris.SE7:51 PM
All:
Be aware a retune event due to at700 clearance will take place on 31st July 2019 after which the COMs 7&8 multiplexes will be no longer available.
See Changes to the Freeview channel line-up in Cumbria, south west Scotland and the south Lakes | Freeview & Digital UK | Channel listings
Put your postcode into Digital UK - Coverage checker to see predicted reception at your location.
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