Full Freeview on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter which serves 4,490,000 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 Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) mast?
Crystal Palace transmitter - Crystal Palace transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Screen may go black 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Crystal Palace 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Crystal Palace transmitter?
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 12km north-northwest (335°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 11km north-northwest (345°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Charlton Athletic | Transposer | Redeveloped north stand Charlton Athletic Football Club | 130 homes |
| Deptford | Transposer | south-east London | 100 homes |
| Greenford | Transposer | 12 km N Heathrow Airport | 203 homes |
| Hendon | Transposer | Graham Park estate | 50 homes |
| White City | Transposer | 9 km W central London | 80 homes |
How will the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 21 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C25 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C29 | LW | ||||||||
| C30 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | -BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | com7 | |||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 4 Apr 12 and 18 Apr 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
| com7 | (-13.7dB) 43.1kW | |
| com8 | (-14dB) 39.8kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LW | (-17dB) 20kW |
Local transmitter maps
Crystal Palace Freeview Crystal Palace DAB Crystal Palace AM/FM Crystal Palace TV region BBC London LondonWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Saturday, 21 April 2012
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martyh8:26 PM
jb38 - Copy that. Looking forward to hearing if anything new comes to light. In the meantime, will check out your freeview wedge suggestions. I appreciate your time spent on this. Regards,martyh.
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Sunday, 22 April 2012
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Derek Sparrow9:47 AM
Hockley
Hi,
My aerial, installed more than 20 years ago, collects the signal from Crystal Palace. My postcode is SS5 4BZ. I have a commercial signal booster in the loft, and have always had a good picture on analogue, on the 5 channels, and a good picture on digital on the main channels, but not on the extra channels.
Since retuning the digital signal, I can still see the main channels, plus a few of the extra channel, but on many of the extra channels there is a lot of pixilation of the pictures and some channels show nothing at all.
Should I have the aerial replaced, and should I replace it with an aerial aimed at Sudbury to improve the received transmissions?
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Derek's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby11:57 AM
Derek Sparrow: The reception prediction for Crystal Palace is variable at your location, with a very low chance of reliable reception on some muxes. Sudbury is shown as giving good reception on the PSB muxes at present, the COM muxes being good from 27th June 2012, when the power is increased to match that of the PSB muxes. The reception predicted is of course subject to there being no local problems such as trees or tall buldings blocking the signal path.
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Kate12:15 PM
London
Roger
Unfortunately Media Center does not provide a manual tune option for DVB-T. Nor selection of "all" or "any" for source. Selection of source is by postcode, for which Microsoft must maintain some mapping. I suspect that this mapping was not updated for digital switchover. I have tried using a Birmingham postcode, but that didn't help.
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Kate's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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David Taylor3:24 PM
Swanley
Hi JB38
Have tried three different scart leads and wiggled ends to no effect. The scart lead I'm using was connecting this TV to VCR, I removed VCR and replaced it with the digibox
It worked OK with VCR does Freeview use the same terminals as VCR ? I know scart does not use all terminals for all things. I can take the TV apart and check the connections.
Guess this is all getting a bit academic now
and I should just by a new TV and hope it works and not waste any more of your or my time.I just resent chucking away a perfectly
good TV but at least it didn't cost much.I feel sorry for the poor souls who paid out hundreds recently for TVs that no longer work thanks to Freeview God bless them :)
Yours Dave Taylor
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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NICK ADSL UK 3:47 PM
JB
What are your views on the public continuing to get freeview to work well?
My view is if they can to forget freeview and go with freesat
The picture and sound are better and more balanced and in my long experience back to the on digital days of 1992 that should be the way to go and keep freeview as a back up only
I have tried many times to help them with leads so that they wouldn't make such a hash of it but years on it's still a pain and needs a proper overhaul ?
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NICK ADSL UK 3:54 PM
I should add my professional experiences involve knowing when a person or group of people dont know what there doing sure they have all the qualifications as long as a kangaroos leap but like in the bbc programme the apprentice the reality is they are well off the mark and make a hash of what should be straight forward
Broadband is another get me rich i haven't a clue what I'm doing industry
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jb385:17 PM
David Taylor: The difficulty with your problem is that its been proven as not really being one of an issue concerning reception, but one that on the face of it should be far in a way simpler to rectify, insomuch that when the Freeview box is coupled into the TV using a normal scart lead some form of instability is taking place, or indeed is already in existence within the box itself as you have verified that the scart lead is OK between both devices, and so taking this into account and coupled to the symptoms experienced (especially hum on audio) is still inclined to point to a defect in the Freeview box (or separate power supply to?) albeit this is the second one of that model you have tried. (what model is it?)
By the way the scart pin connections used by the VCR will be less than is used by the Freeview box as the VCR will not normally have an RGB output, so maybe you could check on the TV and also the box that CVBS is selected as the boxes output / TV input "if" it allows you to set this. That said, the only positive way of knowing if the box is actually faulty or not is to connect it into another TV, no aerial connection being required in the box for a test as the problem was still seen with no aerial connected.
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Kate: It seems you are not alone...http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/windows/4115251-windows-media-centre-freeview-18th-april-switchover.html Seems a rant or diatribe aimed towards Windows UK division is in order. Give 'em hell.
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Kate: this may be of some help...
Get help for your TV tuner card
(CM37AH)
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