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 04/11/2024 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
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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Wednesday, 24 January 2018
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StevensOnln111:44 PM
comps: A log periodic type aerial such as a Log36 (see link below) would be more suitable for reception of Crystal Palace. It would be much more compact than the one you've linked to and would likely give better reception of frequencies at the lower end of the UHF band such as those used by Crystal Palace (a 4G filter is very unlikely to be necessary for the same reason).
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Saturday, 3 February 2018
Terrible signal strength for London Live (538Mhz) in BR6 (Bromley)?
I'm in what appears to be in an excellent position to receive all freeview channels from Crystal Palace and, indeed get 100% quality reported by my Humax T2 receiver for all relevant frequencies except 538Mhz, which is reported as 10% signal and 10% quality by the receiver, effectively rendering London Live unwatchable.
Whilst this is a regional channel, can anyone advise of there is any reason why this should be the case, given I'm in a relatively high location, only a handful of miles from the transmitter and with excellent reception on all other channels?
Thanks
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MikeP
10:17 PM
10:17 PM
And:
You should be getting quite strong signals from Crystal Palace as you are so close, maybe too strong and that may be the reason. Please check the signal strengths of all the multiplexes, they should be between 60% and 85% for reliable reception. If they are all higher than this you possibly need to add some attenuation. If they are mostly below 60% then you could have an aerial fault so please check all the aerial connection from the back of the TV set.
Would you please give a full post code (BR6 Bromley is not enough) to trigger the display of the reception information - you may have seen the series of blue link boxes below other posts. From those we can see what reception is expected to be like at your location and see if the channel 29 (538 MHz) signals are likely to be reliable. Note that the LW multiplex is only 20kW whereas the main multiplexes are all 200kW, so it is much lower strength and it may have a directional pattern too.
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Tuesday, 13 February 2018
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Colin Knight9:02 PM
I know this say's UK(Free-TV) but this is a Freeview radio question - can't see a specific place to ask radio questions.
I've selected Crystal Palace as the best transmitter and have been using it for some time, and all is well except LBC Radio, which has recently lost it's EPG. Other channel EPG are okay, and the LBC programmes are being received okay.
The other point of note is that LBC radio has been on channel 856 for some time, although it appears to be listed elsewhere as being on channel 732, which I think that is what it was on before it was move some time ago.
Could it be that the LBC Radio EPG has been lost because of a continuity mix up somewhere?
And if so who can fix it please?
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StevensOnln111:15 PM
Colin Knight: The 800 range is where TVs and set top boxes/PVRs put channels that they don't know what to do with (e.g. duplicates from another transmitter etc). Try a manual tune on UHF channel 28, which should restore LBC to channel 732, however if that doesn't work make a note of any planned recordings then disconnect your aerial and run a full scan which should delete all of your channels, then reconnect your aerial and scan again.
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Friday, 16 February 2018
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Colin Knight2:29 PM
StevensOnln1:
Thank you.
Doing a scan with the aerial disconnected has sorted it out, LBC radio is back on channel 732 with its EPG updated, and all is well again.
Just for info, I'm using the NextPVR program on Windows 7, with a couple of RTL2832U+R820T USB receiver dongles.
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Thursday, 22 February 2018
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Richard Brown10:47 AM
No tv channels at all, now. last night I had 18 and this morning 8. I live in Whetstone, London N20
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MikeP
11:22 AM
11:22 AM
Richard Brown:
DO NOT RETUNE. Instead, check all the aerial cables and connection behind your TV.
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Tuesday, 27 February 2018
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Christopher Wood3:08 PM
Your coverage maps are all grey with no colored areas to show good, moderate and bad signal coverage.
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Wednesday, 28 February 2018
MikeP
12:32 PM
12:32 PM
Christpher Wood:
Either you have it zoomed in too close or else your browser does not support the way it's done. Try a different browser. I use Firefox normally and that works fine. I sometimes use Chrome and that sometimes has the same problem as does Opera on occasion. I don't know about Safari and I never use IE if at all avoidable. I don't have W10 so don't use Edge so can't comment on that.
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