Full Freeview on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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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 25/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels

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Which Freeview channels does the Crystal Palace transmitter broadcast?

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C23 (490.0MHz)	324m	DTG-	200,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) London, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C26 (514.0MHz)	324m	DTG-	200,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (London), 4 Channel 4 (SD) London ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 London ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (London), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C30- (545.8MHz)	324m	DTG-	200,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD London, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV London), 104 Channel 4 HD London ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H max	C25 (506.0MHz)	314m	DTG-8	200,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H max	C22 (482.0MHz)	321m	DTG-8	200,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H max	C28- (529.8MHz)	321m	DTG-8	200,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LW	H -10dB	C35 (586.0MHz)	324m	DTG-12	20,000W
	from 31st March 2014: 8 LONDON LIVE,

DTG-8 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	BBCtv_waves
C22					ArqA	ArqA
C23		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C25					SDN	SDN
C26		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C28					-ArqB	ArqB
C29						LW
C30		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	-BBCB	BBCB
C33		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves		com7
C35						com8
C55_{tv_off}						com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}						COM8_{tv_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

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Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area

Sep 1955-Jul 1968	Associated-Rediffusion†
Sep 1955-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1992	Thames†
Jul 1968-Feb 2004	London Weekend Television♦
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Carlton†
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc♦
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc†

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Crystal Palace was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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StevensOnln1

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11:44 PM

comps: A log periodic type such as a Log36 (see link below) would be more suitable for of . 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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And
11:08 AM

Terrible strength for London Live (538Mhz) in BR6 (Bromley)?
I'm in what appears to be in an excellent position to receive all channels from and, indeed get 100% reported by my Humax T2 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 and with excellent on all other channels?
Thanks

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MikeP

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10:17 PM

And:

You should be getting quite strong signals from as you are so close, maybe too strong and that may be the reason. Please check the strengths of all the multiplexes, they should be between 60% and 85% for reliable . 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 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 29 (538 MHz) signals are likely to be reliable. Note that the LW 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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Colin Knight
9:02 PM

I know this say's UK(Free-TV) but this is a radio question - can't see a specific place to ask radio questions.

I've selected as the best and have been using it for some time, and all is well except LBC Radio, which has recently lost it's EPG. Other 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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StevensOnln1

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11:15 PM

Colin Knight: The 800 range is where TVs and /PVRs put that they don't know what to do with (e.g. duplicates from another 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 and run a full which should delete all of your channels, then reconnect your aerial and scan again.

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Colin Knight
2:29 PM

StevensOnln1:

Thank you.

Doing a with the disconnected has sorted it out, LBC radio is back on 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 dongles.

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Richard Brown
10:47 AM

No tv at all, now. last night I had 18 and this morning 8. I live in Whetstone, N20

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MikeP

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11:22 AM

Richard Brown:

DO NOT RETUNE. Instead, check all the cables and connection behind your TV.

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Christopher Wood
3:08 PM

Your are all grey with no colored areas to show good, moderate and bad coverage.

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MikeP

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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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