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 11/11/2024 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, 16 November 2011
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alan7:40 AM
Godstone
Have been getting low/poor signal levels from Crystal Palace for a few days now, in South Go stone. Several other people in the area also report same issue. No sign al on free view poor analouge
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Richard7:51 AM
Here in Tunbridge Wells there were no freeview channels from Crystal Palace at all yesterday evening. Re-scanning picked up no London frequencies. Some still missing this morning.
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Mark9:18 AM
Crawley RH10, my Freeview signal has also disappeared from MUX 1, 2 and B.
I am glad to hear it is not just me but no sign of a resolution is bad news.
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Sandie Stevens10:43 AM
Crawley
Hi Have tried all the resetting procedures but no luck. Signal just comes and goes on ITV, Channel 4 and 5 for the last 2 days. BBC channels are not as bad. Anyone know what is happening? Am in the RH11 area of Crawley.
Thanks
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Michael11:19 AM
Crawley RH10, Freeview signal has disappeared from MUX 1, 2 and B.
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Frank12:02 PM
Crawley
Maidenbower, West Sussex. Good freeview signal on all channels for last five years (loft aerial with amplifier). Over last few days reception has been poor and intermittent. No signal at all on BBC & ITV since last night. Can anyone help please?
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Pietr12:38 PM
Harrow. On Freeview very poor to no signal on ITV,Channel 4, 5 and ITV2. BBC and most other channels are OK. Anyone else in Harrow experiencing similar issues?
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KMJ,Derby12:39 PM
Frank: The unusually good weather is resulting in transmissions from the continent and some parts of the UK to travel further than normal due to the Inversion effect. This has resulted in reception being blocked in some areas, with Crystal Palace, Sandy Heath and Belmont frequencies in particular being affected. The situation is predicted to improve later this afternoon and over night, but ducting could recur later tomorrow and over the weekend.
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Richard1:00 PM
KMJ,Derby
Not the wrong type of weather excuse ....please. Leave that one for the rail companies. Usually bad weather is blamed but that's a new one - too much good weather!!
Bet it's some technical reason that will never be admitted. By the way it's easier to get blood out of a stone than get any useful information about the status of TV service in your area.
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Mark Fletcher1:19 PM
Halifax
To all the above texting in about reception difficulties just recently no it is not a transmitter fault at the main Crystal Palace mast it is atmospheric conditions or simply an inversion effect which are causing signals to pixellate,break up and even disappear into "No signal" mode.KMJ,Derby above hit the nail on the head.Also have any of the above while experiencing these difficulties been able to receive temporarily alien UK or foreign European transmissions as such,when they rescan as one simple remedy when these weather related transmission difficulties occur is to rescan your TV/set-top box either automatic or manual scan.If anybody receives unusual transmissions not normally associated with normal broadcasts from their home transmitter or relay mast,example Digitenne from Holland on fr 32 as an example i encountered on Sunday night myself (13 Nov 2011) or a different UK transmitter then its atmospherics/inversion that is the cause and until low pressure weather systems sweep in the condition will adhere more or less until the weather changes such as rain for example.Until the UK totally switches to digital by Wednesday 24 October 2012,these problems will more or less continue until then although hopefully once analogue totally disappears from UK transmissions altogether these inversion issues will be less of a problem and possibly disappears (not guaranteed ?) completely in an all digital terrestrial UK wide TV !
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