Full Freeview on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - 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.
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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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Friday, 27 January 2012
Hs: You're probably picking up Sandy Heath. It has already switched over to digital, so its signal is full power (equivalent of its former analogue service).
In April the power of Crystal Palace will be increased (to the equivalent of the current analogue) and your problems will hopefully be over.
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ITV, C4, C5, E4 More4 lost. Have reset TV and now these channels are missing from EPG. IG8 area. Anyone else having this problem?
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Saturday, 28 January 2012
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Mark Fletcher1:19 AM
Halifax
Kelvin.IG8 area.Try inputting the affected multiplex manually by selecting frequency/channel 22,if there is a manual scanning function for your appliance.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 30 January 2012
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andy9:10 AM
Benfleet
hi andyboy i get my freeview from crystal palace will the transmitters will be on full power after the 19th of april like ovc and sky news please eply cheers
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andy's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
andy: Yes, the power of the transmissions from Crystal Palace will be increased 10-fold on 18th April.
On 4th April BBC Two analogue will be switched off. ITV1 analogue will go in place of BBC Two analogue. Then the full-power BBC digital service will use the same frequency as was used by ITV1 analogue.
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Paul12:41 PM
Hi Dave
Does the 10 fold signal increase include the HD channels?
Thanks, Paul
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Paul: They will go up 20-fold and will be increased the same power as the other (standard definition) multiplexes.
HD services available before switchover is not the norm. Crystal Palace was one of four Freeview transmitters nationwide selected to carry HD before switchover. It was shoehorned in on UHF channel 31 which is also used by Sandy Heath and Reigate. Consequently the footprint coverage is not as big as the other channels (so as to reduce the likelihood of interference).
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012
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chuck12:05 PM
An OTA software update for my Humax 9150t recorder is scheduled for broadcast on MUX1 (ch25) from last night until tomorrow morning, by my machine isn't finding it. Does anyone know whether CP has suspended sending out OTA's for the present time?
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kevin2:58 PM
hello i have no itv channels i have digital tv the only channels i have are bbc1 and bbc2 wats going on plz help thanku
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Mike Dimmick3:29 PM
chuck: The Humax boxes must be in standby to perform the automatic update check at the scheduled time.
You can go into the Updates menu and do a manual check for updates at any time that it's being broadcast. See Welcome to HUMAX [Global Website] for details. They are broadcast on the BBC's mux 1, so you have to be able to receive BBC One at the point that you check.
This update was released in July 2011 and has already been broadcast several times. You may already have it.
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