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 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering 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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Martyn Smith
6:50 PM

I wonder what difference 18 April will make. I mean, I haven't watched for years now (I was living in S until recently and the analogue went off there 2 years ago), but I was wondering if the final death knell for analogue will an increase in the of the digital signal...as in my message above I've managed to finally rid my viewing of the accursed boiling problem (remember when Deayton and Richard Wilson were selling digital on the basis that you don't get ghosting or fuzziness...they didn't mention you might get far more disruptive boiling instead did they?...), for now at least. Hopefully with the CP fully switched to digital we'll see the end of it altogether.

...another thing, digital uses far less pwoer than analogue did, therefore the BBC will on its fuel bills...does that mean a reduction in, or at least a freeze for now on, the licence fee?....

Yours, more in than expectation...

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Dave Lindsay

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7:26 PM

Martyn Smith: From the description of the fact that you have turned your away from where it used to face I suspect that your aerial is way OTT which is overloading your tuner.

Before the of was/is 20kW. Where line of sight to the is good, a small set-top aerial is likely to be sufficient.

I used a non-powered set-top aerial at 25 miles from before switchover when transmission power was only 10kW. This worked quite well. I have one of these Labgear aerials:

Set Top Aerial Labgear | eBay

The fact that is so low may have come about due to the signal level being way too high for what the TV can cope with. It's a bit like turning up your hifi to full blast and then amplifying it a bit more. The outcome is total distortion which could explain the poor signal quality in your case.

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Big Mart

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10:41 PM
London

Dave Lindsay: Thank you for your reply of 4 April at 6.45pm. You are right the 14 extra are duplicates on 800+ Will they disappear on second date?

The HD channels were seriously breaking up during the day today. I wanted to record a couple of programmes for earlier this evening, but didn't risk HD. However, having come home and checked the HD channels they are now perfect. Does night-time make any difference.

I don't understand muxes or how to determine which channels programmes are on, other than channel 1 for BBC1, channel 2 for BBC2 etc !!!

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Dave Lindsay

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11:20 PM

Big Mart: Yes, they will disappear at the second .

I'm not too sure whether different times of day makes a great difference. Evidently you're on the margin for HD which, BTW, before switchover are on lower than definition channels and therefore have a smaller footprint of coverage.

After switchover all channels are on the same power.

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Peter Suthers
11:37 AM

The above shows channel Nos until 4th April, the what they will be from the 18th April. But does not tell us what they will be from 4th to 18th.
I have found that even though I re-tuned my PC based recorder, none of the progams in my timer list have been recorded since 3rd April, I suspect this is because several TV & radio now appear twice in my EPG.

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Chris K
5:14 PM

I dont understand why they just didnt do switch on a single date. All this business of giving people time to get a set top box is stupid, as they have had years to do it allready.

As usual in the UK the majority have to be inconvieneced to accomodate the few( if any) who have not prepaired.

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Rob Davis
8:14 PM

Anyone else having problems with a slingbox post April 4th? I have lost half of the BBC Mux (No BBC2/News etc but can get BBC1). If I change the country to Italy (or another random DVB-T country) the whole comes in but I lose my Freeview numbers..

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Chris
9:36 PM

Can someone please explain the status of the MUX PSB3/BBCB, please? (See above). Is it transmitting at "Very low" or "Maximum" ? I don't see how it could be transmitting at both.

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Vincei
9:57 PM

BBC2 disappeared from my slingbox lineup in the last 24 hours after my buddy in the UK told me to retune using the input. I'm more than frustrated and I'm desperately seeking a solution.

Vince
CT, USA

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jb38

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11:14 PM

Chris: If you are referring to Crystal Palaces service then its presently only operating on 10Kw but will be switching to 200Kw on the 18th of this month.

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