Full Freeview on the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmitter which serves 48,000 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 Guildford (Surrey, England) mast?
Guildford transmitter - Guildford transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/04/2024 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Guildford (Surrey, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Guildford 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Guildford (Surrey, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Guildford transmitter?
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 46km northeast (43°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 47km northeast (44°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
How will the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | |||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C32 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C33 | _local | ||||||||
| C37 | SDN | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | SDN | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
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 | 10kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 200W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
GUILDFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 04:34 on 19 Dec to 06:20 on 19 Dec BBC TWO Weak Signal from 13:48 yesterday to 14:18 yesterday [BBC]
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Friday, 23 December 2011
GUILDFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 04:34 on 19 Dec to 06:20 on 19 Dec BBC TWO Weak Signal from 13:48 on 21 Dec to 14:18 on 21 Dec [BBC]
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GUILDFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 04:34 on 19 Dec to 06:20 on 19 Dec BBC TWO Weak Signal from 13:48 on 21 Dec to 14:18 on 21 Dec [BBC]
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howard barratt10:03 AM
Hook
Hi on digital TV we cant get ITV channels BBc is good my postcode RG27 0QY Our Analogue picture is snowy
Look forward
to hearing from you
Regards
Howard Barratt
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howard's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb3811:09 AM
howard barratt: If your BBC is reasonably good then its liable to be through luck, as the trade view reception predictor (for what its worth!) only indicates mux Ch40 (ITV3 etc) as being good from Hannington, the BBC and ITV as being poor and the remainder as variable.
Crystal Palace, the only other station that's shown as possible to receive, is even worse with only the BBC and two commercial muxes indicated as being possible, but in the category of "poor".
As far as Hannington is concerned the situation isn't shown as changing until April 4th next year, Crystal Palace though still being iffy, as although it gets slightly better it deteriorates again in June.
You are obviously in a difficult reception area, and so only the time consuming exercise of experimenting with different aerial positions is liable to help the situation as nothing can really be guaranteed to work in circumstances such as yours, your snowy analogue reception being a clue as to how bad the signal you are receiving is.
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Saturday, 24 December 2011
GUILDFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC TWO Weak Signal from 13:48 on 21 Dec to 14:18 on 21 Dec [BBC]
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GUILDFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC TWO Weak Signal from 13:48 on 21 Dec to 14:18 on 21 Dec [BBC]
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Friday, 13 January 2012
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Peter Eaton8:27 AM
Leatherhead
We have just bought a Humax HDR-FOX T2 in the hope of getting Freeview HD channels. I understand from Humax customer support that the HD multiplex is not available from the Guildford transmitter. Will it be at some point in the future? Otherwise, perhaps it would be more sensible for us to point our aerial at the Crystal Palace transmitter.
Postcode: KT24 5SN
Our aerial is on the roof. Freeview standard definition reception is excellent from the Guildford transmitter.
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Peter's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb3810:28 AM
Peter Eaton: You are presently not really predicted to receive anything other than the BBC multiplex from Guildford and with this shown as being poor, although from April 18th ITV plus the HD service comes into the equation, but once again all indicating poor and not changing at any time.
However come April 4th it is indicated that you should be able to get excellent reception across the board from Crystal Palace when it switches to high power operation.
Just out of interest, you should carry out a signal strength check on the channel you do get, as if its weak but stable, this will be giving the impression of the signal being good.
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Peter Eaton10:34 AM
Thank you jb38. That is most helpful and prompt information.
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