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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmitter._______
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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Wednesday, 4 April 2012
M
Mark Fletcher12:38 AM
Halifax
Adrian,Wokingham.Anytime now DSO1.DSO2 in two weeks time on Wednesday 18 April 2012.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 5 April 2012
C
CJH12:01 AM
Woking
I have retuned my Sony Digital TV on 4th April.
It lists all BBC services on the EPG (including radio) but claims no signal on any BBC service.
On manual tune it finds and presents BBC services (sound and picture) which if I 'store' and then select I still get 'no signal'.
All non-BBC services work fine.
Before April 4th all Digital BBC and non BBC services were fine.
My Humax Fox T2 digital recorder has the same ariel signal feed and delivers all BBC services and non BBC services.
How can this be?
What should I do/ try next?
My postcode is GU21 4TE and I believe I am on the Guildford transmitter.
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CJH's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
CJH: What's the model number of the Sony TV?
Some models won't work after switchover. See these links for some lists (which aren't exhaustive):
TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
http://www.digitaluk.co.u…ment
http://www.digitaluk.co.u…tnit
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Pedro dd9:16 AM
@CJH-according to digital UK, you should be on Crystal palace, not Guildford. The BBC channels have increased in power exponentially, which could mean they are swamping your tv, if the above post doesn;t answer your question.
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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rob cain11:13 PM
Godalming
i really have a problem making sense of this info.
i live in Godalming, near Guildfordand since (part 1?) of the change over last week we can no longer receive Channel4 or ITV - though BBC's are all OK. Have been retuning frequently to no avil - no Channel4/ITV anywhere.
before that, we could receive all stations fine (apart from occasional drop-outs over weekends die to low signal strength).
we use Freeview with loft mounted aerial (3 stories up) + signal amplifier.
i read that the Guildford Tansmitter is due for a further upgrade on 18th April 2012.
should this solve our problems with Channel 4 reception?
can anyone make sense of this?
who can we complain to if it doesn't improve?
thanks for any advise/light on the matgter.
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Saturday, 14 April 2012
rob cain: Please can you have a look at the Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page?
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
S
Stuart8:15 PM
Rescaned today (post digital switchover) and now have, in my Windows Media Center, 4 new sparkly HD channels!
3 of them work pretty well - but ITV 1 HD is very distorted/pixelating.
Anyone else having this problem?
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jb389:21 PM
Stuart: You haven't mentioned your location in relation to the transmitter and its important to know this, but you should ensure that your signal isn't excessively high as that can cause the problem you are referring to, as overloading always usually affects HD before SD.
If you have any type of aerial booster in line then by pass it, or if you do not have a booster then try a test using a set top aerial.
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Stuart: Interesting. As the HD channels are carried together on a single multiplex, you would not expect problems with one service and everything else be OK.
I have a PC here that uses WMC on Windows 7 and all four channels (BBC One HD, BBC HD, ITV 1 HD and Channel 4 HD) perform OK.
I must admit that they didn't before the video card was upgraded on this particular machine.
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Thursday, 19 April 2012
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MIKE B3:35 PM
West Byfleet
hi all great forum
my aerial commtel 32 element mounted in loft horizontal
icecrypt hd reciever not bad dim epg
hd stations no good looked on map looks like a BIG hole over us
looks as though will have to wait for guildfod
to come on line any comments?
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MIKE's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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