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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Saturday, 9 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
GUILDFORD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 03:40 on 07 Feb to 05:43 on 07 Feb. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 03:40 on 07 Feb to 05:43 on 07 Feb, Radio 2 FM Off Air from 03:40 on 07 Feb to 05:43 on 07 Feb, Radio 3 FM Off Air from 03:40 on 07 Feb to 05:43 on 07 [BBC]
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Monday, 25 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
10:31 AM
10:31 AM
GUILDFORD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:04 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
1:31 PM
1:31 PM
GUILDFORD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:04 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today, Radio 4 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
4:31 PM
4:31 PM
GUILDFORD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:04 today to 13:56 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today to 13:56 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today to 13:56 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 today to 13:56 today, Radio 4 FM [BBC]
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Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
GUILDFORD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Very Weak Signal from 10:04 yesterday to 13:56 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 yesterday to 13:56 yesterday, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 yesterday to 13:56 yesterday, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 yes [BBC]
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Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
GUILDFORD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Very Weak Signal from 10:04 on 25 Feb to 13:56 on 25 Feb. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 on 25 Feb to 13:56 on 25 Feb, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 on 25 Feb to 13:56 on 25 Feb, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 on [BBC]
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Friday, 1 March 2019
Transmitter engineering
1:31 PM
1:31 PM
GUILDFORD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Very Weak Signal from 10:04 on 25 Feb to 13:56 on 25 Feb. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 on 25 Feb to 13:56 on 25 Feb, Radio 1 FM Off Air from 10:24 today to 10:47 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:06 on 25 Feb to 13 [BBC]
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Friday, 8 January 2021
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Mr Ian Martin9:08 PM
Intermittent problems with channels dropping out and sometimes reappearing. At the moment (Fri 8/1/2021 21:00) channel five has disappeared but channel five+1 is OK. GU10 postcode which links to the Guildford transmitter (the only one available in my location). All channels OK on Wed 6/1/2021. Retuned a number of times but with no success.
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Saturday, 9 January 2021
C
Chris.SE9:23 AM
Mr Ian Martin:
Without a full postcode we can't comment on your predicted reception. The GU10 area is a large area where better reception for many comes from the Crystal Palace transmitter, which is currently listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible weak signal".
Which way is your aerial pointing? And are the rods horizontal or vertical?
If it's horizontal and pointing ~ENE then it's pointing at Crystal Palace.
If its vertical and pointing a few degrees S of due E then it's Guildford.
You MAY still get signals from both whichever way the aerial is pointing!
Check in your TV's tuning section that you are tuned to the correct UHF channels.
For Crystal Palace it's C23, C26, C30, C25, C22, C28, C55 in the order PSBs1-3, COMs4-7
For Guildford it's C41, C44, C47, C37, C31, C32 in the same order but no COM7
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Monday, 25 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
1:43 PM
1:43 PM
GUILDFORD transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 25 Jan 11:05. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 25 Jan 11:17. . [BBC]
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