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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Monday, 25 December 2017
I'm having some work done on my old aerial array which consists of a 5 element FM aerial with rotator and mast, and a TV aerial. All of this is at least 25 years old. The FM equipmant being redundant I'm having it removed. Although I have no problems with TV reception which is very good I'll probably update it. So that I know that the rigger is using the correct type can you advice please what channel group I should insist on? My postcode is GU4 8NH and I use the Guildford transmitter. I'll probably also have a DAB aerial attached to the mast too.
Thanks for any advice.
Mike O'Sullivan
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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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StevensOnln111:57 PM
Mike O'Sullivan: At only 5km from the transmitter you would be better off with a wideband type such as a log periodic rather than a grouped aerial, given that the Guildford transmitter currently uses channels between 40 and 52 whereas from next year it will use channels between 31 and 47.
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Tuesday, 26 December 2017
StevensOnln1:
Many thanks for that good information. I'll make sure the rigger is made aware.
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Thursday, 28 December 2017
If I might ask another question - if a DAB aerial is mounted on the same pole as a TV aerial, how far apart should they be to mitigate interferance?
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Tuesday, 20 March 2018
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Rory9:54 AM
Guildford Freeview: ITV3 etc. moved from CH48 to CH37 recently. ukfree.tv still shows incorrect CH48.
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Sunday, 29 April 2018
Poor reception following 18th April re-tune.
Since the changes on 18th April have been plagued by poor reception. Our aerial points at Guildford. and according to these pages we should get the following muxes:
PSB1 C43 650MHz
PSB2 C46 674MHz
PSB3 C40 626MHz
etc
However, looking at he signal info on our TV it has tuned itself to:
PSB1 C41 634MHz
PSB2 C26 514MHz
PSB3 C47 682MHz
etc
However, if I try to manually tune to the first set of channels, zero channels are found.
So either the trasnmitter information for Guildford is incorrect, or my TV is picking up another transmitter, or both. Any input would be appreciated.
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StevensOnln15:28 PM
David Morton: According to Digital UK, the Guildford transmitter now uses UHF channels 41/44/47/37/31/32 so it looks like you are picking up PSB2 from another transmitter (C26 is used for PSB2 by both Crystal Palace and Reigate). What do you get if you try manual tuning on those frequencies?
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Tuesday, 15 May 2018
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Steven7:50 PM
Guildford
Yep same here, not picking up anything on the stated frequencies.
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Steven's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 28 June 2018
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Kevin Young2:52 PM
Having exactly the same experience as David Morton (29th Apr) and have done since the end of April. We used to pick up BBC A ok, but now just when manually tuning comes up 'zero channels found' !! Very frustrating - able to get BBCHD services but they are sometime sporadic! What's changed - surely not just taking out the 700Hz signal ?????
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MikeP
4:51 PM
4:51 PM
Kevin Youung:
Over recent weeks a number of transmitters have had work done to change the frequencies used for the various multiplexes and that usually means viewers need to do a retune. But it's often best to do it using the manual tune facility of most sets, see your User Manual for how to do that. You also need to know the exact channels being used now, so go to the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker put in your posty code and then check the channels listed for the Guildford transmitter. Use that data to perform the manual tune if your settinhgs are different from those listed there.
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