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The symbol shows the location of the Hertford (Hertford, England) transmitter which serves 23,000 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 Hertford (Hertford, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Hertford 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C39 (618.0MHz)101mDTG-500W
Channel icons
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
 V max
C42 (642.0MHz)101mDTG-500W
Channel icons
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
 V max
C45 (666.0MHz)101mDTG-500W
Channel icons
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Hertford (Hertford, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Hertford transmitter?

regional news image
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 32km south (186°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
regional news image
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 32km south (182°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.

How will the Hertford (Hertford, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1324 Jul 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C39BBCA
C42D3+4
C45BBCB
C49tv_offBBCA
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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?

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 500W
Analogue 1-4(-24dB) 2W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area

Sep 1955-Jul 1968Associated-Rediffusion†
Sep 1955-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1992Thames†
Jul 1968-Feb 2004London Weekend Television♦
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Carlton†
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc♦
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc†
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hertford 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.

Comments
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:58 PM

KatyP: Just a standard "contract" aerial will be fine, anything else will be overkill. If you want to spend some extra money, buy "satellite grade" coaxial cable to connect the aerial to the equipment.

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Saturday, 10 September 2011
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KatyP
7:06 PM

KatyP: Thank you, much appreciated. We'll see how I get on and how quickly!! So much to do! (51.5002,-0.1262) 

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Thursday, 15 September 2011
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KkatyP
9:47 PM

KatyP: Well sometimes good things do happen... it seems I may have been right that our single frequency interference was caused by our upstairs neighbour's new indoor aerial, as he has now had Cable people round and therefore I assume has now got cable and our problems have disappeared! Hooray!

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Friday, 16 September 2011
Briantist
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7:41 AM

KkatyP: I'm very pleased to hear the problem has been resolved.

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Tuesday, 1 November 2011
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bob
7:55 PM

hi moved to hertford recently from ware in ware could get numerous freeview digital channels, since moving to hertford cannot pick up a signal ? post code is sg13

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Briantist
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9:08 PM

bob: "please provide a full (not partial) postcode" thanks

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Wednesday, 1 February 2012
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barry.sullivan2@ntlworld.com
3:55 PM
Hertford

Have a large but old aerial in the loft,can not use signal from Bengeo water tower as I have an old Oak tree between aerial and water tower, so use Sandy heath signal but do not get all of freeview channels.
Thanks Barry.

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Dave Lindsay
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4:27 PM

Barry Sullivan: The transmitter on the Bengeo Water Tower does not carry all the services anyway. For this reason you would probably wish to go with Sandy Heath if possible, even if it weren't for the tree.

I looked at the latest Ofcom document which lists all multiplexes form all transmitters:

http://licensing.ofcom.or….pdf

From Sandy Heath:

SDN is currently on channel 31 at 20kW and will remain so until 9th May when it will move to its final channel number 51 (at full power I assume).

To find out which services are carried on which multiplexes, see this page:

DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex

Are you just missing SDN?

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Dave Lindsay
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4:44 PM

Barry Sullivan: The document also says that the three PSBs and Arqiva B are using the "transitional S1 antenna" (presumably at the final full power) until 27th June. I guess that this means that the coverage won't be the same as that when it switches to the final antenna.

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Dave Lindsay
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4:48 PM

Barry Sullivan: The predictor suggests that Crystal Palace might be possible at your location. Obviously this will provide London regional programming rather than Anglia which you get from Sandy Heath. If you could pick up the Hertford relay, you would get London programming as it is a relay of Crystal Palace.

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