Freeview Light on the Ladder Hill (Derbyshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Ladder Hill (Derbyshire, England) transmitter which serves 6,000 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 Ladder Hill (Derbyshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Ladder Hill (Derbyshire, 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 Freeview channels does the Ladder Hill 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C26 (514.0MHz) | 452m | DTG- | 200W |
 1 BBC One (SD) North West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C23 (490.0MHz) | 452m | DTG- | 200W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Granada), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Granada), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C29 (538.0MHz) | 452m | DTG- | 200W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Ladder Hill (Derbyshire, 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 Ladder Hill transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 29km northwest (310°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 29km northwest (310°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Ladder Hill (Derbyshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 31 Mar 2018- | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200W |
Local transmitter maps
Ladder Hill Freeview Ladder Hill DAB Winter Hill TV region BBC North West GranadaWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012
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jb389:27 PM
Parsley: Chinley and Ladder Hill are the only two Freeview PSB only stations indicated to cover your area, and so I am afraid your neighbours are incorrect in what they have said regarding Ladder Hill.
However anything that they may have managed to receive could possibly be from either Emley Moor (22mls) or Winter Hill (31 mls), but I feel that this good fortune (if true) is very likely only because of a spell of favourable atmospheric conditions, as although in most cases these conditions usually kill reception for many there are cases where the reverse applies, but though with all reception achieved this way the signals are liable to vanish at some point just as quick as they were received.
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Parsley: Around 8.5% of the population that can receive Freeview can only get the Public Service (PSB) channels. The Commercial ones cover 90% of the population.
The reason for this is because the Commercial broadcasters use the 81 largest transmitters (largest by viewer population). There are over 1,000 small "filler-in" relay transmitters like Chinley and Ladder Hill and these only carry Public Service channels. The projected cost to the Commercial broadcasters to transmit from these 1,000 plus sites is about the same as that of the current 81. They decided that they didn't wish to double their cost of transmission in order to increase their potential viewer-bases by about 10%.
Coverage predictors should always be taken with a pinch of salt. They exist because there is a demand for such a service and not because they can ever be totally accurate. The best gauge of whether a signal can be received at a particular location is for an installer to measure the signal.
As I say, Ladder Hill is also Freeview Lite/PSB-only.
Because of the terrain of your area there are quite a few relays which are PSB-only. Also, what can and can't be received can vary over short distances and this could be the case here.
In the North West/Winter Hill transmitter group, the full-service transmitters are Winter Hill, Pendle Forest, Saddleworth Moor, Lancaster and Storeton.
If you do decide to approach another installer, bear in mind that you may have to be prepared to have a large aerial mounted on a tall mast, perhaps with a mast-head amplifier as well in order to receive from Winter Hill ***"if"*** it is indeed possible. Also, trees in the way could kill any chance of picking up such weak signals unless the aerial can "see" over them.
Winter Hill is at 310 degrees and aerials are horizontal (elements flat). For Chinley and Ladder Hill aerials are vertical.
If your neighbours have switched their aerial, then perhaps they would recommend the installer who carried out the work.
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Parsley: jb38 makes a very good point that Winter Hill could be intermittent. If you do manage reception from a full-service transmitter, then I suggest that you retain your aerial on Chinley as a backup.
Perhaps you can check the direction of your neighbour's aerial.
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Parsley10:44 PM
High Peak
Thanks for the replies. There is no doubt neighbours do indeed have full Freeview, - will ask since when but certainly weeks, maybe months, so it does not seem intermittent or freak weather-dependent. The aerials are oriented horizontally not vertically, but I haven't yet taken an exact orientation. It was a DIY job. When the weather improves I will also try moving my aerial round.
However I have now got Freesat but now wondering if I needed to!
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Parsley10:55 PM
High Peak
PS Very oddly the direction my installer insisted on looking for Winter Hill was in the SE, despite my gently pointing out that I was sure it was almost exactly the opposite direction (with a big hill in the way)! But he was adamant.
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Parsley11:01 PM
High Peak
PPS Is it possible to tell simply which transmitter one is receiving from?
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jb3811:19 PM
Parsley: To give you an idea of the directions of the various transmitters the ones referred to are as follows / Emley Moor: 31 degrees @ 22 miles (H polarity) Winter Hill: 310 degrees @ 31 miles (H polarity) Sutton Coldfield: 175 degrees @ 51 miles (H polarity) Chinley: 271 degrees @ 0 miles (V polarity) Ladder Hill: 195 degrees @ 3 miles (V polarity) It should also be appreciated that when receiving signals that are predicted as being either not possible or alternatively out of range, that the the levels received can change dramatically within every few yards or so, and so a person on one side of a street can have virtually no signal at all whereas a house facing them on the other side of the street can have a reasonably strong enough signal to resolve a picture. Of course as aforementioned in previous reply this type of reception is generally prone to being affected by both atmospheric and seasonal changes, such as tree vegetation and ground reflections.
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jb3811:27 PM
Parsley: Yes, if you are viewing a channel and want to know what its Mux number is for cross checking purposes, carry out a signal strength / quality (on some) check and you will generally see the mux channel number associated with the level being indicated.
By the way if you are experimenting its best to use ITV3 then you know that you are not receiving from Chinley or Ladder Hill.
ITV3 muxes from various being /
Winter Hill: Ch58
Emley Moor: Ch51
Sutton Coldfield: Ch42
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012
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Jim Johnson12:47 AM
Nottingham
Parsley,
Ask your neighbour which local news service they receive on BBC1 and ITV1. That will give you an idea of which transmitter they are receiving their signals from.
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Parsley7:34 AM
High Peak
Thanks for that very useful info.
re transmitter -could it be Fenton?
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