Full Freeview on the Lancaster (Lancashire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Lancaster (Lancashire, England) transmitter which serves 52,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Lancaster (Lancashire, England) mast?
Lancaster transmitter - Lancaster transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 15/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 Lancaster (Lancashire, 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 Lancaster 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 Lancaster (Lancashire, 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 Lancaster transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 76km south-southeast (155°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 75km south-southeast (155°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Abbeystead | Active deflector | 10 km SE Lancaster | 30 homes School |
How will the Lancaster (Lancashire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C22 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C25 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | -BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C28 | +ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C30 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C31 | 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 | 10kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 200W |
Local transmitter maps
Lancaster Freeview Lancaster DAB Lancaster AM/FM 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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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldMonday, 31 December 2012
Catherine Walker: BBC - Reception problems reports "No problems".
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Paul Rayson4:33 PM
Lancaster
TV reception just dropped off here too after a very brief power cut .
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Louise Innes4:35 PM
we've lost our tv reception. 'freeview signal lost or too poor quality' and it hasn't returned. Lancaster LA1
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Paul Rayson: The BBC now report
"BBC Digital TV Off Air from 15:49 today
HD Digital TV Off Air from 15:49 today"
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Frank4:38 PM
Same here too, seemed like a massive power surge to the properties here then this recovered within seconds but all TV/DAB reception still down
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Simon Kay4:43 PM
Lancaster
Freeview has gone down sometime after 4.00 pm with flickering of lights, at LA1 5BX
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Simon's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Refer to the Power outage map for Electricity North West (which is today's name for the electricity distribution operator in the area):
Power outage map
There are outages reported north of Lancaster centre and north east all the way along where Kirkby Lonsdale Road runs.
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Thursday, 3 January 2013
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G Kennell12:41 PM
Carnforth
lost the signal for tv and dab radio today (3/1/13) at about 1145am. Are there engineering works taking place at present on the Lancaster transmitter
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G's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 2 February 2013
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Jonathan Snowden11:30 AM
Carnforth
Hi - since the beginning of the year, the channels on COM4/Ch25 have disappeared, and no amount of factory resetting on any of SIX different freeview boxes will bring them back? It started with a message about the return of Dave ja Vu, which did not return as billed on Freeview 25, but seems to be a place-holder only now, on Ch791. As usual i will have missed something obvious, but I can't see what it is! Help!
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jb388:46 PM
Jonathan Snowden: I don't really think that its quite so much a case of you having missed something obvious on any of the checks you have made, but more one of experiencing the type of problem that many do when receiving signals from out with the coverage area of a transmitter, and something which applies in the case of the missing Ch25 from the Lancaster SDN transmitter as this station is not seen indicated anywhere as covering the Arnside areas due to signal path obstructions apparently within 1.5 miles of your location.
There is a possibility that the signal is still actually there but sitting at a level that's under the reception threshold of your receivers, this being something you can check on by going into the manual tune facility on one of your boxes and entering Ch25, but do NOT press search or scan, because on most devices as soon as the number is entered the level that its being received at should be indicated.
If you do see anything indicated, then make a note of it and change the channel number to Ch22 (on the assumption that you can get Film 4) and once again make a note of the level its seen indicated as being, because the reception threshold level will be at some point between the two indications.
By the way do any of your neighbours receive Freeview from Lancaster? as most of the aerials I seen on a scout around the area would appear to be facing towards the Kendal PSB only station.
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