Full Freeview on the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter which serves 38,000 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 Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) mast?
Lark Stoke transmitter - Lark Stoke transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 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 Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, 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 Lark Stoke 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 Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, 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 Lark Stoke transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 45km north-northwest (345°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 46km north-northwest (345°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | SDN | |||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C41 | +SDN | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C48 | _local | _local |
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 6.3kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 1.26kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-24dB) 25W |
Local transmitter maps
Lark Stoke Freeview Lark Stoke AM/FM Lark Stoke TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Lark Stoke transmitter area
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Monday, 6 June 2016
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Peter Gilbert11:10 AM
Thanks for the info Richard. I've just tried re-tuning again and all is back to normal.
At least I know what to do next time.
Best Regards
Peter
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Tuesday, 16 August 2016
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Tony11:26 PM
Does the Lark Stoke transmitter have two bases? Ilmington has the two huge masts (which I always thought was Lark Stoke), and it also has the much smaller mast next to the mobile transmitters. Are they both Lark Stoke? I can't find anything on the internet about the two huge masts.
One small thing: Lark Stoke is actually in Warwickshire, not that it particularly matters.
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Wednesday, 17 August 2016
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Richard Cooper9:35 AM
Tony: Hi, Tony. There is only one mast at Lark Stoke, not two! Ilmington is a village a couple of miles North-East of the Lark Stoke transmitter site. Richard, Norwich. PS I never said Lark Stoke wasn't in Warwickshire. Did someone else think it was in a different county?
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Friday, 19 August 2016
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Tony6:11 PM
Richard: Hi, thanks for replying. Yes, I suppose I should have said the hill south west of Ilmington village. They are much further away than I thought. The Ilmington station and its two huge masts are 0.52 miles directly due east from Lark Stoke.
Since I posted that question I've been looking into it and it turns out that the Ilmington station did used to be called Lark Stoke. You can look up the planning permission applications that confirm it e.g. 79/01910/FUL. Maybe the masts stopped being used for a while so the Lark Stoke name was given to the current Lark Stoke. I'll try to find out.
It's the title of this page that says Lark Stoke is in Gloucestershire.
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Saturday, 20 August 2016
MikeP
1:41 PM
Chipping Campden
1:41 PM
Chipping Campden
Tony:
The problem appears to stem from the Lark Stoke site having a Gloucestershire Post Code (GL55 6LS) which suggests it is covered by the Royal Mail sorting and delivery offices in Gloucestershire. However, the Post Code is not a good indicator of which county or local council is responsible for the area, Royal Mail being an entity answerable only unto themselves.
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MikeP's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 26 August 2016
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
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Richard Cooper8:50 AM
Tony: Hi again, Tony. It's not unusual for a transmitter site to be named after a nearby feature rather than being given the name of the feature or location exactly where it is situated. For example, the first 1000 ft mast in the UK is called 'Mendlesham', after the old Mendlesham airfield, when the mast is actually on the side of a main road in the village of Brockford Green. Similarly, the BBC used to call the Tacolneston transmitter the Norwich transmitter, although the Tacolneston site is 11 miles South West of this fine city. Richard, Norwich.
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Wednesday, 5 October 2016
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Andrew McGilton11:20 AM
When will the Lark Stoke transmitter be upgraded to receive all of the Freeview HD extended channels? As spent a furtune on Freeview HD equipment just to have the 6 HD channels.
Many thanks and hope to hear from you soon.
Kind regards
Andrew McGilton
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StevensOnln112:48 PM
Andrew McGilton: Never. COM7 and COM8 are temporary multiplexes available from 30 main transmitter sites until 2020. It is expected that the rest of the PSB and COM muxes will be converted to DVB-T2 in the next few years but no timescale has been announced for this to happen.
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Thursday, 6 October 2016
MikeP
10:25 AM
10:25 AM
Andrew McGilton:
Further to that said by Stevensonln1, your new TV set will already have a DVB-T2 tuner incorporated so it will be suitable for the forthcoming transmission changes that will see the end of DVB-T transmissions and being replaced by DVB-T2 transmissions.
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