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Freeview Light on the Les Touillets transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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49.457,-2.578 or 49°27'25"N 2°34'40"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Les Touillets transmitter which serves 15,000 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 Les Touillets 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 Les Touillets 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	H max	C54 (738.0MHz)	126m	DTG-3	1,500W
	1 BBC One (SD) Channel Islands, 2 BBC Two Channel Islands, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC SD, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 13 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C56 (754.0MHz)	126m	DTG-3	1,500W
	3 ITV (SD) (Channel), 5 Channel 5 (SD), 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 24 ITV4, 26 ITVBe, 45 Film4 +1,
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C51+ (714.2MHz)	126m	DTG-6	1,500W
	86 More4 +1, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD,

DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 60 Freeview channels?

The Les Touillets mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 4seven HD, 5SELECT, 5Spike, 5STAR, 5STAR +1, 5USA, 5USA +1, AlJazeera English (SD), Aljazeera English HD, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, Challenge, Channel 4+1 HD, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, Freesports, Home, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Together TV +1, Movies4Men, NOW 80s, Now 90s, Paramount Network, PBS America, pick, Pick +1, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sewing Quarter, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel HD, Sony Movie Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday, YourTV.

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 Les Touillets transmitter?

BBC Channel Islands News 0.0m homes 0.2%
from St Helier JE2 3PL, 1,431km west-southwest (252°)
to BBC Channel Islands region - 8 masts.

ITV Channel News 0.0m homes 0.2%
from St Helier JE1 3ZD, 1,431km west-southwest (252°)
to ITV Channel region - 8 masts.

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How will the Les Touillets transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	2013-18	2013-17	30 Jun 2019-
	C/D E T	C/D E T	C/D E T	C/D E T	C/D E T	C/D E T	C/D E T
C48	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves
C51_{tv_off}				+BBCB	+BBCB	+BBCB	BBCB
C52_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves
C54_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
C56_{tv_off}	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4

_{tv_off} Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) by 30 June 2020 - 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 17 Nov 10 and 17 Nov 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	2kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-1.2dB) 1.5kW

Local transmitter maps

Les Touillets Freeview Fremont Point TV region BBC Channel Islands Channel

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Fremont Point transmitter area

Sep 1962-Feb 2004	Channel
Nov 2011-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Les Touillets 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Transmitter engineering

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12:09 AM

transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Monday, 22 August 2016

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8:31 AM

transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Tuesday, 30 August 2016

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transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Wednesday, 7 September 2016

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transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Friday, 10 May 2019

Dave Falla
7:05 AM

Can I use a indoor in my location.

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MikeP

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8:48 AM

Falla:

That depends on exactly where you live, so please provide a full post code. Only then can we see what the expected receptions conditions are at you location. Note that rarely give good , especially if you are more than a few miles from the .

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Friday, 14 June 2019

Peter Painter
7:01 AM

Good morning, the last few days I have been able to receive all commercial stations but NO BBC. I am in St. Ouen bay in Jersey.
Many thanks

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StevensOnln1

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10:36 AM

Peter Painter: Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? Please provide a full postcode so that we can see where you are in relation to the and your predicted strength etc.

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Peter Painter
4:29 PM

StevensOnln1:
strength predicted as dark green (poorer than strong)
Postcode JE3 7FJ
All connections are good and receiving all except BBC

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