Full Freeview on the Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) transmitter which serves 700,000 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 Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) transmitter._______
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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Pontop Pike 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Pontop Pike transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 15km northeast (42°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 12km north-northeast (29°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border
Are there any self-help relays?
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How will the Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 13 Nov 2019 | ||||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | ||||
| C5 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C39 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C42 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C45 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | com7tv_off | |||||||
| C56tv_off | LNE | ||||||||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | |||||
| C59tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 12 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com8 | (-11.6dB) 34.6kW | |
| com7 | (-11.7dB) 33.8kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| LNE | (-20dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Pontop Pike Freeview Pontop Pike TV region BBC North East and Cumbria Tyne TeesWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Pontop Pike transmitter area
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Sunday, 17 November 2019
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Chris.SE12:36 PM
KarlR:
If your provide a full postcode we can look at the predicted reception. Freeview's advice isn't always the most helpful unfortunately, however, if another aerial was needed then it is the landlord's responsibility.
Which 13 channels are you getting?
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KarlR1:27 PM
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Chris.SE
NE6 5LU - no reported issues for this area. Oddly, we've had between 13, 42 and 88 channels showing after a retune..
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Chris.SE1:57 PM
KarlR:
For your postcode you shouldn't have any problem getting all the available multiplexes from Pontop Pike. I'd also be surprised that considering you're only about 18km from the mast that you wouldn't get most, if not all the multiplexes even on quite an old C/D group aerial.
The issue might be that you can in fact receive several transmitters at your location, and in particular the Fenham transmitter which is only 6km away BUT is much lower power, doesn't have COMs 7&8 and requires an aerial that's vertical polarised. A lot of aerials aren't that good at rejecting cross-polarisation signals that are moderately close.
It depends on how your set is tuning, because the Fenham UHF channels are lower in the band than Pontop Pike, so it is likely it will find these before Pontop Pike's channels so you may well find Pontop Pike's in the 800's in your programme lists.
The "trick" here will be to do a manual tune, but do it as follows. Unplug the aerial and do a full automatic tune. This should clear memory of all previous tuning as no channels will be found.
Plug the aerial back in, and in your Tuning section, find the Manual Tuning option.
Tune the following UHF channels for Pontop Pike - 39, 42, 32, 34, 35 for the SD channels, if you have HD 45, 55, 56.
Let us know how you get on.
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KarlR7:50 PM
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Chris.SE:
Thanks for the advice, I'll have to try this with a different box as the YouView box we have doesn't allow for manual tuning.
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Chris.SE8:20 PM
KarlR:
Oh dear. I had heard that about Youview boxes, not familiar with them. I'd complain to your service provider that a frimware update is needed to allow this.
Are you finding any channels (LCNs) in the 800's? Does the box have a program manager that would allow you to move/renumber them?
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Ian Carrick9:00 PM
Hi,
I use something called DVBLink on a computer which distributes TV from Freeview. Since the latest Pontop Pike changes it fails to retune all but 53 channels out of 166. A rescan does not find the missing ones like BBC.
I am trying with the supplier of DVBLInk but not getting anywhere. My theory is that the transponders are out of date. Just wondering if I list them here would you be able to work out what they mean and if they need to change. Any advice would be fantastic.
Here is that list of transponders. 3,4,5,8 and 9 fail to tune.
1=570000,V,6900
2=578000,V,6900
3=698000,V,6900
4=706000,V,6900
5=738000,V,6900
6=746000,V,6900
7=754000,V,6900
8=770000,V,6900
9=778000,V,6900
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1,2, 6 and 7 successfully re-tune with these channels:
1:
Tyne & Wear TV
Tiny Pop
Sony Movies +1
Sony Channel
Sony Movies Christmas
2:
Sky News
Pick
Challenge
Dave
E4+1
ADULT smileTV3
Film4+1
talkSPORT
RNIB Connect
Classic FM
LBC
Food Network
TJC
TBN UK
Really
Quest Red
QUEST+1
NOW 90s
Sony Movies
ADULT Xpanded TV
Together TV
Create & Craft
Gems TV
697
6:
BBC NEWS HD
Channel 4+1 HD
4seven HD
Jewellery Maker
Trans World Radio
More4+1
RT HD
CBS Reality +1
5USA+1
Quest Red+1
Pick+1
Smithsonian Channel
7:
QVC HD
QVC Beauty HD
CBeebies HD
BBC FOUR HD
QUEST HD
5STAR+1
FreeSports
Forces TV
PBS America
Together TV
NOW 80s
Together TV+1
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Chris.SE9:39 PM
Ian Carrick:
Yes those transponders would be out of date as the first numbers appear to be the UHF Channel in kHz.
What the V,6900 mean I've no idea, nor have I any idea how to edit the entries.
The numbers you want for each are as follows -
618000, 642000, 666000, 562000, 578000, 586000, 746000, 754000, 570000
Those are in the order PSBs 1-3, COMs 4-8, Local.
I don't know if this DVBLink requires them in increasing number value of if that order will do.
FYI, the UHF channels in the same order are 39, 42, 45, 32, 34, 35, 55, 56, 33.
I assume you know of the website dvblogic.com - Tvmosaic player/">dvblogic.com - Player but on the homepage dvblogic.com - Tvmosaic they say it's being replaced. Also found this DvbLink TV Server, Version 6, on Synology NAS - YouTube don't know if it'll help with any setup, didn't watch more than a few seconds.
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Chris.SE9:47 PM
KarlR:
According to the Youview Support page you're supposed to be able to choose the transmitter when you receive more than one, also during setup it asks for a postcode. I'd guess that a postcode for the wrong region will confuse it, whether you can reset it by turning it off and on (holding the on/off button on the front for 8 seconds) I don't know.
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Monday, 18 November 2019
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KarlR8:18 AM
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Chris.SE
Thanks for your tips. I've taken the YouView box out of the equation and done a manual retune with the TV only - all SD channels appear to be back, so I'll just replace the YouView box with an HD recorder, I'm leaving TalkTalk anyway so they can have their useless tech back.
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John jackson12:28 PM
Since changes I now have no signal? To the TV ? So I can't retune !
Will I need to change direction of my aerial?
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