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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) mast?
Pontop Pike transmitter - Pontop Pike transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 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
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 |
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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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Wednesday, 8 April 2015
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Brud1:06 AM
I need to know distance from South Shields to Pontop Pike for new aerial please. Can you help?
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jb388:02 AM
Brud: Using two Post Offices in South Shields as reference points, Pontop Pike is located at between 15/16 miles away on a bearing of approximately 238 / 240 degrees, both districts mentioned indicated as having a clear line-of-sight (excluding any man made objects) to the transmitter.
As far aerials are concerned, I would suggest an aerial of the Log periodic variety such as a Log 36, as this type is designed to have an element of protection against the possibility of being affected by 4G transmissions, this being especially applicable to reception from Pontop Pike as six of the multiplexes used by that station transmits in the 50's ranges of channels, the range most vulnerable to be affected by any potential 4G transmissions that may take place in your area.
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jb388:14 AM
Brud: The undermentioned is a link to a site where you can see the type of aerial I was referring to, once you open the link click on Log36, or alternatively just scroll down to the Log 36 section.
ATV`s Choice Of Aerials for digital TV
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Friday, 24 April 2015
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G,newcomb6:21 PM
Can
You please tell me when we will get our picture restored to normal we can not get any pictures we have lost most of our channels can you please tell me when will this end
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jb389:12 PM
G,newcomb: Although engineering work is presently undergoing at the Pontop Pike transmitter, any periods of reduced power found to be necessary are usually only of an intermittent short term nature of possibly up to an hour or so, and although the effects of reduced power may not actually be noticed by viewers who reside in a good signal strength area, it can however cause problems to viewers located in less than ideal areas for reception, which judging by what you have mentioned "might" possibly be applicable to your location.
Although unable to assess if its liable to or not without a location being known, this preferably being in the form of a post code or one from nearby, such as a shop / post office.
That said based on you "not" having carried out a rescan on finding a blank screen, because if you have? all this action achieves is to delete everything stored in your TV or boxes tuner, frequent rescans then being necessary in order to reload the channels back into the tuner.
If by any chance you havent carried out a rescan and yet the channels are still missing, it would be prudent to check with someone nearby to ascertain if they are also suffering from similar problems with reception, the purpose of the check being to eliminate the problem being associated with your installation.
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Sunday, 17 May 2015
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David5:59 AM
Looks like COM 8 is online here at Pontop Pike. My freeview HD tv is picking up QVC+1 and QVC Beauty.
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Friday, 22 May 2015
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Tommy Dobson7:13 AM
Spennymoor
I have lost all the HD channels on my Panasonic Freeview TV. Have retuned but all channels except HD have been restored. My postcode is DL16 6SD and I connect to Pontop Pike.
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jb3810:11 AM
Tommy Dobson: Your problem is possibly down to the planned engineering work being carried out at Pontop Pike this week, as a "possible weak signal" notification has been in force since the 18th.
You should try carrying out a standard retune in the evenings and check if this resolves the situation, although it may not dependant on the reason for it having to be temporarily reduced in the first place.
However, a better way to determine if the signal has returned to normal without upsetting programme channels already stored, is "if" your TV/box offers a manual tuning facility? if it does, then carry out a "manual" scan on the PSB Mux C49 (BBC / ITV etc HD) the two other HD Muxes being COM7 / C33 and COM8 / C34.
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MikeB9:23 PM
Tommy Dobson: Check your signal strength. It might be that your SD channels are low but viable, but the HD ones are out. Most likely explaination? Your system has a problem - perhaps a loose connection, etc. Check each bit.
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Wednesday, 3 June 2015
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Keith T.5:48 PM
Hi. I have a Humax and 2 Talk Talk Youview box's. The Humax box gives me all channels. The talk talk box''s seem to miss the channels on com 7 BBC news channel Hd etc. I have 2 ariels and have tried the talk talk box's on both without succes. This is picking signals from Pontop Pike. Is there a known problem for this?
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