Full Freeview on the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmitter which serves 70,000 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 Reigate (Surrey, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Reigate (Surrey, 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 Reigate 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 Reigate (Surrey, 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 Reigate transmitter?

ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 31km north (9°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
How will the Reigate (Surrey, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 21 Mar 2018 | |||||
C/D E | E | E | W T | A K T | |||||
C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
C23 | BBCA | ||||||||
C24 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C26 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C27 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C30 | BBCB | ||||||||
C35 | _local | ||||||||
C42 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C51tv_off | _local | ||||||||
C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | |||||
C63 | 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 4 Apr 12 and 18 Apr 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
Analogue 5 | (-3dB) 5kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 200W | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Sunday, 26 January 2014
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Charles9:12 PM
Crawley
Forgot to mention above that I am getting my COM7 broadcasts from Crystal Palace.
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Charles: Remember that Crystal Palace broadcasts horizontally and Reigate so vertically. It might be worth adjusting the aerial to point to Crystal Palace.
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Monday, 27 January 2014
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Charles11:55 AM
Crawley
Thanks Dave. As I receive my broadcasts from Reigate by default which is vertical and where the signal is also strongest I will leave it as it is.
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Thursday, 19 March 2015
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Ron Howe12:42 PM
Gatwick
I just want to know which basic aerial to buy for reception in Horley RH6 9AA.
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Wednesday, 17 June 2015
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Mark Heselden5:15 PM
Has anyone any idea of how the Freeview muxes line-up at Reigate will end up in 2019 if 700MHz band 4G goes ahead? All the main programme channels are currently in it.
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Dave Lindsay
5:59 PM
5:59 PM
Mark Heselden: ...the channels being used moving downwards...
(Sorry, haven't got a crystal ball to see information which isn't published yet, and may even not have been planned!)
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Dave Lindsay
6:02 PM
6:02 PM
Mark Heselden: COM channels are already out-of-group as far as the former four-channel analogue goes, so if you receive all channels then you shouldn't be expected to have an issue if the PSBs move downwards.
There are rumours on here that the COMs might end up in the 20s and using DVB-T2, so the main thing is to move to a Freeview HD (DVB-T2) receiver.
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Mark Heselden8:29 PM
Thanks, Dave. It's just that Crystal Palace is also strong in the area, using Band A as well, so it's going to be very crammed in the old Band A if all the muxes were kept separate. I wondered if it would be made an SFN with Crystal Palace using the same muxes frequencies. This was done with Heathfield/Tunbridge Wells.
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Thursday, 18 June 2015
Dave Lindsay
10:25 AM
10:25 AM
Mark Heselden: It has been suggested by some who post on this site that the COMs might become nationwide SFNs.
And at the present time, Group A was effectively made smaller by the ring-fencing, at switchover, of 31 to 37.
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Tuesday, 22 December 2015
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Gary Higginson11:07 PM
Redhill
I'm having trouble recently with reception of just the BBCA multiplex, channel 60, from the Reigate transmitter. I wonder if anyone knows any reason and how long this might last.
I'm in Redhill (RH1 2DG) just below the Reigate transmitter (I can see the red light on top if I look out my upstairs windows), with a loft aerial.
Up until a week and a half ago, reception was good, but then we got a lot of interference, increasing over the weekend, but only on channel 60, the BBCA multiplex. All the other multiplex channels are good.
I tried an automatic retune and my Freeview HD box retuned this BBCA multiplex to channel 23, from the Crystal Palace transmitter, even though my aerial is vertical for Reigate and the Crystal Palace orientation appears. horizontal, and according to your coverage maps I'm not expected to receive it at all. It's not perfect, signal quality is often less than 50%, though I've tweaked my aerial direction to maximise it.
Trying to tune back to channel 60 since its signal quality seems to have got worse.
Any clues?
Regards,
GaryH
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Gary Higginson11:19 PM
Redhill
One other note, Reigate transmitter is 306 degrees, roughly where my aerial is pointing, of course. But I note the Crystal Palace aerial is the other side of North, at 15 degrees, I'd guess, so I wouldn't expect to be receiving signals direct.
Is it possible the Reigate transmitter is repeating the Crystal Palace transmissions?
GaryH
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Wednesday, 23 December 2015
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Gary Higginson 9:02 AM
Gary Higginson: I think I have a few clues already: the 4G comments above, the number of mobile masts near me as appear on my "Free view Map", and another read of the BBC website reception help pages, leading to the at800.tv website, plus only the BBCA multiplex being affected, on channel 60 @ -786MHz, just below the 4G 800MHz band.
I suspect a new 4G mast/service has been ramping up its transmission power over the last few weeks, causing my worsening interference.
I've submitted an enquiry on the at800.tv site. I expect they'll send me a filter and hopefully this will restore my BBCA channel from Reigate transmitter.
I'll update what happens, and hopefully this may be useful to others.
Thanks to this site's providers and contributers, as it's given me very useful info for set up and problem solving over the last few years.
Merry Christmas!
GaryH
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Monday, 15 February 2016
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Mr & Mrs A Naran4:25 PM
Redhill
I am having reception interference and picture break up on certain days and loss of picture and information on certain channels only.
This problem has only just got worse over the last 2 weeks or so.
I have completely reset the tv's to factory presets and retuned but this has not helped. Would some sort of filter help?
Post code RH1 5RG
Please help...
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Tuesday, 1 March 2016
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chris8:57 PM
Hi, I'm watching Reigate free view. A note today says al Jazeera has moved from 133 to 108. But 108 is not xmitted from Reigate. Have I lost AJ forever? Chris
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Friday, 15 July 2016
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Andrew Corbett12:27 PM
I am having reception interference and picture break up and loss of picture and information on certain channels only. I have now lost all BBC channels.
This problem has only just got worse from Tuesday 12th July or so.
I have done auto and manual re-scans and checked connections - all to no avail.
I live in Leigh and can see the Reigate transmitter on the top of Reigate hill.
Can you help please?
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Richard Cooper12:47 PM
Norwich
Andrew Corbett: Hi, Andrew. If you have ensured all connections are secure, all I can suggest is a 'first time installation retune or 'factory reset ' retune with the aerial completely disconnected first, so that your receiver will forget all previous data including any corrupted data, followed by replacing the aerial connection and then another 'first-time installation' or 'factory reset' re-tune. There are no reported problems on Reigate. Good Luck and let us know how you get on, Richard, Norwich.
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Andrew Corbett4:43 PM
Richard,
Firstly, thanks very much for your quick response.
Secondly, I have followed your instructions exactly and yet the same
channels are missing.
Andrew.
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Friday, 21 October 2016
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bill williams11:34 AM
Redhill
no digital signal rh1 3ap why
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StevensOnln112:14 PM
bill williams: There is currently a warning of possible weak signal due to engineering work for Reigate transmitter. Do not retune as this will delete all your channels.
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Wednesday, 12 July 2017
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Warburton10:28 PM
Freeview Channel 60 gives a weak signal strength and poor to non-existant signal quality.
All other Channels 21,24,27,53,57 have full strength and full quality. There is a large leafy tall tree in line of sight to transmitter. Why just channel 60 affected? What should I try?
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StevensOnln111:03 PM
Warburton: If all other muxes are at full strength then you may well be suffering with signal overload, where there is too much signal for the tuner to handle, which can give readings that look like a weak signal. By line of sight, do you mean that you are close enough to see the transmitter if the tree wasn't there? I would try an attenuator such as the one linked below which connects between your aerial and the TV and acts to reduce the signal level. There are different strengths available, so it may be worth getting 3dB, 6dB, 9dB etc and try each to see what brings the signal strength down enough to resolve the problem but without it going too low (you're aiming for a signal strength of around 70%-85%). If you need any further advice, please provide a full postcode so we can see where you are in relation to the transmitter and your predicted signal strength etc.
6dB Coax Plug Inline ATTENUATOR: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
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Warburton11:17 PM
StevensOnln1: Thanks. Since it is Channel 60 only I now wonder if it is 4G 800MHz related. I shall give at 80 a call.
Yes, I could see transmitter if tree were not there!
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Thursday, 13 July 2017
MikeP
10:53 AM
10:53 AM
Warburton:
Trees are well known to be able to cause selective reception problems, so I'm not surprised that only one channel is affected.
Check what signal strengths are reported for all the multiplexes on your TV set (the User Manual will tell you how). You should be aiming for at least 50% on SD and 60% on HD but not more than 85% on either. If your strengths are greater then you need an attenuator as suggested by StevensOnln1. If channel 60 is weaker than 50% then you may need to reposition your aerial, if possible, so it looks past the tree rather than through it.
If you put your full post code into this website, you can examine a mapping of the area and that will show whether any mobile masts are close enough to cause any problems. By all means contact at800 and if they consider it wise they may well provide a free filter to put in your aerial lead behind the TV set (use an extra flylead so the weight of the filter does not 'hang' on the aerial input socket).
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Monday, 20 November 2017
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StevensOnln14:53 PM
Bear: Reigate broadcasts the PSB3 multiplex, which carries BBC1 HD, BBC2 HD, ITV HD, Channel 4 HD, Channel 5 HD & CBBC HD. It doesn't broadcast COM7 or COM 8 which carry additional HD channels such as BBC4 HD, BBC News HD, CBeebies HD, Channel4 +1 HD, 4Seven HD, Al Jazeera HD, RT HD, BT Showcase HD and SD channels such as FreeSports, Forces TV, Keep It Country and various others. If you provide a full postcode you'll be able to access the Digital UK coverage checker, which will indicate whether Crystal Palace is likely to provide good reception at your location.
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Tuesday, 21 November 2017
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Bear12:10 AM
Crawley
Thanks for the feedback, my current Aerial I believe is picking up crystal palace however I do not get any of the. Hd channels but all the others are good strong signals with no interference may be my intergrated freeview set is just to old in the chipset! But to be honest when we put the Aerial up we just pointed in the general direction of other Aerials so perhaps I should grab a compass and check it out?
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StevensOnln110:30 AM
Bear: The coverage checker shows Crystal Palace to be the best transmitter at your location. If you don't have any HD channels on 101-115 then your TV does not have the correct tuner required for HD channels on Freeview (if your TV had a HD Ready or Full HD logo that just indicates the it can display a HD picture via a HDMI input). You would need a TV or set top box/PVR with the Freeview HD logo to receive HD channels.
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Bear2:33 PM
Crawley
Thanks Steve much appreciated.
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Tuesday, 13 February 2018
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David McDaniel8:42 PM
Transmitter engineering: I am very close to the Reigate transmitter and have no BBC normal channels and no HD channels at all for the last few days. I have retuned, and factory reset my Youview box multiple times and had my arial installer out today to check that it had not lost position. Any ideas?
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Wednesday, 14 February 2018
MikeP
10:36 AM
10:36 AM
David McDaniel:
Please can you tell us your full post code so we can check the predicted reception conditions for your location?
There are no reported engineering works at present on the Reigate transmitter so the problem has to be within your property, either a poor aerial connection or else a fault in the equipment.
By retuning your equipment has lost all of the previously saved tuning data, so it is always a bad idea to do a retune when 'No Signal' is reported. When you do get signals, what are the signal strengths shown as?
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Friday, 23 March 2018
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Gerry7:52 PM
Lost bbc1 and channels 2-9 for two days now. All other freeview channels working.
Why is this?
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StevensOnln111:39 PM
Gerry: Have you retuned since the frequency changes took place at Reigate on 21st March?
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Saturday, 24 March 2018
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Stuart12:03 PM
Why are they not informing customers of the change overs as people are set conned out of money to get a engineer out and paying money just for a retune.
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Nick Wade7:29 PM
Have tried various resets over the past few days, and have gone from 0 channels to 127, then to 60. Currently I am not picking up any TV at all on either my BT vision box, or the direct feed into the TV. This is very frustrating.
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Sunday, 25 March 2018
MikeP
1:29 PM
1:29 PM
Stuart:
They are providing the information at Digital UK | Planned engineering works
You must realise that there are over 1100 transmitters around the UK and that only some are having work done at any one time. So it is misleading to tell everybody about works that probably will not affect the majority.
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MikeP
1:31 PM
1:31 PM
Nick Wade:
We need a full post code to be able to offer any advice. It could be that your local transmitter has had some work done but without the full post code we cannot tell.
You should also check all the aerial connections behind the set as far as you can towards the aerial.
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Thursday, 12 April 2018
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Sue newington7:11 PM
Over the last year we kept loosing our picture 800 fitted a filter still the picture pixelated or we got no signal this happened most days ,we were told it was our Ariel , as l noticed the Reigate transmitter was being updated? we decided to have this done after ,so on the 21st of March we all in this area had to reset our TVs so glad l did it wasn't our Ariel which was going to be 180 because we have had no problems at all ,so after a year plus and many phone calls the problem has been sorted.
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Saturday, 3 November 2018
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Neil8:28 AM
Hi it seems quite a few of the channels changed over near the end of October 2018. The listing now, as far as I can tell, is below:
BBC A = Ch 23 = 490 MHz
D3&4 = Ch 26 = 514 MHz
BBC B HD = Ch 30 = 546 MHz
SDN = Ch 21 = 474 MHz
ARQ A = Ch 24 = 498 MHz
ARQ B = Ch 27 = 522 MHz
Hope this helps.
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MikeP
10:52 AM
10:52 AM
Neil:
Thank you for listing that here, the current correct information is available on the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker
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Friday, 1 February 2019
RH1 5AH
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Friday, 26 November 2021
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A Naran8:01 PM
I am having no signals or reception on all BBC Digital Channels and no Sky News on digital from the Reigate transmitter.
I was getting interference and break up on these channels so went through the procedure that you outlined and even put the tv's back to factory settings to wipe all the memory.
Then retuned the sets and all BBC and Sky News plus a few minor ones are now missing. Retuning has not resolved the issues
The problem has been ongoing for several months with weak signal messages and interference with picture break up
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Saturday, 27 November 2021
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Chris.SE3:34 PM
A Naran:
The transmitter is not currently listed for Planned Engineering and there doesn't seem to be any faults listed by the BBC.
Sky News is on a different multiplex (groups of channels) from the BBCA multiplex.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplexes.
The description of your problem suggests a fault on your installation.
You mention "sets" - do you have a distribution amp/splitter and where is it located? If you have one, check that it still has power and check the connections to it.
Other than that, check that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction with the rods (or squashed Xs) vertical (for Reigate) and that your downlead looks undamaged and isn't flapping in the wind.
Also check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them.
See what signal strengths (if any) and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate potential issues with your aerial or downlead.
If you post the figures for each it may give us a clue.
Aerial misalignments, problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just AN individual or several multiplexes.
If you've altered anything around in your installation since the problem started, check that you don't have any HDMI leads close to any aerial or flyleads, especially if the aerial and flyleads aren't high quality double screened types. HDMI is known to sometimes cause interference.
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Tuesday, 27 June 2023
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Hare11:59 AM
Dorking
During this time of high pressure we have two TV sets pixelating, one worse than the other. They are both old sets but it seems strange that both are suddenly showing the same problem. The less problematic is connected to a BT box. We have a signal booster in the attic and I've checked all connections.
Post code is RH5 5DZ
Any suggestions please
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Chris.SE1:40 PM
Hare:
The age of the sets will have little or no bearing on this problem, if it's the same aerial for both, then both will see the problematic reception which may vary slightly depending on how well each set can decode signals with interference.
Check you are correctly tuned to Reigate's UHF channels, especially for the COM multiplexes - SDN, ArqA & ArqB as you can receive Crystal Palace with variable reception, and such current weather conditions can cause interference from more distant transmitters in the UK or Europe and you'll be more vulnerable if not correctly tuned.
The Local mux is on UHF C35 (not mentioned above) but note reception of it may be variable under normal circumstances
Which channels are you having a specific problem with?
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