Freeview Light on the Upavon (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Upavon (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 1,800 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 Upavon (Wiltshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
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)




The Upavon (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5SELECT, 5STAR, 5USA, Aljazeera English, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, Together TV +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Film4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, FreeSports, HGTV, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, More4 +1, NOW 80s, Paramount Network, PBS America +1, pick, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sky Arts, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Sony Movies Action, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday +1.
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 Upavon 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 | V max | C23 (490.0MHz) | 167m | DTG-3 | 28W |
1 BBC One (SD) West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 601 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C30 (546.0MHz) | 167m | DTG-3 | 28W |
3 ITV (SD) (West), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 24 ITV4, 33 ITV +1 (West), | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C26 (514.0MHz) | 167m | DTG-6 | 28W |
74 Shopping Quarter , 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD, plus 1 others |
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 51 Freeview channels?
The Upavon (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5SELECT, 5STAR, 5USA, Aljazeera English, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, Together TV +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Film4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, FreeSports, HGTV, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, More4 +1, NOW 80s, Paramount Network, PBS America +1, pick, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sky Arts, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Sony Movies Action, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday +1.
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 Upavon transmitter?

BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 61km west-northwest (292°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.

ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 57km west-northwest (291°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Upavon (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
C30 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 70W | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 28W |
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Sunday, 5 July 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 3 Jul 21:13 until 3 Jul 21:15. . [BBC]
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Friday, 31 July 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 AM
7:28 AM
UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 30 Jul 07:10 until 30 Jul 07:27. . [BBC]
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Monday, 24 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:28 AM
10:28 AM
UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 21 Aug 10:10 until 21 Aug 11:40. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 30 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:28 AM
10:28 AM
UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 30 Aug 08:19 until 30 Aug 08:36. . [BBC]
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Monday, 7 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 30 Aug 08:19 until 30 Aug 08:36. . [BBC]
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Monday, 21 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 21 Sep 11:09 until 21 Sep 11:50. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:25 PM
10:25 PM
UPAVON transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 22 Sep 06:51 until 22 Sep 08:23. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 22 Sep 04:09 until 22 Sep 04:27. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 21 Sep 1 [BBC]
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