Full Freeview on the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmitter which serves 120,000 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 Caldbeck (Cumbria, 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)
Which Freeview channels does the Caldbeck 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Caldbeck transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 97km east-northeast (77°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Lookaround 0.2m homes 0.7%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 17km northeast (45°)
to ITV Border England region - 33 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees
Are there any self-help relays?
| Boreland | Active deflector | 25 km NE Dumfries | 22 homes School |
| Carsphairn | Transposer | 35 km SE Ayr | 84 homes |
| Crosby Garrett | Active deflector | 35 km N Dumbarton | 42 homes |
| Deepdale | Active deflector | 20 km SW Penrith | 20 homes |
| Eskdalemuir B | Active deflector | 45 km NW Carlisle | 31 homes |
| Keld | Active deflector | 30 km E Sedbergh | 17 homes |
| Stainton | Transposer | 8km W Penrith | 251 homes (low lying area of housing) |
How will the Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 25 Mar 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | W T | W T | W T | A K T | ||||
| C11 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C23 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C24 | -D3+4 | ||||||||
| C25 | -BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C26 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C27 | -BBCA | ||||||||
| C28 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C29 | -ArqB | LOCAL2 | |||||||
| C30 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | -BBCB | ArqB | ||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | |||||
| C33 | _local | ||||||||
| C34 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | _local |
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 24 Jun 09 and 22 Jul 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB, PSB3 sc | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, PSB1 sc, PSB2 sc | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com8 | (-11.5dB) 35.8kW | |
| com7 | (-12dB) 31.9kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A* | (-15.2dB) 15kW | |
| Analogue 5, Mux 1* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| Mux B* | (-21.9dB) 3.2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW |
Local transmitter maps
Caldbeck Freeview Caldbeck DAB Caldbeck TV region BBC North East and Cumbria Border (England)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caldbeck transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 15 February 2018
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StevensOnln110:50 AM
Ogilvie Jackson: The Scottish muxes are not being removed from Caldbeck, according to Digital UK PSB1/2 Scotland are remaining on UHF channels 27/24 and PSB3 Scotland is moving to 21 in Summer 2019. COM7 and COM8 are moving to form single frequency networks on UHF channels 55 and 56 (this change will happen at Caldbeck in Summer 2019) where they will remain until they close some time between mid 2020 and 2022 (no date has yet been announced). PSB3 England will also move to UHF channel 22 and COM6 will move to 30 on a different date in Summer 2019.
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Thursday, 8 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
CALDBECK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 07:11 today to 07:13 today. [BBC]
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Friday, 9 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:29 AM
4:29 AM
CALDBECK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 07:11 yesterday to 07:13 yesterday. [BBC]
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Saturday, 10 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:29 AM
4:29 AM
CALDBECK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 07:11 on 08 Mar to 07:13 on 08 Mar. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
3:08 PM
3:08 PM
CALDBECK transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:47 today. [BBC]
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Monday, 30 April 2018
Brian.....'re. Caldbeck 2019.
Will the power outputs be the same or increased for Caldbeck mixes. (especially Com 7 and 8) post 2019 ?
thanks
Ogilvie
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StevensOnln14:12 PM
Ogilvie Jackson: According to Digital UK, COM7 & COM8 will see a slight decrease in power when they change frequencies at Caldbeck next year.
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Monday, 21 May 2018
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Ron heron11:34 AM
I live in Whitehaven. My TV aerial is directed onto Calbeck transmitter. I always loose about half of the TV channels whenever there is good sunny warm weather, mostly BBC channels remain unaffected, but ITV and the rest are broken up or lost altogether. in 'normal ' weather ( cloudy/ p'ing down! ) all channels are received ok. Why do I loose channels in fine weather ??
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MikeP
12:12 PM
12:12 PM
Ron heron:
Please give a full post code so we can see the predicted reception conditions at your location. Also check what the signal strengths are as shown on your TV, usually found on the manual tuning page - but do not retune. If your sugnal strength is above 85% then your have too much signal and that is known to cause the symptoms you describe.
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Tuesday, 7 August 2018
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Harold 4:37 PM
Ca156pw roof mounted wideband aerial Goodmans free view hd box when tuned to caldbeck shows all but 7 and 8 national as west Cumbria but national7&8 as separate region. And box will only allow one region to be tuned so can not view all channels without retuning box.
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