Full Freeview on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter which serves 4,490,000 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 Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) mast?
Crystal Palace transmitter - Crystal Palace transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/05/2023 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 Crystal Palace 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 Crystal Palace transmitter?
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 11km north-northwest (334°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 11km north-northwest (345°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Charlton Athletic | Transposer | Redeveloped north stand Charlton Athletic Football Club | 130 homes |
| Deptford | Transposer | south-east London | 100 homes |
| Greenford | Transposer | 12 km N Heathrow Airport | 203 homes |
| Hendon | Transposer | Graham Park estate | 50 homes |
| White City | Transposer | 9 km W central London | 80 homes |
How will the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 21 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C25 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C29 | LW | ||||||||
| C30 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | -BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | com7 | |||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 | 1000kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
| com7 | (-13.7dB) 43.1kW | |
| com8 | (-14dB) 39.8kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LW | (-17dB) 20kW |
Local transmitter maps
Crystal Palace Freeview Crystal Palace DAB Crystal Palace TV region BBC London LondonWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Wednesday, 3 October 2012
C
chris Glass8:50 PM
3rd oct 2012
whats happened to digital signals from london
bbc 24hr news and all other channels on the
same multiplex uhf 23
for the last 10 days or so
signal strengh has fallen so these channels are now unwatchable
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Sunday, 7 October 2012
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Ian9:34 PM
Our new television (a few months old) has a habit of losing the picture which can only be restored by switching it off and on again. This also happened to our old digital television - an occurrence that caused us to buy the new one. The new TV has been checked by an engineer and the master board changed and software updated - to no effect. We have noticed that the problem occurs at 2045 most evenings - does something take place at your end at this time of night?
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jb3811:22 PM
Ian: When you say "losing the picture" are you meaning only the Freeview picture?
The other point being, that by you not having revealed your location (post code or one from nearby eg: a shop) then its impossible to check details of the transmitter covering your area as you could be located anywhere in the UK.
Another aspect that it would be beneficial to know is if your aerial system is exclusively yours or is it communal?
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Friday, 19 October 2012
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Piers12:21 PM
Hi I have a Humax PVR 9200T. I have retunned as instructed since the last but one retune the program information or synopsis is no longer recorded. If I press the info button while watching a recorded program the overlay comes up with the channel ID but is otherwise blank, it used to tell me about the program/episode I was watching now it does not. Does this happen to anyone else ? And is there anything I can do to fix it ?
Thanks
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012
lisa
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
I am in Rayleigh, postcode SS6, and my reception from BBCA mux has just gone. Is it me or is it a problem at the transmitter?
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Tuesday, 6 November 2012
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andy7:26 PM
Chelmsford
for the last 3 weeks i cannot get any signal from the crystal palace transmitter.
the aerial and all coax cable is aproximate 18 months old. the coax is pf100
i have retuned several times, i have 1 tv also 18 months old with freeview built in and an old analogue tv with bt vision box. both have the same problem,
i am currently getting 19 tv channels which i beleive are from sudbury (BBC EAST)these can sometimes be flaky
before you ask the aerial has not been moved it is pointing towards crystal palace and is pointing in the same direction as other aerials in the road.
if i could be sure the sudbury signal would not reduce i would adjust aerial to that
i also notice a couple of houses further along the road have had aerial engineers out recently so i am guessing it is not my set up.
i would be happy
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Wednesday, 21 November 2012
J
J. Hill5:41 PM
I am at Caterham 12 miles from Crystal Palace. Like Andrew I had a problem with momentary drop outs cutting out words and making strips across the screen. The problem was that the signal from the aerial was hugely too strong. A 21db attenuator has solved the problem for all our TVs. No more squawking!
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Sunday, 25 November 2012
M
mike9:56 AM
Brentwood
Hutton Brentwood (CM13)
Can't get HD
Aerial aligned with Crystal palace tried manually tuning our Samsung UE40D5000
Crystal palace - HD on - C30- (545.8MHz)
Sudbury - HD on - C47 (682.0MHz)
Bluebell Hill - HD on - C40 (626.0MHz)
and still can't pick up HD everything but
Maps suggest we are in a black hole for reception except perhaps Bluebell hill. Any suggestions eg realign aerial to Bluebell Hill and retune - but that means getting on the roof! Don't want sky! anything else we can do eg getting a better signal booster?
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KMJ,Derby10:32 AM
mike: The Samsung UE40D5000 is fitted with a DVB-T (standard definition) tuner. To receive the Freeview HD channels you will need a Freeview HD box incorporating a DVB-T2 tuner.
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Monday, 26 November 2012
M
mike6:46 AM
Thanks KMJ - seems some descriptions do say it has an HD Tuner but others says it lacks an HD tuner. I guess that explains it.
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