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The symbol shows the location of the Seagry Court (Swindon, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Seagry Court (Swindon, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Seagry Court 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C39+ (618.2MHz)154mDTG-20W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C42 (642.0MHz)154mDTG-20W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (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, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C45 (666.0MHz)154mDTG-20W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
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the effected channels

The Seagry Court (Swindon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, 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 Seagry Court transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 59km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 56km west-southwest (253°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)

How will the Seagry Court (Swindon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1327 Feb 2018
B E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K T
C39BBCA
C40SDN
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves+BBCA
C42D3+4
C43ArqA
C44BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCB
C45BBCB
C46ArqB
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C51tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 20W
Analogue 1-4(-4dB) 8W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Seagry Court was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Thursday, 3 May 2018
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Chris
8:54 PM

StevensOnln1: Hi. Is there anything you can suggest we do. I don't understand how we had COM5 after the Seagry upgrade in Feb/Mar and then lost it a few days ago. Thanks, Chris

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StevensOnln1
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11:05 PM

Chris: What signal strength and quality readings are you getting on the other muxes?

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Friday, 4 May 2018
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Chris
7:49 AM

StevensOnln1: Morning. I've tried to look at that but I don't think I'm able to tell that as I can't find anything on my Samsung TV that gives me the option to look at this. The only thing I know is that we don't get any issues you could put down to a weak signal - image quality, intermittent loss of channel etc, on the other muxes. Cheers Chris

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MikeB
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10:43 AM

Chris: go to setup and then into tuning. Manual tune will allow you to look at a particular channel and it should tell you what the strength and quality is. Samsung is a bit more complex than the others, but have a look on Google for guidance.

It could be that your tuned to the wrong transmitter, or have not yet retuned. Or your system is at fault.

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Chris
12:15 PM

MikeB: Thanks Mike. Appreciate the response. I did a search after I posted and I can see there is a way to do this on a Samsung TV but its in the least obvious Menu Option. I'll check tonight, make sure I can do it and post an update then. Thanks again. Chris

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Chris
5:27 PM

MikeB: Hi Mike. Signal Strength is between 90 and 100, depending on Channel. Bit Error Level (I assume this is a measure of Quality) is 0 on all. I have retuned each day and still no joy. I'm confident we are Seagry - Aerial ponits in that direction, we've had only a few digital channels (approx 30) until Feb/Mar 2018, when we got over 100 and that was the first time we got Pick, Challenge etc. They have been fine upto the last week, when we lost them and can't get them now. Another user has reported a similar problem. Thanks Chris.

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MikeB
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10:55 PM

Chris: That's a really high signal straight- I would normally assume you'd get the tuner blanking out from that level.

It sounds like you did have the local light transmitter, but then you retuned automatically, and then you got the full range from another transmitter. And then you lost That.

Some Samsung's have needed a software patch, etc to cope with the frequency changes, but it's might be similar for you to start with the basics. Put your postcode into your next reply, and it should generate automatically a lot of data regarding your position. At the moment we have no idea as to what signal you should get or could get, and therefore what you should expect.

You should be able to find out what transmitter you are on from a) the number of channels and b) by looking at what channel BBC1 is broadcast on when you go to manual tuning. If it matches the channel number at the top of the page, you know you on that one.

The direction of the aerial would also be useful. And check your cables - if you have lost a mux etc then that's often a key factor.

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Tuesday, 8 May 2018
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Chris
9:50 AM
Swindon

MikeB: Hi Mike. Oddly we've got COM5 channels back. I rescanned over the weekend and we now have 138 channels. Again, the signal strength is 95-100 on those channels. My postcode is SN2 2TG. I checked what you suggested and I am, and have been, picking up Seagry all the time. Seagry is very close to SN2 2Tg. Other transmitters we 'could' pick up in my area are Mendip and Oxford but they are quite some way away and our aerial is not pointing to those. Cheers C

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Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Transmitter engineering
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3:06 PM

SEAGRY COURT transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:43 today to 12:19 today. [BBC]

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Thursday, 17 May 2018
Transmitter engineering
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5:28 AM

SEAGRY COURT transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:43 yesterday to 12:19 yesterday. [BBC]

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