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Freeview reception at KY5 8DU

For reliable and stable Freeview reception, you need an unobstructed path between the TV aerial on your roof and the digital TV transmitter. The map below shows the transmitters predicted to provide a signal at this location.

You can click on any transmitter symbol to show the coverage area as a green overlay on the map. Double click on a transmitter symbol to go to the transmitter information page.

You can also view the ten closest potential '4G-at-800' mobile phone masts within 1.5km of the selected location - these masts may be used for 4G-at-800 mobile broadband services from 2013-2015.

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There are 2 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of KY58DU (page shows closest 10)

What do the map symbols mean?

EE, Multiple operators, O₂, 3, Vodafone, location on line-of-sight, Selected location, Freeview transmitter, Freeview light transmitter, Engineering/fault today.

These icons show the potential locations for 5G-at-700MHz services that may interfere with Freeview reception. For actual mobile device reception prediction (at 800-960MHz and 1710-2170MHz) see these phone operator's mapping sites: Three O2 EE VM

Predicted Freeview channel list

1	BBC One (SD)	Craigkelly Scotland	PSB1
2	BBC Two	Craigkelly Scotland	PSB1
3	STV (SD)	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
4	Channel 4 (SD)	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
5	Channel 5	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2

6	ITV 2	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
7	BBC Alba HD	Craigkelly Scotland	PSB1
8	STV Edinburgh	Craigkelly	LEH
8	STV Glasgow	Black Hill	LG
10	ITV3	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2

11	Sky Mix	Craigkelly	COM5
12	Quest	Craigkelly	COM6
13	E4	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
14	Film4	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
15	Channel 4 +1	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2

17	Really	Craigkelly	COM5
18	More4	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
19	Dave	Craigkelly	COM5
20	Drama	Craigkelly	COM4
21	5USA	Craigkelly	COM4

23	BBC Three	Craigkelly Scotland	PSB1
24	BBC Four (Scotland SD)	Craigkelly Scotland	PSB1
25	W	Craigkelly	COM6
26	ITV4	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
27	Yesterday	Craigkelly	COM6

28	ITVBe	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
29	ITV2 +1	Craigkelly	COM4
30	E4 +1	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
31	E4 Extra	Craigkelly	COM5
32	5STAR	Craigkelly	COM4

33	5Action	Craigkelly	COM4
34	GREAT! movies	Craigkelly	COM6
35	STV+1	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
35	ITV1 +1	Craigkelly STV Central (Edinburgh)	PSB2
36	Sky Arts	Craigkelly	COM5

38	Channel 5 +1	Craigkelly	COM4
39	DMAX	Craigkelly	COM6
40	Quest Red	Craigkelly	COM5
41	Legend	Craigkelly	COM4
42	GREAT! action	Craigkelly	COM4

43	Food Network	Craigkelly	COM5
44	HGTV	Craigkelly	COM6
46	5SELECT	Craigkelly	PSB3
47	Film4 +1	Craigkelly	COM5
48	Challenge	Craigkelly	COM5

49	4seven	Craigkelly	COM5
52	GREAT! romance	Craigkelly	COM6
56	That's TV (UK)	Craigkelly	COM6
57	Dave ja vu	Craigkelly	COM4
58	ITV3 +1	Craigkelly	COM4

59	ITV4 +1	Craigkelly	COM4
60	Drama +1	Craigkelly	COM5
63	GREAT! romance mix	Craigkelly	COM6
64	Blaze	Craigkelly	COM4
65	That's TV 2	Craigkelly	COM5

67	TRUE CRIME	Craigkelly	COM4
68	TRUE CRIME XTRA	Craigkelly	COM4
70	Quest +1	Craigkelly	COM5
71	That’s 60s	Craigkelly	COM6
73	HobbyMaker	Craigkelly	COM6

74	Yesterday +1	Craigkelly	COM5
75	That's 90s	Craigkelly	COM5
78	TCC	Craigkelly	COM4
81	Blaze +1	Craigkelly	COM4
82	Talking Pictures TV	Craigkelly	COM6

83	Together TV	Craigkelly	COM4
84	PBS America	Craigkelly	COM6
91	WildEarth	Craigkelly	COM4
93	ITVBe +1	Craigkelly	COM4
101	BBC One HD	Craigkelly	PSB3

102	BBC Two HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
103	UTV HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
103	STV HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
103	ITV 1 HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
104	Channel 4 HD	Craigkelly	PSB3

105	Channel 5 HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
106	BBC Four HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
107	BBC Three HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
108	BBC Scotland HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
110	Channel 4 HD (Wales)	Craigkelly	PSB3

201	CBBC	Craigkelly Scotland	PSB1
202	CBeebies	Craigkelly Scotland	PSB1
204	CBBC HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
205	CBeebies HD	Craigkelly	PSB3
209	Ketchup TV	Craigkelly	COM4

210	Ketchup Too	Craigkelly	COM4
211	YAAAS!	Craigkelly	COM4
231	BBC News	Craigkelly Scotland	PSB1
232	BBC Parliament	Craigkelly Scotland	PSB1
233	Sky News	Craigkelly	COM5

235	Al Jazeera Eng	Craigkelly	COM6
267	Al Jazeera English	Craigkelly	COM4

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Comments

Thursday, 3 April 2014

ciaran mcparland
6:57 AM
Birmingham

How long are the singles in Birmingham going to be down for

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Briantist

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7:23 AM

ciaran mcparland: There are no reported problems: can you see My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice ?

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Tuesday, 15 April 2014

andy ianson
11:53 PM
Preston

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Thursday, 17 April 2014

ann gillespie
10:37 PM
Dungannon

I cant get rte1 on my soarview 2010 H D box I have retuned it .t v ariel is on pole close to house

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Saturday, 19 April 2014

David Moore
10:23 AM
Cambridge

Hi
For the past week I am getting low/ in the early mornings, until 10.30-11.00am, by which time the full signal is restored and the all free view tv's in my house work fine.
Are you running tests or at reduced overnight ?
I can't see it is my equipment as by late morning everything is fine again each day
Please advise

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jb38

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4:57 PM

David Moore: As indications are that no work is / or has been taking place at the Sandy last week then the problem you are experiencing could possibly be down to the normal seasonal night / daytime fluctuations in levels experienced by many viewers residing in non line-of-sight situations such as shown on the terrain indicator as applying in the case of your location, multiple obstructions to the path being seen starting from approximately 3.5miles from same.

The effect of these variations are not really noticed by most except in cases where the signal being received is sitting at a level that is not that terribly far above that necessary to resolve a , i.e: the threshold, and so its really a case of when you refer to "low" or "full" signal what does this represent in strength / indications?

The other point I wondered about being, as more than one TV is involved are all TV's being used fed from a splitter? powered or otherwise!

The obstructions referred to being seen by opening the undermentioned link.

Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location

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Grace
5:19 PM
Exeter

I live in a very rural area on high ground at Telegraph Hill with no neighbours close by on the main A380 between the M5 and South Devon. I have a Panasonic free view HD TV set and get my using an outdoor from the TV . It works very well. My partner has been told that if we want to get the additional free view HD we will need to change our aerial and have it pointing in a different direction towards a transmitter called about 15 miles away. I contacted two aerial contractors today. One said that as our bungalow is on the south side of the hill and has a clear line of sight towards the Beacon Hill transmitter we should have no problems at all in getting BBC 4 and BBC News HD when the service begins shortly, but the transmitter we now use is not being upgraded for these new HD , hence the need to change. The other said he wouldn't recommend it. He said that a different television transmitter not very far away at uses the same frequencies as Beacon Hill and is as strong as Beacon Hill in our elevated , that he feels could possibly cause problems with and in addition as we have a mobile phone mast close by to our home that will soon carry some 4G signals used by mobile phones, we will need to have a special filter fitted along the to get the BBC channels. He said he recommends we get Free sat HD that would cost us more money to and also will require a but we then we will get lots of HD channels. A very different set of opinions - what do the people here think here? Thank you, I am a novice. Grace

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7:46 PM

Grace: Hello from Gloucestershire. I had and I live 800 feet above sea level.
The from the was appalling. Whenever the sun shines the
pictures disappear so I changed to . Yes you need a dish and a freesat box.
The dish will cost about £150 and the box is £50 BUT the is brilliant on all (including radio). When the new BBC HD channels started they all appeared automatically on FREESAT, no retuning needed either.

I would recommend you seriously consider Freesat.

A.Black.

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jb38

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8:55 PM

Grace: Although I fully agree with A.Black that is really the answer to solving the extra problem in your particular situation due to technical snags in trying to use a alternative or a combination of two of them.

But apart from that I would advise "not" making any changes to your present arrangements until after Beacon Hills new service has started and you are able to conduct a on your Panasonic to find out if any traces of a is being picked up from 's new COM7, as although your is slightly out as far as picking up a signal on its rear is concerned, "if" a signal of any magnitude is being received it should still appear on the signal level bars, possibly giving a yellow indication on both.

The procedure involves pressing "menu" on your Panasonic's remote control then selecting DVB tuning / manual tune and entering (Beacon Hills COM7) into the box but "not" followed by pressing search.

It all hinges on whether or not Beacon Hill is indeed a clear line-of-sight from your location? as the terrain indicator suggests that its not, DUK's predictor somewhat backing this up by zero reception being indicated on the two main PSB channels (BBC & ITV1) and with poor reception on the normal HD service plus SDN (ITV3 etc) and ArqA (Pick TV etc) variable being indicated on ArqB (4 Music etc) including COM7.

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Grace
10:27 PM
Exeter

Thanks for such a prompt reply. I have managed to locate exactly where our property is by zooming in on the map attached to this website and it looks as if our property and the nearby road junction is right underneath a small strip of green indicating that the in Torbay would be available to us, if of course the map is accurate! There are many areas close by where the map suggests there is from this transmitter, but they are largely uninhabited areas of forest. We get excellent listening to Torbay's Palm Radio on 105.5fm, but friends who live in the nearby village at Kennford get terrible reception from that community radio , and are only able to listen to the Exeter ones. So we must be in shouting distance of some broadcasts coming from the Torbay area at least, so fingers crossed for the TV too. Grace

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