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Freeview reception at AL6 0SB

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 7 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of AL60SB (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)	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB1
2	BBC Two	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB1
3	ITV 1 (SD)	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2
4	Channel 4 (SD)	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2
5	Channel 5	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2

6	ITV 2	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2
9	BBC Four	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB1
10	ITV3	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2
11	Sky Mix	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
12	Quest	Hemel Hempstead	COM6

13	E4	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2
14	Film4	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2
15	Channel 4 +1	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2
17	Really	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
18	More4	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2

19	Dave	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
20	Drama	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
21	5USA	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
23	BBC Three	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB1
25	W	Hemel Hempstead	COM6

26	ITV4	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2
27	Yesterday	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
28	ITVBe	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2
29	ITV2 +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
30	E4 +1	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2

31	E4 Extra	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
32	5STAR	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
33	5Action	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
34	GREAT! movies	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
35	ITV1 +1	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB2

36	Sky Arts	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
38	Channel 5 +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
39	DMAX	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
40	Quest Red	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
41	Legend	Hemel Hempstead	COM4

42	GREAT! action	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
43	Food Network	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
44	HGTV	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
46	5SELECT	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
47	Film4 +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM5

48	Challenge	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
49	4seven	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
52	GREAT! romance	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
56	That's TV (UK)	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
57	Dave ja vu	Hemel Hempstead	COM4

58	ITVBe +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
59	ITV3 +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
60	Drama +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
61	GREAT! movies extra	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
63	GREAT! romance mix	Hemel Hempstead	COM6

64	Blaze	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
65	That's TV 2	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
67	TRUE CRIME	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
68	TRUE CRIME XTRA	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
70	Quest +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM5

71	That’s 60s	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
73	HobbyMaker	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
74	Yesterday +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
75	That's 90s	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
78	TCC	Hemel Hempstead	COM4

81	Blaze +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
82	Talking Pictures TV	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
83	Together TV	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
84	PBS America	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
89	ITV4 +1	Hemel Hempstead	COM4

91	WildEarth	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
101	BBC One HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
102	BBC Two HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
103	UTV HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
103	ITV 1 HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3

103	STV HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
104	Channel 4 HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
105	Channel 5 HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
106	BBC Four HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
107	BBC Three HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3

108	BBC Scotland HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
110	Channel 4 HD (Wales)	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
201	CBBC	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB1
202	CBeebies	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB1
204	CBBC HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3

205	CBeebies HD	Hemel Hempstead	PSB3
209	Ketchup TV	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
210	Ketchup Too	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
211	YAAAS!	Hemel Hempstead	COM4
231	BBC News	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB1

232	BBC Parliament	Hemel Hempstead London	PSB1
233	Sky News	Hemel Hempstead	COM5
235	Al Jazeera Eng	Hemel Hempstead	COM6
267	Al Jazeera English	Hemel Hempstead	COM4

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Comments

Wednesday, 28 May 2014

MikeP

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12:47 PM

Chelsea
A small indoor portable will not work inside a caravan! The metal body of the van will prevent any reaching the aerial.
You need a 'log periodic' aerial, to cover all possible transmiters where you park up, and ideally with an easily erected system. Might be worth looking at Labgear LABLPC 400mm 9dB Compact Log Periodic 20: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics (others are available) but this is a short type and some areas may need a stronger (longer arm with more cross elements) to recieve the weaker signals better.
There are types available to mount on the A-frame of your caravan and others that are ground mounted with guy ropes. You will always need to adjust the direction it is pointing so it is aimed at the serving the area you are staying and you need to check whether the cross arms need to be sert horizontal or vertical (the linked to above is set horizontal).
When you know where you ar likely to be staying, check which is the local transmitter and not the polarity (H or V) and the numbers for the multiplexes provided. When at your location, erect the aerial, aim it roughly with a compass (there is information on this sire about the exact location of all the UK TV transmitters and you have to work out the compass bearing between that and your location), set the polarity (the aerial instruction book will tell you how, so worth reading it) and thenconnect the TV and retune it - again using the TV instruction manual noting you may need to do do a complete reset from an 'initial installation' setting. The manual should tell you how to do that. (That is necessary to eliminate all previous settings that would be for a different location.)
that helps?

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Anthony

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1:39 PM
Accrington

MikeP: high aerials are better as they pick up much more ;bbc information recommend these types of aerial for caravanning camping and boating holidays because transmitters their polarizations transmission patterns can vary widely as can terrain and line of sight and local topography. A wideband high gain aerial of at least 32 or 48 elements should ensure max signal reception.

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MikeP

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8:11 PM

Anthony
High wide band aerials do not have a 'flat' response (usually poorer at the lower end), that's why the current advice is to use a log-periodic as they have a much more even response across the whole band that is currently in use and will be so for the foreseeable future. So your suggestion is not ideal for this situation.
I always used a log-periodic on a pole with guys and had decent at all the camp sites I visited in England, and Scotland, even in realtively poor recption areas. It was crucual to align the correctly of course. I used a battery (of the car type) powered 14" TV set and never had problems. Others did not have log-periodics and had reception problems that even I as an experienced TV service engineer could not resolve - the aerials were just not up to the job.

I note you are suggesting 32 or 48 element aerials. These have a much narrower reception angle pattern and are far more difficult to allign correctly - and may not be at all suited to the more difficult local terrain conditions. Further, you should m=not be aiming to get 'maximum' signal strength but adequate, too much will mean no reception of some as the tuner gets 'swamped' and what signal is received cannot be decoded so giving the '' warning. Likewise too little will result in apparent loss of some programmes on the weaker multiplexes. You need the TV rto display a strength between 50% and 80%, less or more is not good!

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Anthony

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8:52 PM
Accrington

MikeP: I use a 48 element high aerial in accrington lancashire horizontally polarised for full from tx near bolton and I get ALL freeview sd and hd without a problem and consistently GOOD reception with high signal strength and high quality levels. The further away from the you are the better the aerial you need;also what you conveniently ignoring and forgetting is that some winter hill viewers in north east lancashire need such good aerials and cabling jobs because there is a wind farm near oswaldtwistle over the tops which is causing reception problems, in that case a log periodic aerial horizontally polarized to winter hill would not solve this effectively at all.

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Thursday, 29 May 2014

Dave Lindsay

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2:58 PM

chelsea : See here for some ideas:

TV Aerials for Boats and Caravans

I vouch for the good design of the DM Log. Although it's fixed in my I can see that its elements are more rugged than other logs with round elements. The tilting bracket may also be useful for touring.

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MikeP

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8:41 PM

Antony
You are talking of a fixed installation at your location, the answer was aimed at a question from Chelsea concerning a moveable system suitable for use with a mobile caravan/tent. The two are quite different requirements, especially as different are used across the country so an capable of equally good everywhere is required - only a log-periodic can provide that and any form of Yagi cannot by its very design. A 'wide band' does not give even reception across all channels, which is a primary requirement of any 'mobile' system.
One other problem with a mobile system is that at some locations it can be very near a , so a 32 or 48 element may well be too high and result in the ubiquitous '' message due to excessive gain. Or it may be quite distant from a transmitter in which case the alignment with a high gain aerial becomes far more critical. The acceptance angle of a 48 element can be as little as 3 degrees which is very hard for an amateur to set up accurately - especially if it is raining or blowing a gale at the camp/caravan site.

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Dave Proctor
11:48 PM
Stoke-on-trent

We can only receive freeview from the transmitter with regular breakups. Why can't we receive many stations that other put out ,like ITV 3 and ITV4 and many others??

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Friday, 30 May 2014

Dave Lindsay

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1:13 AM

Dave Proctor: The reason that the does not broadcast the Commercial multiplexes because the operators don't want to pay. See:

Leek (Staffordshire, England) Freeview Light transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice

Perhaps the breakup in the is due to the transmitter which uses the same frequencies. It would also appear to be the case that you do not have line-of-sight with Leek.

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E Brain
8:58 AM

Every morning at approx. 8.30=9.00 am the on my tv keeps loosing signal. What can be the cause?

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Thursday, 5 June 2014

Anna Doughty
8:04 PM
Nottingham

Tonight we have pixilating , break up, high pitched noises in between sound breaking up, this happen s quite regularly and yet the set works perfectly in between, we have not touched any settings, it used to happen more when it was windy, but now
even when still.

Any ideas anyone? really annoying if you want to watch something.

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