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Freeview reception at HU1 3RB


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 30 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of HU13RB (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

1BBC One (SD)Belmont East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePSB1
2BBC TwoBelmont East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePSB1
3ITV 1 (SD)Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
4Channel 4 (SD)Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
5Channel 5Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
 
6ITV 2Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
7Estuary TV DoncasterBelmont LDN
9BBC FourBelmont East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePSB1
10ITV3Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
11Sky MixBelmont COM5
 
12QuestBelmont COM6
13E4Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
14Film4Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
15Channel 4 +1Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
17ReallyBelmont COM5
 
18More4Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
19DaveBelmont COM5
20DramaBelmont COM4
215USABelmont COM4
23BBC ThreeBelmont East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePSB1
 
25WBelmont COM6
26ITV4Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
27YesterdayBelmont COM6
28ITVBeBelmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
29ITV2 +1Belmont COM4
 
30E4 +1Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
31E4 ExtraBelmont COM5
325STARBelmont COM4
335ActionBelmont COM4
34GREAT! moviesBelmont COM6
 
35ITV1 +1Belmont Yorkshire (Belmont)PSB2
36Sky ArtsBelmont COM5
38Channel 5 +1Belmont COM4
39DMAXBelmont COM6
40Quest RedBelmont COM5
 
41LegendBelmont COM4
42GREAT! actionBelmont COM4
43Food NetworkBelmont COM5
44HGTVBelmont COM6
465SELECTBelmont PSB3
 
47Film4 +1Belmont COM5
48ChallengeBelmont COM5
494sevenBelmont COM5
52GREAT! romanceBelmont COM6
56That's TV (UK)Belmont COM6
 
57Dave ja vuBelmont COM4
58ITVBe +1Belmont COM4
59ITV3 +1Belmont COM4
60Drama +1Belmont COM5
61GREAT! movies extraBelmont COM6
 
63GREAT! romance mixBelmont COM6
64BlazeBelmont COM4
65That's TV 2Belmont COM5
67TRUE CRIMEBelmont COM4
68TRUE CRIME XTRABelmont COM4
 
70Quest +1Belmont COM5
71That’s 60sBelmont COM6
73HobbyMakerBelmont COM6
74Yesterday +1Belmont COM5
75That's 90sBelmont COM5
 
78TCCBelmont COM4
81Blaze +1Belmont COM4
82Talking Pictures TVBelmont COM6
83Together TVBelmont COM4
84PBS AmericaBelmont COM6
 
89ITV4 +1Belmont COM4
91WildEarthBelmont COM4
101BBC One HDBelmont PSB3
102BBC Two HDBelmont PSB3
103UTV HDBelmont PSB3
 
103STV HDBelmont PSB3
103ITV 1 HDBelmont PSB3
104Channel 4 HDBelmont PSB3
105Channel 5 HDBelmont PSB3
106BBC Four HDBelmont PSB3
 
107BBC Three HDBelmont PSB3
108BBC Scotland HDBelmont PSB3
110Channel 4 HD (Wales)Belmont PSB3
201CBBCBelmont East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePSB1
202CBeebiesBelmont East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePSB1
 
204CBBC HDBelmont PSB3
205CBeebies HDBelmont PSB3
209Ketchup TVBelmont COM4
210Ketchup TooBelmont COM4
211YAAAS!Belmont COM4
 
231BBC NewsBelmont East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePSB1
232BBC ParliamentBelmont East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePSB1
233Sky NewsBelmont COM5
235Al Jazeera EngBelmont COM6
267Al Jazeera EnglishBelmont COM4
 

 

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Comments
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
MikeP
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12:47 PM

Chelsea
A small indoor portable aerial will not work inside a caravan! The metal body of the van will prevent any signal reaching the aerial.
You need a 'log periodic' aerial, to cover all possible transmiters where you park up, and ideally with an easily erected mast 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 reception (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 transmitter serving the area you are staying and you need to check whether the cross arms need to be sert horizontal or vertical (the picture 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 channel 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.)
Hope that helps?

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Anthony
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1:39 PM
Accrington

MikeP: high gain wideband aerials are better as they pick up much more signal;bbc reception 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 gain wide band aerials do not have a 'flat' frequency response (usually poorer at the lower channels 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 reception at all the camp sites I visited in England, Wales and Scotland, even in realtively poor recption areas. It was crucual to align the aerial 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 services as the tuner gets 'swamped' and what signal is received cannot be decoded so giving the 'No Signal' 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 wideband high gain aerial in accrington lancashire horizontally polarised for full freeview hd reception from Winter Hill tx near bolton and I get ALL freeview sd and hd services without a problem and consistently GOOD quality reception with high signal strength and high quality levels. The further away from the transmitter 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 loft 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 channels are used across the country so an aerial capable of equally good reception 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 transmitter, so a 32 or 48 element may well be too high gain and result in the ubiquitous 'No Signal' 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 Leek transmitter with regular picture breakups. Why can't we receive many stations that other freeview transmitters 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 Leek transmitter 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 signal is due to the Fenton 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 reception on my freeview tv keeps loosing signal. What can be the cause?

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Thursday, 5 June 2014
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Anna Doughty
8:04 PM
Nottingham

Tonight we have pixilating , picture 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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