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Freeview reception at WV1 2UH


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 18 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of WV12UH (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)Sutton Coldfield West MidlandsPSB1
2BBC TwoSutton Coldfield West MidlandsPSB1
3ITV 1 (SD)Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
4Channel 4 (SD)Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
5Channel 5Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
 
6ITV 2Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
7Big Centre TVSutton Coldfield LB
9BBC FourSutton Coldfield West MidlandsPSB1
10ITV3Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
11Sky MixSutton Coldfield COM5
 
12QuestSutton Coldfield COM6
13E4Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
14Film4Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
15Channel 4 +1Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
17ReallySutton Coldfield COM5
 
18More4Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
19DaveSutton Coldfield COM5
20DramaSutton Coldfield COM4
215USASutton Coldfield COM4
23BBC ThreeSutton Coldfield West MidlandsPSB1
 
25WSutton Coldfield COM6
26ITV4Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
27YesterdaySutton Coldfield COM6
28ITVBeSutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
29ITV2 +1Sutton Coldfield COM4
 
30E4 +1Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
31E4 ExtraSutton Coldfield COM5
325STARSutton Coldfield COM4
335ActionSutton Coldfield COM4
34GREAT! moviesSutton Coldfield COM6
 
35ITV1 +1Sutton Coldfield Central (West)PSB2
36Sky ArtsSutton Coldfield COM5
38Channel 5 +1Sutton Coldfield COM4
39DMAXSutton Coldfield COM6
40Quest RedSutton Coldfield COM5
 
41LegendSutton Coldfield COM4
42GREAT! actionSutton Coldfield COM4
43Food NetworkSutton Coldfield COM5
44HGTVSutton Coldfield COM6
465SELECTSutton Coldfield PSB3
 
47Film4 +1Sutton Coldfield COM5
48ChallengeSutton Coldfield COM5
494sevenSutton Coldfield COM5
52GREAT! romanceSutton Coldfield COM6
56That's TV (UK)Sutton Coldfield COM6
 
57Dave ja vuSutton Coldfield COM4
58ITVBe +1Sutton Coldfield COM4
59ITV3 +1Sutton Coldfield COM4
60Drama +1Sutton Coldfield COM5
61GREAT! movies extraSutton Coldfield COM6
 
63GREAT! romance mixSutton Coldfield COM6
64BlazeSutton Coldfield COM4
65That's TV 2Sutton Coldfield COM5
67TRUE CRIMESutton Coldfield COM4
68TRUE CRIME XTRASutton Coldfield COM4
 
70Quest +1Sutton Coldfield COM5
71That’s 60sSutton Coldfield COM6
73HobbyMakerSutton Coldfield COM6
74Yesterday +1Sutton Coldfield COM5
75That's 90sSutton Coldfield COM5
 
78TCCSutton Coldfield COM4
81Blaze +1Sutton Coldfield COM4
82Talking Pictures TVSutton Coldfield COM6
83Together TVSutton Coldfield COM4
84PBS AmericaSutton Coldfield COM6
 
89ITV4 +1Sutton Coldfield COM4
91WildEarthSutton Coldfield COM4
101BBC One HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
102BBC Two HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
103UTV HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
 
103STV HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
103ITV 1 HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
104Channel 4 HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
105Channel 5 HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
106BBC Four HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
 
107BBC Three HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
108BBC Scotland HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
110Channel 4 HD (Wales)Sutton Coldfield PSB3
201CBBCSutton Coldfield West MidlandsPSB1
202CBeebiesSutton Coldfield West MidlandsPSB1
 
204CBBC HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
205CBeebies HDSutton Coldfield PSB3
209Ketchup TVSutton Coldfield COM4
210Ketchup TooSutton Coldfield COM4
211YAAAS!Sutton Coldfield COM4
 
231BBC NewsSutton Coldfield West MidlandsPSB1
232BBC ParliamentSutton Coldfield West MidlandsPSB1
233Sky NewsSutton Coldfield COM5
235Al Jazeera EngSutton Coldfield COM6
267Al Jazeera EnglishSutton Coldfield 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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