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Freeview reception at G52 3JW


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 11 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of G523JW (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)Black Hill ScotlandPSB1
2BBC TwoBlack Hill ScotlandPSB1
3STV (SD)Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
4Channel 4 (SD)Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
5Channel 5Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
 
6ITV 2Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
7BBC Alba HDBlack Hill ScotlandPSB1
8STV GlasgowBlack Hill LG
10ITV3Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
11Sky MixBlack Hill COM5
 
12QuestBlack Hill COM6
13E4Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
14Film4Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
15Channel 4 +1Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
17ReallyBlack Hill COM5
 
18More4Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
19DaveBlack Hill COM5
20DramaBlack Hill COM4
215USABlack Hill COM4
23BBC ThreeBlack Hill ScotlandPSB1
 
24BBC Four (Scotland SD)Black Hill ScotlandPSB1
25WBlack Hill COM6
26ITV4Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
27YesterdayBlack Hill COM6
28ITVBeBlack Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
 
29ITV2 +1Black Hill COM4
30E4 +1Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
31E4 ExtraBlack Hill COM5
325STARBlack Hill COM4
335ActionBlack Hill COM4
 
34GREAT! moviesBlack Hill COM6
35ITV1 +1Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
35STV+1Black Hill STV Central (Glasgow)PSB2
36Sky ArtsBlack Hill COM5
38Channel 5 +1Black Hill COM4
 
39DMAXBlack Hill COM6
40Quest RedBlack Hill COM5
41LegendBlack Hill COM4
42GREAT! actionBlack Hill COM4
43Food NetworkBlack Hill COM5
 
44HGTVBlack Hill COM6
465SELECTBlack Hill PSB3
47Film4 +1Black Hill COM5
48ChallengeBlack Hill COM5
494sevenBlack Hill COM5
 
52GREAT! romanceBlack Hill COM6
56That's TV (UK)Black Hill COM6
57Dave ja vuBlack Hill COM4
58ITVBe +1Black Hill COM4
59ITV3 +1Black Hill COM4
 
60Drama +1Black Hill COM5
61GREAT! movies extraBlack Hill COM6
63GREAT! romance mixBlack Hill COM6
64BlazeBlack Hill COM4
65That's TV 2Black Hill COM5
 
67TRUE CRIMEBlack Hill COM4
68TRUE CRIME XTRABlack Hill COM4
70Quest +1Black Hill COM5
71That’s 60sBlack Hill COM6
73HobbyMakerBlack Hill COM6
 
74Yesterday +1Black Hill COM5
75That's 90sBlack Hill COM5
78TCCBlack Hill COM4
81Blaze +1Black Hill COM4
82Talking Pictures TVBlack Hill COM6
 
83Together TVBlack Hill COM4
84PBS AmericaBlack Hill COM6
89ITV4 +1Black Hill COM4
91WildEarthBlack Hill COM4
101BBC One HDBlack Hill PSB3
 
102BBC Two HDBlack Hill PSB3
103UTV HDBlack Hill PSB3
103STV HDBlack Hill PSB3
103ITV 1 HDBlack Hill PSB3
104Channel 4 HDBlack Hill PSB3
 
105Channel 5 HDBlack Hill PSB3
106BBC Four HDBlack Hill PSB3
107BBC Three HDBlack Hill PSB3
108BBC Scotland HDBlack Hill PSB3
110Channel 4 HD (Wales)Black Hill PSB3
 
201CBBCBlack Hill ScotlandPSB1
202CBeebiesBlack Hill ScotlandPSB1
204CBBC HDBlack Hill PSB3
205CBeebies HDBlack Hill PSB3
209Ketchup TVBlack Hill COM4
 
210Ketchup TooBlack Hill COM4
211YAAAS!Black Hill COM4
231BBC NewsBlack Hill ScotlandPSB1
232BBC ParliamentBlack Hill ScotlandPSB1
233Sky NewsBlack Hill COM5
 
235Al Jazeera EngBlack Hill COM6
267Al Jazeera EnglishBlack Hill COM4

 

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Saturday, 14 December 2013
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Andrew Brown
1:46 PM
Worcester

Hello I live in rented accommodation of a housing association. In 2007 the landlord fitted a communal aerial for the first time to the 2 storey building in which I live. However, it was not needed. The aerial in my loft produced a very good freeview picture and still does. No testing was arranged of tenants own personal aerials. The aerial selected is almost 20 feet tall and fitted on the side of the building. and amounts to half the height of the structure, extremely unsightly and excessive and lots of complex cables going into a large box.

Is it the 'normal' thing for people to get a good picture from their loft aerial like I do and is it necessary to fit a aerial which is the equivelant of ground to gutter level (about 20 feet) just to get a freeview picture from a transmitter 7 miles away ? There seems to have been a pre digital switchover hysteria about aerials



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Gary
1:57 PM
Manchester

Came across your site today and found it very helpful. Your Freeview postcode checker recommended new RF channels to use to resolve 800Mhz/4G picture interference on my kitchen TV connected via the SKY RF out feed. Brilliant .... problem solved. Thanks, Gary


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MikeP
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9:11 PM

Gary:
Often landlords decide to fit communal aerial systems to prevent a plethora of roof-mounted aerials becoming unsightly. But the systems have their drawbacks, especially as most of them have filters to only allow 'wanted' channels through but when new services are started they need adjustment. So I think you are wise to have had your own loft-mounted aerial as it cannot be 'unsightly' form outside the building, unlike the communal system you describe. The actual location and height of the aerial rather depends on the relative locations of the transmitter aerial and the receiving site, higher is not always better in my long experience. The transmitting and receiving aerials can be at very different heights (I used to live in Nottinghamshire just a few mile from the Waltham transmitter, that was over 200 feet higher than my house but reception was perfect as my aerial pointed directly at the Waltham aerial array).

There was, and still is, a lot of hysteria and hype about digital television, ongoing since before the switch over started in 2008. Many firms tried to 'make a killing' by saying you needed a 'digital aerial' when almost everyone who already had a UHF TV aerial that was giving good reception could continue to use that until OfCom started moving things around. The 'old' analogue services were carefully planned to make best use of the UHF Bands 4 and 5 spectrum with nil, or at worst, interference. However, since they started moving channels around there has been a significant increase in reception problems, some due to increased interference between adjacent signals and some from shared frequencies (adjacent or co-channel interference can disrupt digital more than analogue). Plus some people have found their existing aerial that worked fine until this year's retunes is no longer giving the results they expect so they have to have the aerial changed for one of a different grouping, just because Ofcom wanted the signals moved to other frequencies. That is likely to happen again around 2018 as there is an idea to add further mobile coverage possibly using existing UHF TV frequencies, so more retuning!
So, I would suggest keeping your own 'hidden' aerial as long as it is giving good reception.

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Monday, 16 December 2013
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Dan
7:38 AM
Yeovil

Although it was fine on my last TV, just got a 55 inch Bravia and some channels are rubbish signal and cut off alot wheras some don't!

Any ideas?

In Yeovil. Laburnum way.

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Threeputts
11:20 AM
Cambridge

Since the addition of new HD channels, the strength of signal has gone down on CH 21 which includes BBC 1 HD. Any reason for this? BBC 4 HD which is broadcaster on another channel has a much stronger signal. The picture on stations broadcasting on CH 21 have started to break up. Any ideas?
Thanks.

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Dave Lindsay
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1:29 PM

Dan: Confirm that they are all tuned to Mendip and not Stockland Hill. View the signal strength screen on the following services and check which UHF channel it is tuned to:

PSB1 - BBC One - C49
PSB2 - ITV - C54
PSB3 - BBC One HD - C58
COM4 - ITV3 - C48
COM5 - Pick - C56
COM6 - 4Music - C52

Stockland's channels are 26, 23, 29(HD), 25, 22, 28.

If it turns out that one or more channels are tuned to Stockland Hill then run the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged for the first 30% so it doesn't pick them up.

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Wednesday, 18 December 2013
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Brian French
5:25 PM
Stoke-on-trent

I live just outside Sandbach and receive freeview from Winter Hill but channel 3 itv is Granada news but channel 103 hd is showing central news, two different receptions on the same tv auto tune.
How do I get the freeview 103 to receive Granada news.
Regards

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Dave Lindsay
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5:38 PM

Brian French: It depends whether it's tuned to Winter Hill for HD services. There are only a handful of ITV HD regions so ones that don't have a HD variant get that of another region. I'm not familiar with which Winter Hill carries.

If it is found to be tuned to Winter Hill then you have what's broadcast. If it's tuned to another transmitter then it needs tuning to Winter Hill instead.

Look at the signal strength screen on ITV HD. It should say UHF channel 54.

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6:16 PM

Brian French: I am in Yorkshire region and get my TV from Emley Moor. I have just checked ITV HD and it is Granada. Therefore it would appear that there is a ITV Granada HD stream and it would seem sensible to assume that Granada's transmitters carried it.

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Thursday, 19 December 2013
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Bob Turner
3:55 PM

Not receiving any HD chanels since retuning
Bush DVB680 FREEVIEW HD BOX. Sutton Coldfield transmitter Anyone know why. ?

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