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The symbol shows the location of the Dallington Park (Northamptonshire, England) transmitter which serves 16,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Dallington Park (Northamptonshire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Dallington Park transmitter broadcast?

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C23 (490.0MHz)106mDTG-40W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Cambridge, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C26 (514.0MHz)106mDTG-40W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Anglia east),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C30 (546.0MHz)106mDTG-40W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Cambridge, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Dallington Park (Northamptonshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Dallington Park transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look East (West) 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Cambridge CB4 0WZ, 73km east (90°)
to BBC Cambridge region - 4 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
regional news image
ITV Anglia News 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Norwich NR1 3JG, 156km east-northeast (72°)
to ITV Anglia (West) region - 5 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (East)

How will the Dallington Park (Northamptonshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-136 Jun 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TA K T
C23BBCA
C26D3+4
C30BBCB
C50tv_offBBCA
C55tv_offBBCB
C56tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C59tv_offD3+4
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C66BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C68C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 65W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-2.1dB) 40W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sandy Heath transmitter area

Oct 1959-Feb 2004Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Dallington Park was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Friday, 25 November 2011
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ssscrudddy
1:17 PM
Northampton

I'm on the Dallington transmitter, NN4 8AW, basically over the last few weeks all the BBC channels have got steadily worse, the other channels are fine. Since 23rd November, despite rescanning, the BBC channels have become so bad they are unwatchable most of the time. Any reason for this, or suggestions as what to do. (from what I have read, the strentgh of all channels will get worse afte April 2012)

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Dave Lindsay
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1:27 PM

ssscruddy: Perhaps your receiver has tuned to another transmitter. Can you confirm that your receiver is tuned to UHF channel 50 for BBC channels (and not 43 for Sutton Coldfield or 27 for Sandy Heath)? This information might be on the screen that shows signal strength/quality.

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Sunday, 27 November 2011
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ssscrudddy
3:21 PM
Northampton

Hi, thanks. Yes it shows as being on UHF 27. Unfortunately if I try to manually scan UHF 50 it doesnt find anything. (as a test I wiped it out & tried UHF 24 - ITV - & it found 10 services). So that means I must be on Sandy Heath, lol, yet the channels I actually get are only the "lite" ones (ie the Dallington ones) the others just come up with no signal, which is why I thought I was on Dallington.

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James
3:24 PM

My parents are having problems with their Humax Freeview+. They are in Northampton.

Whenever there is a retune needed the box can never find Anglia (neither BBC nor ITV) and they end up with Meridian TV.

Why is this the case?

Their old Freeview video recorder never had this problem.

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Dave Lindsay
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11:07 PM

ssscrudy: Sandy Heath is at 102deg horizontal polarisation. Dallington Park is rougly the opposite direction at 319deg but with vertical polarisation.

A picture of aerials polarised horizontal and vertical are here if you don't know what that means:

Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial


One thing I would point out about Sandy Heath is that it was Group A for its four analogue channels. If you haven't had your group A aerial replaced, or had a second aerial put up for the higher frequencies, then it might mean you can't pick up the commercial multiplexes (I know you said you could only get the "light" multiples).

The public service broadcaster multiplexes (the "light" ones) are group A from Sandy Heath.

You may have had an aerial replacement (or another aerial installed) for analogue Channel 5 or pre-switchover digital TV.

See these pages for information on aerial groups:

Aerial groups - new feature | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial

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Friday, 2 December 2011
J
Jean
12:02 AM
Northampton

Since retune I no longer have Sky News and many other channels

Have we moved to crappy lite and if so why has this happened?

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jb38
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7:09 AM

Jean: The answer to the latter is yes! as you are only 1 mile away from the Dallington Park relay, its really a case of whether or not you can (or previously have been) receiving a good signal from Sandy (Anglia) or Sutton Coldfield, as if you were then you should manually tune in the multiplex channels missing, storing whatever received between each scan if not done automatically.

Sandy: Ch31 - Ch48 - Ch52
Sutton Coldfield: Ch45 - Ch39 - Ch42

It should be kept in mind that these channels from Sandy are presently on low power until April / June next year, and whether or not your aerial has been altered to suit Dallington Park, because if it has then that will put your reception of either station at a disadvantage.

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Dave Lindsay
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11:31 AM

Jean: I see that you're in a large blocks of flats. I soured Google Streetview and have found what appears to be the TV aerial for your flats and it can be clearly seen to be pointed at Sandy Heath, which is the main transmitter which broadcasts all the full range of Freeview channels and which broadcast Freeview before switchover. Dallington Park transmitter broadcasts only the "light" channels now and did not broadcast Freeview before switchover (which means that you must have been picking it up from Sandy Heath).

Try as jb38 suggests and manually add the commercial channels for Sandy Heath: 31, 48 and 51.

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Jean
6:11 PM
Northampton

Jean: jb38 and Dave many thanks for your help I will try antune in manually and fingers crossed get Sky news back

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Monday, 19 March 2012
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steve
8:30 AM

when will the dallington transmitter be able to transmit all the freeview channels, we are being short changesd at the moment

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