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Freeview reception at IV12 5DS


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 4 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of IV125DS (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)Rosemarkie ScotlandPSB1
2BBC TwoRosemarkie ScotlandPSB1
3STV (SD)Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
4Channel 4 (SD)Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
5Channel 5Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
 
6ITV 2Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
7BBC Alba HDRosemarkie ScotlandPSB1
10ITV3Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
11Sky MixRosemarkie COM5
12QuestRosemarkie COM6
 
13E4Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
14Film4Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
15Channel 4 +1Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
17ReallyRosemarkie COM5
18More4Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
 
19DaveRosemarkie COM5
20DramaRosemarkie COM4
215USARosemarkie COM4
23BBC ThreeRosemarkie ScotlandPSB1
24BBC Four (Scotland SD)Rosemarkie ScotlandPSB1
 
25WRosemarkie COM6
26ITV4Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
27YesterdayRosemarkie COM6
28ITVBeRosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
29ITV2 +1Rosemarkie COM4
 
30E4 +1Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
31E4 ExtraRosemarkie COM5
325STARRosemarkie COM4
335ActionRosemarkie COM4
34GREAT! moviesRosemarkie COM6
 
35ITV1 +1Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
35STV+1Rosemarkie STV North (Aberdeen)PSB2
36Sky ArtsRosemarkie COM5
38Channel 5 +1Rosemarkie COM4
39DMAXRosemarkie COM6
 
40Quest RedRosemarkie COM5
41LegendRosemarkie COM4
42GREAT! actionRosemarkie COM4
43Food NetworkRosemarkie COM5
44HGTVRosemarkie COM6
 
465SELECTRosemarkie PSB3
47Film4 +1Rosemarkie COM5
48ChallengeRosemarkie COM5
494sevenRosemarkie COM5
52GREAT! romanceRosemarkie COM6
 
56That's TV (UK)Rosemarkie COM6
57Dave ja vuRosemarkie COM4
58ITV3 +1Rosemarkie COM4
59ITV4 +1Rosemarkie COM4
60Drama +1Rosemarkie COM5
 
63GREAT! romance mixRosemarkie COM6
64BlazeRosemarkie COM4
65That's TV 2Rosemarkie COM5
67TRUE CRIMERosemarkie COM4
68TRUE CRIME XTRARosemarkie COM4
 
70Quest +1Rosemarkie COM5
71That’s 60sRosemarkie COM6
73HobbyMakerRosemarkie COM6
74Yesterday +1Rosemarkie COM5
75That's 90sRosemarkie COM5
 
78TCCRosemarkie COM4
81Blaze +1Rosemarkie COM4
82Talking Pictures TVRosemarkie COM6
83Together TVRosemarkie COM4
84PBS AmericaRosemarkie COM6
 
91WildEarthRosemarkie COM4
93ITVBe +1Rosemarkie COM4
101BBC One HDRosemarkie PSB3
102BBC Two HDRosemarkie PSB3
103STV HDRosemarkie PSB3
 
103UTV HDRosemarkie PSB3
103ITV 1 HDRosemarkie PSB3
104Channel 4 HDRosemarkie PSB3
105Channel 5 HDRosemarkie PSB3
106BBC Four HDRosemarkie PSB3
 
107BBC Three HDRosemarkie PSB3
108BBC Scotland HDRosemarkie PSB3
110Channel 4 HD (Wales)Rosemarkie PSB3
201CBBCRosemarkie ScotlandPSB1
202CBeebiesRosemarkie ScotlandPSB1
 
204CBBC HDRosemarkie PSB3
205CBeebies HDRosemarkie PSB3
209Ketchup TVRosemarkie COM4
210Ketchup TooRosemarkie COM4
211YAAAS!Rosemarkie COM4
 
231BBC NewsRosemarkie ScotlandPSB1
232BBC ParliamentRosemarkie ScotlandPSB1
233Sky NewsRosemarkie COM5
235Al Jazeera EngRosemarkie COM6
267Al Jazeera EnglishRosemarkie COM4
 

 

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Monday, 24 April 2023
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Chris.SE
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1:10 PM

Ted Slater:

Hi, yes it would annoy me too! I wouldn't expect Quest to have any answer, this is undoubtedly down to some quirk or fault with the Humax Aura 4k PVR on the assumption that when you do the full reset the tuning memory is completely cleared - were you able to/did you check that before retuning again?

Is it still the same LCN TV Channels numbers or is it common to one multiplex (COM6?).

I would have expected Humax to have come up with an explanation, how old is the box?

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Monday, 3 July 2023
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Steve Donaldson
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4:06 PM

Chris B: In terms of restoring the HD channels on your TV then these are on UHF channel 41 (634MHz) and you should try a manual scan of that channel.

Resetting and rescanning will make no difference because the TV is set to receive the channels of the transmitter. All that this results in is the memory being cleared and missing channels in the TV's memory. The issue lies elsewhere, I would suggest.

You have complained before about missing channels and whilst we don't know whether it could be based on your location (as it hasn't been provided), be aware that other cables such as HDMI, Ethernet and USB running alongside an aerial lead could cause such issues. If you have such cables running nearby, then see if the manual scan of UHF channel 41 gives indication of strength and quality, and see if moving them away from the aerial lead increases the quality (or if strength and quality aren't shown separately, see if the signal strength bar increases when they are moved away).

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Steve Donaldson
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4:20 PM

Chris B: Knowledge of your location in the form of postcode, or nearby postcode, would allow us to see what sort of signal you might be expected to receive.

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Chris.SE
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10:16 PM

Chris B:

Also worth noting that Windermere is a relay of Caldbeck which is listed for Planned Engineering! I don't know how the signals to Windermere are fed, but it's possible that work at Caldbeck might affect them, so Windermere should also be listed, but we know that the lists are not always 100% accurate.

As Steve Donaldson has said a manual tune of UHF C41 is the sensible option.
Automated tuning if signals are missing or badly pixelated often just clear the correct tuning, if you were correctly tuned before, it's never advised to retune when you have badly pixellated signals or no signal.
Recent weather conditions caused interference to some signals in some areas and if you were affected and you retuned during that, as already mentioned, it's probably cleared your tuning.

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Tuesday, 4 July 2023
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Steve Donaldson
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12:13 AM

Chris.SE: Windermere is a relay of Kendal.

Kendal is no longer a relay of Caldbeck. At switchover a sub region for BBC North West and ITV Border was created, with Kendal as the parent. This was so as to maintain the regional coverage as it was with analogue, where ITV and C4 were taken from Caldbeck and BBC1 and BBC2 from Winter Hill.

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Chris.SE
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1:13 AM

Steve Donaldson:

Thanks for the correction, I shall in future cross-check more than one document for information such as that. At least OFCOM's 700MHz Clearance spreadsheet (which has other errors!) and DUK/Arqiva's clearance pdfs have that correct as well.
That doesn't throw the theory out of the window totally, Kendal was listed for Planned Engineering in the last week of May and first week of June, again I don't know how Windermere is fed from Kendal.

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Chris.SE
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1:20 AM

Steve Donaldson:

Just to add, it's great to have your obvious knowledge and experience around here. It's been a bit thin on the ground in recent times with just 2 or 3 of us most of the time trying to answer queries.

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Saturday, 8 July 2023
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Steve Donaldson
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12:53 PM

Chris.B: The 700MHz Clearance spreadsheet is one of the documents I was referring to myself. The Freeview predictor lists only the ITV region, although it omits the sub-region where applicable.

The BT network diagrams from the 1980s show SHF links between Caldbeck and Lancaster:

Lancaster (IBA): BT Microwave Sites

According to mb21, Windermere receives Kendal off-the-air:

mb21 - The Transmission Gallery

The Kendal transmitter group is as follows:

Kendal
---- Coniston
---- Hawkshead
---- Kendal Fell
---- Sedburgh
-------- Millthrop
---- Windermere
-------- Crosthwaite
-------- Grasmere

The indentations are denote the relays. Millthorp is a relay of Sedburgh, and Crosthwaite and Grasmere are relays of Windermere, hence the double indentations.

The sources for this are the 700MHz Clearance spreadsheet, which shows the relays, and mb21, which informs as to whether a relay is fed directly from Kendal or from another relay.

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Chris.SE
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2:09 PM
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Steve Donaldson:

Great detail, thanks. Lets hope mb21 is up-to-date, it usually is.

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Wednesday, 2 August 2023
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Ted Slater
12:52 PM

Chris.SE

Apologies for the delay since April! Other issues crowding life and a certain degree of sloth around this particular problem - noli nothis permittere te terere and all that.

I've currently given up with Humax support - like you I'm convinced it's a problem with the Aura (only 9 months old) but, as they can't guarantee that a full reset of the box will retain my recordings (they "think" it will be ok!!) I haven't had the nerve to try it. A full retune with a cleared memory doesn't fix the problem.

In the meantime, I'm content to use Quest+1 - the problem seems to be solely on COM6.

Thanks again

Ted

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