Full Freeview on the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmitter which serves 48,000 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 Guildford (Surrey, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Guildford (Surrey, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Freeview channels does the Guildford 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Guildford (Surrey, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Guildford transmitter?
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 46km northeast (43°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 47km northeast (44°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
How will the Guildford (Surrey, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | |||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C32 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C33 | _local | ||||||||
| C37 | SDN | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | SDN | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
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 4 Apr 12 and 18 Apr 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 200W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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rob cain11:13 PM
Godalming
i really have a problem making sense of this info.
i live in Godalming, near Guildfordand since (part 1?) of the change over last week we can no longer receive Channel4 or ITV - though BBC's are all OK. Have been retuning frequently to no avil - no Channel4/ITV anywhere.
before that, we could receive all stations fine (apart from occasional drop-outs over weekends die to low signal strength).
we use Freeview with loft mounted aerial (3 stories up) + signal amplifier.
i read that the Guildford Tansmitter is due for a further upgrade on 18th April 2012.
should this solve our problems with Channel 4 reception?
can anyone make sense of this?
who can we complain to if it doesn't improve?
thanks for any advise/light on the matgter.
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rob's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 14 April 2012
rob cain: Please can you have a look at the Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page?
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
GUILDFORD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:20 today [BBC]
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GUILDFORD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:20 today [BBC]
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GUILDFORD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:20 today to 00:48 today [BBC]
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GUILDFORD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:20 today to 00:48 today [BBC]
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Stuart8:15 PM
Rescaned today (post digital switchover) and now have, in my Windows Media Center, 4 new sparkly HD channels!
3 of them work pretty well - but ITV 1 HD is very distorted/pixelating.
Anyone else having this problem?
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jb389:21 PM
Stuart: You haven't mentioned your location in relation to the transmitter and its important to know this, but you should ensure that your signal isn't excessively high as that can cause the problem you are referring to, as overloading always usually affects HD before SD.
If you have any type of aerial booster in line then by pass it, or if you do not have a booster then try a test using a set top aerial.
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Stuart: Interesting. As the HD channels are carried together on a single multiplex, you would not expect problems with one service and everything else be OK.
I have a PC here that uses WMC on Windows 7 and all four channels (BBC One HD, BBC HD, ITV 1 HD and Channel 4 HD) perform OK.
I must admit that they didn't before the video card was upgraded on this particular machine.
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Thursday, 19 April 2012
GUILDFORD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:20 yesterday to 00:48 yesterday [BBC]
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