Improvement to "Transmission frequencies" on transmitter pages

Published on 4th May 2012 at 09:11 by Brian Butterworth on UK Free TV

Thanks once again to the useful comments about the "transmission frequencies" sections on the Full Freeview and Freeview light pages, I have taken the opportunity to recode this section of the site from scratch.

There were several issues that required dealing with:

The possible future use of the "600MHz" band for three new Freeview multiplexes appeared as a "at DSO" allocation. This, plus the provision of local television on Freeview now appears as an "f-max" ("future maximum") line to keep it separate from the current allocation.

The "coloured bands" approach to show which aerial groups would be required to receive all the Freeview (and analogue when being broadcast) from a transmitter was too complex. This has been changed to a coloured letter indicating the groups required.

It was hard to understand which channel numbers may be taken away from Freeview in the future on the old tables, the new ones have purple, green and blue backgrounds for the 600MHz, 700MHz and 800MHz bands which may be taken from Freeview and used for 4G/LTE mobile broadband.

On some transmitters there was insufficient room for the whole table to fit on the page and it was therefore impossible to see the full information. This has been "improved" by using a smaller font size, which may not suit everyone but does show the full information.

So, the new table looks like this:



The old look was:



As ever, your comments and suggestions are always welcome!

Your comments are always welcome. Please use the form below to add your thoughts or questions to this page. We will get back to you as soon as we can.

Steve
Saturday 5 May 2012 9:58AM

When will the Sudbury transmitter start using full power? I still cant get a good signal on the low power multiplexes?

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Dave Lindsay
Saturday 5 May 2012 10:49AM

Steve: 27th June.

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David Turner
Saturday 5 May 2012 12:09PM

When are you going to improve the 801MHz signal for BBC1-4, BBC News. CBeebies, etc. I invariably get picture breakup and frequently lose these channels and when I do receive them my Freeview box shows the signal quality as very poor. I have no problems with other channels.

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jb38
Saturday 5 May 2012 12:48PM

David Turner: No one can really offer any assistance without knowledge of your location, and with this preferably being in the form of a post code or at least one from nearby, as this would then enable the signals expected in your area to be assessed as well as the transmitter they are received from.

That said, the BBC transmitter (anywhere) is always amongst the most powerful, and so once again dependant on location your problem might even be because you are receiving an excessively high signal level from that multiplex and this can result in exactly the type of symptoms that you have mentioned, and that includes very poor signal quality.

Maybe you could also mention the model of Freeview box that you are using.

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R.Gower
Saturday 5 May 2012 12:49PM

Can you tell me why Freesat have lost Movies for Men and Movies for Men +1.They just went off the other evening with no explanation.Have they been permanently deleted?

Thanks

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Saturday 5 May 2012 7:37PM

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Toni Bucior
Monday 7 May 2012 6:49PM Bacup

Winter Hill transmitter and satellite Bacup transmitter no BBC TV channel reception. Are the proposed works (?) for this week actually on tonight Monday 7th May as I have no BBC TV reception at all?

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Dave Lindsay
Monday 7 May 2012 7:10PM

Toni Bucior: Putting your post code into BBC Reception website returns no problems for Winter Hill and Bacup.

 BBC - Help receiving TV and radio

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KMJ,Derby
Monday 7 May 2012 9:33PM

Toni Bucior: Check that you have stored the correct frequency for Bacup or Winter Hill on Mux BBCA. It is possible that Haslingden (C26) or whitworth (C28) was found during the scan and this signal has now dropped in strength due to seasonal changes, such as trees coming into leaf, resulting in "no signal".

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Bill
Tuesday 8 May 2012 1:10PM

R.Gower: These channels are still listed on the DolphinTV web site.

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John Beswick
Thursday 10 May 2012 1:10AM Northampton

Where has ITV 3 gone? I used to be able to receive it in Northampton.

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jb38
Thursday 10 May 2012 7:30AM

John Beswick: If you use the Sandy transmitter then you should really have carried out a re-tune yesterday, as SDN changed its operating channel up to 51 as well as it being at the increased power of 170kw.

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pollyp
Thursday 10 May 2012 10:51AM

I think that the old look was better and a lot less confusing to look at.

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