Freeview Light on the Bampton (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bampton (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 900 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 Bampton (Devon, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Bampton (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, 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, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Bampton 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C39 (618.0MHz) | 268m | DTG- | 6W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C45 (666.0MHz) | 268m | DTG- | 6W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (West Country), 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 (West Country), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 268m | DTG- | 6W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South West, 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Bampton (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, 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, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Bampton transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 83km southwest (216°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 78km south-southwest (211°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
How will the Bampton (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 31 Mar 2019- | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | |||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | |||||
| C42 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C45 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C49tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C52tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 6 May 09 and 20 May 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 30W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 6W |
Local transmitter maps
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Saturday, 11 June 2011
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Terence Dapp8:46 PM
Tiverton
We have loft aerial on Sony 28" TV with Humax PVR 9150T also 16" Sony Tv and powered indoor aerial with Argos STB101X1. We can see the Bampton transmitter clearly from our home distance 1.2 miles. Over the last 10 days or so we along with several local people and neighbours have been experiencing intermittent pixelisation and occasional quite load popping on both BBC1 & BBC2 with no problem on the independent channels. We have had no problems receiving the programmes until quite recently. There do not appear to be any reported transmitter faults. please investigate this matter. Thank you. T.Dapp
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Terence's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 13 June 2011
Monday, 22 August 2011
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Chris Gilbert6:32 PM
Am in Williton and can only get BBC and ITV Wales. Anyone know why? Very frustrating. Want to know what's happening in the South West.
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KMJ,Derby7:05 PM
Chris Gilbert: If you supply your postcode a check can be made of which transmitters can be received in your area. It would appear that you are receiving signals from Wenvoe, which you will need to do for reception of a full Freeview service. However you might be able to receive additionally signals from a local relay supplying BBC West news. Taking a couple of Williton postcodes as a reference, Washford would appear to be the most likely relay transmitter which would offer a BBC West service on C59.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012
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Mike6:17 PM
When will the Bampton transmitter provide full coverage of ALL Freeview channels?
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Mike: Unfortunately the likely answer is "never".
The Bampton transmitter only carries Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) multiplexes, just like 1,000 or so similar small relay transmitters. The Commercial (COM) multiplex operators achieve a coverage of 90% of the population from 81 of the largest transmitters (largest by viewer population).
For them to transmit from the relays would roughly double their cost of transmission whilst only adding 8.5% of the population to their potential viewer bases. As they operate for profit and have no "Public Service" obligation, they opted not to invest in the relays.
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Thursday, 28 March 2013
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Paul Hammond5:35 PM
I don't think it is reasonable for those receiving signal from the Bampton transmitter to find that BBC1 and BBC2 had disappeared yesterday, without any warning, and secondly without any idea of what was required to correct this situation. I have worked out that I needed to retune each TV but others might not be aware of this.
To me this shows a lack of customer awareness bordering on contempt, and is just not acceptable.
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Paul Hammond: Digital UK stated in its trade newsletter:
http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf
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MHEG popups (linked to use of the blue and yellow buttons) are to run on the BBC A and D3&4 muxes and be shown on BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 services. MHEGs will run for 7 days before the event and for 2 days after as below:
D3&4 MHEGs: will be seen by viewers of MENDIP and all of its relays. Only viewers of the Bampton and Culm Valley relays (in the Stockland Hill transmitter group) will see ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 MHEGs. BBC A MHEGs: will be seen by viewers of MENDIP and all of its relays. The Bampton and Culm Valley relays (in the Stockland Hill transmitter group) will not carry MHEGs due to technical constraints.
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According to this, MHEGs were shown on ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 from the Bampton relay.
I'm in Yorkshire and receive from the main station Emley Moor and yesterday an MHEG appeared for a retune on 10th April. However, Emley Moor itself isn't affected and only three of its relays are. So clearly they have gone with the approach of telling everyone as they don't have the ability to broadcast the messages only to those who will be affected.
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Thursday, 4 April 2013
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Paul Hammond9:27 PM
Tiverton
Dave
Thanks for this reply.
I certainly never saw any popup messages at all. Neither has anyone else I have spoken to in the Bampton area. So I have to wonder whether it actually happened.
Thanks
Paul Hammond
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Thursday, 1 October 2015
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Richard Hill1:32 PM
Tiverton
Morebath EX16 9AP
Have No Signal from Bampton transmitter. Near neighbour has same problem.
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