Full Freeview on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter which serves 570,000 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.
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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)
Which Freeview channels does the Bilsdale 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Bilsdale transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 74km north-northwest (336°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 75km north-northwest (333°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border
Are there any self-help relays?
Garsdale (pin Fold) | Transposer | 63 homes (coverage together with SH34) | |
Hawsker Bottom | Active deflector | 150 caravans | |
Langthwaite | Active deflector | 30 homes |
How will the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 13 Nov 2019 | |||||
A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | W T | |||||
C21 | BBCB | ||||||||
C23 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
C24 | _local | D3+4 | |||||||
C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
C27 | BBCA | ||||||||
C29 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C31 | com7 | ||||||||
C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C37 | com8 | ||||||||
C40 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C43 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C46 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 12 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 500kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
com7 | (-14.3dB) 18.5kW | |
com8 | (-14.4dB) 18.1kW | |
Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-19.2dB) 6kW | |
Mux 1* | (-20.2dB) 4.8kW | |
Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW |
Local transmitter maps
Bilsdale Freeview Bilsdale DAB Bilsdale AM/FM Bilsdale TV region BBC North East and Cumbria Tyne TeesWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bilsdale transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 3 November 2021
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Mike Davison11:31 PM
Wetherby
This has yesterday's dateline:-
Work starts on second 80-metre transmitter at Bilsdale - Richmondshire Today
Sorry asbout the old Northern Echo link.
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Chris.SE11:51 PM
Mike Davison:
I believe work started over a week ago.
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Mike Davison11:55 PM
Wetherby
If there's one thing that annoys me about the Bilsdale page is the reference to ITV companies which were never
transmitted from it, ABC and Granada. It didn't carry BBC1 and ITV until November 1969.
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Thursday, 4 November 2021
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StevensOnln110:46 AM
Mike Davison: The ITV companies listed above appear to be a listing of which companies were broadcasting to that region over the years, rather than which companies were broadcast from this particular transmitter. My local relay has a company listed which had folded years before it was built.
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Sunday, 21 November 2021
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Keith john Alger6:54 PM
So, I'm in Middlesbrough. The Eston Nab transmitter is up and down like a yo-yo! As for the replacement Bilsdale transmitter, the signal from it is too poor to watch - on a good day I can get more channels from the Nottingham transmitter! Talking to my neighbours, a few have switched to the Eston Nab transmitter, but the majority have abandoned terrestrial TV. If someone were to survey the number of homes without terrestrial TV reception in the area, my gut feeling it is many times that 16,000 quoted number!
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Monday, 22 November 2021
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Chris.SE3:04 AM
Keith john Alger:
See this previous post, and follow the links Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | free and easy
I suggest you contact Arqiva.
Whilst predictions aren't always accurate, current predictions suggest you should get good reception from Bilsdale Quarry, quite good reception from Eston Nab except COM6 (C48) which could be poor/variable, and reasonable reception from Pontop PIke although the COM muxes are likely to be variable.
There has been some "temperature inversion/tropospheric ducting" around on various occasions of late which could have resulted in interference to your reception or indeed provided the conditions to allow you to get the Nottingham transmitter (which you certainly aren't predicted to get in normal circumstances!).
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Wednesday, 24 November 2021
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Christopher Smith3:46 PM
This was posted 23/11/2021 on Bilsdale Mast Project Restore
Power increase at Eston Nab relay transmitter: viewers advised to re-scan for more channels | Bilsdale Mast: Project Restore
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Chris.SE6:08 PM
Christopher Smith:
Thanks for that update, hadn't been checking recently myself.
Other news as well at Latest News | Bilsdale Mast: Project Restore
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Monday, 20 December 2021
We still have very limited TV reception in Masham . Only a few channels are available
Please advise
P Wingrove
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We still have very limited TV reception in Masham . Only a few channels are available
Please advise
P Wingrove
HG4 4DT
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