Full Freeview on the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 120,000 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)
The Stockland Hill (Devon, 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 Stockland Hill 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 Stockland Hill (Devon, 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 Stockland Hill transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 86km west-southwest (239°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 80km southwest (236°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
Bickleigh | Transposer | 15 km N Exeter | 25 homes |
Freshwater C/p | Active deflector | 2 km SE Bridport, Dorset | 250 homes (caravans) |
Ladram Bay | Transposer | 15 km SE Exeter | 400 homes (caravans) |
How will the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 27 Mar 2019 | ||||
VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
C9 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C22 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C25 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 | 250kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 25kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 2.5kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Stockland Hill transmitter area
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Monday, 14 March 2022
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Chris.SE2:23 PM
Craig Procter:
To add to my previous, you may already be getting some signals from Stcokland Hill, but whether you can/do get all multiplexes reliably will not only depend on location but the condition of your aerial installation. As already mentioned, a Group A aerial for Stockland Hill could be the best. You won't get any more multiplexes with a wideband!
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Monday, 27 June 2022
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Hany6:36 AM
Please tell us for my family's sake (kids) weather this Stockland transmitter has any military connection broadcast or use ? importance as for a Russian bomb to be targeted onto it? I have seen you are connected to the BBC as it is a public service we pay for I should not need to do a freedom request for info.
We live in Stockland & with Russia and the UKs war problems over Ukraine at present we deserve to know if this could be a target /danger to the public that live in the Blackdown Hills area.
Regards Hany :)
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Chris.SE7:40 AM
Hany:
This is an independent free help-site for people with technical and reception problems and has no direct connection with the BBC or any other broadcaster whether civil or military.
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Tuesday, 4 October 2022
I have had. O signal for all TV stations since yesterday morning. I have been thru the settings and it shows no signal at all. I do not have a dish. I have tried all remedies and. Nothing is working. My post code is EX27QF. any ideas please
Thankyou
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Chris.SE12:45 PM
Susan Wade:
Hi Susan. You should normally have no problems with reception from Stockland Hill in your location. There are currently no reported problems/faults or Planned Engineering at Stockland Hill.
Have you looked to check your aerial is still where it should be, is intact, and pointing in the correct direction which should be compass bearing 69 degrees, that's 21 degrees N of due E (compare to neighbours if need be). Also check the downlead is not flapping in the wind.
Check all your aerial and any flylead connections behind your TV to ensure everything is connected properly.
There is one remaining problem which may have caused temporary loss of signal and if you retuned at all with no signal it usually just clears the correct tuning. It's never advised to retune when you have no signal when you had been correctly tuned.
Current weather conditions are causing problems for some.
It is not simply "high pressure" that gives the problems as some reports would suggest. It's Tropospheric Ducting/Temperature Inversion which can often accompany high pressure but the conditions can be very variable, you can't correlate this with what you "see" of the weather or simple barometric pressure. Such conditions have been present over several recent weeks affecting different parts of the country at different times and they don't usually affect several multiplexes at once (it depends where the interference is coming from). There is some present now which is predicted to be quite strong in your area.
Check in your TV tuning section that you are correctly tuned to Stockland Hill's UHF channels as per the lists at the top of this page. If you retuned you might have inadvertently got tuned to another transmitter whose signals disappear as conditions change.
Manual tune those UHF channels if need be as automatic tuning may miss them if conditions are not favourable at a given instant. You may have to try several times in these conditions if you aren't correctly tuned.
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Saturday, 22 October 2022
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John Berrington9:38 PM
Why am I unable to tune channel 237 TALK TV ? I have tried retuning several times all to no avail, Is it because it is not available from Stockland Hill Transmitter?
Regards John
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Sunday, 23 October 2022
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Chris.SE3:54 AM
John Berrington:
Talk TV is carried on the SDN multiplex. Stockland Hill transmits all the 6 main multiplexes as listed at the top of the page (although the list of channels on each has not been fully updated with some of the recent changes).
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplex.
If you are not receiving any of the other channels on the SDN multiplex, then you aren't getting that multiplex for some reason. If so, please provide a full postcode so we can check your predicted reception.
If you are getting other channels on the SDN multiplex, check in your EPG's LCN 800s as after retuning, depending on circumstances, TV set memories can get muddled and put a channel there as it thinks the correct location is already in use!
If you find channels in the 800s, then unplug your aerial and carry out a full automated retune which should clear the memory as no channels should be found. Plug the aerial back in and repeat the retune which should restore channels correctly.
If you get signals from more than one transmitter (eg. maybe in Wales) then sometimes channels get put in the 800s, so do a manual tune for each multiplex's UHF channel after clearing memory.
See the UHF numbers at the very top section of the page (eg. UHF C25 for SDN).
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Monday, 27 February 2023
I have coverage on non HD channels but not on HD and Gb news. This is only on my LG TV. This is the last on a line of BT Box and a Panasonic recorder on which all channels are available. Would the tv be at fault or is the reduction in signal passing through two other devices.
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StevensOnln12:08 PM
Richard Hood: What's the model number of the LG TV? Has it ever received any HD channels? If it's an older TV it may not support the DVB-T2 transmissions used for HD channels on Freeview.
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Chris.SE6:47 PM
Richard Hood:
If the TV has an HD/T2 Tuner, it's possible your location might be prone to more reception problems for the HD multiplex, but a Full postcode would be needed to check that.
You could also try a Manual tune on UHF C29 and see what signal strength and quality you get, if any.
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