Full Freeview on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 97,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) mast?
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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 Redruth (Cornwall, 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 Redruth 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 Redruth (Cornwall, 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 Redruth transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 82km east-northeast (78°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 89km east (79°)
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?
| Coverack | Transposer | 15 km S Falmouth | 70 homes |
How will the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 1 May 2019 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C48 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqB | |||||
| 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 8 Jul 09 and 5 Aug 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-15.2dB) 3kW | |
| Mux D* | (-16.6dB) 2.2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-18dB) 1.6kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Redruth transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 24 November 2021
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Chris.SE7:51 PM
Jean:
Great TV (LCN49) along with a number of their channels (was Sony's now "Great") are only carried on Local multiplexes.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplexes.
Local multiplexes are only provide on a limited number of main transmitters at lower power and they are generally beamed towards the large urban centres of population for which they were originally set up. Unfortunately there is no Local multiplex at Redruth.
The channel is available on Freesat if you have it, or if your set has an inbuilt Satellite tuner, all you need is a Dish and LNB.
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Thursday, 30 December 2021
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Richard Trotman2:24 PM
When will the Redruth transmitter be upgraded to extended free view (com7 com8) so that it can broadcast all freeview channels.
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StevensOnln12:33 PM
Richard Trotman: COM7 is expected to close when it's licence expires on 30th June 2022 so it will never be broadcast from Redruth. Nothing has been announced regarding what will happen to the channels currently carried on COM7 once the multiplex closes.
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Tuesday, 26 April 2022
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Jonathan11:23 AM
Not sure if you can help? We live 1/2 mile and line-of-site from the transmitter aerial. When we were on analogue service years ago, we barely needed a receiving aerial - a paperclip would have done! Same with analogue FM radio - all the radios in our house have the aerials retracted or else they overload. Digital TV reception is rubbish though. We only have a small indoor aerial but why should we need more? You can see the transmission site out the window! You should be able to receive a signal on the fillings in your teeth! I can't work out if the problem is overload, or reflected signals, or are we living in the shadow of the signal because we are too close to the foot of the mast? I'm happy to buy a better aerial....if that is the problem, I just don't understand why it would be needed. Thank you.
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StevensOnln11:55 PM
Jonathan: What do the signal strength and quality levels on your TV show? If you have high strength but low quality that would suggest that the tuner is being overloaded by the strong signal, so rather than getting a better aerial you may well need to reduce the signal strength. Have you tried connecting the lead to the TV without the aerial attached to the other end and check the signal strength measurement? You may need to fit an attenuator between the aerial and TV, you only need between 75%-90% strength so try a 6db, 9db or even 12db attenuator which can be bought for a few pounds on Amazon or elsewhere.
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Wednesday, 30 November 2022
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John Foster 11:40 AM
I've checked aerial and amplifier connections which all seem fine, and carried out an auto re- tune, but I can only get bbc stations from the free view transmitter at fourlanes, Redruth, cornwall. Any reason why please?
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Thursday, 1 December 2022
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Chris.SE2:27 AM
John Foster :
Please provide a full postcode so we can check your predicted reception.
When did this problem start? Have you changed/moved anything/any equipment etc?
I can't find any current faults listed for the Redruth transmitter nor any in the last 5 days, and the transmitter isn't currently listed for Planned Engineering.
When you say you checked aerial and amplifier connections, have you checked that the aerial is still intact and pointing in the correct direction with its rods (or squashed Xs) horizontal?
Have you noticed any work taking place on any mobile phone masts near you? or have you received a postcard from restoretv.uk ?
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Wednesday, 1 February 2023
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Barry Holme6:57 PM
Terrestrial reception is pathetic
If we need to watch BBC / ITV have to view through WiFi - local news not available !
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StevensOnln17:19 PM
Barry Holme: All BBC regional news programmes have been available on iPlayer for many years, you can select your region on the settings page. If you provide a full postcode we can take a look at your predicted reception and may be able to suggest what can be done to improve it.
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Thursday, 2 February 2023
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Chris.SE7:28 PM
Barry Holme:
Yes, a full postcode is needed for us to be able to help with advise regarding your reception.
Having logged into iPlayer to look at the News category last night, I see that all regions are now available, not just your own. My only gripe is that they should have a full week's worth available, not just the last 24hrs.
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