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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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) mast?
Bilsdale transmitter - Bilsdale transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering 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)
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 withheldFriday, 7 September 2012
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Michael Pickles1:41 PM
Dave Lindsay
- Thank you for the detailed advice. I have found some more information. The house initially had 2 aerials downstairs to Bilsdale, upstairs to Emley. These where upgraded to one shared aerial to Emley around 3 or 4 years ago and upstairs has an amplifier. I have tried bypassing that as you suggested upstairs with no luck. so looks like I will get someone out to check the aerial.
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Michael Pickles: When you do get it working, if your receiver does default to Bilsdale during its automatic scan, you should be able to avoid this by having the aerial unplugged for the first 30% of the scan.
This is probably not an issue now as Bilsdale is still on low (pre-switchover) power. It switches next Wednesday and Wednesday 26th.
From that point, the digital signals should be of equivalent strength to that of the current analogue. As analogue receivers sometimes default to Bilsdale, so "may" digital ones, although it probably depends on how each "decides" which signals to go with having completed the scan.
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Michael Pickles: I wonder if you have a masthead amp as well. This will require a separate power supply which could perhaps have failed (or the amp itself has failed).
This may be built in to the distribution amplifier (the one with multiple outputs).
An amplifier with no power to it will give nothing out. That's what makes me wonder if you have a mast-head amp that is now acting as a block for the signal (either through failure of itself or its power supply).
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Tuesday, 11 September 2012
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Ian Taylor8:09 AM
Middlesbrough
Is there a specific time on 12th and 26th September when I should retune or do I just wait until my picture disappears and then do it?
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Ian Taylor: Bilsdale, as is common with all main stations, is expected to be switched by 6am:
Digital UK - Relay transmitter switching times
I believe that the analogue is usually switched off some time after midnight and before 1am. When the digital comes on air is dependent on how long it takes the engineers to make the necessary changes. Other transmitters have been an hour or two, so the 6am deadline is probably just to allow plenty of time should things not go according to plan.
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Mark Fletcher3:31 PM
Halifax
Ian Taylor,Middlesborough.One indicator as far as DSO1 is concerned is the programme "China on Four Wheels" tonight on BBC2 starting around 11.20pm and finishing around 12.20am one hour later in the early hours of tomorrow morning.If you were watching this on BBC2 analogue there is a 50/50 chance that once this programme ends probably one minute later,the BBC2 analogue signal will suddenly disappear,or it may suddenly switch off after the programme passes half way around 12.01am.It just depends,a case of wait and see,but one indicator before the BBC2 analogue signal disappears for good is a gradual or sudden deterioration of the BBC2 analogue signal prior to sudden switch off.After the BBC2 analogue signal is switched off permanently it could be as early as 15 minutes later when the new 100kw high powered post-digital BBCA multiplex on frequency 26 vacated by the old BBC2 analogue comes on air dependent on everything running smoothly,if not then much later even up to 6am from the main Bilsdale transmitter itself.
My advice keep watching,blink and you will miss it !
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Thomas11:09 PM
Leeds
I live in an area served best by Emley Moor, but I can pick up a weak signal from Bilsdale through my existing aerial. It's quite fuzzy, but good enough to see what's going on.
I wonder if Bilsdale's high-power transmissions will be visible here? I'd prefer to keep Emley Moor as my transmitter, but as some TVs run on a first come first served basis I might get Emley's channels relegated to the 800s when I retune.
My aerial is a B group rather than K or A, (and is pointing at Emley) so that should help filter out Bilsdale. We'll see tomorrow when DSO stage 1 is complete.
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jb3811:51 PM
Thomas: Well, when Bilsdale's BBC switches to high power operation tomorrow you should possibly be able to receive it on the rear of your aerial as its only 2 degrees out, albeit Bilsdales BBC is only predicted as providing a variable level of reception on the given post code, and on the 26th when the other muxes switch to high powered operation the HD service joins the variable heading of BBC1, the three commercial channels not shown as being possible to receive. (in theory anyway!)
Regarding tuning, as Bilsdale's PSB transmitters use lower channel numbers and which may be picked up first, you can get over this by removing the aerial and carry out an auto-scan whilst watching the progress bar, and as soon as the scan reaches approx Ch40 immediately reconnect the aerial as Emley Moor uses Ch41 for its HD service.
If though this is difficult to achieve because of the type of tuning menu in your TV or box then erase the channels already stored by scanning without the aerial connected, then after having reconnected same manually tune in each of Emley Moors channels one at a time.
Ch47 - 44 - 41(HD) - 51 - 52 - 48
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Mark Fletcher11:54 PM
Halifax
Thomas,Leeds.Well not long to go now.However you stated your group B aerial should filter out Bilsdale,but come DSO2 in two weeks time the 50kw COM multiplexes SDN,ArqA and ArqB from Bilsdale on frequencies 43,46 and 40 respectively will instead possibly store these instead of the Emley Moor equivalents and those will not store in the 800+ channels list after Bilsdale completes DSO2.The 100kw PSB multiplexes BBCA,D3+4 and BBCB (HD) from Bilsdale itself on frequencies 26 (the former soon to come on within 1 hour,etc),29 and 23 respectively (the latter two in two weeks time) are probably unlikely to be stored first as such but you never know.Unless your appliance can scan manually an autonmatic scan can be very troublesome in your locality.
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Thomas11:55 PM
Leeds
Watching Bilsdale right now, 23:50 BBC ONE analogue appears to have gone off-air. I thought it was BBC TWO that was supposed to go off for DSO1?
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