Full Freeview on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter
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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 04/11/2024 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 withheldWednesday, 12 September 2012
Jake: If you have BBC One where BBC Two analogue was, then this has happened because the new BBC digital (Freeview) signal is on the UHF channel (frequency) that BBC One used to occupy.
At the first stage of switchover at all transmitters, BBC Two analogue is turned off to allow for BBC standard definition digital services.
In some cases the UHF channel used by the BBC standard definition services is that of one of the other analogue channels and in such circumstances the other channel takes the place of BBC Two analogue for the fortnight until switchover completes.
If this is the case, then you cannot be receiving your TV directly from Bilsdale as its new BBC digital signal is on the channel used by its BBC Two (and therefore BBC One analogue remains where it has always been). However, its relays at Bainbridge, Guisborough, Peterlee and Whitby are all broadcasting BBC One analogue on the channel that was formerly used by BBC Two analogue and hence BBC One will appear under button number 2.
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Mike Davison8:57 PM
Just for the record, in Wetherby, Bilsdale ch26 is receivable off the back of my loft mounted Emley Moor antenna(which is a wide-band type) at 23% signal and 90-100% quality on my Humax PVR and so is quite usable. Analogue reception off the back of this antenna was unwatchable. I'm looking forward to DSO2 at Bilsdale. Also according to your maps for Emley coverage, I am outside of its 'green' area. Wrong! I have had solid reception of all mpx's pre- and post-DSO with HD.
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Thursday, 13 September 2012
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Robert Hill6:27 PM
Mike Davison, I'm not surprised that you can receive the new high-powered BBC multiplex from Bilsdale with your loft aerial on the back of it. I live 3 to 4 miles south of Wetherby, and I can receive that multiplex with a small four element indoor aerial downstairs looking through the window towards Bilsdale, and depending where I put it, it is Signal Strength roundabout 60% and signal quality 100%. Back in June when they did an overnight test I received all the multiplexes with an indoor aerial through the same the same window. But of course I receive my signals from Emley Moor transmitter.
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Matt10:13 PM
When BBCA started on C26 earlier this week it seems MUXC also moved from C27 to C34.
Anyone (else) missing the re-runs of Red Dwarf on Dave in the Bilsdale area might want to re-tune!
I have to manually tune to avoid spurious channels from Emley, I guess auto-tuners may not have noticed this additional change?
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Sunday, 16 September 2012
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Brian Winter2:31 PM
Catterick Garrison
I have been lucky enough to be part of the Digital Outreach team based at the methodist Church in Richmond. Personally I have had no problems although I would like to mention that currently the BBC services on Channel 24 are still being radiated as you will get two lots of BBC4/Parliment and Cbeebees and the radio until the second stage of DSO. In addition, ITV1+1 from Bilsdale is Tyne Tess not Yorkshire as shown on your info pages.
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012
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Paul10:04 PM
Saltburn-by-the-sea
having problems picking up digital and anologue signals for 1tv chan 4 chan 5 etc had no problem before the the switchover and its not just mine, it seems the whole village is the same, loft ariels and roof ariels help please SKINNINGROVE TS13 4BJ
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Mike Dimmick10:34 PM
Paul: Digital UK expect you to be using the Skinningrove repeater transmitter, rather than the main Bilsdale transmitter. You don't have line-of-sight over the cliffs.
The Skinningrove transmitter will be using different, slightly higher, frequencies after switchover compared to before. If you have reception problems it may be worth swapping the aerial for a group C/D or wideband design.
Skinningrove does not yet transmit ITV1, Channel 4 or Channel 5 in digital form. They will be turned on, along with the HD services, next Wednesday. The new services are expected to be available from mid-afternoon: see Digital UK - Relay transmitter switching times for updated information on the day.
If the problem persists after switchover completes, or for reassurance that the local transmitter is working properly, contact Digital UK on the number on their website.
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Friday, 21 September 2012
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Bill3:26 PM
Richmond
Hi,
During the last week or so, I have been helping some elderly friends to re-tune their equipment - a mix of built-in TV and set-top boxes and have a problem with one installation. I did a 'first time installation' procedure and all channels except BBC2 were present. I repeated the procedure twice, but the result was just the same - no BBC2.
The equipment is a set top box located in Richmond North Yorks - Post code DL10 7DQ and the aerial is chimney mounted.
Do you think the situation is liable to be resolved after the 26th September?
Thanks.
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Bill: This is strange and makes me wonder whether you are, somehow, viewing the analogue signals. On analogue BBC Two has been switched off.
With the digital, multiple services are carried on one signal, unlike analogue where one service occupied one UHF channel (signal).
So if you have BBC One and BBC Three, then you would be expected to have BBC Two.
Are you sure that you haven't unknowingly used the TV's remote and carried out a retune of the TV's analogue tuner?
In answer to your question, BBC standard definition TV and radio is now on the full final power (it has "switched" as it were).
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