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?
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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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-look-north-newcastle.jpg)
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.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-tynetees.jpg)
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 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, 10 October 2012
If you are missing Band 46, I think you have the old red band aerials & that's why you are not getting band 46, Iv come across this lost this week although grey bands are working fine.
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Monday, 15 October 2012
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Dave Naylor9:16 PM
Anyone know who decided to change the transmitter indents of both Bilsdale and Pontop to North East. Seems stupid since televisions with built in software to help make sure the tuner is receiving the right transmitter are now disabled. Causing me lots of problems?
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012
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Steve Loble5:17 PM
Should I now be getting BBC HD on my HD Ready TV from the Bilsdale mast. I have recently retuned.
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Steve Loble: No. Follow the link to HD Ready which means that a TV can show HD pictures but does not have the means to receive them off the air.
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Monday, 29 October 2012
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Trevor Milburn8:10 PM
Trevor Milburn:
An update on my Bilsdale problems. Scanning through the channels on TV last night, I noticed a pile of new channels in the 8xx range - several of which were the missing channels. Knowing that this is often the case whilst the transmitters are being tested and they are basically 'ghost' channels with no programme transissions, I thought nothing of it. However, on closer inspection, I found all my lost channels had re-appeared (my Sony has Automation System Update (I think that's its name). Did a system check and they are all showing as Picture Quality - 0, Signal Quality - 66, so I don't hold out much hope of keeping them but will monitor the situation over the next few days. It may have only been 'atmospheric conditions' so will wait & see and report back
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bill smith8:44 PM
All problems with bilsdale transmitter will be solved if you use a simple 'log aperiodic' aerial. they are very 'wide band' and not half as obtrusive as the so called 'high gain' aerials that the installers are currently touting. Don't forget THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A 'DIGITAL' AERIAL, and anyone who tries to sell one on this basis is either an ignoramus or a wide boy.
After all, this type of aerial is the one of choice that the BBC themselves use.
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Monday, 19 November 2012
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Jacqueline Fowler8:52 PM
Stockton-on-tees
Our ariel is in the loft. My son has a Bravia Sony TV. Before switchover his fave programmes were 'Pick' and 'Dave', now he can get niether. Please can you help. I have read al therough this thread, but little of it makes any sense to me. Could you please help using very simple language! Thank you.
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Jacqueline's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Jacqueline Fowler: I posted an explanation here in response to Alan:
Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) full-Freeview transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
A number of other people have reported exactly the same issue.
First off, if your TV has manual tuning you should attempt to tune to the missing multiplex (a multiplex is a single signal that carries multiple services).
Go through to the manual tune function (if there is one) and tune to UHF/RF channel 46. The multiplex on C46 carries Dave, Pick TV and others.
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Monday, 26 November 2012
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stu11:25 PM
Saltburn-by-the-sea
i am also from TS13 5HR, lost C46
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stu's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 3 January 2013
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Mike2:01 PM
I've got a slightly odd one here.
I have an EyeTV connected to my computer, but have great difficulty getting BBCA on C26.
I am using an indoor aerial mounted high on the top floor of my house pointing out of the window.
I have to loop the aerial cable half way round the rom to do this (approx 6 metres).
The strange thing is, since switchover, the signal is so strong that I don't need the aerial plugged in (just the loop of cable) to get a good signal on PSB2!
Channels on all other Muxs are fine.
Checking the signal strength and quality, they seem almost identical for both BBCA and PSB2 using the tuning software for the EyeTV.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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