Full Freeview on the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmitter which serves 84,000 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 Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) mast?
Beacon Hill transmitter - Beacon Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 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 Beacon 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Beacon Hill transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 37km west (262°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 30km west (260°)
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?
| Lannacombe | Active deflector | 25 km SW Torbay | 4 homes |
How will the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 27 Mar 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | E T | E T | W T | K T | |||
| C33 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C34 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C40 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C44 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | |||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | +BBCB | +BBCB | |||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | -BBCA | ||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 Apr 09 and 22 Apr 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 | |
| com7 | (-11.4dB) 7.3kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D*, com8 | (-20dB) 1000W |
Local transmitter maps
Beacon Hill Freeview Beacon Hill AM/FM Beacon Hill TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Beacon Hill transmitter area
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Sunday, 21 October 2012
John Brockett: Sorry, the first sentence should say that I believe that the message does not have "intelligence" to know whether the retune has been carried out.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013
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Bryan5:52 PM
Can you tell me what the typical polarity is for Freeview transmitters I have a camper van and roam around so what would be the typical ? vertical or horizontal ? do I need to install the antenna so that it is easy to change please, and if it various across the country is their a smart phone app that I can look up the direction ( using my sat nav) and the polarity, thank Bryan
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Bryan: Generally speaking, the main transmitters are horizontally polarised and the relays are vertically polarised. Thus the vast majority of aerials are horizontally polarised.
See here for ideas for an aerial:
TV Aerials for Boats and Caravans
The Digital UK Postcode Checker can give you an idea:
Digital UK - Postcode checker
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Bryan: BTW, the "DM Log" aerial available from ATV is a Blake DML26WB.
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
B
Bryan12:34 PM
Thank you Dave a horizontal set up on the top of my van will be more suitable.
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Bryan: So touring areas that are served by horizontally polarised transmitters is preferred then!
Parking on high ground should leave you in good stead to receive from main (horizontally polarised) transmitters.
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Bryan: And, of course, if you're not spending all your time watching your TV, you will be able to admire the view.
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Saturday, 13 April 2013
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C.J.Tremlett10:43 AM
Another coupole of breakdowns in transmission.
Bring back Analouge which ran for years without problems.
If Sky / Freesat (which I cant receive)can provide 100% transmissions why cant an 'Earth Based' transmitter do the same.
Also why do 'Relay Transmitters' (like we have here in Dartmouth) have restricted Channels. We pay the same License fee but only get a few channels.
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Thursday, 4 July 2013
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J.Tremlett4:16 PM
I live in Dartmouth on the 'South side of the valley, fairly high up the hill.
Before the maintenance on 5th June I was able to receive a signal from Beacon Hill, giving a very wide choice of programmes, but since then I am unable to receive any programmes from Beacon Hill, only the 11 programmes transmitted from our local relay.
WHY IS THIS???????
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J.Tremlett: Because the Commercial (COM) channels broadcast by Beacon Hill aren't tuned in.
If you are wishing to receive the COM channels from Beacon Hill then your aerial should be directed to it and not to the Dartmouth relay, this being to give you the best chance of reliable reception.
Have you tried manually tuning the three COM channels: 42, 45, 51?
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