Full Freeview on the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 120,000 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 Stockland Hill (Devon, England) mast?
Stockland Hill transmitter - Stockland Hill 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)
The Stockland Hill (Devon, 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 Stockland 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)
The Stockland Hill (Devon, 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 Stockland Hill transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 86km west-southwest (239°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 80km southwest (236°)
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?
| Bickleigh | Transposer | 15 km N Exeter | 25 homes |
| Freshwater C/p | Active deflector | 2 km SE Bridport, Dorset | 250 homes (caravans) |
| Ladram Bay | Transposer | 15 km SE Exeter | 400 homes (caravans) |
How will the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 27 Mar 2019 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C9 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C25 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 6 May 09 and 20 May 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 25kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 2.5kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Stockland Hill transmitter area
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Thursday, 21 November 2013
Well oddly enough, according to this website, Stockland Hill serves 120,000 homes, whereas Beacon Hill (which will get COM7 and COM8) serves 84,000 homes. If Stockland Hill serves more homes than Beacon Hill, it too should have COM7 and COM8.
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Nicholas Willmott: There is another factor and that is the availability of suitable broadcast channels, C31 through to C37 (C36 excepted) being used exclusively.
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Saturday, 23 November 2013
Couldn't they have put COM7 and COM8 on all 80 transmitters that broadcast DTT from the outset in autumn 1998? To get round the limited range of UHF channels, couldn't COM8 have been C37 (as SFN) from all sites, and COM7 whatever's free in the C31 to C35 range?
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Wednesday, 25 December 2013
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Derek Carpenter2:04 PM
What I find strange is that Beacon Hill used to be purely group c and only use channels 53 and above. What used to be a Stocland Hill channel (33) has been used for Beacon Hill com7.
So that means none of the original Beacon Hill receiving aerials are suitable for the new channels and channel 33 is no longer available to be correctly allocated to Stockland Hill, along with 34!
It makes you question the abilities of the people who make these decisions!
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KMJ,Derby5:09 PM
Derek Carpenter: The purpose of COM7 (and COM8, if it materialises) is to encourage viewers to purchase receiving equipment that supports DVB-T2 and where necessary, a new aerial suitable for reception of group "A" frequencies in readiness for a planned change in about 2018 to the arrangements for transmitting the existing COM muxes. This involves using C22, C25 and C28 running as SFNs for the COM muxes which would be required to use DVB-T2 to achieve this. Transmitters which use frequencies above C48 for the PSB muxes would then be allocated new frequencies (often in group B ) so that the C49 to C60 section of the UHF spectrum can be sold off for 4G/5G. Beacon Hill would therefore become a group K transmitter. Stockland Hill could still use C33 as SFN with Beacon Hill in the (unlikely) event that COM 7 is extended to other sites.
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Thursday, 26 December 2013
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graham hutton11:53 AM
I have just retuned to the Stockland Hill TX, but do not appear to have received HD channels, i.e. 101, 102, 103 etc.
Recently other channels have not been received 19, 20.
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Monday, 30 December 2013
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Sue4:55 PM
Why would you mention people being rude or disrespectful? I can only conclude that people are so fed up with their service that they respond accordingly: get the service right, as obviously it is not a good service. Ours is dire.
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Michael7:01 PM
Sue: Maybe you do something about it instead of coming onto a website which is not responsible for your service to complain?
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Tuesday, 7 January 2014
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Peter Baron9:32 PM
Spif reception semsvery bad in ta304aj. Is there a reason for this?
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Peter Baron9:36 PM
Sound reception very blurred in ta204aj. Please tell me why this could be.
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