Full Freeview on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 97,000 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 Redruth (Cornwall, England) mast?
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Screen may go black 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 Redruth (Cornwall, 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 Redruth 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 Redruth (Cornwall, 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 Redruth transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 82km east-northeast (78°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 89km east (79°)
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?
| Coverack | Transposer | 15 km S Falmouth | 70 homes |
How will the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 1 May 2019 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C48 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqB | |||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
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 Jul 09 and 5 Aug 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 | |
| Analogue 5 | (-15.2dB) 3kW | |
| Mux D* | (-16.6dB) 2.2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-18dB) 1.6kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Redruth transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 6 February 2014
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Malcolm Brown7:56 PM
Marazion
Dave Lindsay: Thank you for this information. I did see the banner at the top of the page relating to the Redruth transmitter engineering work. I posed my question anyway as I could not see any date and time that this top banner was last updated. As a helpful suggestion, could a date and time be included in a main information heading please? This would make terms like 'over the next week' more meaningful. Thanks.
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Malcolm's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 7 February 2014
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jb389:29 AM
Malcolm Brown: Precise information as to when any interruption to the service is liable to occur is something which cannot really be forecast in advance, as any that do take place is entirely dependant on the nature of the engineering work being carried out and whether or not the engineer(s) involved at a particular stage deem it necessary for technical reasons, or indeed in the interests of safety, to either cut the power of the transmitter or even kill it altogether whilst some task is being carried out.
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Monday, 24 March 2014
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Ian Gilbert8:07 AM
Camborne
Four Lanes Transmission mast location TR14 7HP
Freeview channels 11-12-17-29-32-36-37-41-42-43-46-57-82 all have a beautiful picture reception, but, there is lip sync garbled sound distortion.
I live in Camborne Cornwall and tested my TV and Panasonic EX85 recorder at a relations home twenty miles away, tried different types of aerials at home, dish, portable, and loft internal aerial, all with the same result.
Reports from 2 local TV and recorder repairers commented to me the amount of the general public reporting sound faults both on their TV's and recorders with different brand names, with sound problem.
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Ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 12 April 2014
I think it is disgraceful that you can take out freeview for a whole week, when most people cannot afford to get sky in Cornwall and therefore you are rendering the county with no TV at all.
When is it going to be restored? Have you any plans to destroy my tv viewing in the future.
I am very disappointed that you can do this.
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Mrs Hilary White: have you retuned? Engineering work is not usually done at the weekend or during peak viewing hours.
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Thursday, 17 April 2014
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Tony Crocker8:19 AM
St. Austell
postcode PL26 8FZ
We have had no freeview since 10.00 ish on 16.04.14. When can we expect to get it back
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Tony's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 24 July 2014
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Dave Laurie3:26 PM
Is there an ongoing problem at the Redruth transmitter? Over the last few months we've been experiencing intermittent problems with our digital TV (I suspect rooted in weak signals).
The odd thing is that at different times various different groups of stations tend to break-up or not get decoded correctly. At other times all is well with all the TV channels. But on any particular day several channels will be unwatchable at the same time. Although BBC and ITV 1 & 2 never seem to suffer.
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Dave Lindsay
5:35 PM
5:35 PM
Dave Laurie: Whereabouts are you?
The COM channels (*not* BBC, ITV1, ITV2 C4 etc which are "PSB") are on lower power. Could you be somewhere where you are getting interference? It is the case that some viewers will only get the Redruth PSBs reliably.
Your location, preferably in the form of postcode or nearby postcode such as a shop will allow reception expectations to be checked.
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Dave Laurie6:12 PM
St. Austell
PL26 7LU. This first raised it's head late last year, but we put it down to inclement weather. However of late it's become annoying even when the weather is fine.
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dave Lindsay
6:37 PM
6:37 PM
Dave Laurie: The terrain plot suggests you have clear line-of-sight at 18.3 miles (assuming no obstructions that are on the ground):
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location Also judging by that plot, I suggest that the only likely obstructions could be trees and buildings within several hundred metres of your property. So, has a tree grown, or building gone up or been modified in the time your difficulties started? (Obviously we're talking about possible obstructions in the general direction of the transmitter.
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