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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter._______
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, 24 July 2014
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Michael8:57 PM
Dave Laurie: I would first double check you are tuned in to the Redruth transmitter, as Caradon Hill would be found first in any automatic search due to its lower frequencies, but wouldn't give as good a signal for the commercial channels.
Go to BBC1, then go your TV's menu, and look for a manual retune or signal information option (could be in retune/installation/setup etc) - and see what UHF channel number or frequency it gives.
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Saturday, 30 August 2014
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David Stone11:22 AM
Truro
Hi All,
How do you check if a wind turbine will interfere with reception of terrestrial tv and radio? A 77m is proposed 380m from my home. I live at TR4 9AU
David
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb388:09 PM
David Stone: Unfortunately, there is no technical way of being able to check whether it will or not, the order of the day being to "wait and see". However, Redruth is indicated as being the station that covers your area on a bearing of 238 degrees from you, and so you should check if the proposed structure is sited in a direct line-of-sight between the station and you, if it is, then it might possibly have an affect on your reception, the severity of being dependant on the rotational speed of the blades coupled to the weather conditions at the time, i.e: more so during wet weather due to reflections from the blades.
But though, nothing is cut and dried as far as interference from turbine blades is concerned, as so many variables apply.
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Wednesday, 8 October 2014
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David Stone8:36 AM
Truro
David Stone: Many thanks for your very useful and thoughtful reply. It is greatly appreciated.
David
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 9 April 2015
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john garratt7:32 PM
Falmouth - lost TV signal on Freeview almost completely today - nothing changed in setup, no building works, nothing indicated on engineering; happened a few weeks ago as well and came back after a day, but is getting irritating. Retuned twice. J
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MikeB8:30 PM
john garratt: You've gone through all the things it cant be - which leaves your system at fault. Retuning of course makes things worse - your TV was tuned fine - its just that there is a fault in your system.
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Friday, 10 April 2015
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john garratt8:16 AM
And just as suddenly, it all returns; no reason, system is only two years old and aerial not moved. :(
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jb3811:43 PM
john garratt: Although the signal may well have returned, purely out of curiosity I was wondering that if whilst no signal was being received from the Redruth transmitter whether or not you managed to verify that this situation was also being experienced by any others located in households in your immediate vicinity? if not, then what is the strength and "quality" (the most important by far) of the signal being presently received?, as the levels indicated might give a clue as to why your reception dropped out in the first place.
The aforementioned said on the basis that no faults have been reported against the Redruth transmitter, nor have I seen anyone else complain about reception from this station.
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Monday, 1 June 2015
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Scott Glave9:09 AM
I am looking for an outdoor aerial for our bungalow at St Merryn Cornwall, PL28 to replace a damaged tv aerial. Do I need anything specific. I sometimes get a pixelated signal and problems with BBC reception. I have tried a good quality indoor digital aerial but with unsatisfactory results.
Regards
Scott Glave
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MikeP9:42 PM
Trowbridge
Scott Glave:I would recommend you having a good quality log periodic aerial installed. That will cover all current and future (as far as can be determined for now) channels. Remember that there is no such thing as a 'digital aerial' as all UHF aerials can receive both analogue and digitally encoded signals equally well (it's just an excuse to charge more, I think).Indoor aerials never give a good experience, not even in the old analogue days. Digital signals can be more difficult with indoor aerials, so I'd advise going for a replacement outdoor aerial as suggested above.
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MikeP's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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