Full Freeview on the Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, England) transmitter which serves 25,000 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 Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, 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 Bristol Ilchester Crescent 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, 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 Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-west-west.jpg)
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 4km east-northeast (65°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | K T | K T | |||
C30 | LBS | LBS | |||||||
C37 | _local | ||||||||
C39 | +ArqB | +ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
C41 | +BBCA | +BBCA | +BBCA | BBCA | |||||
C42 | +SDN | +SDN | +SDN | SDN | |||||
C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
C44 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||
C45 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
C47 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||||
C49tv_off | +ArqB | ||||||||
C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 500W | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 200W | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-7dB) 100W | |
Mux A* | (-11dB) 40W | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBS | (-14dB) 20W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Monday, 27 July 2015
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jb389:13 PM
Tony Parsons: Aerials in your area are all seen to be pointing in the direction of the Ilchester Crescent transmitter, and although a p/code terrain check reveals your area as having a clear line of sight with the mast, a reception check using Digital UK's predictor indicates reception of the COM4/6 multiplexes that broadcasts the programmes referred to as only being variable, therefore some other factor such as bias on the mast "might" be coming into the equation, that is apart from the fact of the multiplexes in question transmitting on only 50% of the power of the main PSB muxes. (PSB-200 watts / COM-100 watts)
Have you as yet ascertained if others in your area are also suffering from similar problems with reception? although if they are not, then their aerial systems could well have the edge on yours as far as efficiency is concerned.
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Thursday, 27 August 2015
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Andrew Williams3:03 PM
Bristol
Postcode BS8 4UL (Clifton Wood, Bristol)
Yesterday morning everything was OK, but when I got home last night only these were available:
3 ITV1, 4 Channel Four, 5 Channel Five, 6 ITV2, 13 C4+1, 14 More Four, 15 Film Four, 24 ITV4, 28 E4 33 ITV!+!
Interestingly 10 ITV3 was not there either.
I have re-tuned, but to no avail.
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Andrew's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
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Tony Parsons9:31 AM
Further to my previous query re intermittent reception of some channels
I have asked some neighbors and they have the same problem.
Considering the transmitter is so close this is disappointing.
Is there any chance of them increasing the power of those channels which
they currently transmit at half power?
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Monday, 26 October 2015
paul denning
1:24 PM
1:24 PM
has lost local mux from ilchester crescent transmitter
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paul denning: Has this just happened? You could have a look at Single frequency interference
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paul denning
2:14 PM
2:14 PM
Briantist: was working yesterday - had only got in and was going through channels and realise they was missing
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Sunday, 20 December 2015
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Brian6:57 PM
Getting no HD channels in BS14 area. SD are fine.
Don't think it's my kit but don't have another HD enabled TV to try it on.
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MikeB8:17 PM
Brian: If you look at the top of the page, you'll see that if you are using this transmitter, then the PSB3 mux is HD. If your not getting the mux, thats another matter, but you should be able to get the bulk of HD channels. Is your TV actually an HD TV? By that, I dont mean 'Full HD' - thats just the panel (old trick of certain retailers), but does it have an HD (DVB-T2) tuner? If not, then either you'll need a TV that does have one, or add a box that does (starts around 44 quid). If you give us the model/make of your TV, we can tell you.
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paul denning
8:29 PM
8:29 PM
i have lost both bbc1 hd and bbc 2 hd - all hd channels ok - ilchester crescent transmitter
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Tim9:12 PM
Brian: I am getting no HD BBC channels in Bedminster Down BS13
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