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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, 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
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?
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 |
Local transmitter maps
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Monday, 21 December 2015
paul denning
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
still not getting channels 101 to 104 ilchester crescent - any eta of return of services
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Greg1:14 PM
Lost all HD channels here today off Ilchester Cresent Transmitter too... ETA on fix?
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Brian 3:46 PM
Hi All
My HD channels came back about 15 mins ago. No explanation!!!
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Wednesday, 10 February 2016
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carolyn george11:27 AM
Hi I need help please I have lost all my htv channels the tv has been gradually getting worse over last few weeks but no I have nothing .I have called out an aerial repair man in case it was my aerial but he has checked and the problem is the signal he thinks is from 4g in Ilchester as i am a senior citizen ,and disabled I rely on my tv now I can only watch bbc , no good to me please please help
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MikeP
10:21 PM
10:21 PM
carolyn george:
If your aerial contractor thinks the problem is due to 4G services, you should contact at800 using the Contact us | Advice or general enquiries | at800 web address. That page has a number of options to help checl the cause and allow you to contac t them directly.
If the cause is suspected to be 4G services they will supply free of charge a filter to add into your aerial system. I'm surprised your aerial contractor did not mention this as it's very well known and documented.
I'm assuming that your live within the Ilchester Crescent transmitter service area, a post code would help us to check that.
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Saturday, 27 February 2016
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carolyn george11:37 PM
Bristol
ty Mike for your reply My postcode is bs13 0jy.
When I called the aerial man he put a new aerial up and found it was no better so put mine back up , He also put a filter to the aerial as you spoke about and it made no difference, the equipment he had checked my aerial which he said was fine,he checked my tv which again was found to be ok (as it only approx. 2 yrs old he thought it wouldn't be that} .he then checked my set top box which I use to record and he found that to be working ok.he retuned the tv and finally I had quite a good picture on every channel so he thought it may just be signal and it was sorted .Since then it has continued to cause problems so I called a tv repair man more cost and he said same tv ok set box ok aerial ok so more cost and still my tv is having problems the last 3 days I can only watch bbc as all other channels are either saying no signal or picture breaking up .I just don't know what else to do or try please can you help me I am on small income and practically housebound so the tv is one of my last pleasure in life
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Sunday, 28 February 2016
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MikeB6:37 PM
carolyn george: Check your signal strength! I sometimes get the same problem, and its the signal suddenly going down to about 30% or way up to 80 or 90% - both end up looking the same. Strangely, I'm getting both problems a bit at the moment.
Since you've had everything checked, I doubt the signal is too low. Now the transmitter your on is very low power, but on the other hand, your very very close 2km. So it could be your jusdt getting too much signal, and that causing the problems.
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jb388:23 PM
carolyn george : On having read over what you have said, and in particular the fact that your aerial installation as well as the equipment connected into same has been checked over by two separate engineers, I was just wondering if the fault referred to was actually in evidence at the time of any of their visits?
However, as to the cause of said problem, although an overly strong signal can indeed result in signal break up etc, the fact of you having stated that you can only view the BBC is inclined to suggest that this isn't the reason for your difficulty, as the BBC and ITV (excl ITV3) are transmitted on twice the power of all the other channels, i.e: the ones that you have reported as being unable to view, the reverse of what would be expected.
Another thing I wondered about being, as you would appear as being able to view Freeview via either the tuner in your TV, or alternatively via same in your "Freeview" set top box recorder, does the signal on the other channels referred to break up no matter what you are viewing them through?
To clarify the aforementioned, Freeview through the TV means using the TV's remote to change channels, whereas via the set to box, means by selecting the set top box via the "input select" button on the "TV's" remote control, but using the set top boxes remote control to change channels.
My personal suspicion is that your problem is possibly being cause by some intermittent form of localised interference, "local" meaning such as even through the adjoining wall between two properties.
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jb3811:45 PM
carolyn george: I did also mean to add. That if the lead from your aerial passes through your set top box recorder and then into your TV?, check if anything changes by "not" placing the set top box in standby, as some set top boxes of the recording variety have an "eco" power saving mode in standby which kills the aerial loop through (in / out) facility, although in strong signal areas such as your own might only partially reduce the level of the signal being passed through to the TV, reception of sorts still being possible albeit with continual picture / audio glitches.
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Monday, 29 February 2016
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carolyn george1:22 PM
jb38 Tyvm for your reply yes all the people I have had her have seen the problem I am having .I have just spoke to freeview and they can only suggest what I have already done ,I then spoke to 4g who are going to send filter but as that as already been done I doubt that will solve problem.As for my neighbours no one else has problems as they all have dishes outside there house or are on vigin or sky .I want to give up but then again I need to be able to watch my tv so I guess I am having to call yet another tv man and hope that someone with good knowledge turns up .but ty for your reply x :
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