Full Freeview on the Plympton (Plymouth, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Plympton (Plymouth, England) transmitter which serves 35,000 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 Plympton (Plymouth, England) mast?
Plympton transmitter - Plympton transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/12/2024 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 Plympton (Plymouth, 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 Plympton 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 Plympton (Plymouth, 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 Plympton transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 4km west (280°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 3km east-northeast (76°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
How will the Plympton (Plymouth, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 10 Apr 2019 | |||
| C/D E | W | W | W | W T | W T | K T | |||
| C30 | C5waves | C5waves | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||
| C40 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C41 | SDN | ||||||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | D3+4 | |||||
| C44 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | BBCB | |||||
| C47 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C56tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 12 Aug 09 and 9 Sep 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 200W |
Local transmitter maps
Plympton Freeview Plympton DAB Caradon Hill TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caradon Hill transmitter area
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Sunday, 15 September 2013
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jb388:34 PM
B Moreton : Although its unlikely that it wouldn't be. but on the signal check you carried out make sure that you are receiving mux Ch45, this bring Plympton's COM5 as used by Sky news (82) as well as Pick TV (11) and Dave (12).
However, in order to make a proper assessment of the situation a more accurate location is required, this in the form of a post code or one from nearby as a test code using Plymptons Post Office indicated it as being under 1 mile away from the transmitter, and if you are anywhere near to this location then your aerial system would be grossly over the top and liable to overload your receiver.
Further info dependant on reply, but just in case you are not receiving from the Plympton transmitter but Caradon Hill then its COM5 is mux Ch24 and with the aerial being mounted horizontally whereas Plympton is vertical, elements up and downwards.
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Monday, 17 February 2014
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JACK8:57 PM
Plymouth
Bovis sands plymouth digital signal has to come from cornwall all itv ok bbc channels go missing in the day and return at night new aerial and amplifier fitted .
This area has problems with low signals why is itv ok and bbc comes and goes ?
Thank you jack
post code PL9 0AA
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JACK's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
JACK: In specific response to your question: because different frequencies behave differently, and particularly so in situations such as yours where there is no line-of-sight to the transmitter and you have trees in the way. So, in actual fact the question you are asking is why does ITV come in OK?
The Digital UK predictor doesn't predict anything. The terrain plotter shows that the ground rises up around 100m within approximately three-quarters of a mile:
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
This is hardly a recipe for interruption-free viewing!
You only mention PSB channels BBC and ITV. As you have ITV, it follows you must have access to Channel 4, Channel 5 and their six other sister services.
But do you receive the Commercial (COM) channels, these being (10)ITV3, Pick(11) and (18)4Music?
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Tuesday, 18 February 2014
JACK: I have looked further at your situation. In your posting you said signals came from "cornwall" which I now understand to mean from Caradon Hill. Whilst it's not great it may be so, this plot showing that Brownhill is your only obstruction at about 80m above you:
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
With this in mind I would confirm that for ITV you are tuned to UHF channel 25 (506MHz or 506.2MHz) and not UHF channel 49 (698MHz), this being the frequency of Plympton. This information is usually given on the signal strength screen.
If it turns out to be tuned to Plympton then run the automatic tuning scan and unplug at 30% or when the scan gets past UHF channel 30.
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Tuesday, 13 January 2015
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Barrie Dibble12:02 PM
Transmitter engineering: No signal at the moment. Is there a fault or is i
t my aeriel?
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jb386:49 PM
Barrie Dibble: The Plympton transmitter was indeed off this morning between the hours of of 11.22 and 11.40, but though it should have been back on again at the time you had posted your message.
However, in cases like this its sometimes far quicker to get up to date information by making a local enquiry with a neighbour etc, rather than relying purely on the fault reporting system.
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Tuesday, 1 December 2015
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Mr E Jope2:09 PM
Plymouth
some hd.channels missing from guide list for Hardwick relay transmitter Plympton.wish to change to freeview only is hd.always to be a problem with this transmitter.My
I post code is pl7 4eh and the transmitter mast is visible from lounge window and measures maximum strength on any devise tuned in 16 years at this address.
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Mr's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Mr E Jope: See "Are you trying to watch these 11 Freeview HD channels?" above!
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Sunday, 10 July 2016
I am having problems with receiving tv signal from Plympton transmitter to my house at PL68SQ, the aerial is in the left
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Tuesday, 23 August 2016
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Dave 10:28 AM
I am in Yealmpton PL8 2Pn what direction do I need to point my in roof Aerial To pick up the tv signal
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