Full Freeview on the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 180,000 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 Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) mast?
Caradon Hill transmitter - Caradon Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 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)
Which Freeview channels does the Caradon Hill 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Caradon Hill transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 26km east-southeast (123°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 32km east-southeast (116°)
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?
| Barleycombe | Active deflector | 25 km E Plymouth | 3 homes |
| Parracombe | Transposer | 17 km NE Barnstaple | 80 homes |
How will the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 27 Mar 2019 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C12 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C30 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C37 | com8 |
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 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com7 | (-16.3dB) 11.6kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-20dB) 5kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 4kW | |
| com8 | (-24.2dB) 1.9kW |
Local transmitter maps
Caradon Hill Freeview Caradon Hill DAB Caradon Hill AM/FM 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, 9 October 2016
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Richard Cooper5:14 PM
D: Channels currently available on COM 8 are likely to be available on on a different FULL POWER multiplex after the next digital switchover in 2020, so you don't need to worry about losing any channels when they switch COM 8 off just before the 202o switchover! Richard in Norwich.
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 30 October 2016
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Martin everett7:01 PM
I live at PL253AF which is on the edge of the good signal area on the map.
It is also on the edge of this for the Redruth transmitter.
I am finding it very frustrating when the signal breaks up in the middle of a broadcast.
I can't afford sky (we are a working family paying our way) to overcome this and feel why should I struggle to pay tv license for this.
What are my options?
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Wednesday, 30 November 2016
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denyse shorrocks10:29 AM
Transmitter engineering: my signal has gone since yesterday ...... why does crackington haven get such a weak signal ?
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MikeP
2:11 PM
2:11 PM
Denyse Shorrocks:
For anyone to suggest how to improve your reception it is essential to provide a full post code. Only with that information can we determine which transmitter your should be using and whether there are any objects in the transmission path to cause reception difficulties.
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Thursday, 1 December 2016
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nicholas1:40 AM
Martin everett: Dear Martin,my suggestions because i don't know the local conditions in yr area is to install
a higher gain aerial or use freesat.If you can,get a cheap aerial and search your home etc for a better signal,sometimes a better signal can be found at ground level or in unexpected places.Try tilting yr existing
aerial upwards,signal twist does often happen and when i lived in swindon was chronic in places.Lets know
the outcome.n..................
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nicholas1:46 AM
Hi,lot of areas get difficult reception because the UHF waveband used for tv is more like light than lower wavebands,and is easily blocked by the terrain.When it was allocated to tv,it was regarded as a rubbish
waveband,poor range ,high transmitter powers were required to get a reasonable service.
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Monday, 19 December 2016
My postcode PL15 8BT (Launceston). Often get poor Freeview reception and frequently re-tune channels. Even when good reception for most Freeview, always have trouble with Talking Pictures (ch 81) and Al Jazeera English (ch 108). Can the signal for these channels be enhanced from Caradon transmitter? Why their weakness compared to other channels? Is that a fault at Caradon? How to enhance reception for these two (both important to me)? I already have a booster. Continually fluctuating number of channels received when I re-tune. (almost 40-channel fluctuation at times) Engineer says my antenna good and correctly placed.
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Jan's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln112:23 PM
Jan van Heurck: Talking Pictures and Aljazeera HD are broadcast on the COM7 multiplex which (along with COM8) is a temporary service which is broadcast at lower power to avoid causing interference with other transmitters using the same frequency. It won't receive a power boost and is due to close in 2020.
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MikeB1:58 PM
Jan van Heurck: Your just 15km from the transmitter with a clear path - why do you have a booster?
Check signal strength - although that mux is on relatively low power, you might still have a high signal strength and its worth checking the other muxes as well to make sure that you don'y have a fault with your system.
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MikeP
3:39 PM
3:39 PM
Jan van Heurk:
Further to that said by StevensOnln1 and MikeB, it is worth removing the amplifier altogether and plugging the two aerial cable connectors together using a suitable coupler. As you are only 15 km from the powerful transmitter it is likely that you have too much signal causing the tuner to be overloaded.
Please would you then tell us what the reported signal strengths are for each multiplex.
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