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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) mast?
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Screen may go black 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 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, 28 April 2016
re CBSDrama: Of course that mean you can't now watch the channel as the Redruth transmitter doesn't carry com7 and com8..
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Briantist's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 16 September 2016
T
Tony Martin10:50 AM
Truro
Recently started having very poor reception on BBC A (Channel 44) from Redruth - Quality 1/5, conversely D3&4 (Channel 41) is good quality 5/5. Why good reception on some channels but not others from same transmitter?
Postcode TR4 8DJ, aerial is in the loft/roof space - online guidance initially suggested we should get reception from Porthtowan relay but large hill in direct line-of-sight so no signal whatsoever on Channels 27 / 24 / 21 - hence using Redruth transmitter.
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Tony's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
R
Roy5:19 PM
I am in St Ives Cornwall
TR26 1 PD
I am getting a bad signal warning and no TV
This transmitter has been known to,give problems - reduced power before
Can you check and and sort it out
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Thursday, 17 November 2016
D
David Thomson10:07 AM
Our TVs are all indicating weak or low signal on all Channels since yesterday (16th) morning.
We are in Constantine and our aerial receives from Redruth.
Can you say if this could be due to a fault at your end please?
Regards
D. Thomson
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StevensOnln110:39 AM
David Thomson: There is currently a notice of possible weak signal from Redruth due to engineering work. Do not attempt to retune, signal levels will return to normal when the work is completed.
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Saturday, 7 January 2017
M
M Davis7:26 PM
Hi we are in the Fraddon area. Have had the Tv on this afternoon, all fine. Have returned home this evening no signal on both Tv's. Have done a reset. No channels have been found. The same thing happened last night. This is with Freeview. Have fixed aerial in loft and have now tried with a different plug in aerial, still No signal.
Any help would be grateful.
Cheers
Mark
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MikeB7:37 PM
M Davis: Look at the top of the page - it says there are no problems with the transmitter. You can put your postcode into the site and it will give a link to check further, and check which transmitter you might be using, but although thats sometimes wrong or slow to update, but mostly, transmitters are very reliable. So check with others in the area, but if they are getting a signal, then its you.
Wires get frayed, rain gets into joints, and the weather batters the aerial and cables. If you've put a portable aerial into the TV and there is nothing, then its more likely to be the transmitter, but nothing is showing up yet, and if its been like that for 24 hours, thats almost certainly your system.
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Thursday, 8 June 2017
MikeP
10:41 AM
10:41 AM
P de havilland:
We need a full post code so that we can examine the transmission and reception conditions at your specific locality.
There are no problems reported for the Redruth transmitter at present, so you may have a fault with your aerial or equipment.
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Monday, 19 March 2018
J
John T. Lewis11:40 AM
Hi,
We take our freeview via a rooftop aerial and mast head booster, though I don't know quite when in the last few months we seem to have lost all the stations on 'COM5 ArqA H -3dB C52 (722.0MHz) 400m DTG-8' though we noticed the sudden disappearance of stations 11 & 12 and a few of the others, at the time it wasn't a problem but now we would like to watch programmes on channel 52. I've tried retuning both freeview enabled tv and digital recorder and though both complete a full retune including channel 52 none of the stations has reappeared.
Is this a known problem or can we do something else to restore the stations.
Any help or advice most gratefully received.
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