Full Freeview on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter which serves 570,000 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 Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) mast?
Bilsdale transmitter - Bilsdale transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 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 Bilsdale 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 Bilsdale transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 74km north-northwest (336°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 75km north-northwest (333°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border
Are there any self-help relays?
| Garsdale (pin Fold) | Transposer | 63 homes (coverage together with SH34) | |
| Hawsker Bottom | Active deflector | 150 caravans | |
| Langthwaite | Active deflector | 30 homes |
How will the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 13 Nov 2019 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | W T | |||||
| C21 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C23 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C24 | _local | D3+4 | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C27 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C29 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C37 | com8 | ||||||||
| C40 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C43 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C46 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com7 | (-14.3dB) 18.5kW | |
| com8 | (-14.4dB) 18.1kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-19.2dB) 6kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-20.2dB) 4.8kW | |
| Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW |
Local transmitter maps
Bilsdale Freeview Bilsdale DAB Bilsdale AM/FM Bilsdale TV region BBC North East and Cumbria Tyne TeesWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bilsdale transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSaturday, 9 July 2016
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Richard Cooper8:50 AM
Norwich
A g BELL: Hi, AG. Your transmitter at Bilsdale West Moor has been having engineering work done upon it during the past week and so this probably explains your weak signals, Richard, Norwich. Incidentally, BBC One HD does not carry 'Look Anything'. At the times when regional news programmes are broadcast on BBC One SD, BBC One HD displays a caption advising you to re-tune to BBC One SD for your local programme. Hope this helps, Richard, 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, 21 August 2016
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Melanie Collins 12:39 PM
I have no signal in Redcar for free view
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Richard Cooper4:16 PM
Melanie Collins : Hi, Melanie. The Bilsdale West Moor television transmitter does not have any reported problems and so it would seem that you must have a problem with your tv reception installation. Check with your neighbours to ascertain whether they are having any 'Freeview' signal problems before checking your own equipment. Richard, Norwich.
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Saturday, 17 June 2017
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John cowen3:34 PM
Bishop Auckland
DL14 9LF
I have a high gain rooftop aerial and generally have no problems with free view. I now find that I have lost ITV3. Retune has not helped.
Can you help?
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 6 August 2017
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John Fowler3:58 PM
I am trying to set up a tv from my caravan at Carlton Miniett near Thirsk and on tuning, due to being a multi direction aerial, it picks up broadcasts from North East and Yorkshire. North east is Newcastle and Middlesbrough and Yorkshire is Leeds and York. Having tried to find the best signal seem to have tried them all and still breaking up despite booster. Could you tell me which would be the strongest signal to tune in to from these 4 options ???
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StevensOnln17:54 PM
John Fowler: Please provide a full postcode for the location of your caravan (or one nearby) so that we can access the coverage prediction for your location.
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Monday, 7 August 2017
MikeP
10:31 AM
10:31 AM
John Fowler:
To do that we need a full post code for the location where you are trying to receive TV services.
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Wednesday, 7 February 2018
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Mike Davison7:00 PM
Just a historical correction and possibly of only academic interest but I don't think YTV ever operated from Bilsdale although I think that was what was planned by the ITA 1970 handbook but by the time it was equipped, the plan was changed I believe and Tyne-Tees was given it. At no time did it belong to Granada/ABC though.
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Friday, 23 February 2018
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MattyB9:37 AM
Hi, seem to be having issues with the Com 7 mux in Teesside for the past couple of days. All the channels on this mux keep breaking up or showing 'No Signal'. Yesterday I lost the whole mux for a while and this issue seems to the same on other televisions in the house, which receive their signal from independent aerials. Any reports to why this could be happening?
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hardy2:46 PM
Bilsdale recently changed channels around .I do not have a channel list but it is likely that com 7 has moved to uhf channel 55 in keeping with the national plan to move com7 and com 8 on all uk transmitters (that carry com7 and 8 ) to 55 and 56. This means that a wideband aerial is needed . In most areas a log type is best or in moderately weak areas a group K .
note Pre digital aerials are group A which are very insensitive to channels above 30 or so.
note also I am reffering to UHF frequency channels NOT freeview channel numbers.
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