Full Freeview on the Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 37,000 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.
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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 Huntshaw Cross (Devon, 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 Huntshaw Cross 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 Huntshaw Cross (Devon, 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 Huntshaw Cross transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 66km south (184°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 66km south (176°)
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?
Nth Molton | Transposer | 18 km E Barnstaple | 30 homes |
How will the Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1968-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 19 Jun 2019 | ||
VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | W T | ||
C11 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C30 | BBCA | ||||||||
C31 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C32 | SDN | ||||||||
C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
C35 | ArqB | ||||||||
C37 | BBCB | ||||||||
C48 | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
C50tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
C52tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | -BBCB | -BBCB | -BBCB | |||
C56tv_off | +ArqB | +ArqB | +ArqB | ||||||
C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C67 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 1 Jul 09 and 29 Jul 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 | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 4kW | |
Analogue 5 | (-17dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Huntshaw Cross Freeview Huntshaw Cross DAB Huntshaw Cross TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Huntshaw Cross transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldTuesday, 26 December 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 17:14 on 24 Dec to 00:57 yesterday. DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 20:48 on 24 Dec to 20:49 on 24 Dec. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 27 December 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 17:14 on 24 Dec to 00:57 on 25 Dec. DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 20:48 on 24 Dec to 20:49 on 24 Dec. [BBC]
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Friday, 29 December 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 17:14 on 24 Dec to 00:57 on 25 Dec. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:14 today to 09:20 today, HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 17:14 on 24 Dec to 00:57 on 25 Dec. [BBC]
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Saturday, 30 December 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:14 yesterday to 09:20 yesterday. [BBC]
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Sunday, 31 December 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:14 on 29 Dec to 09:20 on 29 Dec. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 14:29 today to 14:44 today. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 14:29 yesterday to 14:44 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 18 January 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 14:29 on 16 Jan to 14:44 on 16 Jan. [BBC]
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Thursday, 25 January 2018
Transmitter engineering
1:29 PM
1:29 PM
HUNTSHAW CROSS transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:37 today. [BBC]
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