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The symbol shows the location of the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmitter which serves 84,000 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 Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) mast?

Beacon Hill transmitter - Beacon Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Beacon 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C44- (657.8MHz)284mDTG-20,000W
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1 BBC One (SD) South West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C41+ (634.2MHz)284mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (West Country), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West Country),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C47+ (682.2MHz)284mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C42 (642.0MHz)285mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C45 (666.0MHz)285mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C40 (626.0MHz)285mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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 Beacon Hill transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 37km west (262°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 30km west (260°)
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?

LannacombeActive deflector25 km SW Torbay4 homes

How will the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-132013-182013-1727 Mar 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EE TE TW TK T
C33com7com7
C34com8com8
C40ArqB
C41D3+4
C42SDNSDNSDNSDN
C44BBCA
C45ArqAArqAArqAArqA
C47BBCB
C51tv_offArqBArqBArqB
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves+D3+4+D3+4+D3+4
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCB+BBCB+BBCB
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves -BBCA-BBCA
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 Apr 09 and 22 Apr 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
com7(-11.4dB) 7.3kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-17dB) 2kW
Mux C*, Mux D*, com8(-20dB) 1000W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Beacon Hill transmitter area

Apr 1961-Dec 1981Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Westcountry Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Beacon Hill was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Friday, 12 April 2019
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

5:09 PM

BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 16:54 today. [BBC]

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Monday, 15 April 2019
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Michael Dicker
3:09 PM

After 2019 update , using a BT youview box , the picture goes blank for around 2 seconds then picture comes back on , somtimes slight picture break up . Intermittent .
Arial signal 100 percent on test .
Have two youview boxes on seperate tv s happens on both .
Done all the normal factory resets and re tunes , connection HDMI
Also happens om AVI.


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MikeP
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10:09 PM

Michael Dicker:

If you have 100% signal strwength then that is the cause of your problems as it is too strong. Try fitting a 3 dB attenuator in the aerial feed adding a new short flylead so that the weight of the attenuator does not 'hang' on the aerial socket.



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Tuesday, 16 April 2019
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gtibb
11:22 AM

Peter Cole:

Its not surprising this has happened at this site. To continue to radiate COM 7 & 8 would have required another panel retrofit at the top of the mast to use panels compliant with UHF 55 & 56. When you consider a very expensive blunder happened previously in 2008 where the top antenna was initially fitted with the panels in the wrong orientation & also a faulty feeder was installed.

Caradon Hill will also close COM7 & 8 in June as an expensive panel replacement excercise would also be required.

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Sunday, 21 April 2019
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Steve B
11:21 PM

Please see this link below.

Ignore the Line of Duty drama in the article - the point is my family who live down in Brixham are having issues since the March re-tune. Their BT Humax and TalkTalk Huawei Youview boxes (and even Televisions), are having issues of picture blanking and breaking up.

Torbay man couldn't watch Line of Duty after Freeview TV blackout - Devon Live

We've tried a number of things... Attenuator, 4G Filter (don't think its that), and new better fly leads to try and fix, but its sounds like its not just us having the issue.

The Freeview help-desk are fobbing off, but I'm encouraged its not just us in Torbay who are having issues with this reconfiguration. Even considering pointing at Stockland Hill instead.

Has anyone got any other thoughts given you might know more about frequencies and power (KW) configurations before March 2019 retune ?

Thanks in advance, Steve.

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Monday, 22 April 2019
MikeP
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:03 AM

Steve B:

Please provide a full post code for the affected properties. Without that we cannot look at what the predicted reception conditions are for that location.



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Steve B
9:38 AM
Brixham

Hi Mike,

Its TQ5 8RD for the BT Humax Youview box, and TQ5 9EL for the TalkTalk Youview box.

Thanks, Steve

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Thursday, 25 April 2019
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Robert Barrett
1:26 PM

I am also having problems immediately following the March retune 2019 in Exmouth EX82JH. The picture and sound via the Humax box tuner is breaking up approx. every 10 to 20 mins for about 2 secs
The TV tuner on its own is fine. I have checked all cables, done a factory reset, manual tune etc. Have also been in touch with Humax and they have no idea what the problem could be.
Can you help please.

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David Sims
8:59 PM
Torquay

I am in TQ2 6TD (Livermead Torquay) Ever since the update on 27/03 I get intermittent cuts out for sound and vision

This is with a Freview play DTR-T1000

4 years with no problems before

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Friday, 26 April 2019
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Richard B
12:26 PM

Robert Barrett: I have been in touch with Freeview advice since April 1 concerning this HD issue. My connection is via a BT DTR2100 (Humax) box. They accept there is a problem with Beacon Hill Transmitter but Engineers seem to be struggling finding the problem. I have provided a log of events which shows it happens every 10/11 minutes to a greater or lesser extent ( total blank screen, audio glitch, pixellation etc). The timing of the next glitch is predictable. I have tried all the other suggestions of attenuators, filters, new cables etc but to no avail. Just have to wait and see I guess.

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