Full Freeview on the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmitter
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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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmitter._______
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 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.
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](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-spotlight.jpg)
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 37km west (262°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-westcountry.jpg)
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?
Lannacombe | Active deflector | 25 km SW Torbay | 4 homes |
How will the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 27 Mar 2019 | |||
C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | E T | E T | W T | K T | |||
C33 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
C34 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
C40 | ArqB | ||||||||
C41 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
C44 | BBCA | ||||||||
C45 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
C51tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | |||
C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | +BBCB | +BBCB | |||
C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | -BBCA | ||||
C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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
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Saturday, 4 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:53 on 30 Apr to 22:03 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:53 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:53 on 29 Apr to 21:53 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:03 on 30 Apr [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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8:09 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:53 on 30 Apr to 22:03 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:03 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:53 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:53 on 29 Apr to 21:53 on 30 Apr [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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8:09 PM
BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:53 on 30 Apr to 22:03 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:53 on 29 Apr to 21:53 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:03 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:53 on 30 Apr [BBC]
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Sunday, 5 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:03 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:53 on 30 Apr. [BBC]
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Monday, 6 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
8:09 AM
8:09 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:53 on 30 Apr, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:03 on 30 Apr. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 7 May 2019
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Ian Goddard-Hill8:57 PM
Torquay
My bush freeveiw box does not work and only BBC channels are coming from the aerial on my roof
My post code is TQ2 7PP . The tv screen reads no signal this has happened when I did not retune last month. It's the if I plug the aerial straight into the back of the television. Can you help please.
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MikeP
10:40 PM
10:40 PM
Ian Goddard-Hill:
Look at the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Coverage Checker - Detailed View You will see that Beacon Hill is the best transmitter for you and that you are just 7 km away from it.
Please check what signal strength your TV reports on the manual tuning screen (normally). At that distance there is a serious risk of having too much signal, the ideal level being between 60% and 85% and not more. If you have either too much signal or it os showing zero then you will need to fit an attenuator, please search this website for 'Too much of a good thing...'
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Wednesday, 8 May 2019
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Martin 8:19 AM
I have recently lost a number of channels from the Beacon Hill transmitter e.g. most Hd channels. I have retuned to no effect. What's going on?
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MikeP
9:15 AM
9:15 AM
Martin :
Retuning was the worst thing you could have done! There has been no change at the transmitter and others are still getting all the channels, so there must be a problem with your equipment. Please check all the aerial cables for any damage or water ingress. Then unplug all the coaxial plugs/sockets and refit them. Then manuall tune to the correct channels from Beacon Hill.
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StevensOnln19:20 AM
Martin : The COM7 & COM8 multiplexes (which carry several HD and SD channels) recently closed at Beacon Hill. You will now only be able to receive HD versions of BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 & CBBC.
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