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.
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 25/11/2024 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 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?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 37km west (262°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
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 |
Local transmitter maps
Beacon Hill Freeview Beacon Hill AM/FM Beacon Hill TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Beacon Hill transmitter area
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Saturday, 31 October 2015
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michael scott3:39 PM
michael scott : Has anybody else experienced multiplex changes and power reduction from Beacon Hill on Saturday 31-october-2015 ? COM8 from C34 to C37 ? Signal strengths down for some multiplexes from both Beacon Hill and Stockland Hill. Is this a juggling whilst new,or changed,channels appear ? I have a 'very good terrestrial aerial' line of sight from Stockland Hill and close enough and high enough for Beacon Hill too ! Perhaps it's all down to imagination.......I am 72 now.......G1ZVO.
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Friday, 4 December 2015
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George Govier12:09 PM
Torquay
I understand that Transmitter engineering:is very necessary,but cannot understand why ALL BBC channels are pixelated and breaking up - signal strength being 38%.when the weather is clear, wind strength force 2 or 3 and No leaves on trees.BBC 1 strength 38% BBC 2 strength 37% compare this to ITV & Sky on channels 3 and 132 at 60%.WIth the following exceptions the remaining channels are at 56%to 58% . Channels 12.19.20.25,31,34.38,42,45,47,50,57,59,63,64,70,71,81 are all in the 45%to 50% range resulting in pixelation. The HD channels are un-watchable! If you can transmit channels 3 and 132 at a strength to give 60% reception why not ALL channels especially the licensed paid for BBC channels 1 to 4 and News' TV engineers for residential call out are expensive when we find out the signal is weaker for selected channels. I want to be able to watch all channels this month and over Christmas. My post code TQ2 6UH confirm You will renew BBC broadcast strength asap. Thank you G E Govier
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George's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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MikeB2:08 PM
George Govier: Firstly, the BBC has nothing at all to do with transmission (if Brianist had a pound for every person who used the phrase 'licence fee' when they had a problem, he'd do very well), and I'm certain that demanding 'You will renew BBC broadcast strength asap' will have no effect what so ever. Its possible that there might be interuptions in service, but you can see at the top of the page that both the BBC and ITV mux's broadcast at exactly the same power.
You are 4km from the transmitter. Let me repeat this - you are just 4 km from the transmitter. You seemingly have a clear line of sight to it, and as you say, there are no leaves on the trees. Its possible you dont even need an aerial at all at that distance, so to get a poor signal strength almost certainly means a problem with your aerial system. Yes, someone will mention 4G, but I can't check where the base stations are.
A damaged aerial lead can make certain muxes vanish, while others (even weaker) will remain. The fact that your getting a max of 60% signal strength 4km from the transmitter on the ITV mux possibly points to a general problem, but one which is particularly showing up on the BBC muxes.
Check your aerial lead (perhaps replace it, they are very cheap), and then follow the path up to the aerial. Could be a corroded connection, water, etc.
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Sunday, 3 January 2016
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Terry Bannon 10:32 PM
Teignmouth
Com 7 stopped working completely.
On all my TVs. Since had some intermittent trouble now completely gone.
Samsung TVs all ok since it started transmitting.
Is it the Kingskerswell bypass.. I only looks at bbc4 occasionally and news24.
24 Fore Street Bishopsteignton Tq14 9qp.
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Terry Bannon 10:36 PM
The signal strength on channel.33 com7 keep going from zero to 91%
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Monday, 4 January 2016
MikeP
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Terry Bannon :
Looking at the terrain plot information, on the blue box below your submission, there is a large hill between you and Beacon Hill transmitter. I suspect this has a lot of trees near the summit, the by-pass being mainly below that area so unlikely to affect your reception. It is more likely that the trees can be causing the variation, especially with the recent/current high winds.
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Terry Bannon 9:34 PM
MikeP:Thanks for your thoughts. working fine today (tonight) not working all day though .. We have been here since transmition started. It is interesting that all other channels were working at strength. I also suspect weather or some other activity in the line. Why just com 7?
Tonight ch33 was at 100%.
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Wednesday, 17 February 2016
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Paul Helley 9:35 PM
No light visible on the mast at beacon hill for the last few nights.
How come? Would have thoughts it was supposed to be on every night !
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Thursday, 18 February 2016
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ArqivaBOC10:19 AM
Paul Helley : Thanks for drawing this to our attention. We will have our engineer look into it
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Sunday, 3 April 2016
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Christopher Lepley11:23 AM
No reception in the Exmouth area for none HD channels, it has beed this way for three days or more.
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