Full Freeview on the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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?
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, 30 March 2019
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Gordon Twist6:29 PM
Hi,
Does Beacon Hill actually transmit com7 and com8?
The tables say the should be on 33 & 34 - 570Mhz and 578Mhz, but my scanner shows nothing but background noise on those frequences... all other QAM's are coming through fine...
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StevensOnln16:59 PM
Gordon Twist: COM7 & COM8 closed at Beacon Hill on 27th March.
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Sunday, 31 March 2019
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dave dowde swell9:38 AM
Paignton
I have 4 tv,s which all went blank last week
was able to retune all but one
DO I have to reposition my ariel?
thanks
dave
tq4 6ha 25 st andrews
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Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Why can I not receive channel 57 (USA +1) after recent changes? I've re-scanned twice and still it's absent
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StevensOnln12:51 PM
John: 5USA +1 is broadcast on the COM7 multiplex which closed at Beacon Hill (along with COM8) last week.
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Peter Cole4:46 PM
Hi, Since March 29 we have lost a number of HD channels. In particular BBC 4HD. I recently upgraded my aerial etc so that I could get BBC4HD in order to receive the proms with better sound quality. Has it been trashed in this for me total downgrade of services?
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StevensOnln16:34 PM
Peter Cole: As per other posts above, COM7 & COM8 (which carries BBC Four HD) closed at Beacon Hill last week. COM7 & COM8 are temporary multiplexes and will close at all transmitters over the next few years.
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Monday, 8 April 2019
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Thomas Tregenna7:38 AM
Is anyone else having trouble with poor reception on ARQ A since the engineering work on the 27th?
Dave, for example was working just fine prior to this, I've checked that I'm tuned to C45 at the center value of exactly 666Mhz, and all of the mux configuration looks correct (QAM64, 8Mhz, 8k, 1/32, 3/4, etc.) but all of the channels from this mux are now blocky and choppy.
I mean, it could be the weather, but I've never noticed such issues prior to the recent changes and removal of COMs 7 and 8.
Thanks.
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Monday, 15 April 2019
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Michael Dicker3:09 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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10:09 PM
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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