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?
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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Thursday, 2 May 2019
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Mike Tate8:43 AM
Intermittent "No Signal" for a few seconds from time to time.
Freeview admit this is a problem and suspect 4G phone signal interference.
Phone 0808 100 0288 the Freeview Advice Line and report the problem.
Phone 0808 1313 800 the 4G Advice Line to get a 4G Filter for your aerial.
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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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Saturday, 11 May 2019
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Phil Squires11:26 PM
Torquay
TQ1 4JY
I have been having problems with my reception from the Beacon Hill transmitter since the change of channels on the 27th March 2019, I have tried everything that Humax and Freeview have told me to try all to no avail. I have seen that there are faults reported but when will it be sorted, I don't think the BBC would wait as long for me to pay my TV licence fee! Has anyone else having a problem with picture break up and loss of signal?
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Sunday, 12 May 2019
MikeP
11:17 AM
11:17 AM
Phil Squires:
You are only 7 km from the transmitter at Beacon Hill and are predicted to have excellent reception of all 6 multiplexes. At that short distance it could be that you have too much sifnal strength, so please check the strengths reported on your television. Ideally they should all be between 60% and 85%. Any less shows there is a fault in your aerial system. Any more shows you need to reduce that by fitting a suitable coaxial attenuator. Search this website for 'Too much of a good thing' and follow the advice there.
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Phil Squires10:11 PM
MikeP
I've tried it all 90% 100% 50% 60% with different attenuators still keep getting the same problem with two different Humax boxes PVR200T and FVP5000T about every 15 mins signal loss or picture break up, I've tried two different aerials different down leads 4G filters, mains conditioner and still this keeps happening HELP.
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MikeP
10:17 PM
10:17 PM
Phil Squires:
There is no reported problem at the Beacon Hill transmitter at present, so you must have a problem with your aerial systems or are getting local interference. Please thoroughly check you aerial and all the cables. Unplug any coaxial plugs.sockets and then refit them. Then check that you are indeed tuned correctly to the Beacon Hill transmissions, the correct channels can be shown on the Digis=tal UK Cover Checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker
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