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, 16 January 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 11:28 on 14 Jan to 11:30 on 14 Jan. [BBC] Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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Friday, 22 January 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Transmitter engineering
1:32 PM
1:32 PM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 11:03 today to 11:12 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:32 PM
7:32 PM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:39 today to 15:40 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 28 January 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:39 yesterday to 15:40 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 29 January 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:39 on 27 Jan to 15:40 on 27 Jan. [BBC]
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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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Monday, 11 April 2016
Transmitter engineering
10:09 AM
10:09 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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