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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Wednesday, 27 July 2011
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Di Masters4:06 PM
Quite true Brian. Before the changeover, all channels except the BBC ones were liable to break up or pixillate and freeze but, as changeover day approached, the faults began to disappear and my TV showed that the signal strength had improved and was strength 10 by the day itself on all channels,some of which had been only 4 or 5 so a faultless changeover was achieved in my case.
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Friday, 29 July 2011
Di Masters: This could be caused, in some cases, but the removal of interference from distant analogue transmitters as other regions switched over.
It is worth noting that all of the transmission frequencies actually changed at switchover.
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Saturday, 20 August 2011
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john lowe9:35 PM
Budleigh Salterton
4 flats served by 1 aerial mounted side of building
No problems with BBC channels.
Big problems with ITV(53/51).Message comes up
"Content scrabled or not available"Can last for
hours.i.e. tonight went off at 7.30 pm and is
still scrambled at 9.30
Any ideas?
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Thursday, 25 August 2011
john lowe: Please can you see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Mike Dimmick2:31 PM
john lowe: It's probably a case of too much signal for the PSB multiplex channels on C53 (ITV1, ITV1+1, ITV2, C4, C4+1, More 4, E4, Channel 5). You are only about 1km from the Budleigh Salterton relay, which uses the same channels as Beacon Hill, in a Single Frequency Network. However, it only relays the PSB multiplexes.
For the COM multiplexes (ITV3 is on SDN, ITV4 on ArqB), it looks like a number of other relays in the area use channels 42, 45 and 51. You may just be out of reliable reception range. Digital UK offers no prediction on these three multiplexes.
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Mike Dimmick2:35 PM
john lowe: Sorry, I explained the problem, I didn't provide a solution. Since this is a distribution system, you need to arrange with the landlord - unless you are the landlord of course! - to get it looked at. Either the signal at the distribution amplifier is too loud - causing the amplifier to distort - or the signal coming out of it is too loud, causing distortion in your TV or box.
You could try adding an attenuator between the box and the wall socket, to reduce the level before it reaches your box, but as I say, the problem could be before the distribution amplifier.
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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Chrisonahill8:07 AM
Are there any plans to increase power from Beacon Hill? I notice the COM muxes on Stockland Hill will be upgraded next year and Beacon Hill will require wideband antenna. We're outside Weymouth and often get a better signal from Beacon Hill than Stockland Hill - probably partly due local topography - but we lose signal from the former - one mux at a time - in high atmospheric pressure conditions so may switch to Stockland. Suggestions welcome.
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Mike Dimmick3:54 PM
Wareham
Chrisonahill: The signals from Beacon Hill are at their final power levels. It's unlikely that there will be further power increases.
If your location is still BH20 6JG, I would guess that Rowridge on the Isle of Wight would give better results than either of the mentioned transmitters, once it switches over in March. You're likely to get best results using a vertically-polarized Group A aerial, once the VP services are running at full power from 18 April 2012. The commercial multiplexes from Rowridge will use the same channels as Stockland Hill, which will have some effect, though the use of VP should help (as Stockland Hill is horizontally-polarized).
Your reception of commercial multiplexes from Stockland Hill is liable to be clobbered by Rowridge once it completes switchover, even with Stockland Hill's power increase, and Rowridge's horizontally-polarized COM transmissions being one quarter of the power of VP.
Please note that this is my guess, rather than a prediction from Digital UK, whose website is currently not accepting that postcode.
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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Chrisonahill7:39 AM
Weymouth
Thanks Mike, but I don't know how you got BH20, I'm at DT3 6ED so I guess Rowridge would have much less effect.
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Mike Dimmick2:40 PM
Chrisonahill: If you click the number of posts next to a user's name (yours currently says '10 posts'), you can see that user's previous posts. A post attributed to you had a BH20 postcode attached.
Looking at the prediction for your postcode, it still looks like a significant interaction between Stockland Hill and Rowridge. Indeed the prediction for Rowridge VP COM muxes (after April 2012) is still better than for Beacon Hill - ArqA and ArqB, at least.
I can't really see why the prediction for ArqB is so poor, there aren't that many other sites using C51, although one of them is Redruth, which is in the same direction as Beacon Hill and double the distance, and has equal power. The poor predictions for C42 and C45 may be because they're adjacent to the PSB muxes at Redruth.
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