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, 23 March 2017
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:08 on 21 Mar to 12:29 on 21 Mar. [BBC]
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Saturday, 17 June 2017
G
Graham10:12 AM
Hi,
All of that is fine, but which channels does it now transmit on!!!!
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MikeP
10:24 AM
10:24 AM
Graham:
No frequency changes have been announced as yet for any TV or DAB transmitter. Later this year a rolling programme of TV frequency changes is due to start and will last well into next year.
You should still be getting exactly the same service from the DAB transmitter as before and likewise the TV transmissions of Freeview.
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Friday, 8 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 PM
5:32 PM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:57 today to 15:59 today, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:24 today to 15:34 today. [BBC]
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Saturday, 9 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:57 yesterday to 15:59 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:24 yesterday to 15:34 yesterday. [BBC]
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Sunday, 10 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:57 on 08 Sep to 15:59 on 08 Sep, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:24 on 08 Sep to 15:34 on 08 Sep. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 13 September 2017
M
mr godfrey evernden2:12 PM
did beacon hill transmitter have problems with bbc1 and bbc2 on tuesday 12 th september between 1800 and 1830 hrs
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Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
2:32 PM
2:32 PM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Reduced Quality from 13:43 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 28 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Reduced Quality from 13:43 yesterday to 23:43 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 3 November 2017
D
Devon Dad5:21 PM
Can anyone please help. We recently inherited a TV with a built in DTV module that picks up the D3&4, SDN, and arqa multiplexes fine. But I cannot get it to find the BBCA multiplex for the life of me.
I have tried to manually enter the frequency of 785.8 in the transponder list but it won't save (might require the stream id and network)
The TV in question is fed from a new aerial that works perfectly fine on our other 2 spSamsung TVs.
What step shall I take next? A filter? A booster?
Very frustrating as I can't find the answers anywhere online.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
(I am picking up a strong signal from Beacon Hill transmitter)
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