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 |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Beacon Hill transmitter area
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Friday, 4 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 AM
7:28 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: Reduced quality due to a fault from 13 Aug 23:42 until 13 Aug 23:52. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 11 October 2020
Why can't I get channel 50 sony xmas movies from the beacon transmitter
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Chris.SE9:00 PM
Stephen Fielding:
Sony have this year renamed Sony Movies Classic as Sony Movies Christmas for the festive season, see Updates and alerts | Freeview they did a similar thing last year.
This channels (and some other Sony channels) Sony moved to Local multiplexes over a year ago.
For which channels are on which multiplex, see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
Unless you live in an area that can receive a Local multiplex (have a local station at LCN 7 or 8 in your EPG) then you won't get this channel. There's only a small number of main transmitters that have local multiplexes most of which are beamed at larger centres of urban population.
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Monday, 2 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:35 AM
4:35 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 2 Nov 03:30 until 2 Nov 03:33. . [BBC]
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Friday, 8 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
7:54 AM
7:54 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 8 Jan 03:21 until 8 Jan 03:28. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
3:12 PM
3:12 PM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Jan 13:27. Off the air due to a fault from 8 Jan 03:21 until 8 Jan 03:28. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
6:12 PM
6:12 PM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Jan 13:27 until 12 Jan 14:30. Off the air due to a fault from 8 Jan 03:21 until 8 Jan 03:28. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:11 AM
5:11 AM
BEACON HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Jan 13:27 until 12 Jan 14:30. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 14 October 2021
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David Brewer10:13 AM
there is a fault with all the DAB radio reception broadcast ( From Beacon Hill?) on the D1 network. SDL is fine.
This has been a problem for the past 4 or 5 days, across various DAB radios in cars and home, please can you investigate. ( The D1 network includes stations like Heart 80's, Absolute, Kiss etc) , constant drop out and loss of signal.
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StevensOnln11:16 PM
David Brewer: Nobody from this independent technical help website can investigate a transmitter fault, as nobody posting here has any connection with any broadcaster or transmitter company. Reporting the fault to the radio stations affected might prompt somebody to investigate, particularly if they receive lots of reports of the same problem.
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