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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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 00:39 yesterday to 01:00 today [BBC]
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BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 00:39 yesterday to 01:00 today [BBC]
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Thursday, 11 August 2011
BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 00:39 on 09 Aug to 01:00 yesterday [BBC]
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BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 00:39 on 09 Aug to 01:00 yesterday [BBC]
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Friday, 12 August 2011
BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 00:39 on 09 Aug to 01:00 on 10 Aug [BBC]
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BEACON HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 00:39 on 09 Aug to 01:00 on 10 Aug [BBC]
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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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