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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) mast?
Beacon Hill transmitter - Beacon Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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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Tuesday, 10 September 2013
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MikeB9:58 AM
Phil White: Please check your signal strength - your 5 miles away from the transmitter, and a retune often seems to lead to overloaded tuners.
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Monday, 23 September 2013
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Bernard Page5:31 PM
Hardly any signal today in Broadsands area the usual atmospheric issues - Most of my neighbours now use sattleite
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Thursday, 17 October 2013
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Mike Treble4:52 PM
Newton Abbot
Does liable to interruption mean no signal for an extended period of time with Beacon Heath? Ariel in loft with booster TQ13 0RF
location for signal.
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jamie stevens4:56 PM
Petersfield
Mike Treble:
interruption is usually limited to minutes at a time not hours.
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Mike Treble5:16 PM
Newton Abbot
jamie stevens:
Thanks Jamie its probably the then booster rather than the transmitter cheers mike
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Thursday, 9 January 2014
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A Shirra3:50 PM
Hello,
Has there been any works carried out on the transmitter in the last week or two?
Having some issues with TV signal. It was fine before christmas. Some people have mentioned the new 4G signals? Are these strong in the area which could effect it?
Thanks
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Tuesday, 21 January 2014
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Phil White6:31 PM
Brixham
Martin:
Can someone from the BBC explain why their service from Beacon Hill and its repeaters, especially Brixham have consistently lower signal levels than any of the ITV and other commercial groups. Also, why their service is constantly suffering from breakup whilst again none of the ITV channels suffer interference. Is it simply a case that here in the West Country we don't count as far as the BBC is concerned.
As I said once before, if you can't provide a proper service, get some 5 year olds in to run your services!
Incidentally, the Beacon hill transmitter has no problems according to tis website. You could've fooled me!
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Tuesday, 28 January 2014
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michael scott10:54 AM
Hello,
I am lucky enough to be able to receive both Beacon Hill and Stockland Hill main TV transmitters at quite good signal strengths:I have found that both have exhibited some inexplicable signal variations and that overnight the Stockland Hill Tx has broadcast some strange signals with non-standard channel names! I assume that the BBC and/or Arquiva are carrying out test broadcasts but have never been able to decode/demodulate them. It would be nice to know all that is going on?
The first thing we notice is the legendry 'new channels found',e.g.ITV4 +1 and BBC RB302 this morning. Ah well,progress in the dark is better than no progress? But it is ALWAYS nicer to know.
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Monday, 17 February 2014
Our community association has received some complaints in the TQ2 5SZ area about the television service being broadcast from the Torquay Town transmitter in Torbay over the past few days. A poor quality signal has been reported resulting in intermittent loss of sound and picture break up. The problem does not affect viewers in the area who changed their aerials to alternate transmitters that offer a larger number of freeview channels since digital switchover or subscribed to Sky or Virgin media. However this particular transmitter normally provides an excellent service in the area for people who are happy with a handful of channels and can also get results using an indoor aerial. Could this transmitter have developed a fault following recent bad weather?
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Nick Burleigh: Looking at Radio & Television Service there are no reports of problems with the transmitter.
However... gale force winds are likely to have damaged a large number of rooftop aerials. It is possible that this might be the cause.
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