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 22/04/2024 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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Monday, 27 February 2012
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Andrew Grant2:01 PM
Thanks for the response Dave
Regards
Andrew
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Monday, 5 March 2012
BEACON HILL transmitter - Over the next week Beacon Hill main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Briantist: C42 and C45 are showing with the green bar Group C/D bar when they are not.
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Mike Dimmick2:41 PM
Dave Lindsay: While the designed channel range of group C/D aerials is C48 to C68, the frequency response of any Yagi aerial tends to be a sharp cut-off at the top end, but a gradual reduction in gain below the highest channels. Example: Gain (curves), Again .
Brian has chosen to represent this with a lighter shade of the group's colour, using frequency response curves from an Ofcom report to determine the colours. I'm not sure how successful this is, it probably isn't pale enough at C42.
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
Mike Dimmick: I hadn't noticed that it was paler.
Perhaps dashes would be clearer with a little explanation as to what it means.
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
Monday, 23 July 2012
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David Harris-Evans12:47 PM
Has Beacon Hill got a fault? Several houses in Dittisham, Devon have woken up this morning to find no Digital signal via Freeview - all on individual aerials.
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012
David Harris-Evans: No faults are reported. Please see the BBC - Reception problems to check again.
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Sunday, 9 September 2012
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Sheila Pollard11:06 AM
Dartmouth
Following a retune we are totally unable to receive group 45 channels. this was no problem before whereas our bbc reception has improved on channel 60 from 24.
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Sheila's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 21 October 2012
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John Brockett1:08 PM
I have a number of TV'S AND pvr's. On Thursday/Friday 18/19 October 2012 a message appeared to retune the Freeview. As an automatic search also downloads Stockland, as well as Beacon Hill. I enter later and do a manual search only entering frequencies for Beacon Hill. I have done this on all equipment, but the message still appears when the channel is changed. How long will this message appear? OR, how do I get rid of it? Please advise.
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