Full Freeview on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter which serves 570,000 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 Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) mast?
Bilsdale transmitter - Bilsdale transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 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 Bilsdale 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 Bilsdale transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 74km north-northwest (336°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 75km north-northwest (333°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border
Are there any self-help relays?
| Garsdale (pin Fold) | Transposer | 63 homes (coverage together with SH34) | |
| Hawsker Bottom | Active deflector | 150 caravans | |
| Langthwaite | Active deflector | 30 homes |
How will the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 13 Nov 2019 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | W T | |||||
| C21 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C23 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C24 | _local | D3+4 | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C27 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C29 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C37 | com8 | ||||||||
| C40 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C43 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C46 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 12 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com7 | (-14.3dB) 18.5kW | |
| com8 | (-14.4dB) 18.1kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-19.2dB) 6kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-20.2dB) 4.8kW | |
| Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW |
Local transmitter maps
Bilsdale Freeview Bilsdale DAB Bilsdale AM/FM Bilsdale TV region BBC North East and Cumbria Tyne TeesWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bilsdale transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 20 January 2011
Craig: Sounds like you have not got a rooftop aerial, so you might expect this to happen.
Have a look at Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice please.
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Ian8:43 PM
Stockton-on-tees
Same problem with Bilsdale and freeview as Craig and John along similar timescales. Wideband roof mounted aerial installed 18months ago and worked excellently until end of last year when C21 channels started losing quality. Last 2 weeks have lost C21 channels completely. Tested with and without booster on numerous freeview boxes. Tried swapping out cables etc too. Manually retuned numerous times. Similar issues reported by neighbours, colleagues etc.
My interpretation of "Over the next week....Possible weak signal" is "Definitely no signal and no end in sight"...
Anyone got any ideas as to what is going on and when it might be resolved?
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Friday, 21 January 2011
Ian: This certainly fits into "TV (digital) Possible weak signal".
C21 is a multiplex - see How digital television works | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice please.
I would hang on until whatever this work is, is done.
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Monday, 24 January 2011
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allsetuk10:03 PM
terrible image again from bilsdale, have lost or pixelated images on the channel 4 , itv, five, etc channels.been doing it for a fair few days, bit fed up of it.
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011
allsetuk: "Over the next week Bilsdale main transmitter: TV (digital) Possible weak signal"
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Monday, 28 March 2011
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Gary Plant10:36 AM
Good morning, I live in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire & I have not been able to get most of my free TV channels for a week now. I only get mux 1 & C and not very clear at that. Can somebody PLEASE! let me know what is going on as your web-site is vague at best.
many thanks
Gary Plant.
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Mike Dimmick6:54 PM
Gary Plant: Can you provide a full postcode, so we can see what the prediction at your address is? Radio signal levels can change dramatically with just a few centimetres in either direction, so we do need to narrow it down to a very small area. Small changes in elevation can also change whether you get a clear line of sight to the transmitter or not.
As far as the transmitter information goes, this website only republishes the information from Digital UK's Planned Engineering Works page at
Digital UK - Planned Engineering Works .
In general, all the main transmitters are getting an overhaul and this is happening region-by-region in roughly the order that the transmitters will switch over. As Tyne Tees is the last of the English regions to switch, the transmitter work is only just starting here. At most sites, the main transmitting aerial is being replaced. Depending on whether it had spare capacity, and whether it was allowed to transmit in all directions, sometimes the digital signals were transmitted from the main aerial, or some of them were, sometimes in combination with another aerial.
At Bilsdale, the quoted antenna height (which is an average of all aerials providing the service) for the digital services is a couple of metres higher than the quoted analogue height. This suggests that there are some aerial panels for digital used in conjunction with the main aerial, sat on top of it. Those have to come off to replace the main aerial, so they either have, or are going to, fit a reserve aerial further down the mast to serve as the temporary main aerial. Once this is installed and feeder cables connected, services will move to this reserve aerial, and they will replace the main aerial.
At some sites the FM radio transmission aerials have been immediately below the TV aerials, and the reserve has had to be fitted quite low down. That can cause problems for some people if the terrain prevents a clear line of sight to the reserve aerial.
Generally they are not constructing new buildings for the new high-power transmitters (generating the signal and amplifying it to full power happens at ground level). Instead they are clearing either the existing analogue transmitter halls or the existing low-power digital buildings, if any. Signals may need to be generated by temporary transmitters while that happens, and in some cases they may not be able to produce the full power of the permanent transmitters.
There may be periods of low power when men are working on the mast, or when services are being moved from one aerial to another, or one rack of ground-level transmitter equipment to another. These events will normally occur during daylight hours on weekdays.
Unfortunately Digital UK seem to feel that this information is too technical for the general public, and limit their information to 'possible weak signal' and 'liable to interruption'. (RG47SH)
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Monday, 4 April 2011
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Mr. A Pickering8:01 PM
Darlington
Dear sirs.
Iam very disapointed with the reception today. most of the digital channels are breaking up except fof one hr this p.m.4until5 The only channels I am able to recive are 3. 4. 5.and 6.
please can you tell me when we wil be able to recieve all the others. My phone no is - post code DL3 9PQ
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Tuesday, 5 April 2011
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peter6:58 PM
I am the same as mr plant.
everything was fine until yesterday teatime when I lost most channels on various tvs/tuners around the house.
Retuned everything at lunchtime today, all was fine till 16:30 tonight and they have all disapeared again, since then they are slowly improving, does anyone have any idea why?
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peter10:27 PM
Middlesbrough
sorry, I meant mr pickering not mr plant
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