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 11/11/2024 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 withheldMonday, 18 June 2012
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Andy Ripley11:05 AM
Update! Following my bringing this to the attention of ITV (as their signal's affected) they are now looking into it. Mux 2 and D are well under par to the southwest, but the other muxes are fine.
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Thursday, 5 July 2012
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John Clarke10:17 PM
York
Help !-Cannot get any signal on Mux"D" Ch 42.
Signal OK on all other > Mux 1-2-A-B-C.
The "Search" frequency on TV Auto-Tune goes up to 642.0 MHZ but the signal strength is "0".
I cleared out (did a non ariel scan)the old tuned channels first !
Just the TV channels included in Ch 42 are missing - i.e. 12,15,18,21,24,85,89.
Ariel on Chimmny stack just same as neighbours, ranging on Bilsdale, and all other channels come in with no breaking picture.
When I do a manual tune on (Mux) Ch 42 there is "0" signal strength.
All this just to get TV ch 10 (ITV4 SPORT)?
????????? Post Code is YO61 1DP
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Mark Fletcher11:51 PM
Halifax
John Clarke.York,YO61 1DP.
Did you previously receive the MuxD multiplex before,or have you never received this multiplex as such.
If you have never received MuxD before (currently on fr 42 as you indicated) then is your roof aerial a group A red tipped one,if so then that could answer why you have no MuxD as group A aerials are optimised for the lower frequencies between 21-37 although good quality Yagi 18As and more so X-Beam XB16As can just stretch to frequency 41 but 42 is just out of reach.
If you did receive MuxD prior to losing it just recently have you checked with your neighbours (if you get on with them) who also receive Bilsdale like yourself whether they too have lost MuxD at the same time as you have.Also check your aerial plug (and aerial socket too) for any signs of water ingression and for rust as a possible cause,the higher frequencies are more prone to loss of signal than the lower frequencies amd in the case of Bilsdale until Wednesday 26 September 2012 DSO2 the highest frequency in use is MuxD on 42 itself.Post DSO2 ArqA mux which goes on frequency 46 will then be the highest frequency in use at Bilsdale.
Finally if your aerial is a group A red tipped type,then it needs either replacing with a grey tipped group K semi-wideband aerial,or diplexed (at frequency 38) with a group B yellow tipped aerial for the SDN,ArqA and ArqB COM multiplexes more so at DSO time.
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Friday, 6 July 2012
John Clark: According to Digital UK and Ofcom, C42 is on the lowest power of the digital channels from Bilsdale at 1.6kW. All the rest are 6kW except for C34 which is at 4.8kW.
As Mark says, C42 is the only out of group one at present, if you are using a Group A aerial.
See:
Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial
Bilsdale TV Transmitter
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Chris Simpson
8:20 PM
Darlington
8:20 PM
Darlington
from chris, darlington.
my friend has a thomson DTI6300 freeview+ box.
all channels are being recieved fine from bilsdale. but unable to record as the box is stating 'no hard drive' any suggestions?
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Saturday, 7 July 2012
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Mark Fletcher12:38 AM
Halifax
Chris Simpson,Darlington.
Your friend will have to perform a factory reset procedure if by unplugging the appliance for over two minutes then replugging back in again it still fails to record as such.
Does your friend still have the instructions manual for the Thomson DTI 6300 as such ?
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012
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rob reay4:25 AM
Is 4seven available from bilsdale? When I retune it can't find it.
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KMJ,Derby9:45 AM
rob reay: Mux ArqB, which carries channel 47 commences transmission from Bilsdale on 26th September 2012 - DSO stage 2. Viewers in the Bilsdale coverage area with an overlap from Belmont or Emley Moor might currently find a usable signal for ArqB from one of those transmitters.
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Monday, 23 July 2012
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Darren Brown6:59 PM
Gateshead
Picture break up an all bbc channels and dave
POSTCODE: NE10 8JP
Roof mounted aerial.
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Tuesday, 31 July 2012
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Colin Howard6:13 PM
Just found this website and hope you may be able to help with a long standing problem of periodic appalling reception from Bilsdale transmitter on Freeview. I can see the transmitter at this location in South Middlesbrough(TS7)!! Last weekend was just the latest (pm27/7 through to lunchtime 29/7) BBC1 and BBC2 from Bilsdale (C34) were unwatchable due to pixcellation and frequent complete drop outs. ITV (C21) was perfectly OK. (Appeared that any Tx over c550MHz was affected, lesser frequencies were OK)Changing to analogue there was also poor reception with some ghosting and vertical bars appearing on the picture and popping and loss of Nicam sound at the same time as the digital signal completely disappeared This disturbance seemed to be happening in time with that on the digital signal. I have carefully checked all the appliances (and thermostats) in the house and found no correlation to the poor digital pictures.
My conclusion is that there appears to be a periodic bout of external interference that can last for just a few minutes or up to a few days and then clears. No one will ever admit publicly that there is poor reception in this area. I am now getting a good signal again on BBC1 and BBC2 - but for how long...?.
I have put up with periodic poor performance until now but with the impending changeover and the loss of the alternative analogue signal I want to get to the bottom of the problem and have it sorted.
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