Full Freeview on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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, 1 October 2012
Ian Gilkison: Bilsdale is broadcasting HD but your receivers do not contain the required DVB-T2 tuners.
The Sony set is labelled as "HD Ready" which means that it can show HD pictures but does not have the means to receive them off the air.
The specification for the LG model, both on the LG website and in the manual does not appear to say what type of tuner it has. Amazon does say only DVB-T for the tuner and it also says "Full HD" in the product title. This also gives no qualification to the ability to receive HD signals off the air and just means that it can show the maximum resolution of a HD picture, 1080p.
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Matt9:52 PM
Hi Dave, thanks for the feedback. NO its definately Bilsdale. Got really odd things happening now though. like a blank screen on a lot of channels. BBC 1 is often unwatchable, yet every mux comes in with a strength of 6+, and quality of 5+
Really not sure waht is going on :(
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Matt9:53 PM
PS. the caps on NO were an accident, (not shouting lol) :)
and yest my spelling of what is a little eccentric
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Trevor Milburn10:28 PM
Sunderland
Dave Lindsay:
It seems strange that several others have have had problems with Bilsdale - more so since after switchover (12/19/26 September) everything seems to have been fine until at some point C46 disappeared. I receive the HD channels from Bilsdale perfectly well(OK they are double the power of most others)but why should the C46/574MHz signals be so badly affected? I was told some time ago that the quality of Co-ax from aerial to receiver could have a detrimental effect on signal quality especially on the 'higher' channels, but when I had my aerial booster fited about a year ago the co-ax was also replaced so shouldn't be affecting the system.
I can jump into a Pontop Pike downfeed from my roof, but I am still wondering why this problem occurred in the first place. (I spent 20 odd years working in IT so have heard - and given - all the usual excuses about problems with reception so would like to get to the bottom of this particular problem without losing what was a perfectly good signal feed).
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Trevor's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Trevor Milburn: I'm not an aerial installer and the only observation I can make is that the sensitivity (gain) of yagi aerials drops sharply above the designated group whereas below there's much more of a slope. C46 is the highest channel and therefore the furthest from group A.
See this page for example curves:
Gain (curves), Again
Note that the yagis all have a distinct form where they drop off sharply above their group and that the slope down towards the beginning of and below the designated group.
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Further to my posting of 28 September 2012 11:36AM here is another location, this time Morpeth, where DUK reckons that Bilsdale's PSBs aren't as good as its COMs:
Postcode Checker - Detailed View
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Robert Hill4:50 PM
I have read all the above postings, with interest. As regards the reception of Bilsdale transmitter, I can receive it very well with an indoor aerial which is a 4 element indoor aerial and its halfway up a downstairs window pointing towards Bilsdale. I have no trouble receiving all MUXes. The Quality is 100%. The signal strengths do vary between the 50 and 75%, but I do not have any trouble as I've said already receiving any of the signals from Bilsdale. My television receiver is Panasonic model TX-L 375B, and it indoor aerial is a Maxview - C3010 - Truvision Set Top Aerial by Maxview (Accessory) . I normally get my television signal from Emley Moor. So in other words Bilsdale seems to be working okay where I am, which is about 3 to 4 miles south of Wetherby in West Yorkshire.
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Saturday, 6 October 2012
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Darren Brown8:50 PM
Dave Lindsay:
Dave, I have switched to a wideband aerial and can now receive freeview channels just fine. thanks again for your help mate.
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Monday, 8 October 2012
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Ian7:37 PM
Bishop Auckland
Had all the freeview channels up till the re-tune. Now lost Sky news,Dave, E4+1 and a few others.
Have tried to re tune a few times but they wont come on.
Any ideas how I could get them back on?
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Ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Ian: You are missing COM5 multiplex. See here for an explanation as to a possible cause for loss from Bilsdale after switchover:
Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) full-Freeview transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
Try a manual tune first, if your receiver allows.
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