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 28/10/2024 Screen may go black 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 withheldWednesday, 27 November 2019
channel 48 has disappeared following Nov 13 update-is it to be reinstated?
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Chris.SE5:51 PM
Derek Slack:
By Channel 48, I assume you mean LCN48 the Sony Channel. Sony renamed a lot of their channels and moved a few to Local multiplexes back in the summer, see Channel listings | Freeview for which channels are on which multiplexes. Are you not getting any of the channels on the Local multiplex?
I guess there's the possibility that since the Local multiplex at Bilsdale moved to UHF30 from UHF24 you may not be getting it even though the power increased from 5 to 7kW as a result of more interference on that channel due to changes elsewhere. It is a lower power than the other multiplexes.
Alternatively you may need to do a retune as follows, unplug the aerial and do a full automatic retune, which should clear all previous tuning as no channels will be found. Plug the aerial back in and do a manual tune on the UHF channels listed at the top of this page except not C31&37 for COMs7&8, they are on C55&56. If you can't do a manual retune then do an automatic one.
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Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Ian Porter
10:55 PM
10:55 PM
Hi Brian,
I'm having problems finding channel info about TBN (channel 65) on Freeview. I receive it fine from Bilsdale but I cannot find it from Pontop Pike for one of my clients, almost certainly because of poor reception.
The trouble is, your very useful frequency guides don't show it as being broadcast at all? Do you have any idea which mux it belongs to, on either transmitter.?
Many thanks.
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StevensOnln111:22 PM
Ian Porter: TBN moved to the PSB3 mux a while ago and can therefore only be received with a HD (DVB-T2) tuner.
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Chris.SE11:33 PM
Ian Porter:
You can also find a full list of which programmes/channels are on which multiplex at Channel listings | Freeview
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Thursday, 12 March 2020
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Chris.SE12:20 AM
All:
Bilsdale retune 12th March.
This was only added to the changes last month. It's only a simple change where the PSB1/BBCA & PSB3/BBCB HD multiplexes are swapping UHF channel.
PSB1 moves from C21 to C27, and PSB3 moves from C27 to C21.
As it's a simple change I would imagine that the transmitter will not be off-air for very long, just after midnight.
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Wednesday, 18 March 2020
@Chris.SE
How do you find out about these changes to Bilsdale?
I use an overly complicated setup with tvheadend on a raspberry pi, so when the frequencies get changed I don't know until someone watches it, which is quite annoying when you just want to watch TV!
It was easy enough to change and rescan but only thanks to your post stating exactly what it was that had changed, I'd have been lost without it!
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Chris.SE2:24 PM
Karl:
Hi, from Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/700mhz-clearance">What is 700MHz clearance? | Freeview about 3/4 way down the page Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/700mhz-clearance">What is 700MHz clearance? | Freeview /clearance-events-2020
There's a list of changes and dates, then further down you can select a pdf document for a given region.
However, these documents do sometimes have errors. It pays to double check the predicted reception at your location by putting postcode and house name/number in the box on Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free then on the new page scroll right down and select "Detailed view". You can see potential transmitters and multiplexes, dates of any changes, hovering over various bits gives more detail like mode & power etc.
At the top of the page you can select a Region to get details of each of the regions' transmitters, which contain a history of channels and changes but not mode & power detail.
Even those pages do have some errors now and then.
HTH.
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Tuesday, 2 June 2020
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j appleyard10:18 AM
I am on bilsdale transmitter what channel should I set my sky box rf analogue output to avoid interference
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Chris.SE3:49 PM
j appleyard:
UHF channels used by Bilsdale are C27, C24, C21, C43, C46, C40, C55, C56 & C30 in the order PSBs1-3, COMs 4-8, and the Local mux.
Remembering the theoretical C+5 and C+9 rule, you've got a gaps there at C23, C32, C33, C48, C49, C52, C53, C54 but as interference could end up on an adjacent channel, personally I'd choose something well above C56, you've got the pick from say C60-C68.
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