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, 8 July 2020
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Bryan Law1:48 PM
Channel 21 is breaking up badly near Whitby. Other channels OK.
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Chris.SE3:09 PM
Bryan Law:
The Bilsdale transmitter is currently listed for Planned Engineering, so it's likely this work is what's affecting the signal.
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Tuesday, 15 September 2020
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Jamie4:55 PM
Hi guys tuned into Bilsdale from Hornsea, was working fine at the weekend got to caravan today and no signal on anything (BBC has always been a bit glitchy but ITV + other muxes all ok) now nothing, any one else suffering?
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Wednesday, 16 September 2020
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Chris.SE11:32 AM
Jamie:
The Bilsdale transmitter is currently listed for Planned Engineering, so the signals may be intermittent during the work.
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Sunday, 20 September 2020
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alf hall3:13 PM
for the last few days have had trouble receiving channel 7 teesside and channel 50 sony movies
my neighbours are also having same trouble are you carrying out maintenence causing this problem
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Tuesday, 22 September 2020
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Chris.SE12:27 AM
alf hall:
"We" don't do the maintenance as this is an independent help site. That said, Freeview have not currently listed Bilsdale for Planned Engineering.
Your problems are more likely to be "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation. Not all multiplexes can/will be affected or at the same time, It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It has been particularly strong recently which can wipe out reception. Climate change is likely to mean these sort of events could be more common.
Currently it may continue on and off for a day or two more.
It's best not to retune if you have no signal or badly pixellated signals as this can just clear correct tuning and you have to repeat the retune when conditions stabilise.
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Tuesday, 8 December 2020
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Tom2:07 PM
Middlesbrough
I'm migrating from cable to Freeview and live in the TS7 post code area. The Freeview site says I should tune to Pontop pike, however the ukfreetv site says I should get strong coverage from bilsdale. my neighbours seem to be aimed at Bilsdale.
Which is the best transmitter for me to aim at?
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Tom's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln12:25 PM
Tom: We need a full postcode (or one from a nearby shop/pub/church/school etc) to be able to see your predicted coverage. TS7 covers a wide area and the coverage checkers only work with a full postcode.
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Monday, 1 February 2021
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Ken D1:57 PM
At certain times of the day all of the channels listed under PSB2 & D3+4 from the Bilsdale transmitter are either disappearing from the Freeview list on both of my smart TVs and my BT Box or the pictures and sound quality is very poor. When checked, the signal level for all of the channels affected is zero on the BT Box. I have manually tuned both TVs and all of the channels although listed in the tuning menu do not show on Freeview. Something odd is happening, but not 24/7. Suggestions?
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Chris.SE8:02 PM
Ken D:
Difficult to say without a full postcode to look at the predicted reception at your locale. I can't find any reports of transmitter faults either from Freeview or the BBC, and the transmitter isn't currently listed for Planned Engineering.
Does this happen at exactly the same times each and every day and what times have you had it happen so far?
What are the signal levels and quality for the other multiplexes on your BT Box and your TV?
Check that you are tuned to the correct UHF channel for D3&4/PSB2 which is C24 and that you haven't become inadvertently tuned to a low power local relay transmitter.
Have you changed anything in your installation recently? Check all your connections, coax plugs etc for corrosion, breaks in flyleads etc.
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