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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter._______
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 withheldFriday, 13 August 2021
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Chris.SE9:53 PM
Gtibb:
As has already been posted in many other linked updates if you read the previous pages.
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StevensOnln110:27 PM
Arqiva have issued a further update this afternoon that they are bringing in an 80m temporary mast at Bilsdale and aim to reinstate TV services for the vast majority of affected viewers within the next 14 days (by 28th August). As the temporary mast is much shorter than the main 314m mast, some viewers in areas further away from the transmitter may receive a weaker signal than before.
Arqiva's full announcement can be found at:
https://www.arqiva.com/ne…mast
Freeview have a dedicated information page at:
Bilsdale Freephone information line and more channels available from Eston Nab and Arncliffe Wood | Freeview
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Chris.SE10:47 PM
js:
Useful info for those with satellite, thanks js.
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Chris.SE10:55 PM
StevensOnln1:
Freeview's "dedicated" information page doesn't provide any technical information unfortunately.
For anyone that may be able to get signals from Eston Nab, the UHF channels to try (ideally manual tuning as auto-tune may miss weaker signals) are supposed to be C27, C24, C21, C23, C 26, C48 for PSBs 1-3 and COMs 4-6.
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Gtibb11:17 PM
The temporary mast will not only be significantly shorter, but will also only operate at around 20kW instead of Bilsdale's normal operating ERP of 100kW on the PSB channels.
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Saturday, 14 August 2021
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Alan6:45 PM
Newton Aycliffe
StevensOnln1: How do you find which is the best Freeview transmitter Bilsdale or Pontop Pike? Postcode is DL5 6TE ?
I know they are almost opposite directions but want to know for future whether to turn the aerial one way or another?
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Alan's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Alan6:45 PM
Newton Aycliffe
StevensOnln1:
How do you find which is the best Freeview transmitter Bilsdale or Pontop Pike? Postcode is DL5 6TE ?
I know they are almost opposite directions but want to know for future whether to turn the aerial one way or another?
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Alan's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Alan6:47 PM
Newton Aycliffe
StevensOnln1:
How do you find which is the best Freeview transmitter between Bilsdale or Pontop Pike? Postcode is DL5 6TE ?
I know they are almost opposite directions but want to know for future whether to turn the aerial one way or another?
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Alan's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Alan6:48 PM
Newton Aycliffe
Alan
How do you find which is the best Freeview transmitter between Bilsdale or Pontop Pike? Postcode is DL5 6TE ?
I know they are almost opposite directions but want to know for future whether to turn the aerial one way or another?
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Alan's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE9:44 PM
Alan:
The usual method is to put your postcode and ideally house name/number into a Detailed Coverage Checker such as the Freeview one. Some other checkers may give additional information.
Checkers are predictions and not always accurate but can give some idea of what may be possible.
For your postcode, the Freeview one predicts good signals for the six main multiplexes from Bilsdale - but not COM7 which is poor or nothing depending on exactly where you are within your postcode.
Is your aerial currently pointing at Bilsdale (bearing 133 degrees - almost exactly SE), if so and your set has an HD tuner, do you currently get the HD and other channels on COM7?
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplex.
The checker also prediction good signals from Pontop Pike (marginal differences from Bilsdale) BUT also includes COM7 and depending exactly where you are, maybe poor reception of the Local multiplex, bearing is 339 degrees, pretty well almost NNW.
That said, such variations are due to potential obstructions (hills etc) on the line of sight and that is very likely with Pontop Pike. At the end of the day, the only certain method is there on site with an aerial in the air and a signal meter (a possible alternative is the signal strength and quality readings in the TV's tuning section, but that can have issues if not used correctly).
If you are safely able to get to your aerial, then you could experiment, what you get will depend on aerial location as well as where you are within your postcode. The predictors assume the aerial is 10m above ground level, higher will normally (but not always) give better results.
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