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?
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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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-look-north-newcastle.jpg)
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.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-tynetees.jpg)
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 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, 13 November 2019
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Fred3:24 PM
I'm also having trouble picking up 55 and 56 in Redcar. Although my aerial faces Bilsdale I could get signals from Pontop Pike too (and still can today on the new frequencies at both transmitters). However I get nothing on 55 nor 56.
Could the fact Bilsdale and Pontop Pike both now use these two frequencies for Com 7 & 8 respectively be causing interference?
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4wd5:08 PM
It's odd if BBC1 BBC2 etc are supposed to be still on 100,000 watts but the signal is too low and periodically breaking up since the 13th November retune. We always had good signal throughout here Bilsdale is barely 10 miles away
I'm thinking the information on this page is no longer valid regarding transmitter outputs.
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Fred5:18 PM
Further to my earlier comment, 55 and 56 are now working for me. Perhaps they waited until all the relays which used these frequencies were switched away from 55/56 before turning on these two at Bilsdale.
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4wd5:22 PM
Checking through just now the majority of channels have bad/low signal issues I wonder if they are running at reduced power throughout due to ongoing work.
I assume this is all for 5G taking over C55 and C56.
It won't help here much when we still can't even send a text.
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Paul 5:42 PM
Com 7 and 8 fine for me now. Getting 90% signal, was 0% earlier.
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Chris.SE5:58 PM
Paul :
Hi, I was just about to post, your predicted reception from Bilsdale is good for the 6 main muxes, but could be variable for COMs 7&8.
As you may have noticed some of the posts since yours where they weren't getting COMs 7&8 as well. It's quite likely as suggested by Fred, that they weren't broadcasting until all the Relays which were being changed today as well, had cleared their use of 55&56 for other multiplexes (there was a lot of them).
Glad you are OK now. Just to add, your reception (& others) of COMs 7&8 won't have been helped by the fact that they are now SFNs (single frequency networks where other transmitters use the same channels for COMs 7&8) but power for these two at Bilsdale has been increased from 18kW to 27kW.
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Chris.SE6:08 PM
Fred :
You are correct as I commented to Paul about possible interference from other transmitters due to COMs 7&8 now being SFNs. Whilst the power at Bilsdale has been upped, the power for COMs 7&8 at Pontop Pike has been reduced from 33/34kW to 19kW. However the 6 main muxes at Pontop Pike should all be now at 100kW, COMs4-6 having been upped from 50kW.
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Chris.SE6:50 PM
4wd:
Whilst information on some transmitter pages is wrong, the channels and power for the 6 main muxes here is correct. The PSBs are on 100kW & COMs 4-6 on 50kW. COMs 7&8 as mentioned to Paul now 27kW, also the Local mux on C30 was being upped from 5 to 7kW.
I would hope that by now, your reception should be back to normal as both Freeview and the BBC are reporting no faults.
I assume you have a Wideband Aerial?
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4wd7:09 PM
Yes it's wideband, just rescanned and since the changes:
ch21 comes in at strength 1
ch24 is 9
27 is 2
30 is 2
40 is 9
45 is 8
46 is 5
None of them were on 1 and 2 before.
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Chris.SE7:18 PM
4wd:
Hmm, that's not good. My personal experience with Arqiva is that they don't readily admit to problems, it's possible the work is still ongoing if things haven't gone smoothly, but it would be a good idea to look at your predicted reception, but we need a full postcode for that.
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