menuMENU    UK Free TV logo Freeview

 

 

Click to see updates

Freeview Light on the Budleigh Salterton (Devon, England) transmitter

first published this on - UK Free TV
sa_gmapsGoogle mapsa_bingBing mapsa_gearthGoogle Earthsa_gps50.634,-3.355 or 50°38'3"N 3°21'16"Wsa_postcodeEX9 7AW

 

The symbol shows the location of the Budleigh Salterton (Devon, England) transmitter. 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 Budleigh Salterton (Devon, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
_______

Which Freeview channels does the Budleigh Salterton 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C44- (657.8MHz)122mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C41+ (634.2MHz)122mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (West Country), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West Country), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C47+ (682.2MHz)122mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Budleigh Salterton (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Budleigh Salterton transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 61km west-southwest (245°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 55km west-southwest (242°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)

How will the Budleigh Salterton (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1327 Mar 2019
A B C/D E K T VHFA B C/D E K T VHFA B C/D E K T VHFC/D E TB E K T
C41D3+4
C44BBCA
C47BBCB
C53tv_off+D3+4
C57tv_off+BBCB
C60tv_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 8 Apr 09 and 22 Apr 09.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 1000W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Beacon Hill transmitter area

Apr 1961-Dec 1981Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Westcountry Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Budleigh Salterton was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Friday, 22 June 2012
J
Jennifer Mather
7:44 AM
Exmouth

Transmitter engineering: All yesterday afternoon,evening and today our
BBC digital channel 23 tv and radio programmes are unwatchable with pixelated pictures and sound. BBC HD and all other channels are fine.
We have had occasional problems in the past but nothing like this!
We have retuned properly and checked all connections etc
Amanzi, EX8 5TT - north annexe end

link to this comment
Jennifer Mather's 1 post GB flag
Jennifer's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
P
Peter
10:48 AM
Exmouth

Hi I am pointed at Budleigh Salteron and get 60% at 100% quality on channels 60 and 53 but do not pick up any HD channels from channel 57 Any clues as to why?

link to this comment
Peter's 1 post GB flag
Peter's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 6 August 2012
J
JimF
sentiment_satisfiedSilver

8:38 PM

Jennifer Mather : A quick look on Google Maps suggests that the aerials in your location are receiving from Beacon Hill (not Budleigh Salterton or Stockland Hill).
Try retuning, but without the aerial plugged in initially - the scan needs to get about one third of the way across - then plug the aerial in. This should capture the Beacon Hill signals and "miss" the Stockland Hill signals which appear to be causing the problem.
If your TV tunes too quickly for the aerial trick, you'll need to manually tune for the Beacon Hill channels (42, 45, 51, 53, 57 & 60).

link to this comment
JimF's 141 posts GB flag
Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:24 PM

Jennifer Mather: Check that BBC is tuned to C60 for Beacon Hill/Budleigh Salterton and NOT C62 which is Dawlish or C26 which is Stockland Hill.

link to this comment
Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:29 PM

JimF: Budleigh Salterton is a new (PSB-only) relay transmitter that only came into service at switchover (May 2009). Granted, the Streetview pictures were taken in April 2010.

link to this comment
Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Monday, 18 November 2013
R
Robert Berry
10:14 AM

I have lost all channels from 1-9 on three TVs is there a current problem? Reception was very bad last night with reception breaking up all evening.

link to this comment
Robert Berry's 1 post GB flag
J
jackie
12:03 PM
Exmouth

I too have lost all channels 1-9 and had bad interference last night as did Robert. I am a pensioner, not technically minded. If I do nothing will it right itself or what can I do? Thank you

link to this comment
jackie's 2 posts GB flag
jackie's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

10:35 PM

The Budleigh Salterton transmitter is said to be a Signal Frequency Network with Beacon Hill, but a relay of Stockland Hill. Is this not an oxymoron?

The service area overlaps with Beacon Hill, according to the coverage maps on this site. So in order for it to work it must be an SFN. So, surely it must be a "relay" of Beacon Hill and line fed in order that it be in sync.

The mb21 Gallery shows there's a single horizontally-polarised log pointing in the direction of Stockland:

mb21 - The Transmission Gallery

link to this comment
Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Saturday, 11 June 2016
A
Alan
8:29 PM
Budleigh Salterton

I have just purchased a Lodge at Ladram Bay ex9 7bx and the signal keeps braking up. Can you recommend
the best Arial to use please. I have re-tuned my Sony KD55X8509CBU 55 several times.

Kind regards

Alan

link to this comment
Alan's 1 post GB flag
Alan's: ...
Select more comments
Page 1

Your comment please
Please post a question, answer or commentIf you have Freeview reception problems before posting a question your must first do this Freeview reset procedure then see: Freeview reception has changed, Single frequency interference, and Freeview intermittent interference.

If you have no satellite signal, see Sky Digibox says 'No Signal' or 'Technical fault'

If you have other problems, please provide a full (not partial) postcode (or preferably enter it in box at the top right) and indicate where if aerial is on the roof, in the loft or elsewhere.

UK Free TV is here to help people. If you are rude or disrespectful all of your posts will be deleted and you will be banned.








Privacy policy: UK Free Privacy policy.