Full Freeview on the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 180,000 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 Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) mast?
Caradon Hill transmitter - Caradon Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering 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 Caradon Hill 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 Caradon Hill transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 26km east-southeast (123°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 32km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Barleycombe | Active deflector | 25 km E Plymouth | 3 homes |
| Parracombe | Transposer | 17 km NE Barnstaple | 80 homes |
How will the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
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| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C12 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C30 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C37 | com8 |
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 Aug 09 and 9 Sep 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com7 | (-16.3dB) 11.6kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-20dB) 5kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 4kW | |
| com8 | (-24.2dB) 1.9kW |
Local transmitter maps
Caradon Hill Freeview Caradon Hill DAB Caradon Hill AM/FM Caradon Hill TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caradon Hill transmitter area
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Thursday, 6 January 2011
cfenner: You can stop paying your TVL if you rid yourself of television equipment. If you want to do that, that's fine by me.
I would suspect you probably have too much signal. If you have any boosters or amplifiers, remove them from your system.
If you don't then try fitting an attenuator (about a fiver) to your system.
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Saturday, 8 January 2011
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heggartie3:37 PM
Launceston
I have just bought a pvr freeview+ and was looking forward to receiving HD channels but I cant find any. I pick up from carradon hill. all ch are ok, just cant find hd ones, have manual tuned and on ch22 it has no sigal at all, please help.
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heggartie's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
heggartie: Have you got a Freeview+HD device, or just a Freeview+ one?
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011
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Lucidsounds6:38 PM
For some reason Com 6 is giving very poor signals here in Bude, was fine previously. I noticed it first last night but it may have been like this for a few days. Other Mux's are all fine.
Wouldn't be anything to do with switchover anywhere else?
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Thursday, 28 April 2011
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michael9:23 AM
Caradon on the Bristol Channel coast:-
- ch21,27: fine as normal
- ch28: quality variable, as normal - 2xCCI
- ch22,25: 2xCCI, never
- ch 24 : normally fine, currently variable
Could be due to the atmospheric high.
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Lucidsounds12:16 PM
Thanks Michael, I'm guessing 'atmospheric'.
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Sunday, 15 May 2011
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chris howell6:08 PM
Kingsbridge
I have gone all winter with no pixellation at all and now May 14th 2011 its all started again, mainly on the Quest and UK History Channels, when will the Caradon Hill Transmitter be working again, and why do we suffer a low grade service. We have spent a fortune on new ariels, cable, amplifiers and a new television.
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chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
chris howell: If you have an amplifier, I would suggest you try disconnecting it from your system, it may be causing your signal to overload.
The engineering work is listed by Digital UK on a week-by-week basis.
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Friday, 27 May 2011
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SlimTim7:50 AM
When does Caradon hill digital signal go on full power? Some of my channels are very poor signal, the tv aerial man said to me last year that it will remain the same until all the channels are on full power.
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