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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, 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 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?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 27 Mar 2019 | ||||
| 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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Tuesday, 19 March 2013
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Chris Wallis4:12 PM
Bodmin
Any idea where I can go for help - mine is a Radio 4 FM problem - all of a sudden, about 3 weeks ago I get huge intereference on Radio 4, on all four radios in my house although Radio 2 is still acceptable. Reception has never been brilliant - I believe we get the signal via a relay station & we've only ever been able to get Radios 2 & 4 but now 4 is unlistenable to!
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Sunday, 14 April 2013
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Ron Bouttell11:43 AM
St. Austell
Hello
I receive my signal from Caradon Hill & am unable to get an HD signal on my HD tv. I have manually tuned to Ch22 & "no signal" is shown. The aerial is in the loft.
I have the ability to receive the Redruth transmitter but get the same result. Can you advise please.
Ron
PL26 6TB
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Michael11:46 AM
Ron Bouttell: Have you previously had a signal on the HD channels or are you trying to get them for the first time? If the latter, please post your make and model of the TV.
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Ian11:04 PM
Launceston
Hi Ron, Michael,
I receive from Caradon Hill and have recently bought a Freeview HD recorder which didn't initially detect the HD channels, but I manually tuned CH22 and it picked them up and I could watch them. A couple of times I've tried watching the HD channels and I've had the 'No signal' error. Manual tuning shows good signal strength (80%) but no signal quality.
Today (Sun 14th) approx 2pm I tried the HD channels and got the blank 'No signal' but approx 5pm I could watch the HD channels and signal quality had returned to 100%!!????
Any ideas??
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Ian: Can I suggest you have a look at the Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | Digital switchover | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice page?
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013
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Ian11:24 AM
Launceston
Hi Brian,
Thanks for the link.
I have just checked my Freeview channels at 11am and I can see a significant drop in signal quality readings across all channels, resulting in no CH22 and some freezing on other channels. But CH22 was fine last night!?
I will look at getting an attenuator, but shouldn't this problem be constant rather than am/pm?
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Ian11:16 PM
Launceston
Well bizarrely I think my issue is due to my coaxial cable/connector. Whilst removing the cable I found that bending the cable in a certain direction resulted in me regaining the signal quality for CH22. Which is abit strange as I dont think I've moved/touched the RF cable since fitting my new Freeview box a few weeks ago. :o)
Ron: I believe Michael was asking towards if you have a 'Freeview HD' set-top box or tuner in your tv? Although a tv description will say 'Full HD' or 'HD Ready' this does not mean you can receive the HD channels! Your tv tuner or freeview box needs to be 'Freeview HD'. The Currys website is a good example that shows if the tv tuner is a standard 'Freeview' or a 'Freeview HD'.
Hope this helps :o)
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Monday, 15 July 2013
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sheila weston11:33 AM
Penryn
we have not had much tv for two weeks now. have tried manual retune but no signal on any channel. we have had our tv for three years and have never had this problem before. bbc has been very helpful and now has a message on their phone to say it is no ones fault but it is the high pressure. other people near have no problems. our aerial is in the loft. every channel went off 10pm sat and again last night having had tv for 3 hours.
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Wednesday, 17 July 2013
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Arthur Tinsley8:36 PM
We have 2 TVs one in the lounge and one in the kitchen both taking a signal from the same arial. Our trasmitter is Caradon Hill. The TV in the lounge is just about OK but the one in the kitchen is now just showing French channels when we retuned on Freeview. They are usually both just OK in normal weather but now we have high presure they are acting up. We never had this problem with analogue so what is happening please.
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Saturday, 20 July 2013
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michael 5:39 PM
Arthur, put it down to progress in cahoots with climate change. It'll all be fine when the autumn storms breeze in...
Alternatively, register for a French evening class at your local friendly FE college :-)
The difference between tv sets will be due to longer aerial cable losses and receiver parameters.
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