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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Monday, 27 July 2020
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Christopher Bryant11:08 AM
Why does Caradon not broadcast Sony Movies Classic, ch. 50?
Is there any hope of a change in this?
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StevensOnln11:29 PM
Christopher Bryant: Sony Movies Classic is broadcast on the local TV multiplex, which is only available in areas where there is a local TV station, of which there are none in Devon or Cornwall. This will only change if Sony decide to pay more in order to broadcast the channel on a national multiplex with wider coverage.
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michael10:03 PM
Chris.SE: I hold an amateur radio licence, so I know about ducting. In this forum I avoid over-technical comments which might not be helpful to many enquirers.
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Chris.SE11:40 PM
michael:
It's not over-technical IF you explain it, best way by a link to explanations already provided by others (as Ive always done). That picture should be simple enough for everyone to understand.Just referring to high pressure makes people believe something is being hidden from them as they know there are many occasions when there's been high pressure but no problem with TV reception.
I'd suggest you look back at all the twitter comments to FreeviewAdvice around the New Year when "high pressure" was what people were told by Freeview. It lead to all sorts of conspiracy theories. At least the BBC mentioned Tropospheric Ducting at the time on their Reception Advice pages.
I believe in trying to explain the facts in as simple a way as possible, people learn things that way.
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Friday, 31 July 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:31 AM
10:31 AM
CARADON HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 25 Jul 15:14 until 25 Jul 15:23. . FM: Off the air due to a fault from 31 Jul 08:35 until 31 Jul 08:56. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 27 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
CARADON HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 27 Aug 17:01 until 27 Aug 17:08. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 3 September 2020
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Michael Hannon1:20 PM
Michael: We are experiencing very poor TV signal daily between 1.00 pm and 3.00pm.
The signal is fine in the evening but useless around midday. This has been going on for nearly two weeks now. Any idea what is causing it?
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Friday, 4 September 2020
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Chris.SE4:49 AM
Michael Hannon:
Without a full postcode to do any more detailed checks, if it is Caradon Hill you receive, it's not listed for Planned Engineering which might have been a possible cause.
If the problem is occuring at exactly the same time each day then this could be some form of interference.
Have you made any changes to your installation recently? Are you (or possibly your neighbours) using any specific electric equipment at these times?
It's probably worth checking that all your coax connections and flyleads etc don't have any breaks or corrosion and that your aerial still looks intact and is pointing in the correct direction.
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Transmitter engineering
10:28 PM
10:28 PM
CARADON HILL transmitter - DAB: Reduced quality due to a fault from 13 Aug 23:42 until 13 Aug 23:52. . [BBC]
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Saturday, 24 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:27 AM
10:27 AM
CARADON HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Oct 12:37 until 23 Oct 14:05. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Oct 12:40 until 23 Oct 14:04. . [BBC]
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