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?
| 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, 23 September 2013
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Roger Mills10:30 PM
Falmouth
Ditto no signal at TR11 5GG (Falmouth). Similar to problem on 4 Sept. Maybe interference from France?
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Roger's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Martin Armstrong10:45 PM
Truro
Am constantly re-tuning and have just received France HD (and only five other HDs - normally get 139 channels in all) so you could be right! They all disappear very quickly though.
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Martin's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Alex10:51 PM
Ditto in Truro, receiving France HD but not much else!
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Friday, 27 September 2013
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alex2:05 PM
problems in carnon valley and also in falmouth at my sons. no signal since monday. strange how a week after there is engineering work many people are having problems. and even stranger that caradon hill say there are none
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Friday, 4 October 2013
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michael9:24 PM
It is possible that, to reduce mutual interference between transmitters, effective radiated power is experimentally being reduced or radiation patterns modified to reduce signal strength in some directions. But they are unlikely to inform us... If observations vary, high-pressure is another factor that can affect interference from more distant transmitters, which will disappear again under low atmospheric pressure. This is frequently the case near Woolacombe.
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
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Mervyn Mugford10:18 AM
The Parracombe self help transposer no longer exists, the residents decided not to bother to upgrade it for dso and it closed when Caradon went dso. Also on Huntshaw Cross the North Molton transposer no longer exists, residents not prepared to pay the upkeep costs.
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
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Alan4:01 PM
Are channels 31 & 37 working on Caradon Hill? I can now receive BBC3 with no problem but, no signal at all on the new channels after both an auto scan and a manual set up.
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Alan: No, they don't come on air until some time next year.
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michael 10:02 PM
Mervyn Mugford :-
Thanks for the confirmation, Mervyn.
Our Self-Help was crushed by CCI from Carmel. The village committee, guided by one techno-nerd..., supported most permanent residents to set up a satellite dish on their own or on anearby friendly neighbour's property.
Sadly, we have little hope of seeing shiny fibre in this life or the next to implement greater than our current 1MB/s "narrowband".... BUT we do have nice views...
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Monday, 16 December 2013
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Adrian Retallack6:17 PM
help. I get my signal from Caradon hill but I cant get ITV. I can get Itv 2 and 3. can anyone help
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