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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Thursday, 12 March 2015
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jb389:05 PM
Ash : Although many somewhat loathe having to resort to this measure, but your best policy would to make one or two enquiries with others in your immediate vicinity for the purpose of determining if the problem is also being experienced by other viewers, or, that its confined purely to your own installation.
Because if others are also being affected, then the problem is totally outwith your control.
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Friday, 13 March 2015
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Ash6:01 PM
Today I checked and it seems both hd channels have now come back on
all 7 channels have similar readings of
quality 100%, str 92% error 0%
So it must of been something external
Thank you though for you time and I bookmarked the website
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Dave Lindsay
6:22 PM
6:22 PM
Ash: Digital UK doesn't say that there is work going on at Caradon Hill:
Digital UK - Planned Engineering Works
I suppose this doesn't mean that it isn't a result of works.
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Thursday, 2 July 2015
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denyse shorrocks2:33 PM
can you tell me why I loose the signal every day this week in crackington haven when the tennis starts , i
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Friday, 3 July 2015
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J6:36 PM
Problems? getting bad signal on bbc/channel 4 in evenings recently un watchable, but nothing being shown here
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Sunday, 30 August 2015
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S Hutchings1:34 PM
St. Austell
PL25 4JT
No signal here since Friday afternnon
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S's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 6 September 2015
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Arthur4:02 PM
BBC News channel 130 is showing BBC1 on Caradon Hill on Sunday at around 1600 hrs on both my Humax boxes, even after a reboot. Why is this I wonder?
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Tuesday, 15 September 2015
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Chris Brock4:12 PM
Kingsbridge
Is there a problem with the Caradon transmitter or a relay? I, and my neighbours, have lost all signal at TQ7 2QG. Sept 15, 2015, $pm.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb3810:42 PM
Chris Brock: Engineering work is presently being carried out at Caradon Hill, a notice to the effect of a "possible weak signal" having been posted on the engineering page.
As the Slapton relay, which covers your area, takes its signal off-air from the Caradon Hill transmitter, needless to say, any drop outs in the signal received by the relay from Caradon Hill, will immediately be reflected on the output from Slapton.
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Friday, 9 October 2015
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Robert Boulton6:38 PM
channel 81 talking pictures. After repeatedly trying to retune I have failed to get this new channel. Is there some reason it is not available?
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