Freeview Light on the Ilfracombe (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Ilfracombe (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 3,600 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 Ilfracombe (Devon, England) mast?
ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 18 Dec 13:18 until 18 Dec 13:41. . 
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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.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Ilfracombe (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Ilfracombe 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C33 (570.0MHz) | 251m | DTG- | 112W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C36 (594.0MHz) | 251m | DTG- | 112W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (West Country), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West Country), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C48- (689.8MHz) | 251m | DTG- | 112W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Ilfracombe (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Ilfracombe transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 90km south (182°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 90km south (176°)
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?
| Lee | Transposer | 4 km W Ilfracombe | 65 homes |
How will the Ilfracombe (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 19 Jun 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C33 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C36 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C48 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | -BBCB | -BBCB | -BBCB | |||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 1 Jul 09 and 29 Jul 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 280W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 112W |
Local transmitter maps
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 23 May 2012
michael: one plan in the ofcom list suggests that the three coms become sfns, with more psb sfns to save frequency allocations.
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Sunday, 26 May 2013
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michael9:37 PM
Ilfracombe D3&4 has moved down to clear the 800MHz band. But so has Big Bully across the water. So CCI remains. The extra 3dB (how kind) will help a few, but only a few. This is but a wisp of what is to come. France is now urgently considering clearing 700MHz so as to trickle-feed the state's depleted coffers, as reported by Le Monde. Ofcom is like-minded and may well be forced to follow suite so as to minimise CCI along the south coast from across Le Manche.
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Friday, 31 May 2013
michael: Ofcom plans to clear the 700MHz band in 2018, see Ofcom annual plan: 600MHz band for Freeview HD, potential release of 700 MHz | About us | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice .
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Friday, 21 February 2014
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michael8:33 PM
It would be nice to know what these engineering works are intended to achieve. A few days ago I overheard people on the local bus complaining that they still could not get a consistently reliable television picture. It comes, breaks up then disappears for a while and so on. They were not happy as they had no problems when it was still analog. I don't know whether they understood that the cause was co-channel interference from Carmel "bouncing off" the rising and falling Bristol Channel. I am sure they would be happier to know that they endure an unacceptable service so that 3G and 4G companies can beef up their future profit margins...
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michael: Is the answer as to what engineering works are intended to achieve obvious? The answer is the provision of television services.
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michael8:47 PM
Dave Lindsay: Indeed, but just regular maintenance, improvement of coverage, response to CCI, change of radiation patterns, additional services, DAB/FM radio, mobile services, or what?
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michael: if there is no advanced notice posted then the work is an unscheduled situation. Meaning something broke beyond the ability of the system to be fixed automatically and/or remotely.
If I could afford DTG full membership I could have full details of planned work... But it's far too expensive...
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It's £10,000 a year. Joining the DTG
I can manage £300 for Broadcast....
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Saturday, 31 January 2015
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michael3:22 PM
Why are we denied an explanation of the reasons for these and many similar outages.
Democracy, Freedom of Information ???
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Thursday, 26 January 2017
when are we getting full freeview, as the n devon area already does
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