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The symbol shows the location of the Kingsbridge (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 4,100 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 Kingsbridge (Devon, England) mast?

Kingsbridge transmitter - Kingsbridge transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/10/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels Digital tick


Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Kingsbridge 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C39 (618.0MHz)141mDTG-34W
Channel icons
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
C43 (650.0MHz)141mDTG-34W
Channel icons
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
C46 (674.0MHz)141mDTG-34W
Channel icons
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Kingsbridge (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 Kingsbridge transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 27km west-northwest (300°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 21km northwest (311°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)

How will the Kingsbridge (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1310 Apr 2019
B E TB E TB E TB E TB E K T
C39BBCA
C40BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C46BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCB
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB

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 170W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 34W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caradon Hill transmitter area

Apr 1961-Dec 1981Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Westcountry Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Kingsbridge was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Sunday, 14 June 2015
Dave Lindsay
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11:54 PM

Bob Partridge: Using a six-figure OS Landranger reference, as required by the terrain plotter, the base point is almost where the long/lat co-ordinates you gave resolve to. The plot shows that transmitter can't be seen due to higher ground at Churchstow:


Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location


With that postcode the Digital UK Coverage Checker doesn't return any result, not even a very poor one.

If this is correct, and you can't see the transmitter, and by such a degree, then maybe what I said still holds -- that it's a case of moving the aerial hoping to find a sweet spot.

Freesat might be the best course of action, just so long as the dish doesn't get snow on it!

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Dave Lindsay
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11:56 PM

Perhaps one of the pros on here could give their thoughts on Bob's issue.

(I write on here as a technical bod rather than an aerial installer.)

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Dave Lindsay
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11:59 PM

Bob Partridge: The only other thing I can think is that, if you do indeed have the aerial at the bottom of such a slope, you point the aerial upwards slightly, if its bracket permits.

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Tuesday, 16 June 2015
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Bob Partridge
10:39 PM

Dave - the aerials location is actually about 50m above sea level, however according to Megalithia this still puts Churchstow in the way! What I cant understand is why I get a good BBC signal and a poor ITV one. Thanks for all your help.

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Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Dave Lindsay
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11:51 AM

Bob Partridge: Think of it in the positive (why one multiplex is received) rather than in the negative (why one isn't).

Signals travel in straight lines. Without line-of-sight you are having to rely on the signals bending around the obstruction. The thing is that different frequencies bend in different ways around the same object. Thus, within the shadow of the obstruction there will be places where one signal is available but another isn't.

The only way all signals (of differing frequencies) would travel the same and therefore be received the same is if there were nothing around, no objects, no ground and there was a vacuum. Once you introduce things you introduce the tendency for signals to be affected.

I guess if your aerial is 30m off the ground then it must be in a tree. I wonder, therefore, whether the tree could be affecting the reception.

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Friday, 12 October 2018
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Sue Toone
11:36 PM

There has been no BBC reception in Aveton Gifford for the psst 3 days. No-one we have spoken to in the village has it. Could you please look into this and sort it out ASAP.
12/10/18

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Saturday, 13 October 2018
MikeP
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11:22 AM

Sue Toone:

I cannot find any mention of engineerings works at either the Kingsbridge or Aveton Gifford relays. Perhaps you should try contacting Arqiva who operate the transmitters. Try their email contact address at enquiries@arqiva.com.



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MikeP's 3,056 posts GB flag
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
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Victoria
8:29 AM

The whole area has no service

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Chris.SE
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2:17 PM

Victoria :

The BBC reported a fault a few days ago - From 5:12:14pm to 6:57:56pm on 18th Feb 2022 Off the air due to a fault (most likely due to a power cut affecting that area), but there doesn't appear to be any currently reported fault.

If you happened to retune when you had no signal (not advised) this will most likely have just cleared your correct tuning and you'd have to repeat a retune when signals are normal.

Are your neighbours having the same problem?
Otherwise, check that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction with the rods (or squashed Xs) vertical (for Kingsbridge) and that your downlead looks undamaged and isn't flapping in the wind.

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Monday, 7 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
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10:47 AM

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