Freeview Light on the North Bovey (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the North Bovey (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 800 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 North Bovey (Devon, England) transmitter._______
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 North Bovey (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 North Bovey 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 | C46 (674.0MHz) | 280m | DTG- | 7W |
 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) | 280m | DTG- | 7W |
 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 | C39 (618.0MHz) | 280m | DTG- | 7W |
 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 North Bovey (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 North Bovey transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 38km southwest (222°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 33km south-southwest (213°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
How will the North Bovey (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 19 Jun 2019 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | |||||
| C39 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB |
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 | 34W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 6.8W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Huntshaw Cross transmitter area
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Thursday, 1 December 2022
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Miles Thompson10:01 AM
Yesterday (30th November) I was having problems receiving BBC channels from the North Bovey transmitter - the ITV channels were fine. This morning I re-tuned my TV and found that I could receive HD signals on BBC channels - these were not available in the past. Have the old non-HD channels been weakened or changed? If so, it would have been nice to be notified of this change as a few of us are watching a lot of football at the moment!
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Chris.SE2:04 PM
Miles Thompson:
Nothing has changed at the transmitter and I can't find any faults currently reported or any in the last 5 days nor is the transmitter listed for Planned Engineering.
The North Bovey transmitter is a very low powered relay and it's possible that your location may give marginal reception.
If you provide a full postcode we can look at your predicted reception and which way the aerial should point.
If you are receiving from this transmitter, the aerial rods (or squashed Xs) should be vertical.
When was the last time you retuned? Has anything changed in your installation since then? Have you had a new aerial etc since June 2019 when the 700MHz Clearance was completed?
Your problems with reception of the BBCA/PSB1 multiplex (SD channels) yesterday is most likely due to current weather conditions causing some "Tropospheric Ducting" resulting in Interference coming from distant transmitters (in Europe or the UK) which is currently affecting some parts of the south and southwest.
Caution: It's never advised to retune if you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures as this generally just clears the correct tuning! Wait until signals are normal. Retuning will not affect reception is you are already correctly tuned!
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Tuesday, 10 January 2023
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Miles Thompson4:12 PM
Transmitter engineering: The BBC HD channels from the North Bovey transmitter are not working correctly, it is as if the bandwidth has been compromised to get the SD channels working satisfactorily. The ITV channels seem to be unaffected
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StevensOnln15:45 PM
Miles Thompson: The BBC's HD and SD channels are transmitted on different multiplexes so they cannot be compressing HD channels to fit in SD. The off-air monitoring of PSB3 from Caradon Hill (see link below - North Bovey will be identical) which carries BBC1 HD, BBC2 HD, BBC3 HD, BBC4 HD, CBBC HD, CBeebies HD, ITV1 HD, Channel 4 HD & Channel 5 HD shows them all running at a similar average bitrate. I don't have any other insight into what might be causing your issue
https://www.digitalbitrat…g=en
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Chris.SE6:59 PM
Miles Thompson:
As you still haven't provided that full postcode as mentioned in reply to your December post, we can't check the predicted reception in your locale. As you mentioned you hadn't received the HD channels before, you could be in a marginal area, or have a fault on your aerial system.
Have you checked your aerial position as suggested? How old is the aerial installation?
Do you have any other equipment connected or aerial amplifiers/distribution amps/splitters or DVRs etc.?
Check you are tuned to the correct UHF channels for North Bovey - C46, C43 & C39.
Have you checked all the connections behind your TV etc?
When did this problem start - had you had any new electrical/electronic equipment around that time?
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