Full Freeview on the Olivers Mount (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Olivers Mount (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter which serves 30,000 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 Olivers Mount (North Yorkshire, 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)
The Olivers Mount (North Yorkshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Olivers Mount 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)
The Olivers Mount (North Yorkshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Olivers Mount transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 91km southwest (234°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 92km southwest (236°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
How will the Olivers Mount (North Yorkshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 12 Feb 2020 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C29 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C31 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C37 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C39 | _local | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C56tv_off | _local | _local | _local | ||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C58tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C61 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 3 Aug 11 and 17 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 2kW | |
| Analogue 1-4, Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-3dB) 1000W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-13dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Olivers Mount transmitter area
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Thursday, 4 August 2011
Nigel: You might want to use Bilsdale, however, as you will be able to receive all the multiplexes from that transmitter both now and in the longer term, and your reception from Oliver's Mount will deteriorate in the future.
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Paul10:15 AM
Will it increase to 2900W or 1500W as it says on this web page, just above where the posts start? Will we see an immediate improvement on 17th or will it be somehow "phased in"?
Paul
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Paul: Sorry. The PSB multiplexes are 2kW, the COM multiplexes 1kW. That's an "average" of 1.5kW.
The changes happen between midnight and 6am on the 17th.
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Paul11:30 AM
Sorry to be a pain, but I am having difficulty fathoming that out - could be so kind as to explain in lay-man's language please?
Paul
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Mike Dimmick1:53 PM
Paul: First, forget about averages, they're meaningless. The coverage on one set of channels is not altered by the power level on another set of channels, and what you care about is whether it's strong enough on the channels you do want.
On digital, TV channels are carried in a 'multiplex', a digital transmission that carries lots of channels in the space that one analogue channel used to take. This is done because there's much more capacity available that one compressed TV channel takes (three to four times typical DVD rates, TV is more heavily compressed than a DVD), and there's a certain amount of space wasted if you tried to divide up the broadcast channel into smaller blocks.
All that's happened so far is that the high-power BBC A multiplex has replaced the old analogue BBC Two and the low-power Multiplex 1, which carried most of the BBC channels before yesterday. Because BBC Two's analogue channel is being freed for 4G mobile services, the digital transmission has actually taken over BBC One's frequency and BBC One has temporarily moved to BBC Two's old location.
That new BBC A multiplex is transmitting at a maximum of twice the maximum power of the former analogue transmitter on that frequency. It's 20 times the power of the old low-power Multiplex 1.
Where there are factors of millions of times between the highest and lowest levels accepted, engineers usually use a logarithmic scale - decibels. A multiplication of the original by a factor turns into an addition of the logarithms of the original value and the factor. Multiplying power by two is adding (about) 3 dB and multiplying by ten is adding 10 dB. It's a useful scale if, like human hearing and vision, there is a logarithmic response, or if, like TV transmission, the source is diffused in all directions, but we largely 'see' just the straight-line path between transmitter and receiver.
On the 17th, the remaining analogue and low-power digital transmissions will be switched off. The replacement high-power transmissions will start up at their allocated power levels - 2000W for the three multiplexes that were gifted or licensed to the public service broadcasters (BBC A, D3&4, BBC B/HD) and 1000W for the three multiplexes licensed to commercial operators (SDN, Arqiva A, Arqiva B).
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Nigel2:32 PM
Malton
Yes I do use Bilsdale but its TT TV and people in Ryedale (Malton to the coast) prefer YTV so had a play to see what I could get Emley moor is forecast to be higher strengh so will try in September
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Nigel's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Mike Dimmick: I've removed the reference to the average power, you are correct, it adds nothing. It was part of the simulation system before I added in the detailed "Comparison of analogue and digital signal levels" section to each page.
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Nigel: You might have to use two aerials in the long run, so you can get the Leeds BBC and ITV services as well as the three commercial multiplexes.
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Friday, 5 August 2011
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Paul9:02 AM
Mike Dimmick: Brilliant explanations - most helpfult, thank you.
Ok I will now sit back and await the 17th for hopefully superb Digital Broadcasts all round :)
Paul
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Saturday, 6 August 2011
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Nigel1:29 PM
Malton
Is BBCA Ch 57 now on full power or will it increase further at DSO 2
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Nigel's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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