The symbol shows the location of the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 97,000 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 Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

Which Freeview channels does the Redruth 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	H max	C44+ (658.2MHz)	400m	DTG-3	20,000W
	1 BBC One South West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 601 BBC RB 1, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C41+ (634.2MHz)	400m	DTG-3	20,000W
	3 ITV (West Country), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 14 More4, 15 Film4, 24 ITV4, 24 ITV4 +1, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (West Country),
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C47 (682.0MHz)	400m	DTG-6	20,000W
	45 Film4 +1, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C48 (690.0MHz)	400m	DTG-8	10,000W
	10 ITV3, 20 Drama, 21 5 USA, 26 ITV Be, 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5STAR, 34 ITV3 +1, 37 Quest, 44 Channel 5 +1, 54 My5, 58 ITV Be +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 61 True Entertainment, 63 Blaze, 66 CBS Reality, 70 Horror Channel, 80 Blaze +1, 83 Quest +1, 203 CITV, 211 Ketchup TV, plus 17 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C52 (722.0MHz)	400m	DTG-8	10,000W
	11 pick, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4 +1, 32 Sony Movie Ch, 38 Quest Red, 41 Food Network, 46 Challenge, 48 Movies4Men, 60 Sony Crime Channel 2, 72 YourTV, 233 Sky News, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C51 (714.0MHz)	400m	DTG-8	10,000W
	18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 25 Home, 31 5Spike, 39 CBS Action, 42 Travel Channel, 47 4seven, 62 True Movies, 71 CBS Reality 1, 73 YourTV +1, 79 Dave ja vu, 81 Talking Pictures TV, plus 20 others

DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?

The Redruth (Cornwall, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .

If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Redruth transmitter?

BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 82km east-northeast
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.

ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 89km east
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?

Coverack

Transposer

15 km S Falmouth

70 homes

How will the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	years	1950s~85	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	2013-18	2013-17	30th Jun 2019-
	aerial group	VHF	B E	B E	B E	B E	B E	B E	K
	C1	BBCtv
600	C32								BBCA
	C33								D3+4
	C37			C5	C5
	C39				1
	C41		ITV	ITV	ITV	+D3+4	+D3+4	+D3+4	BBCB
	C42				+2
	C43				+C
	C44		BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	+BBCA	+BBCA	+BBCA	SDN
	C45				+A
	C47		C4	C4	C4	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB	ArqA
	C48					SDN	SDN	SDN	ArqB
700	C49				-B
	C50				-D
	C51		BBC1	BBC1	BBC1	ArqB	ArqB	ArqB
	C52					ArqA	ArqA	ArqA

orange background for multiplexes names more
green background for transmission frequencies
lilac background for power levels in watts
800MHz band: 4G mobile started in 2013
700MHz band: 4G from 30 June 2020more
600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 8th July and 5th August 2009.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	100kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 20kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB	(-10dB) 10kW
Analogue 5	(-15.2dB) 3kW
Mux D*	(-16.6dB) 2.2kW
Mux 1, Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B, Mux C*	(-18dB) 1.6kW

Other local maps

Redruth Freeview Redruth TV region BBC South West West Country DAB in Cornwall AM/FM in Cornwall

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Redruth transmitter area

Apr 1961-Dec 1981	Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Westcountry Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Redruth 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments

Friday, 17 August 2018

MikeP
10:34 AM

tERRY rEED:

Com7 and Com8 are temporary from 30 main transmitters only. At some point in the future it is likely they will be turned off and probably replaced with services on more transmitters when it is viable to convert all of them to use DVB-T2 encoding, which is capable of carrying more data/channels. But that will require everyone to have equipment that can receive and decode DVB-T2 encoded signals. Current SD-only equipment cannot decode the DVB-T2 signals, on those that are capable can do that.

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