Full Freeview on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter
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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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) mast?
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/12/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Redruth (Cornwall, 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 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Redruth (Cornwall, 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 Redruth transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 82km east-northeast (78°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 89km east (79°)
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?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 1 May 2019 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C48 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqB | |||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
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 8 Jul 09 and 5 Aug 09.
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 |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Redruth transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldFriday, 6 August 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:49 AM
11:49 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/08/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Sunday, 8 August 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:50 PM
11:50 PM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 09/08/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 16 August 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:20 AM
5:20 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 16/08/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Sunday, 22 August 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:20 PM
11:20 PM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 23/08/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 30 August 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:22 AM
5:22 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 30/08/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 15 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:29 AM
11:29 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/10/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 18 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
8:36 AM
8:36 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/10/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 22 October 2021
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P A PALMER3:52 PM
It would be so Nice to be able to receive channel 51 with Christmas so near, i along with many others living in st, Ives carbis bay with children would welcome it, the
nearest receiver is only down the road in redruth, and 61 would be welcome the rest of the year.
licence payer and it cost's the same as the rest of the country is
paying for all the channels on Freeview
Cornwall
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Chris.SE9:57 PM
P A PALMER:
I'm sorry you are incorrect - "licence payer and it cost's the same as the rest of the country is
paying for all the channels on Freeview "
The lLcence fee does NOT pay for all the channels on Freeview, it is your permission to watch LIVE tv whether it be on Freeview, Freesat, Sky or any online player or TV service whilst you are in the UK.
The Licence fee money only funds the BBC, all the other channels are commercial - that is - the operators make commercial decisions about what is commercially viable, what they have to pay in fees for the material they transmit, the fees for transmission of their signals to transmitters and fees for the multiplexes and transmitters that are used (note the situation with the PSB channels is more complex).
The fees for being carried on a given multiplex will depend on the multiplex operator and the specific multiplex and the bandwidth being used.
The multiplex operators have to make commercial decisions about how viable a given commercial multiplex might be on a particular transmitter as well as the capital cost of the equipment invovled (assuming there are available frequencies that won't interfere with frequencies used elsewhere etc) does the transmitter serve a large enough number of households that the advertising returns would be sufficient etc etc.
Sony who previously owned these (now "Great") channels made a commercial decision to move most of them to Local multiplexes in 2019 because of lower costs.
There is simply not enough frequencies available (never mind commercial viability) for Local multiplexes to be provided on all but the small limited number of main transmitters serving large urban centres of population, and those that do are lower power and beamed towards those centres of population.
As I hope you can now see it is not a simple straightforward matter. However there is a simple straightforward solution, the channel is available on Freesat. A lot of modern TVs have built-in satellite tuners (check yours), so all you need to add is a dish and LNB to receive Freesat.
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Monday, 25 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:43 AM
5:43 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/10/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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