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.
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._______
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, 31 July 2020
C
Chris.SE10:36 PM
J. KENYON:
I take it you mean yesterday, Thursday 30th.
There is some variable intermittent "tropospheric ducting" around at present - https://www.bbc.co.uk/rec….jpg affecting different areas at different times & not all channels are necessarily affected at the same time or at all.
It was particularly strong yesterday over parts of Cornwall, Devon and the South Coast.
Retuning when you have no signal (for whatever reason) is generally a bad idea as it just clears correct tuning and may indeed pick up signals from distant transmitters which disappear again as conditions change.
You'll need to retune again as conditions stabilise, unfortunately you may have to try several times.
(There are no reported transmitter faults and it's not listed for Planned Engineering).
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Monday, 28 September 2020
R
Royston Dower7:05 PM
Hi, I have very poor reception on channel 33 multiplex from the Redruth transmitter, all the other multiplexes are fine all approx the same with at least 90% signal strength and near 100% signal quality,
Any ideas would be gratefully received
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Tuesday, 29 September 2020
C
Chris.SE2:09 AM
Royston Dower:
There doesn't appear to be any currently listed faults for the Redruth transmitter although there was one on the 24th where the transmitter was briefly off air due to a fault in the early hours.
There has been some "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
It's been affecting various parts of the UK at different times and there is currently still some that may be affecting reception in parts of mainly the south of the UK. It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It doesn't necessarily affect all multiplexes at the same time or at all. At times it can wipe out your reception.
You are not advised to retune when you have lost signals or they are badly pixellated as this usually just clears correct tuning and you have to repeat a retune when signals are stable. You may have to repeat a retune several times if signals are still disrupted.
If you have continuing problems please post back with more detail and a full postcode so that we can look at predicted reception at your location.
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Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
12:12 PM
12:12 PM
REDRUTH transmitter - AM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 11 Nov 11:16. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
4:26 PM
4:26 PM
REDRUTH transmitter - AM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 11 Nov 11:16 until 11 Nov 13:37. . [BBC]
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Friday, 20 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
11:14 AM
11:14 AM
REDRUTH transmitter - AM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 20 Nov 10:06. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
12:39 PM
12:39 PM
REDRUTH transmitter - AM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 20 Nov 10:06 until 20 Nov 11:39. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:29 AM
10:29 AM
REDRUTH transmitter - AM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 24 Nov 10:06. Off the air due to essential engineering from 20 Nov 10:06 until 20 Nov 11:39. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
6:11 PM
6:11 PM
REDRUTH transmitter - AM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 24 Nov 10:06 until 24 Nov 15:42. Off the air due to essential engineering from 20 Nov 10:06 until 20 Nov 11:39. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
1:31 PM
1:31 PM
REDRUTH transmitter - AM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 24 Nov 10:06 until 24 Nov 15:42. . [BBC]
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