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 22/04/2024 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 withheldMonday, 24 July 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:25 AM
10:25 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 24/07/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Are there any plans/timescales to make real time Freeview available via the internet, I seem to remember sometime ago it was mooted.
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Chris.SE9:35 PM
Jihn:
Short answer, yes there are plans but I've not heard of definitive timescales for everything and at present it seems it's only likely to happen on recent Freeview Play devices, it's suggested only those that have CLM - channel list management.
Longer answer -
It will of course be only some (more recent) "smart" devices.
There's several subscription services.
A recent model of BT box has streamed channels available (no aerial needed I believe), quite a few in HD (where they are only SD on Freeview via an aerial), but that is exclusive to BT. There's also Sky Glass, but again exclusive to Sky. Sky also offer a paid App.
But also today, the BBC have released this -
New HD IP streams launching on Freeview Play models 24 July | Help receiving TV and radio
Some of the Broadcasters' Apps already offer "Live" streaming (it's actually delayed slightly - (upto a minute?) eg. iPlayer, ITVX, My5
A lot of that streaming is in HD but iPlayer is more restricted to listed sets -
Devices which support 1080p streaming | iPlayer help
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Friday, 4 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 31/07/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 7 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/08/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 14 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/08/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 21 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/08/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 28 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/08/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 1 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
12:09 PM
12:09 PM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 4 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/09/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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