Full Freeview on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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, 8 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:19 AM
11:19 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 11 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 18 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 25 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:10 AM
5:10 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023
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Jackie Olliffe5:12 PM
we have no tv at all - St Dennis since 3.20pm today
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Chris.SE7:37 PM
Jackie Olliffe:
There are no Faults or Planned Engineering listed for the Redruth or Caradon Hill transmitters that cover your area, so I'm afraid it's down to current weather conditions -
They have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia, now currently affecting Wales and England. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you'd be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter, as detailed in the top section of the relevant transmitter page.
The BBC and Freeview have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - from 07 October | Help receiving TV and radio
High pressure could affect reception across parts of the UK this week | Freeview
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Chris.SE8:11 PM
Jackie Olliffe:
The "Tropo" on this occasion has been quite extreme at times and lots of people across the country have been affected. Hopefully it will improve significantly after Wednesday according to current predictions.
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Monday, 23 October 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:47 AM
10:47 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 23/10/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 30 October 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:11 AM
5:11 AM
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 30/10/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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