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 withheldSunday, 29 September 2013
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Mark Huntley-James6:57 PM
Update... Camelford area.
Channel 52 on Redruth is currently back. I have tried manual scan on this every few days and on Saturday there was a signal with poor to medium quality. It was enough for the EPG to re-instate the channels.
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Monday, 28 October 2013
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Shaunne Shaw9:27 AM
Newquay
I have a 'no signal' for all channels on Freeview which appeared about 7 am ish, ie TV was on first thing. Has the transmitter gone down? I am in the Holywell/Cubert area.
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Shaunne's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 20 January 2014
REDRUTH transmitter - Over the next week Redruth main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) Possible weak signal, Radio (digital) Possible weak signal. [DUK]
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Monday, 27 January 2014
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John4:00 PM
Helston
We get our TV from the Redruth transmitter and last night we lost all but a few of the terrestrial channels, including all of the HD channels. I see that there was engineering work programmed for last week but is it continuing this week and any idea if we will we get our signal back before the start of the Winter Olympics?
Many thanks
John
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
REDRUTH transmitter - Over the next week Redruth main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) Possible weak signal, Radio (digital) Possible weak signal. [DUK]
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Thursday, 6 February 2014
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Malcolm Brown6:51 PM
Digital TV reception in my area of Marazion is dreadful at the best of times, but over the last few days the TV is almost unusable. I have not been able to get any BBC channels at all and ITV is poor reception. No digital radio either. My antenna is aimed at the Redruth transmitter. Two neighbours whose aerials point at the Gulval relay cannot get any TV at all. What is going on?
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Malcolm Brown: The note near the top of this page from Digital UK states that Redruth TV is "Liable to interruption". Gulval is a relay of Redruth and its feeds are the signals from its parent.
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Malcolm Brown7:56 PM
Marazion
Dave Lindsay: Thank you for this information. I did see the banner at the top of the page relating to the Redruth transmitter engineering work. I posed my question anyway as I could not see any date and time that this top banner was last updated. As a helpful suggestion, could a date and time be included in a main information heading please? This would make terms like 'over the next week' more meaningful. Thanks.
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Malcolm's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 7 February 2014
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jb389:29 AM
Malcolm Brown: Precise information as to when any interruption to the service is liable to occur is something which cannot really be forecast in advance, as any that do take place is entirely dependant on the nature of the engineering work being carried out and whether or not the engineer(s) involved at a particular stage deem it necessary for technical reasons, or indeed in the interests of safety, to either cut the power of the transmitter or even kill it altogether whilst some task is being carried out.
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Sunday, 9 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:23 AM
4:23 AM
REDRUTH transmitter - Over the next week Redruth main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) Possible weak signal, Radio (digital) Possible weak signal. [DUK]
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