Full Freeview on the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 120,000 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 Stockland Hill (Devon, England) mast?
Stockland Hill transmitter - Stockland Hill 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 Stockland Hill (Devon, 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 Stockland Hill 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 Stockland Hill (Devon, 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 Stockland Hill transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 86km west-southwest (239°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 80km southwest (236°)
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?
| Bickleigh | Transposer | 15 km N Exeter | 25 homes |
| Freshwater C/p | Active deflector | 2 km SE Bridport, Dorset | 250 homes (caravans) |
| Ladram Bay | Transposer | 15 km SE Exeter | 400 homes (caravans) |
How will the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 27 Mar 2019 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C9 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C25 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 6 May 09 and 20 May 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 25kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 2.5kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Stockland Hill transmitter area
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023
M
Mark7:16 PM
Exeter
I don't receive any of the Com4, 5 or 6 channels.
All other channels are fine.
I'm at EX2 9AY...I would've thought I would receive all.
It's a 2021 Samsung TV.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE9:36 PM
Mark:
Which way is your aerial pointing?
If it's pointing ~WNW with its rods (or squashed Xs) vertical, it's pointing at the Exeter St. Thomas relay transmitter which is Freeview "Light" and only has the PSBs.
If it's pointing at compass bearing 72 degrees ~ENE with its rods horizontal, it's pointing at the main Stockland Hill transmitter which has all 6 multiplexes. However, reception of the COM muxes is predicted to be (very) variable at your postcode.
Depending on when you last tuned/retuned, if it was in more adverse weather conditions, maybe when there was some tropospheric ducting causing interference from more distant transmitters (there's been some affecting parts of the SW & elsewhere off & on recently), the set may have missed the weaker (or non-existent) COM multiplex signals.
You are likely to need a high gain Group A or Group K aerial pointing at Stockland Hill to get the COMs
If you aerila is already pointing that way, Autotune can sometimes miss weaker signals so try a Manual tune on the following UHF channels - C25, C22, & C28 for CMs 4,5 & 6.
(The PSBs are C26, C23, C29).
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Friday, 30 June 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
Stockland Hill transmitter - Stockland Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 26/06/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 3 July 2023
Transmitter engineering
4:07 AM
4:07 AM
Stockland Hill transmitter - Stockland Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 03/07/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Sunday, 16 July 2023
S
Steve Donaldson8:50 PM
Bob: Group K is the new "wideband" for C21 to C48. Group A is C21 to C27.
More information here:
Wideband / grouped TV aerials A.T.V. Poles, Brackets, Clamps & Aerials
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Tuesday, 25 July 2023
C
Chris.SE4:41 AM
Whoops, slight typo there, Group A is C21 to C37.
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Tuesday, 8 August 2023
S
Steve4:39 PM
Hi
I live in Aylesbeare and the terrestrial aerial is pointed at Stockland Hill. I was getting a bit annoyed that the ITV HD channel (103) was showing Central local news so I performed various auto tunes, manual tunes etc. to no avail but, from your excellent website, can see that Stockland Hill does not broadcast ITV HD Westcountry local programming. If it can broadcast Central or Meridian, then why not Westcountry? Seems very odd!
Steve
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Wednesday, 9 August 2023
S
StevensOnln110:45 AM
Steve: Until a few months ago there were only 4 versions of the PSB3 HD multiplex (which carries ITV HD) across the whole of England. This was replaced using new equipment to enable BBC One HD regions, however ITV have not yet given a date for when they will remaining HD regions on Freeview. It has been suggested elsewhere that ITV are waiting for existing contracts to expire before the work to enable the remaining HD regions can be completed.
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Friday, 11 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
1:47 PM
1:47 PM
Stockland Hill transmitter - Stockland Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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