Full Freeview on the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmitter which serves 84,000 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 Beacon Hill (Torbay, 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)
Which Freeview channels does the Beacon 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Beacon Hill transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 37km west (262°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 30km west (260°)
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?
| Lannacombe | Active deflector | 25 km SW Torbay | 4 homes |
How will the Beacon Hill (Torbay, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 27 Mar 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | E T | E T | W T | K T | |||
| C33 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C34 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C40 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C44 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | |||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | +BBCB | +BBCB | |||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | -BBCA | ||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 Apr 09 and 22 Apr 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 | |
| com7 | (-11.4dB) 7.3kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D*, com8 | (-20dB) 1000W |
Local transmitter maps
Beacon Hill Freeview Beacon Hill AM/FM Beacon Hill TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Beacon Hill transmitter area
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Tuesday, 16 April 2019
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gtibb11:22 AM
Peter Cole:
Its not surprising this has happened at this site. To continue to radiate COM 7 & 8 would have required another panel retrofit at the top of the mast to use panels compliant with UHF 55 & 56. When you consider a very expensive blunder happened previously in 2008 where the top antenna was initially fitted with the panels in the wrong orientation & also a faulty feeder was installed.
Caradon Hill will also close COM7 & 8 in June as an expensive panel replacement excercise would also be required.
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Sunday, 21 April 2019
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Steve B11:21 PM
Please see this link below.
Ignore the Line of Duty drama in the article - the point is my family who live down in Brixham are having issues since the March re-tune. Their BT Humax and TalkTalk Huawei Youview boxes (and even Televisions), are having issues of picture blanking and breaking up.
Torbay man couldn't watch Line of Duty after Freeview TV blackout - Devon Live
We've tried a number of things... Attenuator, 4G Filter (don't think its that), and new better fly leads to try and fix, but its sounds like its not just us having the issue.
The Freeview help-desk are fobbing off, but I'm encouraged its not just us in Torbay who are having issues with this reconfiguration. Even considering pointing at Stockland Hill instead.
Has anyone got any other thoughts given you might know more about frequencies and power (KW) configurations before March 2019 retune ?
Thanks in advance, Steve.
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Monday, 22 April 2019
MikeP
9:03 AM
9:03 AM
Steve B:
Please provide a full post code for the affected properties. Without that we cannot look at what the predicted reception conditions are for that location.
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Steve B9:38 AM
Brixham
Hi Mike,
Its TQ5 8RD for the BT Humax Youview box, and TQ5 9EL for the TalkTalk Youview box.
Thanks, Steve
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Steve's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 25 April 2019
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Robert Barrett1:26 PM
I am also having problems immediately following the March retune 2019 in Exmouth EX82JH. The picture and sound via the Humax box tuner is breaking up approx. every 10 to 20 mins for about 2 secs
The TV tuner on its own is fine. I have checked all cables, done a factory reset, manual tune etc. Have also been in touch with Humax and they have no idea what the problem could be.
Can you help please.
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I am in TQ2 6TD (Livermead Torquay) Ever since the update on 27/03 I get intermittent cuts out for sound and vision
This is with a Freview play DTR-T1000
4 years with no problems before
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 26 April 2019
Robert Barrett: I have been in touch with Freeview advice since April 1 concerning this HD issue. My connection is via a BT DTR2100 (Humax) box. They accept there is a problem with Beacon Hill Transmitter but Engineers seem to be struggling finding the problem. I have provided a log of events which shows it happens every 10/11 minutes to a greater or lesser extent ( total blank screen, audio glitch, pixellation etc). The timing of the next glitch is predictable. I have tried all the other suggestions of attenuators, filters, new cables etc but to no avail. Just have to wait and see I guess.
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Rob B2:57 PM
Thanks Richard B. Have probably spent 4 hours fiddling around to try and sort the problem - nearly bought another Humax box.
It would have been extremely helpful if Freeview had posted the fact that there is a problem.
As you say wait and see but they have had a month already.
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Bob Herbert7:55 PM
I get a no signal message and pixelating on the six HD channels transmitting on channel 47. This has happened ever since the retune on March 27th. I cannot watch HD on my 2500.00 TV because of a reduced signal strength.
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Monday, 29 April 2019
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Chris Arkell3:46 PM
I have re tuned both my TV's twice since march 27th and still I get 2-3 second blank screens when watching BBC programs whether HD or normal. Happens with no regularity but can be as often as every 15 minutes. Not noticed what happens on ITV as don't watch it very often. I can see from other posts and other sites that is is a problem a lot of people are suffering with.
When can we expect to receive a constant uninterrupted service?
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