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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Saturday, 25 May 2019
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StevensOnln111:45 AM
RUSTY: The Beacon Hill transmitter is not operating on reduced power, where did you read that, as I cannot see anything to suggest that is the case (other than for brief periods during engineering work)? Forces TV is carried on the COM8 multiplex which is no longer broadcast from Beacon Hill and won't be returning unless the channel moves to another multiplex (no such move has been announced). Also, no one on this website has any connection with any broadcaster or the transmitter company, no one here can turn the power up.
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NP2:51 PM
I telephoned the BBC help number about poor HD reception in Exmouth and received confirmation that there are transmission issues at Beacon Hill which affect HD reception. There is supposedly work going on to fix it but no known completion date. No mention was made whether reduced power was involved.
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Tuesday, 28 May 2019
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Ray Mitchell 9:05 AM
I have had picture breakup since March,mostly watching free view HD channels (BBC,itv etc) through my BT youview box.Had BT out twice,boxes changed but still the same.Tried attenuating the signal By 20db ,still no different.I bought another tv aerial so both rooms are on separate aerials and BT boxes ,still the same.
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Phil Squires10:43 PM
Ray Mitchell
Ring the BBC today on 03709016789 and report the fault, the more people that do the more likely it will be resolved, I will be making my weekly call tomorrow.
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Wednesday, 29 May 2019
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Rob B8:22 AM
It is now 2 months since the retune and the fault is still present on HD channels. It is my belief that there must be a design fault with the rebuild of the transmitter for 5G rather than an equipment fault which surely would have been sorted by now.
When will the owner tell us exactly what the problem is and when it will be fixed.
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My father got an email yesterday saying....
"There will be engineers working at the Beacon Hill and relay transmitters tomorrow 29 May. The work will involve short switching breaks and the HD channels may be impacted for up to 8 hours between 09:00 17:00"
I guess they are looking at it - but this does seem to be dragging.
Lets see if there is any improvement in the next 24 hours.
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Ray Mitchell 2:59 PM
Had the tv on HD today ,not one breakup.Have they fixed the problem?
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Thursday, 30 May 2019
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Jim10:01 AM
Heard yesterday that work was being done on Beacon Hill to fix the HD transmission problem. Have received one report today (from Brixham area) that the work does seem to have fixed the problem - even though the BBC transmitter information still shows a fault!
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Rob B3:20 PM
Finally had a perfect signal with no break up last night on HD in Exmouth, and the picture generally seemed to be better as well .
Well done to the engineers provided it stays like this.
I would still like to know what the problem was.
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