Full Freeview on the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 180,000 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 Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) mast?
Caradon Hill transmitter - Caradon Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 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)
Which Freeview channels does the Caradon 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 Caradon Hill transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 26km east-southeast (123°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 32km east-southeast (116°)
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?
| Barleycombe | Active deflector | 25 km E Plymouth | 3 homes |
| Parracombe | Transposer | 17 km NE Barnstaple | 80 homes |
How will the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, 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 | ||||
| C12 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C30 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C37 | com8 |
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 12 Aug 09 and 9 Sep 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com7 | (-16.3dB) 11.6kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-20dB) 5kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 4kW | |
| com8 | (-24.2dB) 1.9kW |
Local transmitter maps
Caradon Hill Freeview Caradon Hill DAB Caradon Hill AM/FM Caradon Hill TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caradon Hill transmitter area
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Saturday, 18 May 2024
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StevensOnln111:40 PM
michael: I suspect you might be referring to the removal of Huawei equipment from 4G/5G mobile base stations, which often share the same tower/structure but have nothing to do with transmitting either Freeview, DAB or FM radio. The UK government announced a ban on the use of Huawei equipment by the mobile networks back in 2020 due to security concerns over the potential for access by the Chinese government and set a deadline to remove existing Huawei equipment by the end of 2027, so this has been ongoing for some time and will continue over the next few years.
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Sunday, 19 May 2024
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michael10:40 PM
There is a Planning Application for work on a local DTT/mobile mast here. I tried to contact the applicant company, but my email was rejected... The application graphics indicate changes to Kathrein et al, but with no reference to whether mobile and/or DTT networks. It would be interesting to follow up other planning applications relating to unspecified engineering work on so many DTT transmitters. There might be clues as to the networks involved.
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Chris.SE11:18 PM
michael:
I suspect that StevensOnln1 is correct with his thoughts on this. I can't say I'd given the whole matter any detailed thought or given time to delve deeper into it all.
Your LA and a Planning App reference would have been handy, I'm afraid I have too many other things to do instead of wading through 100s of Planning Apps for umpteen LAs just to see if I could find one for a mast.
I can only assume that an App is needed if there is some physical change to the mast (rather than a straight forward one for one substitution) or the mast is in an AONB, Conservation area or SSSI etc.
If your reference to Kathrein is the company Kathrein Digital Systems GmbH, then I think it much more likely that it will be the Mobile cells rather than DTT as I would have thought that Arqiva would submit an App if it was for DTT and one was required!
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Friday, 14 June 2024
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Jacky9:48 AM
When will the engineering works be finished at Caradon Hill it's been months of missing Channels
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StevensOnln111:47 AM
Jacky: Unfortunately Arqiva (who operate the transmitter) don't give any details of what the engineering work involves or how long it is expected to last.
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Chris.SE4:42 PM
Jacky:
If you provide a full postcode we can check your predicted reception and may be able to advise on ways to improve it or whether you may be suffering some sort of interference.
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Thursday, 3 October 2024
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Monday, 7 October 2024
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Monday, 14 October 2024
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