Full Freeview on the Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 37,000 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 Huntshaw Cross (Devon, 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 Huntshaw Cross (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 Huntshaw Cross 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 Huntshaw Cross (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 Huntshaw Cross transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 66km south (184°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 66km south (176°)
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?
| Nth Molton | Transposer | 18 km E Barnstaple | 30 homes |
How will the Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1968-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 19 Jun 2019 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | W T | ||
| C11 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C30 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C31 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C37 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | -BBCB | -BBCB | -BBCB | |||
| C56tv_off | +ArqB | +ArqB | +ArqB | ||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C67 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 1 Jul 09 and 29 Jul 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 | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 4kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-17dB) 2kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Huntshaw Cross transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldTuesday, 12 May 2015
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MikeB7:27 PM
Roy Rees: If your getting a loss of signal at the same time every night, that indicates a problem close to home - perhaps local interference from a thermostat, etc. These days a local/national broadcast should have any real break at all.
search for 'single source interference' on this site.
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Wednesday, 10 June 2015
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Vivien Barker11:03 AM
For the past two days, i.e. 8th June and 9th June, my TV picture on ITV3, Freeview 10, has been badly breaking up. Is there any reason for this please?
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Dave Lindsay
1:07 PM
1:07 PM
Vivien Barker: While Digital UK doesn't say there are engineering works at Huntshaw Cross, Radio & TV Information Service (which only covers the BBC) reports weak signal for a period yesterday afternoon, so they could be doing something.
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michael5:51 PM
There has been an unusual frequency of drop-outs and weaker signal quality froom Huntshaw Cross recently. This could be due to engineering works and/or co-channel inteference from other transmitters during periods of high atmospheric pressure.
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Dave Lindsay
7:41 PM
7:41 PM
michael: Ah, yes.
COM4 and COM5 are co-channel with multiplexes from Redruth and Mendip. COM6 is co-channel with a multiplex from Mendip.
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Tuesday, 8 September 2015
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Froggy12:02 AM
Does anyone know when the maintenance work finishes on the transmitter? I live just outside Barnstaple in Devon, and I have been left with TV signal for over a week now!
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michael7:13 PM
I have been receiving Huntshaw Cross as normally.
There might have been occasional brief outages
or reduced power, but none which affected my
reception.
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Friday, 25 September 2015
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michael6:39 PM
Could this possibly mean that transmitter power will be *substantially* increased in the near future ?
No DAB signal from HX gets through here yet !
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Thursday, 22 October 2015
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michael 8:00 PM
Is there any way to block these infuriating "transmitter engineering" postings? They convey zero information and maxi annoyance. Overall the "improved" format of ukfreetv postings delivers far less useful information than the former format. Very sad as ukfreetv used to be one of the most useful of its genre.
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Friday, 23 October 2015
michael : I'm not sure what you mean by "far less useful information than the former format" as they have 100% the same information in them. Can you please explain what you think is missing?
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