Full Freeview on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 97,000 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 Redruth (Cornwall, England) mast?
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Screen may go black 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 Redruth (Cornwall, 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 Redruth 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 Redruth (Cornwall, 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 Redruth transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 82km east-northeast (78°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 89km east (79°)
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?
| Coverack | Transposer | 15 km S Falmouth | 70 homes |
How will the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 1 May 2019 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C48 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqB | |||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
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 Jul 09 and 5 Aug 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 | |
| Analogue 5 | (-15.2dB) 3kW | |
| Mux D* | (-16.6dB) 2.2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-18dB) 1.6kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Redruth transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldFriday, 17 August 2018
MikeP
10:34 AM
10:34 AM
tERRY rEED:
Com7 and Com8 are temporary services from 30 main transmitters only. At some point in the future it is likely they will be turned off and probably replaced with services on more transmitters when it is viable to convert all of them to use DVB-T2 encoding, which is capable of carrying more data/channels. But that will require everyone to have equipment that can receive and decode DVB-T2 encoded signals. Current SD-only equipment cannot decode the DVB-T2 signals, on those that are Freeview HD capable can do that.
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Wednesday, 26 September 2018
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Charvey7:20 PM
Channels 1,2 3,4,17,20 etc all work for a few minutes the NO SIGNAL . Has been for most of today
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Thursday, 27 September 2018
MikeP
10:29 AM
10:29 AM
Charvey:
There has been engineering work at the Redruth transmitter. DO NOT RETUNE.
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Lisa c. 7:17 PM
Had intermittent signal yesterday Wednesday 26th and nothing again this evening, Thursday 27th sept aerial situated pin roof outside facing Redruth, any updates much appreciated.
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Friday, 28 September 2018
MikeP
2:43 PM
2:43 PM
Lisa C:
Please check all your aerial connections and cables. If there are coaxial plugs/sockets then unplug those and then refit them. That will clear any corrosion/oxidation that is know to cause problems such as you report.
DO NOT RETUNE.
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Wednesday, 24 October 2018
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Sally-Anne Martin5:03 PM
We had no signal on any channels at all last night and this afternoon approximately half do not work,,, Very frustrating. It's not just us, many of our neighbours are experiencing the same thing.
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Thursday, 25 October 2018
MikeP
11:11 AM
11:11 AM
Sally-Anne Martin:
DO NOT RETUNE your TV as it is not a fault in the TV nor the transmitter. The current weather patterns appear to be affecting many viewers due to the high pressure systems. There is nothing anyone can do about that as it is a perfectly natural phenomenon.
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Saturday, 27 October 2018
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Ken Woodcock9:00 PM
Are there any plans for the Redruth transmitter to ever have the extended HD channels or are we essentially stuck with what we have now?
Thanks
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Sunday, 28 October 2018
MikeP
10:17 AM
10:17 AM
Ken Woodcock:
There are no published plans to extend the services carried on the temporary multiplexes of COM7 and COM8. These are carried on 30 main transmitters only and are expected to cease at around 2022 when it is hoped that more multiplexes will be transmitted using DVB-T2 encoding that can carry more channels.
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Wednesday, 14 November 2018
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Roger Curnow7:12 PM
Penzance
Transmitter engineering: 14th November 2018
Getting a NO SIGNAL message on Freeview/Freesat and cutting out intermittantly.
Very annoying.
Gulval,
Penzance
Cornwall
TR18 3DE
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