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 withheldThursday, 9 April 2020
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Chris.SE4:29 AM
It should be noted that the Redruth transmitter is listed for Planned Engineering this week with "Possible service interruptions"
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Friday, 31 July 2020
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J. KENYON4:22 PM
Saturday 30 July 2020 BBC 1 & 2 showing bad or no signal. After retuning, channel 1& 2 were missing from Channel list. ie list starts at 3 which is ITV.
Checked with next door but one neighbour who had identical fault which occurred same day on 30 July 2020. Aerial is 6 months old and we have had no problems since it was fitted .
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Chris.SE10:36 PM
J. KENYON:
I take it you mean yesterday, Thursday 30th.
There is some variable intermittent "tropospheric ducting" around at present - https://www.bbc.co.uk/rec….jpg affecting different areas at different times & not all channels are necessarily affected at the same time or at all.
It was particularly strong yesterday over parts of Cornwall, Devon and the South Coast.
Retuning when you have no signal (for whatever reason) is generally a bad idea as it just clears correct tuning and may indeed pick up signals from distant transmitters which disappear again as conditions change.
You'll need to retune again as conditions stabilise, unfortunately you may have to try several times.
(There are no reported transmitter faults and it's not listed for Planned Engineering).
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Monday, 28 September 2020
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Royston Dower7:05 PM
Hi, I have very poor reception on channel 33 multiplex from the Redruth transmitter, all the other multiplexes are fine all approx the same with at least 90% signal strength and near 100% signal quality,
Any ideas would be gratefully received
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Tuesday, 29 September 2020
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Chris.SE2:09 AM
Royston Dower:
There doesn't appear to be any currently listed faults for the Redruth transmitter although there was one on the 24th where the transmitter was briefly off air due to a fault in the early hours.
There has been some "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
It's been affecting various parts of the UK at different times and there is currently still some that may be affecting reception in parts of mainly the south of the UK. It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It doesn't necessarily affect all multiplexes at the same time or at all. At times it can wipe out your reception.
You are not advised to retune when you have lost signals or they are badly pixellated as this usually just clears correct tuning and you have to repeat a retune when signals are stable. You may have to repeat a retune several times if signals are still disrupted.
If you have continuing problems please post back with more detail and a full postcode so that we can look at predicted reception at your location.
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Saturday, 8 May 2021
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Ed Tozer7:48 AM
08:30 8 May 2021 ALL BBC channels and ALL HD missing . Al others OK!!
Explain please
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Chris.SE8:54 AM
Ed Tozer:
There doesn't seem to be any faults currently listed by Freeview or the BBC for the Redruth transmitter, nor is it currently listed for Planned Engineering. It's unlikely that a power outage would cause loss of just BBC and HD channels. Have the channels returned?
It would be worth checking that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction and that your downlead looks undamaged (especially if it is old). Also check all your coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads are a common problem, try swapping/changing them. See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for the other multiplexes (groups of channels) shown in your TV's tuning section.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
Have you changed anything in your setup at all?
Make sure you don't have any HDMI leads near unscreened/poorly screened flyleads/aerial leads as HDMI has been known to cause interference.
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Friday, 22 October 2021
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P A PALMER3:52 PM
It would be so Nice to be able to receive channel 51 with Christmas so near, i along with many others living in st, Ives carbis bay with children would welcome it, the
nearest receiver is only down the road in redruth, and 61 would be welcome the rest of the year.
licence payer and it cost's the same as the rest of the country is
paying for all the channels on Freeview
Cornwall
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Chris.SE9:57 PM
P A PALMER:
I'm sorry you are incorrect - "licence payer and it cost's the same as the rest of the country is
paying for all the channels on Freeview "
The lLcence fee does NOT pay for all the channels on Freeview, it is your permission to watch LIVE tv whether it be on Freeview, Freesat, Sky or any online player or TV service whilst you are in the UK.
The Licence fee money only funds the BBC, all the other channels are commercial - that is - the operators make commercial decisions about what is commercially viable, what they have to pay in fees for the material they transmit, the fees for transmission of their signals to transmitters and fees for the multiplexes and transmitters that are used (note the situation with the PSB channels is more complex).
The fees for being carried on a given multiplex will depend on the multiplex operator and the specific multiplex and the bandwidth being used.
The multiplex operators have to make commercial decisions about how viable a given commercial multiplex might be on a particular transmitter as well as the capital cost of the equipment invovled (assuming there are available frequencies that won't interfere with frequencies used elsewhere etc) does the transmitter serve a large enough number of households that the advertising returns would be sufficient etc etc.
Sony who previously owned these (now "Great") channels made a commercial decision to move most of them to Local multiplexes in 2019 because of lower costs.
There is simply not enough frequencies available (never mind commercial viability) for Local multiplexes to be provided on all but the small limited number of main transmitters serving large urban centres of population, and those that do are lower power and beamed towards those centres of population.
As I hope you can now see it is not a simple straightforward matter. However there is a simple straightforward solution, the channel is available on Freesat. A lot of modern TVs have built-in satellite tuners (check yours), so all you need to add is a dish and LNB to receive Freesat.
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Wednesday, 24 November 2021
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Jean7:41 PM
Why can't I get Channel 49 Great TV in the Redruth Area?
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