Full Freeview on the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 120,000 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 Stockland Hill (Devon, England) mast?
STOCKLAND HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 21 Nov 08:03 until 21 Nov 10:02. . 
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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 Stockland Hill (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 Stockland 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)
The Stockland Hill (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 Stockland Hill transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 86km west-southwest (239°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 80km southwest (236°)
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?
| Bickleigh | Transposer | 15 km N Exeter | 25 homes |
| Freshwater C/p | Active deflector | 2 km SE Bridport, Dorset | 250 homes (caravans) |
| Ladram Bay | Transposer | 15 km SE Exeter | 400 homes (caravans) |
How will the Stockland Hill (Devon, 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 | ||||
| C9 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C25 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 6 May 09 and 20 May 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 25kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 2.5kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Stockland Hill transmitter area
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015
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Matthew Jackson2:18 PM
Hello,
Living in Taunton, Somerset, we are only a short distance to the Devon border, yet get news for Bristol and even Wiltshire which is over 80 miles away!
how come our region doesn't work off the stockland hill transmitter? can I retune my freeview to pick this up?
Thanks
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Dave Lindsay
5:49 PM
5:49 PM
Matthew Jackson: The editorial regions of both BBC South West and ITV West Country (from Stockland Hill) don't cover Taunton.
BBC NEWS | UK | Changing UK: Map of BBC TV regions
ITV Media :: Why ITV
You are, of course, free to tune to any transmitter that's available to you. If you wish to tune to Stockland Hill, assuming it's available at your location, then you may require a different aerial and will certainly require it reorientating in order to give the best possible reception.
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Tuesday, 19 May 2015
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A Peapell11:09 PM
Yeovil
Her we go again Signal has been fine all winter and as soon as we get to May it becomes useless until about October . We get freview from both Stockland Hill and Mendip Transmitters The BBC signal has now droppped to below 50% and is very erratic and becomes unwatchable and unrecordable. I have a Freview HD TV and Freeview ordinary recorder and both are suffering the same. The HD channels are fine at 100% signal but standard BBC is below 50%. Something outside of my property has to be causing this new yearly event which started in 2014 and has returned again now things are warming up. There is something wrong with the transmissions in the Yeovil area. BA21 4PH
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A's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Dave Lindsay
9:50 AM
9:50 AM
A Peapell: Which PSB1 multiplex (BBC standard definition TV) does this relate to (from which transmitter)?
If you have two aerials combined into one feed cable then you could potentially have had an issue with reception of PSB1 from Mendip from 27/03/13 onwards, depending on where your diplexer splits. The diplexer is the thing that combines the two feeds and for each aerial filters out channels that the other aerial doesn't filter.
If your diplexer splits at C51 then from the date above PSB1 and COM4 (ITV3 etc) from Mendip moved downwards to C49 and C48 respectively, meaning that you would then be using your Stockland Hill aerial to receive them which could account for variable reception.
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Sunday, 24 May 2015
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A Peapell2:50 AM
Dave Lindsay:
Channel 22 and 26 are the problem ones I have had to get an HD recorder as can't record the standard channels as signal strength goes from zero to 80 all the time as well as quality and drops out or pixelates
Something else has to be interfering as canel 49 and 54 are OK from Mendip transmitter, all systems have been retuned but still doing it - 4G no doubt!!
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Dave Lindsay
12:06 PM
12:06 PM
A Peapell: Well then, if it's 4G interference, then at800 are the people to call:
Contact us | Advice or general enquiries | at800
They have been set-up by the mobile operators and tasked with alleviating TV interference issues.
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Wednesday, 27 May 2015
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A Peapell1:55 AM
Dave Lindsay:
I am only guessing I have no idea, and am looking for someone to tell me and my neighbours why we are getting rubish reception for the last 2 years as soon as the weateher warms up until it cools down again??!! Nothing else has changed in this period and it is several properties with this lack of reception. Tonight it was going from zero to 80 in stength/ quality within 15 seconds and up and down like a Yoyo all across BBC especially.
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Dave Lindsay
11:22 AM
11:22 AM
A Peapell: If interference from 4G signals is suspected then the course of action should be to call at800 as this will ascertain whether it could be the case or not. They will do a look-up based on postcode and give an immediate answer.
As the issue occurs during the warmer part of the year and it affects a number of properties then I would suggest it's likely to be caused by vegetation, for which there is nothing you can do, other than perhaps raising the height of your aerial.
Looking at Streetview, Folly Fields is on a slope and I can see trees in the way in the direction of Stockland Hill.
Now to look further afield. Here is a terrain plot from your location to the Stockland Hill transmitter:
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
You may have clear line-of-sight at 23 miles. However, there are two peaks around 10 to 11 miles out which, although they don't obstruct line-of-sight, they are within the first Fresnel zone. The first Fresnel zone is shown on the plot and is between the straight yellow line and the purple one.
Anything which changes in the zone could potentially change the reception. Clicking a point on the plot takes one to a map indicating the point. These points are Warren Hill and St Rayn Hill, adjacent to the A30 as it runs between Crewkerne and Chard. There are trees on the former.
Signals travel in straight lines. When a signal passes through an object it gets diffracted, like how water diffracts light. Therefore if the object that is diffracting changes, the degree of diffraction may change. This could the cause of your difficulty.
Different frequencies travel differently as they are affected in different ways and to different degrees. The only way they would all travel exactly the same and therefore arrive at the receiving location exactly the same (all good or all iffy) is if there were absolutely nothing around, no objects, no ground and no air (a vacuum). As soon as you introduce these things you bring in variables whose effect varies by frequency.
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Monday, 15 June 2015
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J kidley7:23 PM
Having similar problem to Mrs Shepherd in Yeovil. All working fine until Friday evening, then lost channels on PSB2 D3+4. Came back briefly Saturday morning bt went off again within 10 mins. If there are no problems with the transmitter can it be atmospherics? The signal where we are in Newton Abbot has never been great but all channels where watchable previously with occational stuttering. We have a boosted attic aerial and I have checked connections several times. This is very frustrating as there seems to be no reason for the loss of channels.
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Tuesday, 1 September 2015
K
Kevin Porteous 11:14 PM
When will Stockland hill be broadcasting the extended hd channels?
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