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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Caradon Hill (Cornwall, 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)
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 southeast (124°)
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 TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caradon Hill transmitter area
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Monday, 28 April 2014
Transmitter engineering
10:55 AM
10:55 AM
CARADON HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:25 on 24 Apr to 12:26 on 24 Apr, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:26 on 24 Apr to 14:27 on 24 Apr. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Transmitter engineering
12:43 PM
12:43 PM
CARADON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:40 on 23 Apr. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
CARADON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:40 today to 13:37 today. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Transmitter engineering
1:28 AM
1:28 AM
CARADON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:40 yesterday to 13:37 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 1 May 2014
Transmitter engineering
1:30 AM
1:30 AM
CARADON HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:40 on 29 Apr to 13:37 on 29 Apr. [BBC]
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Saturday, 31 May 2014
Digital UK now saying that COM7 will come online on 10th June. for caradon hill
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M
michael11:13 PM
Tim, could you kindly provide a link to the original source of the notification of COM7 from the Caradon mast. Thus far I find no test transmissions on ch 31.
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michael: Coverage Checker - Detailed View
hope this helps. this is the page.
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Michael : oh, and my YouView box is picking up the signal from Caradon Hill at the moment.
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Sunday, 1 June 2014
M
michael8:39 PM
Tim, Many thanks! I didn't think of the coverage checker :-) And I had not noticed that COM 7 is HD. So my lowly SD box would be blind. But I do have a vintage HD box in the loft, so I will have to borrow a duster from the XYL . . . I may not get a signal from Caradon at 50+ miles, but the checker sugests Wenvoe, so I will have to hoist a dedicated log and possibly dynamite the headland in the way... Before I do that, I had better check whether the programmes available on COM 7 merit the effort...
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