Full Freeview on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter which serves 570,000 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 Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) mast?
BILSDALE transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Aug 13:41. . 
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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)
Which Freeview channels does the Bilsdale 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 Bilsdale transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 74km north-northwest (336°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 75km north-northwest (333°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border
Are there any self-help relays?
| Garsdale (pin Fold) | Transposer | 63 homes (coverage together with SH34) | |
| Hawsker Bottom | Active deflector | 150 caravans | |
| Langthwaite | Active deflector | 30 homes |
How will the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 13 Nov 2019 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | W T | |||||
| C21 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C23 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C24 | _local | D3+4 | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C27 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C29 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C37 | com8 | ||||||||
| C40 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C43 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C46 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com7 | (-14.3dB) 18.5kW | |
| com8 | (-14.4dB) 18.1kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-19.2dB) 6kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-20.2dB) 4.8kW | |
| Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW |
Local transmitter maps
Bilsdale Freeview Bilsdale DAB Bilsdale TV region BBC North East and Cumbria Tyne TeesWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bilsdale transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSunday, 18 December 2022
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4wd9:54 AM
They have been rather poor at updating that site it was previously reported that if all went well it could be live by the end of this year (2022) but first half of next year is about all we might assume.
The new mast is already lit at night not sure how much is still to do with the major building.
The temporary masts are only serving larger towns and and have no hope whatsoever of reaching the dales located towards the coast which the full sized mast covered - so no point trying.
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Chris.SE6:33 PM
4wd:
So, for example the Loftus relay only serves a large town? I don't think so!
There's a few coastal locations that can get good signals from Pontop Pike.
Some places a bit further inland could be quite variable.
But as you haven't given a postcode or even nearby location, it's pointless trying to comment further.
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Sunday, 25 December 2022
Transmitter engineering
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5:09 AM
BILSDALE transmitter - Freeview: Off air due to a fire. Go to our Works and Warnings section for more information. from 10 Aug 13:26. . DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Aug 13:41. . [BBC]
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Monday, 2 January 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
BILSDALE transmitter - Freeview: Off air due to a fire. Go to our Works and Warnings section for more information. from 10 Aug 13:26. . DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Aug 13:41. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
BILSDALE transmitter - Freeview: Off air due to a fire. Go to our Works and Warnings section for more information. from 10 Aug 13:26. . DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Aug 13:41. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:08 AM
5:08 AM
BILSDALE transmitter - Freeview: Off air due to a fire. Go to our Works and Warnings section for more information. from 10 Aug 13:26. . DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Aug 13:41. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Transmission went off just after midnight and has not come back on
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Chris.SE1:47 AM
June Thomas:
The report immediately prior to your post will be confusing because it actually refers to the original main transmitter mast.
The current temporary Bilsdale Tower is seperate.
Freeview are reporting "There are currently live outages in your area."
And the BBC have reported -
From 12:06am on 11th Jan 2023 BBC A Off the air due to essential engineering
It's possible that more multiplexes other than the BBCA multiplex (the main BBC SD channels) may be off-air depending on the nature of the engineering. This is obviously urgent unplanned engineering and I would expect signals to return as soon as they can complete the work. Do NOT retune, it will most likely just clear your correct tuning and you'll have to repeat it then when signals are back -and you won't be certain when that'll be!
If you have a smart TV and a reasonable internet connection, try the streaming services. A lot give the ability to watch live TV as well as on-demand programmes.
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Chris.SE2:24 PM
June Thomas:
Just for the record, the BBC reported it was back on air at 12:45am on 11th.
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Monday, 16 January 2023
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4wd10:54 PM
Chris.SE:
Well there is no coverage from temporary masts in plenty of rural areas away from towns, and there certainly isn't any here so not sure why I need to explain all that when the question is about when the rebuilt full size one might be live.
If nobody knows or they won't say then that's the answer isn't it.
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