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 withheldWednesday, 26 September 2012
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Thomas7:26 AM
Leeds
Here in Leeds I can get a decent signal on the BBCA Mux, but none of the other muxes are of a good enough quality for the TV to pick up. Guess no ITV1 Tyne Tees for me.
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Robert Hill
9:48 AM
9:48 AM
Here in Bramham I can receive all multiplexes with a 4 element indoor aerial .The aerial is in a down stairs window.The 100kw muxes are Quality 100% Signal around 75% . 50kw Quality 100% Signal app 60%.
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Thomas: The DUK predictor suggests for you that BBCA and BBCB will be "variable" but gives nothing for D3&4. I wonder if this is due to the way in which the signal disperses, or whether it is due to interference from another transmitter. Waltham would seem the only likely candidate as it uses C29 but not C26. This could perhaps be a possibility if your aerial points away from Bilsdale and to Emley Moor.
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Darren Brown7:36 PM
Gateshead
cant receive Dave on new channel no 12.
Bilsdale Transmitter.
NE10 8JP.
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Darren Brown: Try a manual tune on UHF channel 40 if your receiver allows.
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Darren Brown8:08 PM
Darren Brown:
Dave Lindsay: I Have tried a manual retune on ch40 and it is only picking up channels I already have. I have just checked again and can't receive any channels on COM 5 ArqA
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Darren Brown: Have you had your Group A aerial replaced with a wideband or Group K one?
The Commercial (COM) channels from Bilsdale are out of the former analogue group.
If your aerial hasn't been replaced, then it may be a Group A one which means that it is most sensitive at frequencies within the bottom third of the band. Prior to switchover all analogue channels were in Group A and all except Mux D which carried Film4 and Yesterday were within Group A.
The six channels are:
PSB1 | BBC One | C26
PSB2 | ITV1 | C29
PSB3 | BBC One HD | C23
COM4 | ITV3 | C43
COM5 | Pick TV | C46
COM6 | Dave | C40
Note that the COMs are now in the 40s which is above Group A. Mux D was formerly on C42 at much lower power.
A Group K aerial will be best for Bilsdale now:
Bilsdale TV Transmitter
Group K covers Group A and Group B; Group B being the middle third of the band, where the COMs are.
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Darren Brown8:52 PM
Darren Brown:
Dave Lindsay: Cheers Dave. Thanks for your help mate. Will let you know how I get on.
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Darren Brown9:01 PM
Dave Lindsay: Sorry forgot to mention, I havent changed my aerial but will do.
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Thursday, 27 September 2012
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Alan12:34 PM
Stockton-on-tees
Since the switch over my PVR keeps loosing the channels on Com 5. A manual or automatic retune finds them ok but they drop out at random times or if the PVR goes into standby. The digital tv is fine and the digi box on an old tv is also fine....we have a signal booster on because prior to the switch over we had problems with channel drop out and picture break up and the booster resolved it. Although pick tv did remain troublesome on the pvr. Post Code TS17 0SH. Stockton on Tees.
I guess this is an obvious question but does this seem like a PVR fault? and if so why only certain channels and not all of them? Is it possible we may no longer need the booster on since the increase in power output and could this be the problem? I need to get this working because the wife likes Star Trek and likes to watch it after working late....
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