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51.198,-4.138 or 51°11'54"N 4°8'18"W

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Over the next week Ilfracombe relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio.

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The symbol shows the location of the Ilfracombe (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 3,600 homes.

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Ilfracombe AM/FM

Huntshaw Cross region

BBC South West

West Country

Radiation patterns

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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.

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Ilfracombe transmitter Freeview broadcasts

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.

Mux	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical -3dB	C54 (738.0MHz)	251m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	56W
	1 BBC One South West, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 12 others
PSB2 D3+4	vertical max	C49 (698.0MHz)	251m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	112W
	3 ITV (West Country), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (West Country),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical -3dB	C58- (769.8MHz)	251m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	56W
	101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, plus 1 others 232 The Space,

Looking for these 26 channels?

The Ilfracombe (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.

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.

Regional news from the Ilfracombe transmitter

BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 90km south
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.

ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 90km south
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.

Self-help relays

Lee

Transposer

4 km W Ilfracombe

65 homes

How the transmission frequencies change over time

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	22/5/13-	2013-18
	aerial group	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E
700	C49					D3+4	D3+4
	C54	C4	C4	C4	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C58	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1	-BBCB	-BBCB	-BBCB
800	C61	ITV	ITV	ITV	D3+4
	C64	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2

orange background for multiplexes names more

green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more

Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 1st July and 29th July 2009.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4	280W
D3+4	(-4dB) 112W
BBCA, BBCB	(-7dB) 56W

History of Channel 3 in the Huntshaw Cross transmitter area

Apr 1961-Dec 1981	Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Dec 2014	Westcountry Television

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Ilfracombe was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

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Transmitter engineering
Thursday 4 April 2013 1:32PM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:16 today to 12:24 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 12:16 today to 12:24 today. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Friday 5 April 2013 4:33AM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:16 yesterday to 12:24 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 12:16 yesterday to 12:24 yesterday. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Saturday 6 April 2013 4:32AM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:16 on 04 Apr to 12:24 on 04 Apr, HD Digital TV Off Air from 12:16 on 04 Apr to 12:24 on 04 Apr. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 24 April 2013 1:31PM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:16 today to 11:21 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:48 today to 12:01 today. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Thursday 25 April 2013 4:32AM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:16 yesterday to 11:21 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:48 yesterday to 12:01 yesterday. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Friday 26 April 2013 4:32AM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:16 on 24 Apr to 11:21 on 24 Apr, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:48 on 24 Apr to 12:01 on 24 Apr. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Monday 20 May 2013 10:31AM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Over the next week Ilfracombe relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 22 May 2013 4:32AM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:36 today. [BBC] Over the next week Ilfracombe relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 22 May 2013 7:34AM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:36 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:36 today to 02:36 today. [BBC] Over the next week Ilfracombe relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 22 May 2013 10:31AM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:36 today to 02:36 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:36 today. [BBC] Over the next week Ilfracombe relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 22 May 2013 1:31PM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:36 today to 09:49 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:36 today to 02:36 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:21 today. [BBC] Over the next week Ilfracombe relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 22 May 2013 3:09PM

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Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 22 May 2013 4:32PM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:36 today to 02:36 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:36 today to 09:49 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:21 today. [BBC] Over the next week Ilfracombe relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 22 May 2013 7:31PM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:36 today to 02:36 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:36 today to 09:49 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:21 today to 09:49 today. [BBC] Over the next week Ilfracombe relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Transmitter engineering
Thursday 23 May 2013 4:32AM

ILFRACOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:36 yesterday to 02:36 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:36 yesterday to 09:49 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:21 yesterday to 09:49 yesterday. [BBC] Over the next week Ilfracombe relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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