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The symbol shows the location of the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 120,000 homes.

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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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What do the colours on the map mean?

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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Which Freeview channels does the Stockland Hill transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxAerial positionFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 horizontal max
C26 (514.0MHz)463m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		50,000W
Channel icons
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 BBC Red Button 1, plus 12 others

PSB2
D3+4
 horizontal max
C23+ (490.2MHz)463m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		50,000W
Channel icons
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
 horizontal max
C29 (538.0MHz)463m256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4		50,000W
Channel icons
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, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 horizontal -3dB
C25- (505.8MHz)463m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		25,000W
Channel icons
10 ITV 3, 20 G.O.L.D. (not free), 25 Dave ja vu, 26 Home (not free), 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5*, 31 5USA, 34 ESPN UK (not free), 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 21 others

COM5
ArqA
 horizontal -3dB
C22- (481.8MHz)463m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		25,000W
Channel icons
11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, 302 BBC Red Button 2, plus 9 others

COM6
ArqB
 horizontal -3dB
C28- (529.8MHz)463m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		25,000W
Channel icons
15 Film 4, 18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 21 VIVA, 24 ITV 4, 41 Sky Sports 1 (not free), 42 Sky Sports 2 (not free), 47 4seven, 83 Al Jazeera English, 85 RT English , plus 22 others



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
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.

ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 80km southwest
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?

BickleighTransposer15 km N Exeter25 homes
Freshwater C/pActive deflector2 km SE Bridport, Dorset250 homes (caravans)
Ladram BayTransposer15 km SE Exeter400 homes (caravans)

How will the Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

years1961~851984-971997-981998-20092009-132013-182013-18
aerial groupVHFA KA KA KA KA KA K
C9ITV
C22-1-ArqA-ArqA-ArqA
C23ITVITVITV+D3+4+D3+4+D3+4
C25-A-SDN-SDN-SDN
C26BBC2BBC2BBC2BBCABBCABBCA
C28-2-ArqB-ArqB-ArqB
C29C4C4C4BBCBBBCBBBCB
C30+C
600C32-B
C33BBC1BBC1BBC1
C34+D

orange background for multiplexes names moregreen background for transmission frequencieslilac background for power levels in watts800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more600MHz 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 6th May and 20th May 2009.

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

Apr 1961-Dec 1981Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Westcountry Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
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Richard Bull
Friday 2 September 2011 9:47PM Lyme Regis
Suddenly there is no signal on the ITV group - Channel 23. Nothing else has changed, it used to be perfect. All other channels as nirmal - good signal strength. I've re-tuned manually and automsaticaslly several time to no avail. This lost of Channel 23 signal has continued for days now. What to do?
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Cain
Wednesday 14 September 2011 11:41PM Exeter
hey people I live in postcode EX4 4BH and have got a high gain indoor aerial in my loft conversion room, but am only able to get the signal from the Exeter St Thomas transmitter, even though I am in the Stockland Hill range easily. Any ideas on how to get the Stockland signal? Have tried manually tuning but cannot get it to find any channels other than the St Thomas ones. Any help would be much appreciated! Thankyouuu!
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Mike Dimmick
Thursday 15 September 2011 12:14AM
Cain: Aerials are designed to pick up what's in front of them and not what's to the side or behind. They are also polarized - the radio waves either bounce side-to-side or up-and-down, and the aerial has to go the right way. Finally, aerials perform better if designed for a limited range of frequencies, so it should be the correct group for the transmitter.

Exeter St Thomas is south-west while Stockland Hill is north-east. Exeter St Thomas uses vertical polarization - elements going up-and-down - while Stockland Hill is horizontal. Exeter St Thomas used group B frequencies before and after switchover, while Stockland Hill uses Group A. So there are probably three reasons why your aerial isn't picking up anything useful from Stockland Hill!

See www.aerialsandtv.com link icon Loft and indoor aerial installations for TV, FM and DAB and wrightsaerials.tv link icon http://wrightsaerials.tv/….pdf for information about siting loft aerials.
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Richard Sangster
Tuesday 20 September 2011 6:58PM
When it rains i loss the channels on COM4,5&6. Is this because of the low rating and if so when will this be fixed?
R. Sangster
Briantist
Wednesday 21 September 2011 8:58AM
Richard Sangster: The commercial multiplexes will increase in power next year.

If you have problems when it rains, this is because there is water getting into your aerial cable, and you should probably have it replaced.
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Peter Dolman
Thursday 6 October 2011 7:46PM
Hello Brian

I'm based in the Mendip area (AV technical) and often come across bleed from Wenvoe and Stockland Hill. I was looking at the Mux powers shown for Stockland Hill (3@50kW and 3@10kW). Will their final values all be 50kW?

Kind regards

Peter Dolman
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Jim F
Saturday 8 October 2011 1:21PM
Peter Dolman: Final power for the COM MUXs will be 25kW. Power-up is scheduled for 18th April next year.
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Mark Fletcher
Wednesday 19 October 2011 3:30AM Halifax
A possible reason for the present 10kw low powered commercial mux's on the Stockland Hill transmitter,ArqA on ch 22,SDN on ch 25 and ArqB on ch 28 is because it will clash with the neighbouring high powered 100kw Caradon Hill transmitter mux's on ch 22 (BBCB),ch 25 (D3+4) and ch 28 (BBCA).Once power to the understrength 10 kw mux's at Stockland Hill is increased,unless these affected mux's are relocated to other frequencies,what i mentioned earlier about the clashing of frequencies with Caradon Hill (ch's 22,25,28) could become reality.
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Mike Dimmick
Wednesday 19 October 2011 4:17PM
Mark Fletcher: Caradon Hill doesn't use those frequencies, but Rowridge and Crystal Palace will do.
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Mark Fletcher
Wednesday 19 October 2011 6:03PM Halifax
Mike Dimmick.If as you state Caradon Hill does not use the frequencies which i mentioned in my earlier post,then the Caradon Hill page must be incorrect then.For the Caradon Hill page it states SDN ch21+,BBCB ch22+,ArqA ch24-,D3+4 ch25+,ArqB ch27-,BBCA ch28+ (local ch30,com7 ch31,com9 ch36,com8 ch37 at a future date !).If these are wrong it requires updating with the correct information.Although one thing which is correct,Caradon Hill is and will remain (barring future frequency changes) a group A aerialed horizontally polarised transmitter and as such only group A aerials (or group K alternative) should be fitted instead of group W wideband aerials on group A only masts.On the Stockland Hill page it states ArqA ch22-,D3+4 ch23+,SDN ch25-,BBCA ch26+,ArqB ch28-,BBCB ch29+ (com7 ch32,com9 ch 36,com8 ch37 at a future date !,no local mux ?).Also if this is wrong it too requires updating with the correct info.Stockland Hill like Caradon Hill is also a group A areialed horizontally polarised mast.If both these pages are correct then both Caradon Hill and Stockland Hill are both broadcasting on frequencies 22,25,28,so the above affected frequencies are clashing as such.If i am wrong then i apologise,but for once i am sure that i am right this time !
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Mike Dimmick
Wednesday 19 October 2011 6:37PM
Mark Fletcher: Sorry, I managed to get Caradon Hill and Beacon Hill mixed up. Still, the reason for Stockland Hill's restriction is more to do with Crystal Palace low-power multiplexes than to do with Caradon Hill high-power.

Yes, there will be some interference between Stockland Hill commercial muxes and Caradon Hill PSBs. In general, though, the more rugged terrain means that there will be less of a clash than between Stockland Hill and Crystal Palace COMs.
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Mark Fletcher
Wednesday 19 October 2011 7:00PM Halifax
Mike Dimmick.No problem,Thanks for the reassurance on that point !
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Sandra Semple
Wednesday 26 October 2011 10:52PM
Why do I get iTV Wales on ITV plus when viewing regional programmes? Also I get the subtitles to adverts for English ads whilst getting thevWelsh adverts. A friend in Beer has the same problem. We have Humax Freeview recorders if that makes a difference.
Briantist
Thursday 27 October 2011 8:32AM
Sandra Semple: Please see ITV1+1, ITV1HD, BBC One HD regional services on Freeview | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice . Also see Digital Region Overlap | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

Can't be more specific as you have not provided a full postcode.
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David Meadows
Thursday 17 November 2011 4:39PM Yeovil
Have a roof aerial BA20 2BB

I have just bought a Humax HDR Fox T2. I decided to tune it in manually as described on Digitaluk. All was fine up to Channel 29 (HD) when it said no channels found. Looking at my channel list all was there but the HD channels. I reset the box and did an auto search and the HD channels appeared. What is going on? Are these HD channels from Stockland Hill? David Meadows
Dave Lindsay
Thursday 17 November 2011 8:15PM Doncaster
David Meadows: Digital UK Tradeview coverage predictor and Ofcom info says it is C29.

If you have a booster? If so, try removing it.
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Jim F
Friday 18 November 2011 9:03PM
David Meadows: The Humax HDRFOXT2 manual tuning menu has an entry for "Transmission", which you have to change to DVB-T2 to be able to decode the HD programmes. The standard definition programmes use the DVB-T setting.
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David Meadows
Thursday 24 November 2011 7:53PM Yeovil
Thanks for the comments. The problem was not changing to the DVB-T2 standard when searching for channel 29. Once I did that all was well. I cleared all the stored programs and retuned manually to avoid the other transmitters. I don't know where the HD channels that had automatically tuned in were coming from. They were a very weak signal, I think the menu said channel 64. Mendip is just over the hill,but I could never get an analogue signal from it. Thanks David
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Bill Llewellyn
Thursday 22 December 2011 8:00PM Colyton
I am in Colyton EX24 6JX. Picture fine but channel 33 (Wales tonight 1900 Thursday 22nd)) has Welsh pictures and sound but subtitles from Meridian.
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Tony Wilkinson
Tuesday 3 January 2012 10:44AM
Dear Sir, When the whole country is eventually using the digital signal-will the Stockland Transmitter signal be increased in power?, or is it at its maximum already.
With Thanks, Tony Wilkinson.
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KMJ,Derby
Tuesday 3 January 2012 11:14AM
Tony Wilkinson: Digital UK show the power for Stockland Hill currently to be 50kW on the PSB muxes and 25kW which is the full amount planned, despite documentation suggesting that the COM muxes would use 10kW until switchover at Crystal Palace.. It does however show a power increase for the COM muxes on 18th April 2012! The COM muxes at Rowridge commence high power working on the same frequencies as Stockland Hill on the same date.
Dave Lindsay
Tuesday 3 January 2012 11:21AM
Tony Wilkinson: I found the trade newsletter published by Digital UK at the time of swithcover in 2009:

www.digitaluk.co.uk link icon http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf

This says that the Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) multiplexes (BBC, ITV1, ITV2, C4, E4, More4, C5, HD services and a few others) are on their final full power of 50kW. This assumes that it is not on temporary low power now.

However, the commercial multiplexes (COMs) that carry ITV3, Pick TV, Dave, Yesterday and others are at 10kW until sometime this year and this is to protect services in France. Their final power will be lower than that of the PSBs at 25kW, so there will be some on the outer of the coverage area that will get the PSBs, but won't get the COMs. Some might be able to upgrade to a bigger (more sensitive) aerial so as it receive the COMs at 25kW.
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Cain
Wednesday 4 January 2012 11:04PM Exeter
Hi There! I'm in postcode EX4 4BH and we can only get signal from St Thomas transmitter, theres no way around that unfortunately, however if the power increases on Stockland Hill then will the other freeview channels become available on St Thomas? Also the ITV1HD I recieve is the London one and not Meridian Southampton, is there any way to ask for this to be changed? Many thanks
Cain
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KMJ,Derby
Wednesday 4 January 2012 11:52PM
Cain: When the power increases at Stockland Hill on 18th April 2012 it is possible that you might be able to receive the COM muxes direct from Stockland Hill using a good quality group "A" aerial mounted for horizontal polarisation. There are no plans by the mux owners to install additional equipment to add these muxes to the Exeter St Thomas relay due to the extra cost involved. With regard to the regions shown by ITV1 HD (and ITV1+1), this again is down to equipment costs, but no doubt in due course each region will eventually be converted to HD and also have the correct version of ITV1+1.
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Sara Rose
Thursday 12 January 2012 11:57AM Dawlish
Aerial positioned for Stockland Hill, Devon. Started having problems just before Christmas. Pixellation mild to severe and some channels dropping out completely. Replaced the booster splitter but still having problems mainly with multiplex 4. Help, please.
Dave Lindsay
Thursday 12 January 2012 12:06PM
Sara Rose: I responded to the posting you made yesterday:

www.ukfree.tv link icon Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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tony
Tuesday 17 January 2012 12:56PM Dawlish
I am in Dawlish. antennae on third floor near Gregory the Great church inland. I have ponted antennae towards Exmouth and get intermittent full freeview. would it be better to point towards Torquay ?

thanks

tony
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jb38
Tuesday 17 January 2012 4:12PM
tony: If by full you are meaning the commercial muxes as well then its likely that you are picking them up from Stockland Hill @ 23mls / 47 degrees.

You should try swinging your aerial around to Beacon Hill @ 11mls / 213 degrees as its also a full service transmitter, but its all total hit and miss though, and as you will obviously realise you are virtually next door to your local Dawlish PSB only transmitter.

To save yourself confusion, you should first of all scrub the channels you have already stored by carrying out a factory reset, then manually tune in Beacon Hill on the following:- Ch60 (BBC1) - Ch53 (ITV1) - Ch57 (HD) - Ch42 (SDN) - Ch45 (ArqA) - Ch51 (ArqB)
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Mark H
Thursday 19 January 2012 12:59PM Exeter
Hello.
I live in the EX4 1SB postcode and am having an awful time with my TV signal. We have an external aerial, close to 25 years old which as far as I know has never moved from the time it was installed. We can't be more than a mile or so from the St Thomas transmitter and being as high up as we are I don't think line of sight is a problem. We can get some channels perfectly fine, like BBC1/2 or ITV1. Anything more exotic, like Dave or Film4, is either not found in a scan or is completely unwatchable when it is. I'm really just looking for some advice. Should I be trying to realign my aerial? Or even looking to replace it?
While I am quite technically minded, I have to confess that TV transmitters and signals are not really my thing.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Dave Lindsay
Thursday 19 January 2012 1:31PM
Mark H: The thing is that St Thomas only relays the Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) channels which are BBC, ITV1, ITV2, C4, E4, More4, C5, HD services and some others.

So if you have these perfectly then your receiver is tuned correctly (i.e. to the signals coming from the transmitter to which your aerial faces).

The best commercial (COM) channels it will find are probably Stockland Hill, and hence why reception is poor.

For an explanation of why St Thomas doesn't relay the COMs, see here:

www.ukfree.tv link icon Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

Whether you can receive a stable signal from Stockland Hill with a suitable aerial is another question. Obviously from a signal strength point of view, St Thomas is probably the one to go for.

You might be high enough to get a signal from Stockland Hill. See here for a plot of the terrain. You have or aren't far off line of sight with it:


Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location

Be aware the COMs from Stockland Hill are at lower power than the PSBs so if you can't get the (weaker) COMs from it, then there's no benefit in moving away from St Thomas.

Until 18th April they are at 10kW when they will be increase to their final power of 25kW. The PSBs are at their final power now which is 50kW.

It might be best to wait until the power increase in April to get another aerial.
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Mike Dimmick
Thursday 19 January 2012 2:06PM
Dave Lindsay, Mark H: While the COM muxes at Stockland Hill will increase to final power in April, the prediction for Mark H actually goes down slightly. This is because Rowridge will be using the same frequencies at high power, from the same date. They are actually going to be using the same frequencies for the same services, but the transmitters are too far apart to use Single Frequency Network techniques, so they will just interfere with each other. (Crystal Palace will also be a problem, to a lesser extent.)

The likelihood is that for a number of people in your postcode, the COM multiplexes will be unreliable for some of the time. Careful siting of the aerial may find a reliable location - it's best to get an experienced installer to do this.
Dave Lindsay
Thursday 19 January 2012 6:06PM
Mike Dimmick, Mark H: Rowridge will be transmitting its COMs in both polarisations, but the horizontal ones will be at 50kW whereas the verticals will be 200kW, same as its PSBs in both polarisations.

From Rowridge, only Ch22 has an offset and it is positive.

All the Stockland Hill COMs have negative offsets, which probably explains why Ch22- from Stockland is predicted as being better than the other two.
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Mark H
Friday 20 January 2012 9:02AM
Dave Lindsay: I am actually at one of the highest points in Exeter with a clear line of sight to pretty much everything in the area.
Last night I decided to conduct a small experiment, I disconnected the large external aerial and plugged in a small internal aerial, just to see what would happen. I rescanned and got all the channels I had been missing, including Dave etc. I then plugged the exterior aerial back in, recanned and of course they were gone again.
Now, with this in mind, conventional wisdom says "just use that aerial then" which is fine, for my television, but when the very same aerial was plugged into a TV at the other side of the house, there were almost no channels found. With this in mind, it seems to be that the best course of action is to go up a ladder and try to realign the aerial.
Would you agree?
Dave Lindsay
Friday 20 January 2012 9:48AM
Mark H: Your current aerial may well be a Group B one (tuned to the middle of the band) but Stockland uses Group A channels. See here for an explanation of groups:

www.aerialsandtv.com link icon Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial

This is not to say that it won't work. See here for some example gain curves that show gain drops off below the group's channels:

www.aerialsandtv.com link icon Gain (curves), Again

Remember, if you do try realigning your aerial, then it won't be just a case of spinning it around; you will have to switch it from vertical to horizontal.
Dave Lindsay
Friday 20 January 2012 10:46AM
Mark H: If you are going to get another aerial, then have a look at ATV Sheffield. This page lists what they recommend for Stockland Hill:

www.aerialsandtv.com link icon Digital TV Transmitters Nationwide Page 2

If you get a good signal on the three COMs now at 10kW, then you should be fine at 25kW.

Check ITV3, Pick TV and Yesterday which is one service from each COM multiplex.

For a full list of services on each multiplex see here:

www.dtg.org.uk link icon DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex

I suggest that you check that you have the channels stored correctly. In particular, ensure that you don't have the two (or three) multiplexes from St Thomas instead of Stockland.

Channels used by Stockland are:

BBC A (BBC One etc) Ch26
D3&4 (ITV1 etc) Ch23
BBC B (HD services) Ch29
SDN (ITV3 etc) Ch25
Arq A (Pick TV etc) Ch22
Arq B (Yesterday etc) Ch28

On each of the above services, go to the signal strength screen and it should tell you the UHF channel number.


I should say that I'm not an aerial installer or expert in RF signal propagation. But common sense would suggest that if you can get the low-power COMs now with your set-top aerial, then you are in a good signal area.
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Mark Fletcher
Friday 20 January 2012 10:46PM Halifax
Mark H,Exeter.If you decide to buy a new aerial and you decide to get the full package of programmes from the main Stockland Hill transmitter including the three COM multiplexes which is not broadcasted by your local relay,then as Stockland Hill is an all group A mast,you only need to purchase a new group A Yagi 18A,or X-Beam XB16A for slightly extra gain,but more important you will need to buy satellite grade co-ax copper-copper cable and brass co-ax plugs.As you stated earlier being on a higher ground area of Exeter,if you did decide to buy a new external group A aerial for the main Stockland Hill transmitter,if must be polarised horizontally mounted externally on a wall or on the roof,a chimney wall being ideal.
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Ian Thomson
Friday 3 February 2012 1:53PM
I have 3 TVs running from one aerial with perfect reception from Stockland Hill. One of the 3 TVs is 4:3 running from a digi-box. All channels are in correct format with the exception of the stations from Mulitiplex PS B2 Ch23 where the format incorrectly narrows. This would appear to be a fault of the transmitter, rather than the box?!!
Briantist
Friday 3 February 2012 2:32PM
Ian Thomson: It is more likely to be a fault with the box. Have you tried another Freeview box on the same set?
Transmitter engineering
Monday 5 March 2012 10:31AM
STOCKLAND HILL transmitter - Over the next week Stockland Hill main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Monday 5 March 2012 10:31AM
STOCKLAND HILL transmitter - Over the next week Stockland Hill main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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Pete Green
Wednesday 7 March 2012 12:59PM
UK Digital tradeview show a com power up in April but show 3 at 50 kW and 3 at 25kW both now and after April. What is changing.
Briantist
Wednesday 7 March 2012 1:07PM
Pete Green: The final config is indeed PSBs at 50kW and COMs at 25kW. The COMs are currently restricted to 20kW (SDN) 10kW (ArqA/B).
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Pete Green
Wednesday 7 March 2012 1:32PM
Briantist

I'm surprised that at these levels a get all channels except ArqB. Thank you for your help and quick responce.
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 28 March 2012 9:29AM
STOCKLAND HILL transmitter - ckland Hill Transmitter works 28 March 2012: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 10:00hrs and 16:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - N/A Digital services - PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3 will be subject to periods of shutdown. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 28 March 2012 9:29AM
STOCKLAND HILL transmitter - ckland Hill Transmitter works 28 March 2012: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 10:00hrs and 16:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - N/A Digital services - PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3 will be subject to periods of shutdown. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 29 March 2012 10:29AM
STOCKLAND HILL transmitter - ckland Hill Transmitter works 28 and 29 March 2012: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 10:00hrs and 16:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - N/A Digital services - PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3 will be subject to periods of shutdown. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 29 March 2012 10:29AM
STOCKLAND HILL transmitter - ckland Hill Transmitter works 28 and 29 March 2012: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 10:00hrs and 16:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - N/A Digital services - PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3 will be subject to periods of shutdown. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 10 April 2012 10:29AM
STOCKLAND HILL transmitter - Over the next week Stockland Hill main transmitter: TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 10 April 2012 10:29AM
STOCKLAND HILL transmitter - Over the next week Stockland Hill main transmitter: TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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Bob Lane
Wednesday 11 April 2012 9:45PM Exeter
Over the last three to four evenings the signal has gone to "no or bad signal" shortly after 8 pm and this evening there is no signal at all at 9.30 on any channel. this is not a set top box problem as it is the same on the dvd recorder and the Humax box but it was working perfectly before 8. I have an external roof mounted aerial and have received perfect signals for the last couple of years. Any idea of what is going on? Post code EX6 8JL transmitter Stockland Hill



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