Full Freeview on the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter which serves 270,000 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 Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, 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 Ridge 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 Ridge Hill transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-midlands-today.jpg)
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 69km northeast (39°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-central.jpg)
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 69km northeast (39°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
Whitton | Transposer | 35 km NW Hereford | 40 homes |
How will the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1968-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 1 Mar 2018 | ||||
VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | W T | ||||
C6 | 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 | ||||
C29 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | |||||
C34 | com8 | ||||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, PSB2 iw, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
com7 | (-9.8dB) 10.5kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
com8 | (-10.1dB) 9.8kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Ridge Hill Freeview Ridge Hill DAB Ridge Hill TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Ridge Hill transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldFriday, 21 April 2023
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Chris.SE12:52 PM
Richard Sutton:
Richard Sutton:
As mentioned before C29 IS transmitting. I personally don't have an aerial pointing at Ridge Hill at the moment, I may see what I can do over the weekend BUT it was received in Worcester on 21/04/2023 at 01:31:12 and as has been said before only ITV1 (West) is on the multiplex. The Freeview Channel Checker will not include C29 if someone's location is not predicted to receive it!
I have already explained how to check your C29 multiplex on your LG. Please do so.
Quote "When the tree is stationary, C25 is received satisfactorily but when it is swaying in the breeze it blocks the C25 signal intermittently such that the average signal is unwatchable and worse than its alternate, C29.
However, the converse is true with C29. When the tree is stable the C29 signal is blocked such that it is unwatchable but when the tree is swaying then the average signal strength goes up such that C29 actually becomes more watchable than C25."
RF can sometimes be a bit of a black art! Whilst trees can have an effect, this assumption is pure guesswork at present and whilst the effects of trees CAN be frequency dependent, that fact that you are seeing no effect of the other UHF channels leads me to conclude that the trees are unlikely to be the PRIMARY issue.
The main multiplexes on virtually all main transmitters are usually on the same antenna, however it is likely that C29 is on separate antenna beamed appropriately.
Whilst Malvern is co-channel on C29 with SDN, it is Vertical polarisation and very low power, it's possible that signals might occasionally have some effect on Ridge Hill C29, it's likely to be very small, and in any event is not your main region, just an added bonus if you are interested in the West Region News.
I've explained about the tests required without the amp/splitter in place and how to tune your TV correctly to get all the TV channels in the correct LCNs. Please do these tests, they are far more important than any speculation/guesswork about trees, the weather, co-channel interference or anything else!
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StevensOnln11:54 PM
Richard Sutton: Just to confirm Chris' info, digitalbitrate.com monitor Ridge Hill's PSB2(West) mux from their scanner in Worcester (see link below) which indicates it is broadcast on 538MHz (UHF channel 29) using QPSK modulation and carries ITV1 as it's only video stream (the remaining 5-6Mbps of capacity that isn't used for associated audio/data is packed out with null packets).
https://www.digitalbitrat…g=en
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Richard Sutton8:25 PM
I will do the tests you have suggested over the weekend, Chris.
I don't really know what the significance is, if any, but on my LG TV the listing which appears below the signal test graphic still says:
555 Accessible TV Guide
800 ITV1
802 ITVBe
803 E4+1
Richard
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Richard Sutton8:29 PM
Sorry .... should have said "on my LG TV listing for C29"
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Saturday, 22 April 2023
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Chris.SE12:44 AM
Richard Sutton:
Could you list the Service Type and Service ID for each of those four on C29 please?
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Chris.SE1:51 AM
Richard Sutton:
Sorry also meant to ask, when the transmitter information for C29 comes up on the Signal Test can you post the TSID and the Network ID.
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Richard Sutton8:23 AM
No problem Chris. I would normally take a photo and post it on here but I can't see any way to do that. Anyway, here is the full info:
UHF Ch29 (538000 kHz)
Transmitter ONID TSID Network ID
Gloucestershire 0x233a 0x201d 0x3038
Code Rate Guard Interval Constellation FFT Mode
2/3 1/32 MODULATION_QPSK 8K
Frequency (kHZ) System Bandwidth
538000 DVBT 8 MHz
555 Accessible TV Guide: Service Type : 0xc (Data/Others), Service ID : 0x2199
800 ITV1 : Service Type : 0x1 (DTV), Service ID : 0x204c
802 ITVBe : Service Type : 0x1 (DTV), Service ID : 0x2094
803 E4+1 : Service Type : 0x1 (DTV), Service ID : 0x210a
I hope this is helpful.
Richard
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Richard Sutton8:27 AM
Oh dear. All my careful column spacing using the space bar (the tab key doesn't work) have come to nought. I've no idea why the forum software deletes all the space but hope you can still read it.
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Chris.SE12:23 PM
Richard Sutton:
That's fine Richard. Thanks. Yes this forum software has some very annoying deficiencies. I can read everything, so I'll have a look at that shortly.
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Chris.SE4:44 PM
Richard Sutton:
Well the Id shows it's ITV1 West from Ridge Hill. As for the others, whether that is data that's being transmitted by Ridge Hill depends on whether you'd cleared previous tuning in the manner I described earlier. The Ids certainly come from an English transmitter, as opposed to any Welsh one as the Id for E4+1 is different as it's carried on SDN on Welsh transmitters. The others may have appeared on a previous retune when weather conditions may have allow reception from another transmitter carrying D3&4 on C29 but I suspect not.
If you did clear all previous tuning and they've reappeared then I assume they might be as a result of "ghost" PIDs. I guess if you have enough Quality on C29 and can see ITV1 on 800 you'll have nothing (but data) on 802 & 803 if you select them?
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