Full Freeview on the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter which serves 1,550,000 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 Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) mast?
Emley Moor transmitter - Emley Moor transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Emley Moor 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Emley Moor transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 22km north-northeast (22°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 22km north-northeast (16°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
Are there any self-help relays?
| Derwent B | Active deflector | 74 homes | |
| Derwent C | Active deflector | (second level) | |
| Dunford Bridge | Active deflector | 14 km S Huddersfield | 15 homes |
| Hmp Leeds | Transposer | 30 homes | |
| Thixendale | Transposer | 25 km ENE York | 40 homes |
How will the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1956-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Feb 2020 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | W T | ||||
| C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C39 | _local | ||||||||
| C41 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C44 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C47 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | SDN | |||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | LLS |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 870kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 174kW | |
| com7 | (-12dB) 54.8kW | |
| com8 | (-12.3dB) 51.2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-19.4dB) 10kW | |
| Mux A*, LLS | (-22.4dB) 5kW | |
| Mux D* | (-23.4dB) 4kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area
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Saturday, 19 March 2022
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Chris.SE2:44 AM
Terry Thomas:
There are no currently listed faults at Emley Moor. The reception problem you have is most likely related to the current weather conditions as mentioned in my previous reply to steve phillips -
".....there is some upcoming predicted Temperture Inversion/Tropospheric Ducting which will enable signals from more distant transmitters to be more easil;y received - and that will in a few instances result in interference to normal reception (you'll see the sort of thing you have with Signal Strength varying considerably and Quality dropping, often to zero)......"
FYI, such transmitters can be in the UK or Europe.
Both Freeview and the BBC have now issued warnings on their Update & Alerts/Works and Warning pages about possible disruption to reception.
Read my next reply to steve phillips.
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Chris.SE3:33 AM
steve phillips:
The reason you may be confused is because this type of interference can be frequency dependent and/or depending on where the interfering signals are coming from, the identical channels to your normal ones may be different, so even if a broader spectrum of frequencies is affected, not all you reception will be disrupted. Sometimes they all could be.
The interference can last for seconds, minutes, hours even longer and can come and go seemingly at random.
The general advise is to NOT retune, as this invariably may cause you to lose your correct tuning and/or become incorrectly tuned to another transmitter whose signals can disappear when conditions change.
If you have become incorrectly tuned (check the UHF channels in your TV Tuning section) then it's best to try manually retuning each of your normal transmitter's UHF channels. You may have to try several times if interference is present.
Emley's Multiplexes & UHF channels are as follows, in the order -
PSBs1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ArqA, COM6/ArqB, COM7 HD, & Local
C47, C44, C41, C33, C36, C48, C55, & C39/C42 Whether you get satisfactory reception of COM7 & Local muxes will depend on your aerial installation (and location).
steve, whilst you are predicted to get good reception from Emley, you are actually closer to Bilsdale and predicted to get very good reception, so it's unsurprising you can get its signals from an aerial sidelobe.
Emley is bearing 220 degrees (almost SW) from you, whereas Bilsdale Tower is 345 degrees - a few degrees N of NNW. You may get poor reception of the Local mux from Emley L-LDS (Leeds) on C39 or possibly variable reception from a Relay at Bilbrough on C42 L-YRK (York) as it's closer, bearing 214 degrees well within the beamwidth of your aerial.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2022
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Malcolm Roebuck5:54 PM
Barnsley
Tv...Sony KD-49XE9005
Aerial on roof
Postcode S75 3QU house number 22
Total channels available after scan...117
I'm not receiving any of the ITV channels...or any of channel 4 and channel 5
I also don't get any HD channels
When running a scan it just gives a choice of either Leeds or York, my local transmitter is Emely Moor but this is not available?
Is there any way I can get the TV scan to recognize Emely Moor?
At the moment this isn't causing me a problem as I receive these channels through my Sky box but if I decide to end my Sky subscription I'll miss a big section of the most popular channels.
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Thursday, 24 March 2022
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Chris.SE2:37 AM
Malcolm Roebuck:
What was the reason you rescanned in the first place? Were you not correctly tuned?
Please see my reply to steve phillips in the post immediately before your first one (with the exception of the last paragraph specific to his location).
You are so close to Emley (13km) and are predicted to get excellent reception, you should have no trouble receiving it. Your aerial should be pointing at bearing 310 degrees (5 degrees W of NW) with the rods (or squashed Xs) horizontal. Have you looked at your aerial, is it still pointing correctly and does it appear intact?
Emley Moor local news is based in Leeds, so this is the one you should select if using an automatic rescan/retune, otherwise a manual scan using the UHF channels as listed in that post before yours.
The Yorks option could possibly be the Belmont transmitter which although some considerable distance away is still predicted to give good reception and this could be being picked up by your aerial off a rear sidelobe. You might get some signal from Bilsdale but this is less likely.
Emley Moor is currently listed for Planned Engineering with possible effect "Screen may go black on all or certain channels" which can mean a service interruption. It's unusual for those to last any length of time. To repeat, Do NOT retune, it will likely just clear your correct tuning.
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Sunday, 10 September 2023
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Chris.SE12:40 AM
Whilst a lot of work has been taking place to restore all services to the original tower, the temporary tower is now being dismamtled.
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Friday, 22 December 2023
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Graham 10:13 AM
Your site states that Freeview channels from Emley Moor transmitter include channel 41. When I manual tune my TV and enter channel 41 it comes up with No Channels Found message; same result when I enter the frequency and search again. Could you provide an explanation please and advise how to get the channels listed as available within Freeview channel 41.
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StevensOnln110:54 AM
Graham : UHF channel 41 carries the HD versions of BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, C4, C5, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC & CBeebies. It can only be tuned on a TV or PVR/box with a DVB-T2 tuner, which usually have either a Freeview HD, Freeview Play or YouView logo (except Samsung TVs from the last few years which will receive HD channels but don't have the Freeview logo).
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Steve Donaldson2:50 PM
Graham : In addition to that said by StevensOnln1, if the manual tuning screen offers a choice of DVB-T or DVB-T2 then the latter must be selected for C41, PSB3, the HD multiplex.
The other five main multiplexes and the local multiplex on C39 (if you can get it) are DVB-T.
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Saturday, 13 July 2024
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Jason2:05 PM
Doncaster
Dear Sir/Madam, I have had Major Signal Disruption/Interference for over a week at my residence now...other residents are also experiencing the same issues. I have contacted Freeview directly as well as the director general of the BBC....I have been advised there are some sort of engineering works currently taking place on the Emily Moor Transmitter ? How much longer are these works going to take place ? It has been very annoying and frustrating that these works have taken place during Euro 2024 & Wimbledon affecting everyone inside the residence....My Postcode is DN4 0DS & the aerial is located on the roof. Since these engineering works begun the signal quality has been jumping up and down like a "yo-yo" causing major disruption
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Chris.SE4:27 PM
Jason:
Engineering works take place at many transmitters, some of the work takes place at height near the antennae and so reduced power or use of the reserve antenna is sometimes necessary. This could of course affect your reception, but that will very much depend on location and nearby terrain. Depending on the works needed this could take several weeks or longer.
However,
Firstly check in your TV Tuning section, that you are correctly tuned to Emley Moor's UHF channels. Emley's Multiplexes & UHF channels are as follows, in the order -
PSBs1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ArqA, COM6/ArqB
they are C47, C44, C41, C33, C36, C48 (C means UHF channel).
You could potentially pick up signals from 3 other main transmitters to which you have line-of-sight in your location, aerials can sometimes get signals on their "side-lobes".
For which TV channels are carried on which multiplex, see
Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
Secondly, you should have received a postcard from Restore TV warning about possible interference from new/upgraded phone masts starting to use the 700MHz band for 4G/5G. There's getting on for a dozen such masts within 1.5km of you.
see https://restoretv.uk/post…ure/
BUT you mention "other residents". Now if you are in a block with a community aerial shared with other residents, then you need to contact the building management/those responsible for the aerial system to get some filters installed (Freeview should have advised you of this).
Otherwise if it's just you and your own aerial, then contact Restore TV for a Free Filter.
Call them on 0808-1313-800 and give them details of your installation, aerial, any pre-amp, amp-splitters etc. The may decide to send an engineer free of charge rather than just send filters.
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