Full Freeview on the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter which serves 720,000 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.
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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 Mendip 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 Mendip transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-west-west.jpg)
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 23km north (11°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
Are there any self-help relays?
Cheddar | Transposer | 15 km E Weston-super-Mare | 1674 homes |
Luccombe | Active deflector | 6 km w Minehead | 38 homes |
How will the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||
C/D E | E | E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | |||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
C33 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
C36 | ArqB | ||||||||
C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C48 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
C49tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
C51tv_off | LBS | LBS | |||||||
C52tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | COM8tv_off | |||||
C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
Analogue 5 | (-6dB) 126kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
com7 | (-8.4dB) 72.4kW | |
com8 | (-8.6dB) 69.1kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBS | (-17dB) 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Sunday, 16 January 2011
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Pete Green6:15 PM
Weston-super-mare
ANDY
Channel 58 is the HD channel.
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Pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Paul8:27 PM
Can see Mendip Tx out of the window!
UHF 61 at 68%
54 at 48%
56 at 35%
62 at 1% (so TV is picking up nothing but PVR gets blocky picture)
67 is No Signal!
Why are 62 and 67 at so low power?
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Bizman9:11 PM
I am miles away from the transmitter but only recently have lost Ch59, well not completely, my PVR and a STB have lost it, but the TV is still receiving it perfectly despite the aerial being at the end of the daisy-chain via the other two. Might rig up an aerial amplifier tomorrow and see what happens.
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Monday, 17 January 2011
Paul: The services not on full power have frequencies that are still in use for analogue services in neighbouring transmitter regions and can only be put at full power levels when those regions switch.
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Dave2:19 PM
Hi Paul
Doubt if you have aerial problems, if anything you maybe receving to much signal which gives same symptom, but i doubt this due to the fact you were ok before the change on the 11th.
More likely proberly pulling from another transmitter.
A quick fix for you is just auto scan with aeral diconnected to clean it out, then auto scan again and reconnect aerial when its about 6o% through its scan, hence it should only load mendip.
Otherwise load manualy.
Kind regards
Dave
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Dave2:25 PM
Sorry Paul
I miss read your post.
Oviously check your connections, but at a guess unless you got faulty receiver id say you may well have to much signal going into it.
If you dont want to call anyone out for a meter check, maybe worth hooking another recevier to your aerial.
Dave
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Martin Lofthouse2:38 PM
I've retuned all our TVs/digiboxes since 11 Jan, and all except our main Panasonic TV seem to have picked up all channels again from the Mendip transmitter. Humax PVRs seem OK, but the Panasonic TV is now not receiving via its own tuner the channels transmitted at a lower power (Channel 12 - Yesterday, etc.). We live in Compton Dundon, near Street, and have had no problems receiving channels to date since digital switchover last year.
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Martin Lofthouse: Yes, some people will not receive Multiplex COM6/ARQB until later in the year because of the changes.
Make sure you have tried this My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice first, and also checked Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice . Also see Mendip transmitter - January 11th retune required | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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mike2:51 PM
just tried clean scan and retune using Mendip only no change no channel 67 missing channels still on 801 first time i have had trouble with a retune
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