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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Mendip (Somerset, 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
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?
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 |
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 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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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
S
Steve5:20 PM
Melksham
Briantist: Many thanks for your advice. I now have all channels on my DVD recorder apart from MUX A. Thanks again.
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C
Christopher9:50 PM
This is somewhat annoying.
Bought a new Humax PVR last week, set up The Mentalist on serial record so I never miss a recording again (so rubbish using other recorders). Go away for the weekend. come back and no recording. wondered what I had done wrong. then the channels start having trouble and now lost 5 completely.
Was beginning to think I had a dodgy box...now it looks like its not me after all.
What a time to get a new box! Thanks for letting me know.
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
ALL: If you have the wrong channel list do 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 .
Otherwise see Mendip transmitter - January 11th retune required | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Thursday, 20 January 2011
J
John5:39 PM
Wotton-under-edge
Since about a week ago I have not been able to receive several Freeview channels including Yesterday. They were fine previously. Is this because of the work on the Mendip transmitter? The problem is on every television in the house (5) and is not removed by retuning.
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Friday, 21 January 2011
Saturday, 22 January 2011
A
Andrew Poulton6:29 PM
After the retune on Mendip last week I had all my channels now they have all gone on COM 6 arqB
I have tried all the fixes but nothing has sorted it.
I have 2 other TV's in the bedromms on a cheap short aerial they are both okay but my bog array and line of sight Mendip is not working.
What is the answer please.
A new aerial? It is in the loft for easy access. I put it there.
Why has it stopped?
Cheers Andrew
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Unhappy Mendip Viewer7:17 PM
Is there anything that can be done for those of us that have lost so many channels after a channel switch? We may be in outlying areas but we have had all channels with a good signal for several years... if I had known it was happening i would have saved the money I spent on a Freeview PVR and bought a Freesat PVR instead!
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Andrew Poulton9:30 PM
EEERRRR
WHAT HAS HAPPENED.
All the missing channels are back on the Humax PVR !! [they were .NO SIGNAL' on there and TV before.
I did not retune it but I did the TV and lost them all.[COM 6 arqB]
I have just done a retune on the TV and they are all back !!!
What was that about. I did not hear or see anything on any outage?
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Sunday, 23 January 2011
E
Elaine10:05 AM
Bristol
The top of the page still mentions transmitter engineering works, saying service will be "liable to interruption" - that might have been it.
I might rescan mine again, but I suspect my problem is because they've moved ArqB to 64QAM - I've never been able to pick up the ITV3 MUX, which is the other one on low strength 64QAM.
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Andrew Poulton12:10 PM
Hi Yes you are correct. I did not think they would do it on a Sat Evening though.
Tjank you Elaine
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