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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Saturday, 9 April 2011
S Heaford: Please see the Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
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Monday, 11 April 2011
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JonH4:21 PM
Hi. I'm on Mendip, and I'm at BA45XD, shepton, so only a few miles away from it. I'm in a deep valley but have a new Ariel on the roof. Had no problems at all before this last 2 weeks. I have to daily "first time" re-tune my DVR to regain film 4. It always comes back. This is the only channel dropping and it drops overnight, every night. The TV is fine, no problem at all, just the DVR. I checked the other channells on the MUX and they don't drop?.?...
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JonH4:28 PM
I should add that I have a variable booster turned up as high as it goes between the Ariel socket and the DVR as without it I get a pixellated signal on all channels. The TV is fed from the DVR.
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JonH: I would try removing the booster from your system as a first step.
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011
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JonH5:15 PM
I had already tried removing the booster, but no use as the picture is unwatchable. I think I have now cured it by yet another full rescan after clearing the channels by scanning with the Ariel out and deleting all the channels I don't watch. It stayed OK overnight this time so fingers crossed.
I wonder if the DVR just can't handle all the extra channels, I seem to get a lot of duplicated channels in the EPG with channel numbers ranging from 800 to 850, by removing these it seems to be holding on to Film4 now. I guess I'm getting extras from another transmitter in Wales as the CH 824 ITV1 was Welsh, as ITV1+1 still is...
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JonH: I would have a look at the Digital Region Overlap | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011
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JonH1:51 PM
Thank you Brian, that link has explained a lot about my Mendip reception problems. Deleting all the extraneous weaker 800 range channels was the answer. I also believe the DVR was attempting to record either CH1 BBC or the 800 numbered BBC1 depending upon some random ethereal selection, giving me the pixellated recording on occasion. I now have the correct channels in the correct place and staying put up to now!
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JonH: I'm pleased to hear that you have a working DVR.
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011
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Me11:40 PM
Swindon
Hmm - just noticed that we had Wales tonight on ITV, always had the West before.
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Me's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 21 April 2011
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