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?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 69km northeast (39°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
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 |
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 withheldWednesday, 20 April 2011
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Mr K5:50 PM
Thank you for your reply, Briantist. It's a Bravia KDL32EX403U with built in Freeview HD. Sorry, I should have made that clearer in my original post. I'm thinking that it might be my signal strength. Would 38 out of 100 be high enough to receive a HD signal?
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Mr K: The signal strength is not really the most important thing, go by the signal quality.
If you have any booster, amplifiers or similar in your system, remove them as they tend to destroy the digital signals.
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David Bate7:08 PM
Re-tuned all 4 Freeview TVs this morning and getting signal break-up on some channels on the bedroom sets that use portable aerials. OK before today. Are some signals weaker than before? If so, I hope this is a temporary problem. And what channel is ITV West news on? Maybe 800 or 801?
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David Bate: No the signals are considerably stronger than before.
ITV West is on 803 usually.
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Thursday, 21 April 2011
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Mr K1:51 AM
Ok, thanks again for your help. I suspect that it is the splitter I'm using that could be the problem and that I will have to look at a more direct way of getting the signal to my TV.
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Mr K: If you bypass the splitter and everything is OK, you can then just replace it with a "Y-connector".
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Steve Maynard9:30 AM
I am experiencing considerable signal breakup on all bbc channels (including red button) but the signal on all other channels is good. Is there any reason for this, and if so is there a fix ?
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russell willis 2:45 PM
Since swichover I receive 108 channels with very good quality pictures ---- except there is no sisnal at all for ITV 1. I think I get signal from Ridgehill and my aeriel is wideband.Any advice would be most welcome.
Post code - hr81se
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MikeP2:59 PM
Despite previous mentions of ITV West I seem unable to find this.
I have all channels functioning very well, (and all the snap crackle and pop removed now), and also HD, but can't find ITV West on my Humax PVR or two TVs. ITV Central of course works correctly.
Location: Cheltenham
Any ideas?
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Mike Dimmick3:07 PM
Steve Maynard: If you had reliable Freeview reception before switchover, you probably now have too much signal. Remove any boosters, and if that doesn't help, try adding an attenuator.
I can check the estimated signal levels if you provide a full postcode.
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