Full Freeview on the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter which serves 200,000 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 Bluebell Hill (Medway, 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 Bluebell 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 Bluebell Hill transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 28km southwest (218°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 5km south-southeast (155°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||||
| E | E | E | W T | W T | |||||
| C21 | _local | ||||||||
| C28 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqA | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | SDN | ||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | ArqA | ||||
| C45 | SDN | BBCB | |||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | ArqB | ||||
| C54tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 13 Jun 12 and 27 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 30kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-1.8dB) 20kW | |
| com8 | (-7.8dB) 5kW | |
| com7 | (-8.1dB) 4.7kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 3kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A* | (-11.8dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Bluebell Hill Freeview Bluebell Hill DAB Bluebell Hill TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bluebell Hill transmitter area
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Sunday, 24 April 2011
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John Griesel10:04 AM
new digital television and Aerial installed early part of this year, Although we are in Essex we were advised to get our signal from Bluebell hill owing to large tree. All was fine untill recently but know can only receive channels 1-2 other cnannels come up has No digital signal. Will this sevice continue until 2012 when Bluebell hill comes up too full power.
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Steve11:05 AM
Maidstone
The people I feel sorry for are the ones who not really technologically literate.
How many will think their Freeview box is on the blink and buy a new one?
This problem should have been better advertised.
I bet some are still buying a Freeview box for the first time as well assuming they will be able to get all the channels.
Steve
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John Griesel: "If you have other problems, please provide a full (not partial) postcode"
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Gazza6:32 PM
Whitstable
Brian: i can see u do the best you can and it must be difficult not to take peoples frustrated comments personally,. (and please dont take it that way) but as you can imagine its very frustrating for us all who can not watch all of our TV channels like we always have been able to watch over the last few years on freeview for some reason.
now for a constructive question if i may..
..... I am in CT5 3HW in Whitstable, so if i understand correctly i have a choice of Bluebell hill or Dover transmitter for my ariel to be pointed towards...,
...but what if i install two ariels and join both signals?
.... so one that i have now already pointed to bluebell hill and so if i then install a new ariel pointed at Dover, can i then get the installer to join those two ariel signals to make one good reception? as by looking at the map on this site of those transmitters the signals cross each other right over whitstable?
...so maybe i would get a great reception from the signal from two ariels combined one pointing bluebell hill the other dover?
or is that wishful thing?, thanks in advance for any insight Brian,
Regards
Gazza
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Pedro dd8:52 PM
Marlborough
Since both fall within group E you can't combine them. Brianist- you do an amazing job of a hard task.
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Gazza: As you are not predicted to ever get a signal from Bluebell Hill, I would suggest you don't spend any more money on aerials, and use Freesat/Freesat HD/Freesat+HD instead.
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Gazza11:37 PM
Whitstable
great news brian thanks for the suggestion: i just recently bought a freeview Humax HDR FOX-T2 HD 1tb box in view of the change over to freeview
cool so i should get freesat instead.
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Gazza11:41 PM
Whitstable
as i said before i have got freeview fine for three years from bluebell hiill,. no doubt you will delte my post agian as before
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