Full Freeview on the Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, 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)
The Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Bristol Kings Weston 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)
The Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Bristol Kings Weston transmitter?
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 5km southeast (140°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 9km southeast (133°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | E T | W T | K T | |||
| C22 | SDN | ||||||||
| C25 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C28 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C30 | LBS | LBS | |||||||
| C31 | _local | ||||||||
| C40 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
| C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C43 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||||
| C45 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C46 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||||
| C48 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C50tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C53tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C57tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | -ArqB | -ArqB |
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 | 1000W | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200W | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 100W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, LBS | (-17dB) 20W |
Local transmitter maps
Bristol Kings Weston Freeview Bristol Kings Weston DAB Mendip TV region BBC West WestWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Thursday, 20 January 2011
Saturday, 7 May 2011
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JohnBatt9:09 PM
Setup my aerial pointing at Bristol Kings Weston transmitter today. Could only get 21 channels and these broke up. ITV intermittent until I noticed the POLARISATION. Changed from horizonal to vertical, re-tuned and got 103 channels all good signals. So ensure Directors are vertical (fins are up and down).
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Sunday, 8 May 2011
JohnBatt: Yes, the polarization is a vital reception parameter.
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Sunday, 22 May 2011
hi my bbc channels have gone nut, sometimes no signal other times breaking up, all the other channels are fine.
i have free view on samsung tv, and also play tv on playstation. its the same on both and i have tried a booster.
please help i was thinking of getting my free tier ladder from work and checking aerial connections
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robert's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
robert stockwell: You are using the Mendip transmitter, and you will be getting a very strong signal from it.
If you have already checked the Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page, then you might have too strong a signal.
If you have, remove any boosters or amplifiers from your system, if the problem persists, you may need to fit an attenuator, they cost about a fiver.
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Friday, 1 July 2011
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Steve2:35 PM
Help. I've just moved to Westbury BS9 from Horfield BS7 and none of my freeview devices can pick up BBC channels! I have retuned because I guess my aerial in BS9 is now pointing at Kingsweston whereas in BS7 I guess it was pointing at Mendip.
Any ideas? New aerial? Aerial position needs tweaking?
NOTE: My wife regards this as a crisis of the highest order as we have no BBC as Wimbledon reaches its climax!
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Adam B4:23 PM
Dunstable
Steve: Kings Weston is the best transmitter for you. However, because you are so close, maybe the signal is too strong and is swamping your receiver. Remove any boosters etc that you may have in your system. If there are no boosters, etc, try a variable attenuator, or another approach is to try an indoor aerial to see if this will get a signal for you.
Hope this helps,
Adam.
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Adam's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 18 December 2011
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Chiny3:22 PM
Excellent website that I return to every time I need to retune a new TV, hard drive box or after MUX changes.
Richard Field has probably gone Sky now but maybe he had the same issue as me in that I not only get Kingsweston but also (weakly) Wenvoe. I solve the problem by manually selecting the MUXes one at a time. A professional friend advises to auto-tune but only plug in the aerial after the Wenvoe channels have been scanned.
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jb384:40 PM
Chiny: Yes! manual tuning is in many cases being the only way of getting over duplicate channel pick up problems from the more distant (and unwanted) stations.
The aerial out to a certain point before reinserting, can work very well in lots of cases dependant on the type of equipment the procedure is being used on, as it can be a very "hit and miss" situation for many due to lots of boxes not actually indicating the channel numbers during the scanning process, as all that's seen is a very vague looking progress percentage bar, failures when using the procedure on equipment with this type of indication being very frequently experienced, even with the more experienced types!
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012
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Antony5:18 PM
Hi, I've recently moved to with in approx. 1 mile of the kings weston transmitter and from what I can gather this is where my roof ariel is pointing towards (half of the others in my street also point this way, the other half point towards (I think) the Mendip transmitter) I have two ariel sockets and have tried two different televisions in each socket but cannot pick up any signal through either socket. Does any one have any ideas of what the problem might be? I don't want to call out an engineer if I can help it!
Thanks
Antony
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