Full Freeview on the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter which serves 1,550,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) mast?
Emley Moor transmitter - Emley Moor transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/04/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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 Emley Moor 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 Emley Moor transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 22km north-northeast (22°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 22km north-northeast (16°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
Are there any self-help relays?
| Derwent B | Active deflector | 74 homes | |
| Derwent C | Active deflector | (second level) | |
| Dunford Bridge | Active deflector | 14 km S Huddersfield | 15 homes |
| Hmp Leeds | Transposer | 30 homes | |
| Thixendale | Transposer | 25 km ENE York | 40 homes |
How will the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1956-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Feb 2020 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | W T | ||||
| C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C39 | _local | ||||||||
| C41 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C44 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C47 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | SDN | |||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | LLS |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 870kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 174kW | |
| com7 | (-12dB) 54.8kW | |
| com8 | (-12.3dB) 51.2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-19.4dB) 10kW | |
| Mux A*, LLS | (-22.4dB) 5kW | |
| Mux D* | (-23.4dB) 4kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011
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Mick C6:28 AM
Sheffield
Hi again - I'll give my full postcode (keep forgetting to add it) S21 4LE.
So, a new problem has arisen - I've accepted the fact that I'm stuck with Look North (Yorks and Lincs) and I can live with that and the reception for my set is perfect, can't complain about it.
The problem I've got now is on my grandma's two sets. Since I retuned all the channels at the beginning of August (as we lost ITV channels)......then retuned them again (as we lost ITV again!).....now they're all tuned in but the signal for some of the other channels (Yesterday, Film 4, ITV 4 and a few others) is so poor a picture can't really be viewed as it blocks out and often the signal just goes.
The outside aerial is relatively new (a new one was fitted to pick digital up about a year ago) - she has her room TV and her kitchen TV off the same aerial with a booster box fitted - all connected up correctly.
Would old aerial leads have an effect on the quality of signal? The brown aerial leads inside her home have been there for years and years.....I suppose all cables deteriorate - is it worthwhile me replacing these.....or won't it make much difference?
Sorry to keep asking new questions - I bet you're getting fed up! :)
Thanks again.
Mick
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Mick C: Right, OK.
Today, the Belmont and Waltham transmitters are the only one that will provide you with 4/6 multiplexes, including the ones with BBC and ITV regional news.
Come 21st September 2011, you will be able to get Emley Moor at full power, for 6/6 services. If you want "Look North" from Leeds, and the same on ITV, then wait four weeks, move your aerial and you will have it.
If you don't Belmont will provide the ArqA and ArqB multiplexes from 23rd November 2011.
I wouldn't use Waltham, the service will go down to to 2 multiplexes over the next few years.
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Mick C8:45 PM
Sheffield
Briantist - You're a legend - thank you so much :)
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Thomas11:33 PM
Leeds
Our aerial system currently has a combined masthead amplifier & splitter, sending the signal to four separate leads.
I know that after switchover the digital transmission power will be raised. Do you think the masthead amplifier will still be beneficial after this? Might I get too much signal from it?
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
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jb387:42 AM
Thomas: Its most likely that it would be superfluous to your requirements when Emley Moor goes over to high power operation, however unless its easy to access I wouldn't really let it bother you, as should it be found that signal overload problems were happening on any of your TV's / boxes causing either permanent or intermittent blocking of the signal, then simple attenuators could be fitted in line with each of their aerial sockets.
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Mike Dimmick10:15 AM
jb38: unless the signal level at the aerial terminals is too much for the masthead amplifier, in which case the signal will already be degraded before it gets to the receivers. In this case you would need to put attenuation in front of the masthead amp, change the aerial for one with less gain, change the amplifier for one which can handle more signal, or replace with a passive splitter.
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jb3811:13 AM
Mike Dimmick: Well maybe in theory there is a remote possibility that this could happen, theory and practice sometimes being quite remote from each other when dealing with RF where elements of trial and error are never far away, especially in anything domestic!
However in practical terms, at 18 miles away from the transmitter this is unlikely to happen in the same way is it possibly could in a TV's or boxes tuner where oscillator circuitry is involved, and so as far as I am concerned could be discounted.
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Neil Barnett2:14 PM
Sheffield
This digital switchover is absolutely rubbish. I used to get a strong analogue signal from the Sheffield mast, to my aerial in the loft, giving 4 solid terrestrial stations and fuzzy channel 5.
I got a professional in to put up a better aerial on the roof and channel 5 got worse, though I got SOME digital channels with reasonable clarity unless the weather was rainy, cloudy, sunny, windy or snowy.
Now, BOTH BBC channels have broken-up and are unwatchable. The others are no better than they were.
My aerial is vertically polarised so it shouldn't pick up Emley Moor. I would have line-of-sight to Sheffield mast if my house was 150 yards closer.
Pointless rubbish.
Can I get a discount on my licence fee if I can't receive what I'm paying for?
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Mike Dimmick3:18 PM
Neil Barnett: If you got worse Channel 5 from a roof aerial than from a loft aerial, why didn't you complain at the time? It might indicate that the aerial was the wrong group - you need a wideband aerial to get all the multiplexes.
Did you get the BBC channels reliably over the last two weeks? If so, the reason is probably now that you have too much signal. If you have a booster or other amplifier, remove it or turn it down. If that doesn't help, try adding an attenuator.
Signal levels from Belmont and Chesterfield also look pretty high at your location. While the aerial is designed to reject signals off-beam and from the other polarization, that rejection may not actually be enough to throw a strong signal 'down the cliff' - the received signal level could still be enough for the box to detect it.
Check whether there's another copy of the BBC channels somewhere else in the channel list, typically around 800. If so, your box may be one that tunes in the first version found rather than the best quality - Belmont is on C22, Chesterfield on C26, Sheffield on C27. See Digital Region Overlap for suggestions; a manual retune is the most likely fix. See the Sheffield transmitter page for the channels to use - note that ArqB is on C63 until 27 September.
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