Full Freeview on the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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 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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Tuesday, 28 May 2013
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MikeB10:20 PM
Just found this - Update Your Browser | Facebook
might be the answer, and echos what David suggested.
(PE12QN)
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
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Chris Sharp1:42 AM
Chepstow
Hi and thanks for your ideas.
A couple of things I should add, I have tried all of the resetting memory options but these have not worked. Specifically holding down the Menu button for 40 secs on the side of the TV had no effect.
The interesting thing is the TV works for hours with BBC frequency of 698000 kHz.it then seems to reset after changing channels to 794000kHz. Doing a manual retune seems odd to where after manually retuning to 698MHz and getting 22 channels, it defaults to "Discard" rather than "Store". Whereas when you do a full retune and finding 116 channels it defaults to "store".
All the other multiplexes seem to be unaffected.
Regards Chris
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 3 June 2013
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Gareth12:31 PM
Chippenham
In Chippenham.
Lost a whole shed load of channels including itv4 & itv3. Does anyone know how long these interruptions will last?
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Gareth12:36 PM
Chippenham
Just checked and it is COM4,COM5 & COM6 missing.
12:36 service has just come back.
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Gareth: See current Transmitter engineering message: "Over the next week Mendip main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption".
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Justin10:03 PM
Just recorded episode 4 of "The Fall" on BBC2HD and it's just Fuzz. Not happy :(
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Monday, 24 June 2013
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Bizman11:38 AM
Just watched This Mornings weather forecast and thought 'oh a different weather girl' then I realised the area covered was a bit further east, i.e. the Meridian area. This was later confirmed by the statement referring the 'weather for the Meridian region'. What happened there? Has Mendip run out of weather?
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Pete Green12:55 PM
Weston-super-mare
Bizman
It is Meridian on HD not the west if that was what you had on.
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Bizman2:24 PM
I don't have HD, I normally get weather and other regional content from West. This was just a one-off.
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j chequer4:05 PM
why is there no info on the seagry ct transmitter which went off fri pm and is still off now 4pm mon
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