Full Freeview on the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter
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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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Mendip (Somerset, 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)
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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Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Pete Green: They were encrypted and BT subscribers had access to them, along with those of Top Up TV. So BT was definitely involved, whether directly or indirectly. It stands to reason that, ultimately BT (and Top Up TV) were providing finance for these services to be carried.
The BT Sport services are on DTT in lieu of the Sky Sports. BT has clearly put a lot into its BT Sport project, having secured the rights to high-profile sport and having hired high-profile presenters.
As the old saying goes "money talks", I should imagine.
Search the internet for information. Sky Sports is still available to BT customers, but streamed via their broadband connections (rather than over the air like a "normal" television channel). Customers whose connections aren't fast enough aren't happy.
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MikeP
4:46 PM
4:46 PM
The 2 Sky Sports channels are to be replaced with the 2 BT Sport channels in August. Much of the coverage will be football, rugby, tennis, MotoGP etc but many fans of other sports are less interested. BT do not have a price yet for these services after the first year free.
Those hoping to get the service via their broadband connect will, I'm told by BT, need a service of at least 5.6 Mbps, so many rural users will be disappointed. (I'm not despite a 2.1 Mbps ADSL line - I don't like football!).
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Thursday, 4 July 2013
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Pete Green11:39 AM
Weston-super-mare
Dave Lindsay and MikeP
Thank you for that. I see Brian has a new column about this.
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Pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 8 July 2013
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bruce12:30 PM
have had to re-turn tv [and will do my freeview box] in order to get the latest channel number changes ie ch20. Why was no notification given of the need to re-tune or did I missed it?
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Bizman8:38 PM
You missed it! Easily done, it was in the small print in adverts for it. The adverts only appeared on UKTV channels such as Yesterday, Really, et al
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Tuesday, 9 July 2013
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bruce2:43 PM
bizman, thanks for the info, really must pay more attention!!!!
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Thursday, 11 July 2013
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Ruth Narramore8:28 AM
Wotton-under-edge
We have recently started suffering from a lot of macroblocking and even total loss of reception on the BBC SD mux only. This is from the Mendip transmitter? Have they reduced the signal level?
postcode is GL12 8NN
Aerial is on the roof
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Ruth's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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John4:11 PM
Bristol
I live in Bristol, 48 and 49 from Mendip have always been poor, unusable signal levels, but have now completely disappeared, zero signal strength on both. I have to use a Skybox with expired card to get BBC regular channels on freesat.
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 12 July 2013
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Oliver Grills11:04 PM
Bristol
I live in BS1 - central Bristol, and recently, with no obvious reasoning I have started getting very poor signals from Channel 4, 4+1, film4, 5, and now ITV and similar channels as well. BBC seems to be one of the only fine channels. What on earth is going on?
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Oliver's: mapO's Freeview map terrainO's terrain plot wavesO's frequency data O's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Oliver Grills: Are you sure that your receiver isn't tuned to the wrong transmitter?
From your location Bristol Ilchester Crescent and Mendip are roughly inline with one another, albeit that the former is vertically polarised and the latter horizontally so.
For ITV, Channel 4, Channel 4+1 etc Mendip is on C54 and Ilchester Crescent on C44. For Film4 Mendip is on C52 and Ilchester Crescent C39. The tuned channel number is usually given on the signal strength screen.
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