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The symbol shows the location of the Redcliff Bay (North Somerset, England) transmitter which serves 900 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 Redcliff Bay (North Somerset, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Redcliff Bay 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C40 (626.0MHz)127mDTG-10W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C43 (650.0MHz)127mDTG-10W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (West), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C46 (674.0MHz)127mDTG-10W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
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the effected channels

The Redcliff Bay (North Somerset, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

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 Redcliff Bay transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 14km east (95°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 17km east (101°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)

How will the Redcliff Bay (North Somerset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-135 Jun 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C40BBCA
C43D3+4
C46BBCB
C53tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C57tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCB
C60tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C63BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 50W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 10W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Redcliff Bay was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

3:37 AM

REDCLIFF BAY transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:37 on 02 Apr to 10:00 on 02 Apr, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:37 on 02 Apr to 10:00 on 02 Apr. [BBC]

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Sunday, 24 August 2014
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Eve
11:40 PM
Bristol

We sit slightly downhill from the TV and phone masts. Despite replacement aerial (chimney pole) and cables, the signal from Redcliff has degraded to provide only the occasional BBC1 & 2 (not weather dependent). Is this due to the increasing use of 3 commercial phone transmitters within 200 yards. I believe there are 5 phone masts and the police transmitter within about half a mile? Also is there interference from the Welsh TV masts? We previously received both English and Welsh (Cardiff) analogue channels.

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Monday, 25 August 2014
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MikeB
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

12:09 AM

Eve: If you were going to have problems with 4G, they should have sent you a filter. If you click on the terrain link and the DigitalUK one, they reckon you can use Mendip with no bother (or Wenvoe), which would give you a full service. Frankly, if your signal is so degraded that you only get occasional reception on BBC1 when your just a km away from a transmitter, there must be something seriously wrong with your system, or you are tuned into a very distant transmitter.

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MikeB's 2,579 posts GB flag
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
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Eve
5:42 PM
Bristol

MikeB: A map with contours might change their mind about Mendip.
If you send a vey large bulldozer or a few tons of dynamite to move some hills, 2 nature reserves, a few hundred people in their homes together with Avon Police Headquarters.
We could receive a variable analogue signal from Cardiff. Perhaps affected by the Severn tides and mudflats? The Redcliff relay station was built after a campaign for those reasons. Our experience is that the signal strength from Wales is not enough for digital - a friend tried 2 aerials. We have been told that the signal is not directed to us in England and that is important for digital. Aerial, cables & booster already all professionally renewed. Satellite it is then?

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Eve's 2 posts GB flag
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MikeP
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8:36 PM

Eve:
Have a look at your aerial and try to determine the compass bearing it is pointing towards. Then look at the "E's DigitalUK tradeview" alongside your posts and check which transmitter is at that compass bearing from your home. Once you have decided which transmitter it points to, try manually tuning to the channels used by that transmitter. You can find those on this website or by doing a search online.

Mendip may be the nearest 'full service' transmitter but the hills around Portishead and between there and the Mendip mast could be a problem, especially if you're in one of the lower dips.

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jb38
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9:07 PM

Eve: That said in your reply to MikeB rather indicates that reception in your area has a history of being somewhat problematic.

However, if your neighbours are also experiencing similar problems with reception from the Redcliff relay, then irrespective of whether or not you received a filter though the post, the fact of the Mux channel numbers used by the Redcliff relay being in the range that is most susceptible to being affected by any potential 4G transmission, i.e: 60 - 53, I wouldn't do any harm to give AT800 a ring to find out if there are any newly installed 4G transmitters being tested out in your area.

AT800 info desk being contactable on "weekdays only" between 08.00 - 1800 hrs.

0808 13 13 800 (free from landlines) - or alternatively 0333 31 31 800.


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MikeB
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11:01 PM

Eve: Sorry, but I was going by the terrain plot, which seemed pretty promising, which is much the same story from Wolfsbane: UK digital TV reception predictor Thats the odd thing - you're right on the coast, and the Wenvoe signal pattern Wenvoe (Cardiff, Wales) Full Freeview transmitter | ukfree.tv - 12 years of independent, free digital TV advice indicates you should be able to pick up that transmitter with no problem, although if you can't, thats the way it is. However, you said 'We have been told that the signal is not directed to us in England and that is important for digital' - the signal pattern says otherwise. I think Dave Lindsay and JB38 have a mystery....

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MikeB's 2,579 posts GB flag
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
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jb38
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12:12 AM

MikeB: You are of course quite correct in what you have said, insomuch that Megalithia does "not" indicate that there are any obstructions to the signal path from either the Mendip or Wenvoe transmitters on the P/Code supplied by Eve, and indeed DUK's reception predictor does indicate that good reception should be possible from either transmitter at said location.

But though, post codes are not by any means always precise enough for reception predictors as post codes can in many cases cover quite large areas, not of course that anything concerning airborne RF signals including ERP's are really ever that accurate, but as Eve would appear to reside roughly half way up a hill, it could well be the case that large variations in signal levels are experienced at either end of it, albeit that the top side of the hill is, as expected, where the mass of communication aerials are positioned.

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Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

10:31 PM

REDCLIFF BAY transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 18:33 today to 18:33 today. [BBC]

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Thursday, 9 October 2014
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

4:32 AM

REDCLIFF BAY transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 18:33 yesterday to 18:33 yesterday. [BBC]

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