Full Freeview on the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter which serves 270,000 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 Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Ridge Hill 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Ridge Hill transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 69km northeast (39°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 69km northeast (39°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
Whitton | Transposer | 35 km NW Hereford | 40 homes |
How will the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1968-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 1 Mar 2018 | ||||
VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | W T | ||||
C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C24 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C27 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C29 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | |||||
C34 | com8 | ||||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, PSB2 iw, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
com7 | (-9.8dB) 10.5kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
com8 | (-10.1dB) 9.8kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Ridge Hill transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 9 April 2014
DaveCheltenham
9:35 AM
Cheltenham
9:35 AM
Cheltenham
Just a quick correction Brian. COM7 on channel 32 started yesterday the 8th April 2014 and not COM8 as currently shown. As expected, signal strength down on other multiplexes but still very adequate.
Keep up the good work.
Regards
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DaveCheltenham: Thanks for the message.
I have corrected the database: com8 now says "starts sometime during 2014".
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Tuesday, 6 May 2014
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R Day9:39 AM
Gloucester
We keep having to retune tv to get bbc channels. Itv is fine but bbc keeps dropping out. The aerial is on the roof pointing at Ridge Hill. It is particularly bad at the moment and we can't get bbc at all. Post code is GL19.
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Thursday, 17 July 2014
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Chris Farrell10:35 AM
Cheltenham
Hi, some help would be appreciated. I have a Humax Box and have recently been experiencing signal problems on various Freeview channels, but not all. This problem is intermittent and comes and goes. The channels affected are listed below, in case this might be a transmitter issue. Or could it be 4G interference? I have re-tuned the box manually on several occasions. My post code is GL51 3AA and the aerial is on the roof. Thoughts/help would be appreciated... Thanks Chris
Channels affected: all HD,10, 19, 20, 24, 30, 31, 37, 47, 61, 83, 302. All other channels are fine.
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MikeB9:38 PM
Chris Farrell: have you checked your signal strength? Your about 33km from the transmitter, and Humax have a reputation for sensitive tuners. See here for more details: Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | Switchovers | ukfree.tv - 12 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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Saturday, 6 September 2014
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MikeB10:41 PM
M Bennett: A postcode and an explaination of what you mean by 'lose of signal' would be helpful.
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Thursday, 2 October 2014
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rob lucas8:10 PM
Very weak signal at Ross-on-Wye from Ridge Hill on BBC 1, 2 and 3,. Allelse seems ok
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Saturday, 4 October 2014
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KC6:56 PM
I live in Cheltenham and have a high-gain wideband ariel directed NW at Ridge Hill. Unfortunately (as well as receiving DVB transmissions from Ridge Hill on C21, C22, C24, C25, C27, C28, C29, C30 and C32) transmissions from the much further away Wrekin transmitter on C23 and C26 can be decoded which throws the channel allocation in my TV - i.e. weaker Wrekin-sourced versions of channels are given preference over stronger Ridge Hill multiplexer-transmissions of the same channels.
So I no longer retune the TV using automatic mode and have resorted to nominating individual channels (not including C23 and C26) when retuning the set.
Are there plans to overcome this undesirable transmission competition from weaker further-away transmitters?
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Dave Lindsay
7:26 PM
7:26 PM
KC: You have overcome it by manually tuning!
I presume your question about "plans" relates to the automatic tuning sequence. How could it possibly be overcome??!!
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