Full Freeview on the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter which serves 200,000 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 Bluebell Hill (Medway, 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 Bluebell 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 Bluebell Hill transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 28km southwest (218°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 5km south-southeast (155°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||||
| E | E | E | W T | W T | |||||
| C21 | _local | ||||||||
| C28 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqA | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | SDN | ||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | ArqA | ||||
| C45 | SDN | BBCB | |||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | ArqB | ||||
| C54tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 13 Jun 12 and 27 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 30kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-1.8dB) 20kW | |
| com8 | (-7.8dB) 5kW | |
| com7 | (-8.1dB) 4.7kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 3kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A* | (-11.8dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Bluebell Hill Freeview Bluebell Hill DAB Bluebell Hill TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bluebell Hill transmitter area
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Sunday, 2 November 2014
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Mike Johnson7:28 PM
Dave Lindsay:
Thanks Dave.
I will try it in the Morning - Wife engrossed in something at the moment.
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Dave Lindsay
8:59 PM
8:59 PM
Mike Johnson: Or the alternative may be to use manual tuning, if available on the set concerned. UHF channel numbers and frequencies in MHz are near the top of this page.
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KMJ,Derby9:25 PM
Mike Johnson: Have you looked if there are any channels listed in the 800s at the end of the channel list? If you have signals from both Crystal Palace and Bluebell Hill available it would be usual to find alternative versions for BBC1 and ITV stored as well as those occupying the normal channel positions.
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Saturday, 8 November 2014
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will12:16 AM
Hi I live in Gillingham close to bluebell hill and the local bbc channels are jumping,pixelated and blacking out, yet London bbc tv signal is a ok! I have tried a booster but no change and help please. Thanks
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MikeB12:28 AM
will: Its because your so close to the transmitter, and your signal is too powerful - see here: Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you
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Friday, 28 November 2014
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Jane Hopkinson9:16 AM
I have just purchased a Sony Bravia tv and a Humax box, plus new aerials. When I first set it up I had over 300 stations which over the next few days gradually decreased, Yesterday being a good example. I have re-tuned and done the factory default re-set and now only have 170 stations (Yesterday having gone altogether). We have an outside aerial which may be quite old but I find it amazing that one minute things are working well then it all changes when nothing has been touched and the weather is quite settled. Do I need a new aerial? Help!
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Dave Lindsay
12:28 PM
12:28 PM
Jane Hopkinson: There are, according to Digital UK, "only" 151 services available on Freeview in the UK. Accepting that perhaps there are others and that the total may be 170. to get 300 you must be receiving some from one transmitter and some from at least another transmitter.
When you say "aerials", are we talking more than one aerial directed to the same transmitter (Bluebell Hill)? Or is there more than one aerial pointing to different transmitters?
If it's the former then there may be no issue, barring loss of COM6 multiplex (which carries Yesterday). This is because signals from other transmitters can be picked up off-beam of the aerial and by the nature these can be intermittent. If it is a requirement that signals be received from another transmitter then an aerial should be installed for it.
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Thursday, 9 July 2015
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Steve8:00 PM
Maidstone
Hi,
Do not usually use our TV as we have TalkTalk Plus, but while waiting for the box to be changed tried to use the TV, but it only had channels 3 to 33 and no amount of re-tuning made any difference. I also have another freeview box, which we could use and this had all the channels.
New TalkTalk box arrives, and again, no problem with getting all channels, but the TV will still only re-tune from 3 to 33.
Any ideas? Has the tuner gone kaput on the TV?
ME15 9XQ
Thanks,
Steve
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Dave Lindsay
8:37 PM
8:37 PM
Steve: A full list of Freeview services is published by Digital UK here:
Digital UK Industry - Channel listings
Ordering by multiplex would suggest you are only receiving PSB2 (D3&4) as the first service on that mux is logical channel 3 and the last is 33 (with other services on other multiplexes interleaved).
At 5.5 miles you would appear to have clear line-of-sight to the transmitter on Bluebell Hill. I would suggest, therefore, that perhaps the problem is too high a signal strength and that some attenuation is in order.
Before you do, however, you should go to the manual tuning screen and enter/select the UHF channel numbers of the Bluebell Hill multiplexes but don't press the button to scan/add services as in this state the receiver should act like a simple signal meter, giving you an idea of strength and quality. View each for a period of a minute maybe and see if it varies.
PSB1 - BBC One - C46
PSB2 - ITV - C43
PSB3 - BBC One HD - C40
COM4 - ITV3 - C45
COM5 - Pick - C39
COM6 - 4Music - C54
COM7 - BBC News HD - C32
COM8 - QVC + 1 HD - C34
PSB1 through to COM6 are at 20kW, COM7 is at 4kW and COM8 is at 5kW, according to Digital UK Coverage Checker.
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