Full Freeview on the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter
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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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) mast?
Ridge Hill transmitter - Ridge Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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
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 withheldThursday, 4 February 2016
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Pete Crawford1:07 PM
Hi
I live in Gloucester and would like to know if I can receive BBC1 WEST (i.e news from the west country Bristol etc) from the Ridge Hill transmitter.
At the moment I can only seem to receive BBC1 WEST MIDLANDS.
If its possible what is the channel (and frequency) number so that I can retune.
Many thanks
Pete
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Pete Crawford: Hi Pete, unfortunately only itv west is available on the ridge hill transmitter on UHF channel 29. Freesat would be the only way to receive the west on BBC.
Andy
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KC: it can be overcome by reducing the size height and possibly location of your aerial. There is no need for an high gain aerial where you are and so a smaller one would give you the channels that you want and omit the ones you don't!
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Trevor: I live in ruardean and we have perfect signal (I am an installer so you would hope if have a good signal!) let me know if you can't resolve the issue! www.absatelliteandaerial.co.uk
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Sunday, 24 April 2016
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Rachael RENO5:40 PM
We have had no Freeview since 7pm on friday 22nd. We had talk talk tv until 8am yesterday, but no freeview signal. We have retuned/ reinstalled the tv's to no avail. We are one of several households in our cul-de-sac that are without tv. Please rectify the problem ASAP as we are licence payers and suscribe to other tv providers! Please also let us know in future of any connection problems/ engineering works as a matter of common decency to householders.
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jb388:14 PM
Rachael RENO: Assistance / advice on issues concerning reception problems can only be given in cases where a persons location is known, therefore a post code or one from a nearby shop / Post office is required, this info used to enable access to details of the transmitter covering your area as well as the operational status of same.
Another point being, as you have reported that other residents in the cul-de-sac are also affected by the problem the question would be, whether (or not) the households referred to are all connected into a communal aerial system? because if they are?, then the aerials distribution amplifier has possibly failed.
However, irrespective of the aforementioned, further advice can be given once your location is known.
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Wednesday, 8 June 2016
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Paul Evans1:51 PM
Bromsgrove
I live in Bromsgrove, B60 3DE. I can't use the local transmitter as the Lickey incline is at the bottom of the garden, high up directly between me and the transmitter. A combination of trains going past and trees on the embankment makes the picture unwatchable. 2 years ago, the aerial fitter did a good job in setting the aerial to Ridge Hill, which has been fine.
At present Ridge Hill has a weak signal. DigitalUk shows there is planned engineering work there, but doesn't say what or when it will be complete. When I retuned last week the Humax Youview box seems to have tuned the main channels to Bromsgrove (V polarisation), despite the aerial being Horizontal pointing at ~90 degrees away from B'grove. The channel numbers I want are close together on the two txs: Ridge Hill 21 to 34, Bromsgrove 23, 26, 30, then some 40s. On my Sony TV I can selectively tune each channel. I can't find a way to do that on the Humax box - it is all or nothing. I'm probably going to have to wait until it is back to full power.
Does anyone know when Ridge Hill will be back to full power, and is there any way to select the channels on the Humax box?
Thanks, Paul
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Richard Cooper4:36 PM
Norwich
Paul Evans: Hi Paul. Let me check Ridge Hill engineering for you first. There appears, unfortunately, to be no publicly available information to indicate when the works at Ridge Hill will have been completed and when it will return to full power. I will now quickly investigate the Humax Youview box to see if you can do a manual tune on it. Apparently it is NOT possible to carry out a manual retune on a Humax DTR-T2000 Youview box because Humax doesn't provide manual retune as a menu option.Is this what you are finding, Paul? As I think you have realised, Paul, there is no simple solution to your dilemma other than to wait for Ridge Hill to return to full power. I certainly wouldn't use , or even try to use Bromsgrove, with a measly 400 watts per multiplex, when Ridge Hill has all 8 multiplexes, with the main ones on at least 10,000 watts and multiplex COM8 on 4,200 watts. Richard, Norwich, 4:30 p.m. on Weds. 8th. June.
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Paul Evans5:23 PM
Thank you Richard. You are right about the Humax box - I'd like to choose the channels to tune but there is no facility for that as far as I can tell and as you confirm.
I agree Ridge Hill is a far better option, even though Bromsgrove is almost in sight - if it wasn't for the Lickey bank in between!
I'll sit on my hands for a while.
Thanks again,
Paul
ps Many of my neighbours have aerials pointing to Worms Ash (Bromsgrove), vertical elements. No idea what their reception is like. The people in the house before us gave up on terrestrial and used a dish. The neighbours may be doing the same.
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colin daniels8:59 PM
Hereford
the last three nights I have had little viewing due to a sequence of bad signal and no signal which starts about 8.30 pm and eventually it just remains at no signal for the rest of the evening. I have to resort to dvd's
post code HR1 2LU
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