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, 21 January 2018
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MikeB9:21 PM
Gillian Calliste: We need a postcode and a description of the problem.
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Friday, 26 January 2018
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Gillian Calliste11:00 PM
Gravesend
MikeB: DA12 3JH. Still having the problem. The signal is weak on both the aerial only signal and the BT box. Signal check said 9% for BBC & 13% for Channel 4 at 8pm tonight.
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Gillian's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 27 January 2018
M
MikeB11:17 AM
Gillian Calliste: Your aerial has a problem, and you need to check the system, and if needed, get someone professional to look at it. Start with the aerial lead at the back of the TV.
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Gillian Calliste12:12 PM
Thankyou. I've checked the internal connections which hasn't made a difference, so I've booked a visit from an aerial engineer.. Thanks for your help.
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Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Hi guys
Could you tell me if there is a peculiar and permanent terrestrial TV signal problem in the Gillingham area that only a roof outdoor aerial can solve?, other than using an indoor digital+booster TV aerial?
I am frustrated! I just moved into Gillingham, post code ME7 1QU. Got a brand new 24" Alba Combi TV+Preview, with a 30 indoor one-for-all digital+booster TV aerial.
I set the TV up/tuned up with the indoor aerial perfectly working with most channels in Essex (CO2 8NT) where I bought all the gear, before bring them all down to Gillingham. With so many attempts to tune up the TV and moving the aerial about in different positions, all I get is "NO SIGNAL"....please help explain why...is it to do with the Bluebell Hill transmitter location or what? Or there is no answer other than to install an outside roof aerial? Or is there an indoor aerial known to work for the Gillingham area that anyone can recommend?
Thanks for your anticipated and detail replies.
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MICHAEL's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
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Norman D. Landing7:51 AM
MICHAEL OLALEYE: You have effectively answered your own question - you need a proper aerial on the roof. The TV network is designed, and always was, to be received with roof mounted aerials.
There is no problem whatsoever with the network - but there is a problem with your expectations!
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MikeP
11:43 PM
11:43 PM
Michael Ololeye:
Indoor aerials may work when you are close to a main transmitter or one that radiates a strong signal. As Norman D Landing states, you would be much better off having an aerial mointed above your roof, possible mounted on a chmney stack, that is a log-periodic type so that it is suitable for all future planned transmissions.
Where you were near Colchester is just about near enough top Sudbury to get reasonable reception.
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Tuesday, 6 February 2018
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Bertmay1:53 PM
ME10 using Bluebell Hill transmitter.
Who is responsible for sending out the start/stop signals for recorders?
Recently the BBC4HD channel changed to a different multiplex, after re-tuning the box it would not get the recording start signal. Now I just select the standard non HD broadcast if I want to record anything on BBC4.
This coming week 2 programs, Mcmafia & Hardsun are not being recognised by the HDD recorder, as they are the final shows in the series I will have to select them again in non HD format. All commercial HD channels are OK, it seems to me that someone is altering things in the ether that buggers up the program list & they are not sending out the required signals for recorders to pick up when to start/stop. In fact my Panasonic HDD says "NO Data" for Mcmafia & Hardsun, all the rest of the series went OK.
I am suspicious that the BBC are making room for the Olympics. They have form on this as for the last summer Olympics I had to re-tune twice to get the program list to be reliable.
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js2:52 PM
Bertmay: McMafia and Hard Sun are on BBC One so what has BBC Four HD got to do with it?
I would do a factory reset on that Panasonic.
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MikeP
11:52 PM
11:52 PM
Bertmay:
As far as I know PDC is not operating on Freeview, but I stand to be corrected by someone with inside technical information.
Therefore a recorder will start and stop at the times set by the selection of thwe programme and the user-selected 'lead' time to start before the programme actually starts.
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