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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-south-east-today.jpg)
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 28km southwest (218°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-meridian.jpg)
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, 4 November 2018
Transmitter engineering
5:05 AM
5:05 AM
BLUEBELL HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 16:11 on 31 Oct to 16:41 on 31 Oct, HD Digital TV Off Air from 21:57 yesterday to 22:06 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:05 on 31 Oct to 13:53 on 31 Oct. [BBC]
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Monday, 5 November 2018
Transmitter engineering
5:05 AM
5:05 AM
BLUEBELL HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 21:57 on 03 Nov to 22:06 on 03 Nov. [BBC]
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Dave Aldridge7:16 PM
Hi For the last week or so I keep getting intermittent breaks with reception...tv screen saying no signal this normally last for about 4sec sometimes a little longer....I have phoned Freeview and taken there advice and retuned....it is still doing the same.....this is happening on both our Freeview TV's .
Any advice is welcome
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Tuesday, 6 November 2018
MikeP
10:38 AM
10:38 AM
Dave Aldridge:
Retuning will not resolve the type of issue you are experiencing, all it is likely to do is loose you some channels you still had! Please check all your aerial cables and connections for any damage or problems, Check all the coaxial plugs/sockets, including those at the back of the equipments, by unplugging and refitting. That will clear any possible corrosion/oxidation from the contacts which is a known cause of the problems such as you report.
Please also [rovide a full post code so we can examine the expected reception conditions at your location.
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Chris.SE7:57 PM
Dave Aldridge:
Also note, there has been some issues at the transmitter, see the Transmitter Engineering reports, and there is transmitter engineering work listed this week at Bluebell Hill with possible weak signal.
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Wednesday, 7 November 2018
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Kenny1:02 AM
Chris.SE: I think there might be a problem with darvel transmitter lots of bbc plus others missing. Osignal or intermittent
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Chris1:24 AM
CH55 & CH56 (Com78 National) currently off air.
I have messed around with attenuators, cables, connections, retunes, reboots, updates, etc, etc, etc, for the last few months and now getting sick of Freeview unreliability. I really respect everything that the regular forum contributors such as MikeP and Chris.SE say, but the fact is that before 19th July 2018, I never had any problems with the service that I received, but since then it has been completely hit & miss. Who is responsible for recent changes, why so many transmitter engineering downtimes and why can't they just get it right?
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MikeP
10:36 AM
10:36 AM
Chris:
COM7 and COM8 are working normally at the Bluebell Hill transmitter according Digital UK. The transmitters are operated and maintained by Arqiva and they work with Ofcom and the European regulators to determine the scheme of transmissions. Arqiva can be contacted at https://www.arqiva.com/co…us/.
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Tuesday, 13 November 2018
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Chris.SE12:04 AM
Kenny: There are some Transmitter Engineering reports on the Darvel Transmitter page.
Chris: Did you see my post to you on Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 5:58 AM?
I posed a number of questions there, how did this all pan out?
Also note, there is Transmitter Engineering work at Bluebell Hill this week with possible service interruptions.
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Thursday, 22 November 2018
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Margaret Hibberd12:35 PM
Hi
We have no service / no signal errors on are tv . Have tried taken all cables in & out .
Also retuning no results . I have Check this site for engineering works also . Now not sure what to do next .
Best regards
Address ME24RR
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