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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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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MikeP
12:45 PM
Rochester
12:45 PM
Rochester
Margaret Hibberd:
Having checked the Digital UK website, there are no engineering works listed for Bluebell Hill treansmitter. That site is the better sources for such information.
Your post code, ME2 4RR, didn't trigger the transmitter details as it requires the space between the two parts.
You need to check that all your aerial cables and connections are in good condition and that all coaxial plugs/sockets are clean by unplugging them and then refitting. That will clear any corrosion/oxidation from the contacts as that is a common cause of the problems you report.
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Sunday, 25 November 2018
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Chris.SE3:15 PM
Margaret Hibberd:
It might be worth checking that your neighbours aren't having similar issues just in case there is some unusual local interference problem.
Also, do you have another TV set just to check that it's not your TV having the problem? If not, would you be able to take your TV to a neighbour to check it works on their aerial?
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Thursday, 6 December 2018
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Geoff8:55 PM
Maidstone
I ME15 8NQ
Com7 and Com8 channels are sporadically breaking up to disappearing.
First thing in the morning they exist Early afternoon they have degraded to 0% signal strength
Evening they return.
Signal quality is always low 30% to 50%
Aerial is professionally installed as a distributed network across 90 or so properties in a retirement village.
BBC4 HD and BBC NEWS HD are the key requirement but all channels on COM7 & COM8 are affected.
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Friday, 7 December 2018
MikeP
10:59 AM
10:59 AM
Geoff:
Then you need to report it to the management of the complex. They are responsible for the aerial system and its maintenance.
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Geoff2:09 PM
MikeP: Thanks but it is clearly not the aerial system here.
Noting comments elsewhere exactly the same problems were being reported as long ago as January by users in the north of the country.
Only Channels 55 and 56 are affected with the COM7 and COM8 multiplexes. Everything else is perfect here.
Noting today that the bit error rate on those channels climbed during the day.
I have changed my cables, inserted a variable attenuator to no effect. You can't attenuate a signal that is already zero
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MikeP
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Geoff:
Because it is channels 55 and 56 that are affected shows it is the aerial system at fault, probably still using an aolder aerial that is not suitable for reception of those channels. That is why the Management need to have the system updated to use a wideband aerial.
There was no advice to attenuate your signal, so why try it?
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Geoff10:30 PM
The aerial is wideband and professionally installed distributed system.
Also the fact is that those channel are received ok much of the time, they just degrade at random.
I tried an attenuator after reading a post somewhere about signal strength being too strong and causing tuners to mis-interpret the data being decided. Clearly not the issue and I did not really expect it to have any effect.
Thanks
Geoff
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Saturday, 8 December 2018
MikeP
1:03 PM
1:03 PM
Geoff:
Please would you check the signal strength reported bu your TV set, it's usually on the Manual tuning option but DO NOT RETUNE, and then report them here. We need to see the strengths for all the multiplexes that are available. Ideally you need them to be between 60% and 85%. Any less will give rise to variable signal loss and any higher is likely to overload the tuner.
I suspect the item your read was refering to a signal overload condition and not the issue you have.
Also note that aerial systems sometimes develop faults and being professionally instal;led does not prevent faults developing, either in the distribution system, the cabling or the connections.
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Sunday, 9 December 2018
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Geoff10:20 PM
Currently Chanel 55 is registering
Bit error level. 2000
Signal Strength 92
Signal Quality 7. Drops to 3 and 0 and back again
Chanel 56 is registering
Bit error level 1200 to 1317
Signal strength 94
Signal Quality 44
Steady and no break ups at this time - this changes day by day.
Regular signal issue on BBC 4 HD on a Saturday 9pm onwards. For weeks recordings of the dramas at that time have either failed or pixelated. But signal good at other times such as right now.
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