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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) mast?
Bluebell Hill transmitter - Bluebell Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 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 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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Friday, 11 November 2011
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Steve7:11 PM
Just had a message come up on our TV about freeview, blue for more info, yellow to get rid of message. Wife hit yellow as she watching at the time.
Anybody be able to tell me what it is about please?
Steve
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Steve: This is usually a message informing you of an upcoming need to retune.
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Steve8:24 PM
It's just come up again, it says that my area is soon to be switched over and if I need help to ring a help line costing 4p per minute.
Strange as our switch over is due 27th June 2012!
It seems this message is coming up every time we switch channels, how annoying is that?
Hope it doesn't carry on for the 6 months.
Steve
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Steve: The messages are displayed at intervals from about six months out and get more persistent thereafter.
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babs green9:03 PM
Bexhill-on-sea
same for me, i am in east sussex and our date is june 12 also. the blue button just takes you to sone general info about who to phone if you are over 75 or too thick to retune your box!
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babs's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 20 November 2011
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Michael J Gunnill12:58 PM
BBC HD, BBC1 HD, ITV HD & CH4HD are in use at the moment, Freeview: ME8 area of Kent via Bluebell Hill. Will they stay or is this just a test. For example BBCHD on Channel 50.
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Michael J Gunnill: After switchover you will still get these channels. However, you will have to retune as they will be moving frequency they are broadcast on.
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KMJ,Derby3:40 PM
Michael J Gunnill: The HD channels are not yet being transmitted from Bluebell Hill. They will be, on C40 from 27th June 2012. It is likely that you are receiving a signal on C47 from Sudbury/Rouncefall, or if on C31 it will be from Crystal Palace.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011
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Dave4:22 PM
Is anybody else having reception problems with BBC4 lately from Bluebell Hill?
I've had the same setup for about 5 years or so now, but in the last week have had picture freezing and breakup. I've rechecked aerial direction and even raised it a little higher on the pole. We're in a fairly weak area but have always had reasonable reception with an amplifier.
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