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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Wednesday, 30 November 2011
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Bert 4:36 PM
Sittingbourne
Dave
BBC4 has been OK for us in the past week, ME10 post code.
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Thursday, 1 December 2011
Dave: The reception on BBC4 should be exactly the same as that on BBC1, BBC2 and other BBC standard definition and radio channels. This is because they are all transmitted on the same multiplex (i.e. as a group of channels on the same frequency as part of the same signal).
The only possibility I can think of is that the BBC4 you are tuned to is from another transmitter (whereas the other BBC channels come from the correct transmitter). It might be worth looking to see whether it is on the same UHF channel as the other BBC channels.
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Adam B11:28 AM
Dunstable
Dave, Dave Lindsay:
BBC4 is only on the same mux as the other BBC TV channels on fully switched transmitters, which Bluebell Hill isn't (it is on MUX B here). I suspect single frequency interference could be the problem.
Hope this helps,
Adam.
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Friday, 2 December 2011
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Giuseppe3:45 PM
London
I live in North London. My BBC is clearly receiving signals from Crystal Palace but my ITV channels are from Bluebell. I know this because the Regional news is from Chatham.kent instaed of London.
What can I do? Do I need to change the aerial direction?
On Analogue none of channels are really clear although there is a picture.
I had a new aerial installed in Winter 2002
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KMJ,Derby4:03 PM
Giuseppe: Check the 800's in your channel list for another ITV1 which should be from Crystal Palace. If there is no alternative it will indicate that you have no signal or a corrupted signal on Mux2 from Crystal Palace. As it is it suggests that Bluebell Hill is a stronger alternative. The aerial direction, incidentally is only 44 degrees difference between CP and BH. If you do have a usable ITV1 from CP do a manual tune of the Crystal Palace frequencies, after first clearing the channel list by doing a factory reset, to select the desired set of channels.
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Giuseppe8:14 PM
London
Hi KMJ, Derby. Thanks for the reply. Checked the 800's and yes there is a signal from ITV but it is broken - picture keeps breaking up. This would suggest as you said that I have a "corrupted signal on Mux2". What can I do about it?
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KMJ,Derby9:35 PM
Giusseppe: Check that the aerial is still sited correctly and is pointing in the correct direction, also check that cables and connectors are in good order.You mentioned that the analogue reception is not that good, has this always been the case since the aerial was installed or did it deteriorate slowly over time? If it used to be good and nothing has obviously changed in the signal path, such as trees growing or tall buildings being constructed, it could be that the aerial has corroded or the cable has let in water.On the other hand it could also be that the aerial is positioned in a null for the Mux2 signal and needs slight re-positioning. You also need to check for single frequency interference, looking for a Sky box or VCR with the RF modulator set to C21. If reception is good on the other muxes you might consider it to be best to wait until after switchover in April 2012, when the transmitter power is increased tenfold to 200kW, before deciding if it is necessary to pay for aerial work.
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Friday, 13 January 2012
Watching BBC1 on CH 59 from Bluebell Hill, I am being inundated with a pop up message on the screen telling me my switchover date is April 4th.
According to everrything on this web site and every where else I look, that is not correct.
Who what or whis this false and misleading information being propagated
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John Buchanan: I'm not sure how these popup messages work, but 4th April is when switchover starts at Crystal Palace. Perhaps either they are sending out the message incorrectly from Bluebell Hill or your TV has one or more multiplexes stored from Crystal Palace (perhaps in your 800s).
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