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, 14 June 2012
John Langley: You can pick attenuators up of sites like eBay. ATV also sell them.
I personally find that, since Maplin went onto the high street, its prices tend to be high and that the stuff it sells can be obtained for less from online sources.
It's good practice to use F-connectors for connections that are perminant (so to speak) such as in the loft. Use coax connectors for behind the TV set.
Some attenuators have coax connections, some have F-connectors.
To connect a TV directly to the aerial, connect the cable from it to one of the output feeds to one of the rooms. Bear in mind that there will be a certain amount of loss in that cable; that is the signal coming out of the cable into the TV will be lower than that coming out of the aerial cable (in the loft) and going into the feed to the room where the TV is.
You could take a TV into the loft and try it directly.
And/or reduce the level of amplification if it has a control on it. See if this rectifies the problem.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Derek Brice
8:54 AM
Gillingham
8:54 AM
Gillingham
Derek Brice: Does anyone know when BBC Southeast news will be available in HD from Bluebell Hill?
Thanks
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Derek's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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tony8:48 PM
Sevenoaks
Where has qvc gone? If i cant come up with an answer my wife is gonna hit the roof, also noticed other channels missing,,,, used to have over 100 now only 65, tried retunes and " factory resets" with no joy. Any ideas ? Oh by the way i live in sevenoaks tuned into bluebell hill, with a dat75 aerial.
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tony's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby10:41 PM
tony: It is possible that some parts in the South of England are currently experiencing the inversion effect at work, resulting in normal reception being blocked by out of area signals. Apart from that, the Digital Uk postcode checker shows that predicted reception for the COM muxes at your location is best from Crystal Palace. In fact you are shown as possibly losing ArqB completely from Bluebell Hill in due course! You could try to do a manual tune on C45 to see if there is a usable signal for SDN (QVC etc) from Bluebell Hill, after first clearing the channel list of any existing data for the SDN channels.
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Bibby11:07 PM
Hastings
Have done complete wipe & reset of channels now c50, 51 & 53 look tuned in but report no signal. Using Hastings old town transmitter. What have I done wrong?
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Bibby's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mark Fletcher11:23 PM
Lytham St. Annes
Bibby,Hastings.I would look up The Inversion Effect as one possible cause.
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Thursday, 28 June 2012
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Tony Adams9:55 AM
Well this is good. After the switchover on the majority of my freeview sets I no longer get Bluebell Hill even though I live about 5 miles from the transmitter. All I can get is London and East Anglia, not a lot of good. On a manual tune, how do I 'target' Bluebell Hill and exclude the others???
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Tony Adams: During the automatic tuning scan, it looks at UHF channels (equivalent to frequencies) from 21 to 69.
Crystal Palace (London) uses channels in the 20s and number 30. Bluebell Hill uses channels ranging from 39 to 54.
You can therefore avoid Crystal Palace by unplugging the aerial for the first 30% of the scan. However, if the Anglia transmitters you are picking up are Rouncefall and Sudbury (these operate using the same frequencies), then you can't avoid them without missing out some of Bluebell Hill's.
Rouncefall/Sudbury uses 44, 41 and 47 for BBC, ITV1 and HD respectively.
If you can wipe the channel memory altogether and manually tune, then do that.
For Bluebell Hill you need to tune to:
46, 43, 40 (HD), 45, 39, 54
If you can't wipe the memory, perhaps by starting the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged and maybe stopping it just after it has started, the objective being to "blank" what's stored. Or maybe run the automatic tuning scan through fully with the aerial unplugged.
If you have it all tuned in but wrong (e.g. you have BBC London), then it may well have put Bluebell Hill in the 800s. Therefore, when you manually tune to Bluebell, it may do nothing because as far as it is concerned, it has tuned to Bluebell.
Failing that, run the scan with the aerial unplugged up to 55%. This should pick up C54 from Bluebell which is COM6 (Yesterday etc) ONLY.
Refer here for services by multiplex (those with a bullet in the "E"/England column apply):
DMOL Post-DSO Multiplex Channel Allocations
If at this point you only have those in COM6, then manually tune the other four (or five if you have a HD receiver).
The numbers I gave above are in order of multiplex.
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Friday, 29 June 2012
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Roland Rippingale7:40 AM
Bibby: I have manually retuned to all channels on Bluebell Hill and installed them successfully. However, cannot get channel 40 (HD). We have 3 HD ready TVs in our house and none of them can receieve channel 40. When I try to manually tune channel 40 just get the message no channels available.
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Bibby: Try again tuning the HD services. I have read reports on here of people with the same issue and someone even suggested that once switchover happened in the South East, HD wasn't being broadcast. Someone has posted this morning to say that they have retuned today and are now picking up HD from Tunbridge Wells transmitter.
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