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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Wednesday, 25 November 2015
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David Lodge7:36 PM
Burnham-on-crouch
I live in Essex at Bradwell-on-Sea cm0 7pt and tuned to the Sudbury station.
We are always getting trouble with breaking up,would we better off at Bluebell Hill.
Thank you Dave L.
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Thursday, 26 November 2015
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jb3812:42 AM
David Lodge: I very much doubt if it would offer any improvement as far as reliability of reception is involved, as practically every other station shown as being possible to receive (inc Bluebell Hill) in DUK's trade reception predictor, indicates reception as being a mixture of variable to poor in your area, this being somewhat backed up with the forecast of the signal dB levels expected from the various stations in question, as indicated on digital UK's (ex Wolfbanes) technical reception predictor.
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Monday, 4 April 2016
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Sue7:09 PM
My mother has lost all BBC channels - bbc1 - 2 etc she seems to lose it every day at some point in the day and when she goes to watch it at about 7pm - its gone again
She has tried to auto retune the thign and no luck bbc is not there at all and it says no signal
is there a problem or a way we can sort this out please
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jb3811:45 PM
Sue: As no faults are listed against the Bluebell Hill transmitter nor is any engineering work taking place at same, it would be prudent to check with other residents (neighbours) in the row to ascertain if they are also experiencing similar problems with the reception of BBC channels, especially if as appearances would suggest, your mother is connected into a communal aerial system.
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jb3811:55 PM
Sue : Also meant to say, that its most inadvisable to carry out a retune simply because channels are lost, as the problem is invariably down the factors external to the TV or box, all that's achieved by retuning same whilst the signal is down is to delete everything already stored in the tuner, frequent retunes then being required to recover same once that the signal has been restored to normal.
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Tuesday, 5 April 2016
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Ken C4:21 PM
Sue,
Check to see which way the aerial on your mum's roof is pointing. It should be roughly at right angles to the ridge, pointing towards the sun, for Bluebell Hill, but if it's pointing along the ridge, then she's pointing at Crystal Palace and that won't give the best signal. A friend of mine in Sittingbourne had the same problem, lost all the BBC programs. We got round that by using the HD versions instead. ie 101 instead of 1, 102 instead of 2 and so on, so if your mum has an HD set, not HD Ready, that will be a way around the problem.
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Sue5:19 PM
Hi, my Mum said she checked and her aerial has not moved.
Unfortunately she had tried to retune many times before she told me about this problem - She is not on a communal system.
On Saturday when I go there I am going to take my daughters freeview box and see if that gets BBC there as it works fine here.....
My Mum phoned some freeview number (0345 505050 i think it was if i recall) and the woman then told my Mum to retune - So yet again she went through the retune thing. Which achieved nothing.
I am going to check all cables and whatnot when I get there at the weekend.
Thanks very much - i do hope I can sort it out for her :-)
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Wednesday, 6 April 2016
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Ken C3:42 PM
Sue,
The reason for establishing which way the aerial is pointing is NOT to find out if the aerial has moved but to find out where the received signal is coming from. If it is coming from London (Crystal Palace) then because of the distance it is more susceptible to atmospheric changes, which might well account for losing the signal at some point every day. This will also apply to signals coming from Essex. Another way to check where the signal is coming from is to sect Channel 719 on the TV. This is local radio and if you get BBC Radio Kent, your aerial is pointing to Bluebell Hill, but if you get BBC Radio London or BBC Essex, your aerial is pointing to Crystal Palace or somewhere in Essex. As Radio seems less fussy about signal strength and quality you should be able to get local radio on 719 even if you can't get a BBC television station.
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