Full Freeview on the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
Google Streetview | Google map | Bing map | Google Earth | 51.324,0.520 or 51°19'25"N 0°31'13"E | ME5 9RD |
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 |
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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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Monday, 11 September 2017
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Moira Veitch4:44 PM
My TV has displayed weak or no signal for the past 2/3 hours. I live in a sheltered housing block where the aerial is in the loft.
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StevensOnln17:29 PM
Moira Veitch: Is the aeriel in the loft a shared/communal aerail? Have you checked with your neighbours in the same block to ask if their suffering with the same problem? If they are, get in touch with whoever manages the block and get them to send someone out. If none of your neighbours are having the same problem check the connections behind your TV to look for anything loose or damaged.
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Wednesday, 1 November 2017
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Barry Goodsell7:06 AM
We live in Kingswood nr Maidstone kent has not had any digital signal sinse about 21:00hrs last night.
There is nothing to say why. Can you help
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Peter Harvey10:16 AM
Faversham
My postcode is ME13 9UL I Have just retuned my TV due to loss of signal (it has been like this since last night). On completion the regional option did not include Kent. There is obviously a problem. i changed to London but that signal has now been lost. Please advise
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J.Thompson11:56 AM
Hi since last night about 7.45 I lost digital signal on all of my TV's. Some channels have returned this morning but when re-scanning the TV's I now have fewer channels. I have now lost Drama, BBC1, and the Horror channel. Can someone tell me why this has happened before I arrange for an aerial installer to come and check my aerial.
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J.Thompson11:59 AM
Last evening I lost some digital channels. I have now have re-scanned all my TV's and still have a poor signal along with the loss of several channels such as Drama, Horror, and various others.
Can you please tell me what is going on?
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StevensOnln112:39 PM
Barry Goodsell, Peter Harvey & J.Thompson: The problems you are seeing are very likely cause by the high atmospheric pressure affecting various parts of the country, causing lift conditions which allow signals from distant transmitters which cannot normally be received to interfere with the signals from the transmitter you normally use. Retuning was a bad idea as you have now deleted all of your channels which were correctly tuned. As this is an entirely natural phenomenon, all you can do is wait for the atmospheric conditions to return to normal.
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Saturday, 20 January 2018
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G Rein5:18 PM
Transmitter engineering: I lost a lot of freeview channels on all my tvs earlier in the week, have seen some improvemenf but am still not receiving certain channels and experiencing interferance on a lot too. Bluebell Hill transmitter.
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MikeP
9:33 PM
9:33 PM
G Rein:
To help you we need a full post code please.
Meanwhile, check that you are actually tuned to the Bluebell Hull transmitter by checking the channel number shown for each mulitplex on your TV. Also check that all the aerial cables are in good condition and all the connections are good (by unplugging them all and refitting them in the correct place again).
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Sunday, 21 January 2018
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Gillian Calliste8:23 PM
I've been having trouble with my signal since Wednesday and it is now becoming extremely annoying
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