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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Saturday, 23 April 2011
Mel: Please see What is the Inversion Effect and why does it effect my Freeview TV reception?
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Pedro dd9:40 AM
Marlborough
Or it could be restricted radiation patterns, but if it worked before, it should now. Thus I think Brianist's advice is the best.
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Pedro's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Steve11:39 AM
Maidstone
So who can we write to ask for the signal to be boosted?
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Steve's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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tony3111:51 AM
Sittingbourne
me10 3da postcode all ok all day yesterday went off again last night about 19.45hrs and stayed off untill 09.55 hrs this morning now back to normal. my father who has exactly the same equipment and everything as me and lives me10 3af about 1/4 mile away has had no problems what so ever.i am also led to believe that digital signals should not be as weather affected as analogue
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Gazza12:44 PM
while we wait until 2012 for boosted signals here are a few links for online TV and especially live stream tvcatchup.com i found is great and allows to at least watch live itv1 and C4 again. Then there are the i-players to watch some various programs that you may have missed.
TVCatchup - Never Miss A Show Again
Channel 4 - 4oD
ITV Player
BBC iPlayer - iPlayer TV Home
..still confused why there is no signal when all was ok for years (CT53HW)
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Gazza: Or you could click on the icons in the right hand column of every page on this site.
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pamula8:02 PM
Maidstone
steve i live in the north of maidstone at the bottom of bluebell hill and i can't get ch4 channels and ch5 etc in evenings, my friend near mote park is getting all channels.why do we have to just take it and put up with it for a year!was ok 2 weeks ago, do we pray for rain everyday just so we can watch the tv we like. must be lots of old peeps who loose their progs and dont have a computer. miffed of maidstone
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pamula's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Pedro dd9:19 PM
Marlborough
It's probably intermittent interference.
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