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 15/04/2024 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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Friday, 16 November 2012
kevin rose: Perhaps have Crystal Palace tuned in (probably in the 800s) as a back-up.
It is only 11 degrees off the bearing for Bluebell Hill.
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Saturday, 17 November 2012
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Tony Wilson3:30 PM
Hello
In the last few weeks we have lost ITV4 Film4 yesterday and some others and it makes no difference how many times we re-tune they do not appear.Can you advise as to why this has happened.
Regards
Tony Wilson
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Monday, 19 November 2012
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Geoff Carter11:18 AM
Hi Tony,
I had the same problem when tuning my mothers box - It did not pickup C54 (ITV4,Yesterday etc)from Bluebell hill. She lives in Whitstable which lines up with Bluebell Hill and also Crystal Palace. I simply tuned in channel 28 (ITV4, Yesterday etc) from Crystal Palace and its working fine. I still have no idea why C54 seems impossible to get.
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Wednesday, 5 December 2012
I am just 3 miles from Bluebell hill (Vinters park Maidstone) yet reception is poor especially at the moment.Why is this? Is it the weather or what?
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David8:42 PM
Suddenly this evening things are a lot better.I have a SIGNAL STRENGTH OF 6 AND QUALITY of 8 now.It is always channel 54 that suffers the most when things go awry.
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jb389:26 PM
David: If as was likely, that you were receiving signals from the transmitter that strength wise were bordering on the verges of being "over the top", then if your reception has suddenly improved it simply means that the signal strength has dropped slightly thereby taking the edge off the tuner from operating in a semi-overload situation.
By the way don't trust any signal strength / quality indications seen when in this type of situation, as the receivers signal measuring circuitry gets corrupted due to an element of instability occurring in the tuner and with this resulting in inaccurate indications, these nearly always being much lower than in reality.
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Wednesday, 16 January 2013
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Colin Halton5:27 PM
Having lost signal on film4, yesterday, and a few others, I did a factory reset and auto rescan on all my tv's and my Humax fox t2 and this cured the problem. I noticed that the channel carrying these signals had changed to 54.
However my Humax DTR 1000 T YouView box won't allow me to do this without wiping the hard drive & therefore losing all the recordings nor does it allow manual scans so I can't scan Channel 54 alone. Fresh autoscanning does not find the channel 54 items so the problem remains. This is going to be a real pain if it happens every time there is this kind of update.
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Colin Halton: COM6 which carries Film4, Yesterday and others has always been on C54 since switchover. Therefore if you were tuned to a different channel you must have been receiving it from another transmitter.
If the unwanted signals are outside the range of channels used by Bluebell Hill then you may be able to get around it by unplugging the aerial lead for that part of the scan. For example, Crystal Palace's are all in the 20s so unplug the aerial for the first 30% of the scan.
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Monday, 21 January 2013
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mike giggs10:48 PM
I live in dartford but would like to get TV south east instead of London. Could I get SE with anew aerial pointing towards bluebell hill. Thanks
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