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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Sunday, 8 March 2020
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Chris.SE6:50 PM
Ken Newman:
If all of you are not reporting it to the BBC on 03700-100-123 thne I can't say I'm surprised that there's no reported transmitter problem! Report it to the BBC first, you can try Freeview after as well, but I've often found they haven't much of a clue.
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Monday, 9 March 2020
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TONY FLETCHER12:02 PM
phoned BBC and they are now fully aware of transmitter issue which seems to be mainly to the east of bluebell hill.
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Chris.SE1:14 PM
TONY FLETCHER:
Hmm, well done, I hope others have reported it as well as it's still not showing up on their website when I check for transmitter faults.
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TONY FLETCHER2:03 PM
update at 14.00hrs,
just had call back from BBC engineer problem at bluebell hill has now been identified, and rectified and now full signal being received in the ME10 postcode area.
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Chris.SE2:29 PM
TONY FLETCHER:
Good news. Well done, thanks for feedback.
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Ken Newman3:29 PM
TONY FLETCHER: Time 15-30 Hmm still low signal ME10 3B+ did you have to do a full retune Tony.?
Thks.
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Chris.SE9:20 PM
Ken Newman:
BBC website still not showing a report of current or recent faults! Freeview not reporting any current faults either.
If you still have problems, report it to the BBC on 03700-100-123
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TONY FLETCHER9:29 PM
Ken i did not do a full retune, as I was on the phone to the BBC engineer, I just did a manual channel search for channel 45 (BBCB PSB3) and it was back up to full strength, so I just retuned channel 45 and stored those few channels.
And it has been perfect ever since.
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Friday, 27 March 2020
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TONY FLETCHER2:03 PM
JUST FOR INFO AND UPDATE, have just had another conversation with BBC engineers, who do not show on there website , but are currently working on another fix to the transmitter with reference to the BBCB (psb3) channel 45. there will be loss of signal etc between 10am to 4pm up until the 3rd april.
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Saturday, 28 March 2020
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Chris.SE6:22 AM
TONY FLETCHER:
Thanks for the update. Putting one of the other poster's postcodes into the "system", Freeview are now showing "There is work due to affect the signal in your area......." & Bluebell Hill has been listed for Planned Engineering for the week commencing 23/03/2020 with "Possible service interruptions" and the BBC site is showing "From 11:18am to 0:02pm on 26th Mar 2020 BBC B HD Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering".
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