Full Freeview on the Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) mast?
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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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Bristol Kings Weston 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Bristol Kings Weston transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-points-west.jpg)
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 5km southeast (140°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-west-west.jpg)
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 9km southeast (133°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | E T | W T | K T | |||
C22 | SDN | ||||||||
C25 | ArqA | ||||||||
C28 | ArqB | ||||||||
C30 | LBS | LBS | |||||||
C31 | _local | ||||||||
C40 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
C43 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||||
C45 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
C46 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||||
C48 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
C50tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
C52tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C53tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
C57tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
C60tv_off | -ArqB | -ArqB |
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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 1000W | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200W | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 100W | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, LBS | (-17dB) 20W |
Local transmitter maps
Bristol Kings Weston Freeview Bristol Kings Weston DAB Mendip TV region BBC West WestWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Saturday, 1 October 2016
Transmitter engineering
3:31 PM
3:31 PM
BRISTOL KINGS WESTON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 yesterday to 02:01 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:26 on 29 Sep to 16:29 on 29 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:26 on 29 Sep to 16:29 on 29 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 yesterday to 02:01 ye [BBC] Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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Sunday, 2 October 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:31 AM
5:31 AM
BRISTOL KINGS WESTON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:26 on 29 Sep to 16:29 on 29 Sep, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 on 30 Sep to 02:01 on 30 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:26 on 29 Sep to 16:29 on 29 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 on 30 Sep to 02:01 on [BBC] Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
6:09 PM
6:09 PM
BRISTOL KINGS WESTON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:26 on 29 Sep to 16:29 on 29 Sep, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 on 30 Sep to 02:01 on 30 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:26 on 29 Sep to 16:29 on 29 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 on 30 Sep to 02:01 on [BBC]
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Monday, 3 October 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
BRISTOL KINGS WESTON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 on 30 Sep to 02:01 on 30 Sep, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:26 on 29 Sep to 16:29 on 29 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 on 30 Sep to 02:01 on 30 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:26 on 29 Sep to 16:29 on [BBC]
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Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
BRISTOL KINGS WESTON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 on 30 Sep to 02:01 on 30 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:11 on 30 Sep to 02:01 on 30 Sep. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 22 November 2016
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Geoff Gaunt11:10 PM
StevensOnln1: Hi - I am experiencing serious dropout on the PSB1/BBCA Mux from the Bristol KingsWeston transmitter.
Wierd thing is that this is in the middle of the Mux frequencies and I don't have problems with the lower & higher frequencies. In fact the lowest frequency is apparently output at 20W but I have a signal strength of 69% but the BBC Mux outputs at 200W but I only have a signal strength of
48%
These are the signal strength readings I am currently seeing
Mux , Channel, MHz, Power, Strength, Quality
LBS, 30, 546.0, 20W, 69%, 100%
PSB2/D3+4, 40, 626.0, 200W, 70%, 100%
PSB1/BBCA, 43, 650.0, 200W, 48%, 100%
PSB3/BBCB, 46, 674.0, 200W, 66%, 100%
C0M4/SDN, 53, 730.0, 200W, 70%, 100%
COM5/ArqA, 57, 762.0, 200W, 50%, 100%
C0M6/ArqB, 60, 785.8, 200W, 55%, 100%
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Thursday, 24 November 2016
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Geoff Gaunt6:34 PM
Seems to be weather related, with the big rain-storms we had over the past few days ???
PSB1 is now registering strength of 53% which my receiver seems able to cope with. Not brilliant (Aerial is in the loft, so possibly this degrades the signal) but no breakup of signal so happy again
PSB1/BBCA, 43, 650.0, 200W, 53%, 100%
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Friday, 25 November 2016
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MikeB9:36 AM
Geoff Gaunt: Check your system - a frayed wire etc could be the cause of that mux being low (it doesn't always follow that the weakest mux goes first). And the fact that you had lots of rain when the problem occured points to a possible problem with moisture in the system. Even in a loft, rain can get in, etc.
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Geoff Gaunt8:48 PM
Thanks Mike - cable is fairly new and double-screened (ie copper braid + foil) satellite cable - all internal so has never been exposed to the weather.
This has happened once before - same issue for a couple of days with the SD-BBC channels on PSB1, and that was during a period of extreme weather.
I appreciate that there could be signal attenuation due to the roof, but according to Loft and indoor aerial installations for TV, FM and DAB the attenuation is higher the higher the frequency, so it's strange that the lower freq. PSB1 @ 650MHz is worse than COM4 @ 730MHz
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Geoff Gaunt9:02 PM
Hmmm - I wonder if this could be the issue!!! <quote>Some types of roofing material are semi porous and the attenuation level can rise if they get wet,</quote>
The signal took a couple of days after the rain to come back to normal: the roof tiles are 70yr old terracotta (hopefully soon to be be replaced) so could well be absorbing moisture and causing the probs.
Seems feasible.....
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