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The symbol shows the location of the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter which serves 1,550,000 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 Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) mast?

Emley Moor transmitter - Emley Moor transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Emley Moor transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)578mDTG-174,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Yorkshire, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C44 (658.0MHz)578mDTG-174,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Yorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C41 (634.0MHz)578mDTG-174,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Yorkshire, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H max
C33 (570.0MHz)566mDTG-8174,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H max
C36 (594.0MHz)565mDTG-8174,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H max
C48 (690.0MHz)565mDTG-8174,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LLS
 H -15.4dB
C39 (618.0MHz)565mDTG-125,000W
Channel icons
from 22nd September 2014: 7 Made in Leeds,

DTG-8 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)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Emley Moor transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 22km north-northeast (22°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
regional news image
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 22km north-northeast (16°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region

Are there any self-help relays?

Derwent BActive deflector74 homes
Derwent CActive deflector (second level)
Dunford BridgeActive deflector14 km S Huddersfield15 homes
Hmp LeedsTransposer30 homes
ThixendaleTransposer25 km ENE York40 homes

How will the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1956-80s1984-971997-981998-20112011-135 Feb 2020
VHFB E TB E TB E TB E TW T
C10ITVwaves
C32com7
C33SDN
C34com8
C36ArqA
C37C5wavesC5waves
C39_local
C41C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCB
C44BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4D3+4
C47ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCA
C48ArqBArqB
C51tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesSDN
C52tv_offArqA
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offLLS

tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
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Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-5 870kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 174kW
com7(-12dB) 54.8kW
com8(-12.3dB) 51.2kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C*(-19.4dB) 10kW
Mux A*, LLS(-22.4dB) 5kW
Mux D*(-23.4dB) 4kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area

May 1956-Jul 1968Granada Television†
May 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Oct 2002Yorkshire Television
Oct 2002-Dec 2014ITV
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only.

Comments
Monday, 8 August 2011
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Steve
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6:34 PM

Mick in Eckington

I live nearby in Gleadless and go to Eckington a lot. Most aerials in the town point to Belmont so I am sure this is why you get BBC1 Lincs. To be fair, lots of homes in North Derbyshire and Sheffield do - it may be possible to fit an aerial for Emley Moor but if you live down at the bottom of the hill this might not be possible. It will cost you too

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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
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mike Roberts
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2:33 PM
Wigan

Hi a question for Briantist, I live in Aspull wigan postcode wn2 1sz and can recive some stations from the emily more transmiiter, some are weak and some are very weak, will i be able to get them at full strength when emily more switches over fully to digital. it is strange because according to the website Emily more is not in line of sight of my postcode but yet i can receive stations from there.

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Mike Dimmick
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3:20 PM

Mike Roberts: Yes, you're likely to get the channels more reliably than you do now, though this is never going to be all that reliable with the Pennines in the way. The commercial multiplexes will be co-channel with those from Moel-Y-Parc so are unlikely to work.

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mike Roberts
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6:35 PM
Wigan

but are the Pennines an obstacle, with the hight and strength of emily more, I mean if they were, you wouldn't get it at all over here would you? also i get nothing from moel-Y-parc as my Ariel is pointing the wrong way, done many a rescan on my box and only got my own local ones and about 15 channels from Emily more.

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Betamax_man
8:32 PM
York

Mike Roberts: I live in the East Riding of Yorkshire Post Code YO42 2QG in a town at the foot of the Wolds and can receive Winter Hill, Bilsdale, Belmont, Waltham and of cause Emley Moor. Signal very weak from Winter Hill and Waltham though. Having problems with channels disappearing from Emley and having to manually retune again. This started to happen after the Belmont first stage switch over. Roll on Emley's switch over.

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Thursday, 11 August 2011
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mike Roberts
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1:24 AM
Wigan

wow didnt think winter hill went that far out Beatamax_man. yeah its strange like i said no moel y parc at all here yet Emily more is ok, do you also get channels breaking up from Emily more to Beatmax-man.

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Gordon H
1:02 PM
Lincoln

Hi,
I completed a reset but no improvement. I have a recently installed high gain aerial on the roof. No problems with reception until 2-3 days ago.

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Mike Dimmick
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3:50 PM

mike Roberts: You often see claims that line-of-sight to the transmitter is required. It isn't. You definitely get the best signal levels if you do, and the least reflections, but you still get some signal (not necessarily enough to be usable) from refraction over the terrain.

Line-of-sight is also suggested because it is easy to compute possible signal levels. Most predictors - other than Digital UK's - use a simple free-space equation which can overestimate levels.

Aerials have a fairly wide acceptance angle - how wide depends on the aerial. It's likely that it has enough gain in Emley Moor's direction, not enough in Moel-Y-Parc's direction. Briantist is completely wrong to claim that a Yagi-type aerial receives as much signal from behind as in front, it is in fact far less (though not none).

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Mike Dimmick
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4:05 PM

Betamax_Man: It's likely that your box has an automatic retune function, and that it also stores the first version of the channels that it finds, rather than the strongest. I would turn off the automatic retune.

At switchover, the best approach is probably to unplug the aerial before doing a reset. You can then plug it in when the scan reaches about one-third of the way through, or leave it out until the end, accept that it hasn't found any channels, then manually tune on the appropriate frequencies. See above for the UHF channel numbers to use.

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Thomas
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6:53 PM
Leeds

Since Belmont and Sheffield started DSO stage 1, my analogue reception from Emley Moor has become very poor. On all channels, there is a significant ghost image (not always the same channel) being picked up as well, as if one of the other transmitters is outputting on the same frequencies as Emley's analogue.

Obviously with analogue being turned off next month it's not much of an issue (digital reception has been slightly worse as well but usually ok). It's just a LOT easier to spot problems such as ghosting, pre-echo and co-channel interference on analogue rather than digital.

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