Full Freeview on the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter
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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 
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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)
Which Freeview channels does the Emley Moor 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Emley Moor transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 22km north-northeast (22°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
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 B | Active deflector | 74 homes | |
| Derwent C | Active deflector | (second level) | |
| Dunford Bridge | Active deflector | 14 km S Huddersfield | 15 homes |
| Hmp Leeds | Transposer | 30 homes | |
| Thixendale | Transposer | 25 km ENE York | 40 homes |
How will the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1956-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Feb 2020 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | W T | ||||
| C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C39 | _local | ||||||||
| C41 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C44 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C47 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | SDN | |||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | LLS |
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 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
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
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Neil Barnett2:14 PM
Sheffield
This digital switchover is absolutely rubbish. I used to get a strong analogue signal from the Sheffield mast, to my aerial in the loft, giving 4 solid terrestrial stations and fuzzy channel 5.
I got a professional in to put up a better aerial on the roof and channel 5 got worse, though I got SOME digital channels with reasonable clarity unless the weather was rainy, cloudy, sunny, windy or snowy.
Now, BOTH BBC channels have broken-up and are unwatchable. The others are no better than they were.
My aerial is vertically polarised so it shouldn't pick up Emley Moor. I would have line-of-sight to Sheffield mast if my house was 150 yards closer.
Pointless rubbish.
Can I get a discount on my licence fee if I can't receive what I'm paying for?
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Mike Dimmick3:18 PM
Neil Barnett: If you got worse Channel 5 from a roof aerial than from a loft aerial, why didn't you complain at the time? It might indicate that the aerial was the wrong group - you need a wideband aerial to get all the multiplexes.
Did you get the BBC channels reliably over the last two weeks? If so, the reason is probably now that you have too much signal. If you have a booster or other amplifier, remove it or turn it down. If that doesn't help, try adding an attenuator.
Signal levels from Belmont and Chesterfield also look pretty high at your location. While the aerial is designed to reject signals off-beam and from the other polarization, that rejection may not actually be enough to throw a strong signal 'down the cliff' - the received signal level could still be enough for the box to detect it.
Check whether there's another copy of the BBC channels somewhere else in the channel list, typically around 800. If so, your box may be one that tunes in the first version found rather than the best quality - Belmont is on C22, Chesterfield on C26, Sheffield on C27. See Digital Region Overlap for suggestions; a manual retune is the most likely fix. See the Sheffield transmitter page for the channels to use - note that ArqB is on C63 until 27 September.
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Neil Barnett: "Can I get a discount on my licence fee if I can't receive what I'm paying for?"
Basically no. If you sells all your TVs and other TV reception equipment, you can apply for a refund. Otherwise you have to pay and obtaining a decent reception is your responsibility.
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D Gough7:08 PM
Barnsley
What date will we see an increase in the power at switchover? I live in Darfield S Yorks
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Mike Dimmick7:13 PM
D Gough: 7 September, for BBC channels (except HD). 21 September, for all other channels.
Mux A is scheduled to move from C43- to C52+ on 7 September, to allow Sutton Coldfield to launch high-power BBC A on C43. I believe it will do so at 10kW, so you might get some improvement on the channels on that multiplex, for the two weeks between stage 1 and 2.
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Iain Nicol9:27 PM
Leeds
I've already posted this, but on the wrong transmitter page. Apologies for the repeat..
I'm at LS17 9LP (Yorkshire). We've had digital for 3 or 4 years, and have recently got 2 issues. They have happened since I followed the on- screen instructions to re tune after 20th August.
Firstly - the digital signal fluctuates during the afternoon. From midday until around 8pm, we get breakup or even total loss on all channels. Reception is perfectly good the rest of the time.
Secondly, since we retuned, our "local" news on BBC (channel 1) seems to think we live in Lincolnshire. To get the Yorkshire news, we have to tune to channel 825
We have a wideband amplified aerial mounted on the wall of the house, horizontally aligned pointing at 194 degrees (to Emley Moor) direct into a sky box. The signal goes from there into a 4 way splitter for distribution to sets around the house. This configuration allows sky to also be distributed on analogue.
Any ideas why we get this fluctuation, and why the locality has changed?
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Mike Dimmick10:00 PM
Iain Nicol: Your box must be one of the many that stores the first channels it finds, rather than waiting to see if it finds better signals elsewhere.
There is a very large overlap between the Belmont and Emley Moor transmitters, and you're on the edges of it. No changes have yet been made to Emley Moor. The prompt you got must have been coming from Belmont - perhaps one of the multiplexes was from there originally.
See Digital Region Overlap for a list of possible solutions, but the only real solution is either to tune manually or replace the box with one that tunes the best-quality services and/or allows you to select the region to store.
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Ron Lake
11:32 PM
Wakefield
11:32 PM
Wakefield
Neil Barnett. License Fee. I'm afraid you will also find that if you have had your license for 28 days, then you are not eligible for a refund for the rest of the year. This is what I was told by TV Licensing when I applied for a refund for the 6 months I had no TV equipment installed.
Typical of all taxes, if you owe them £1 they want it yesterday, if they owe you £1 it will take at least 6 weeks (if you get it at all)
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Thursday, 25 August 2011
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Iain Nicol6:24 PM
Leeds
Mike Dimmick
Good answer, many thanks. It appears to me the belmont-based channels that suffer from fluctuating signal strength during the day. Is this due to distance from the transmitter / daytime atmospheric conditions?
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Simon9:40 PM
Sheffield
Just got a new Sanyo TV with built in Freeview but can't understand why I'm missing channels. Signal strength is reported as very good, yet I'm only getting Mux 1,2 and B.
I have a roof mounted aerial and postcode is S5 9LS
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