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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?

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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
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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
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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),

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 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H max
C36 (594.0MHz)565mDTG-8174,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H max
C48 (690.0MHz)565mDTG-8174,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 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

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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

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
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Transmitter engineering
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5:08 AM

EMLEY MOOR transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 12:05 on 26 Aug to 11:42 yesterday. [BBC]

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Friday, 30 August 2019
Transmitter engineering
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5:09 AM

EMLEY MOOR transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 12:05 on 26 Aug to 11:42 on 28 Aug. [BBC]

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Wednesday, 4 September 2019
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Chris Benson
8:10 AM

Hello - you may be able to help! Looking at the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) Full Freeview transmitter | free and easy page - I see there's a retune on Oct 23, looking at the table, does this mean we'll lose COM5/ArqA channels on Oct 23? Then, I guess the next ones we'd lose is the COM7 channels before the end of June next year, is that right? Thanks for your help. Chris

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9:38 AM

Chris Benson: According to Digital UK there is a retune on 23rd October, however no multiplexes are closing on that date (the only changes are COM8 moving to UHF channel 56 and the local mux moving to UHF 39). There is a further retune due early next year (no date has yet been announced) when COM4, COM5 and COM7 will be moving.

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Chris Benson
10:44 AM

Thanks Steven for the reply. Really appreciated. Great site here.

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Sunday, 3 November 2019
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Steven
5:05 PM

Hello
Over last few days having problem with COM8 on Emily Moor which transmit channels freesports and quest hd, plus others but not used. The signal keeps going off but between look fine with average signal strength and very good quality.
We are in YO195RH.
Any help or assistance would be gratefully received.
All other channels appear very good so assume not my setup.

Many thanks
Steven

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Monday, 4 November 2019
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Chris.SE
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3:59 AM

Steven:

I can't find any reports of Planned Engineering or Faults for Emley Moor at present.
If you've been having this issue since the retune event on the 23rd October, then it's possible that you don't have a Group T / Wideband aerial and have the original Group B which may not satisfactorily receive further multiplexes after further retune events in Q1 & Q2 next year. Providing you don't have Satellite or Cable TV you can get free help by contacting the Freeview Advice line on 0808-100-0288 where they should be offering to send an engineer to replace your aerial with a Group T / Wideband which is what you'll need to have satisfactory reception of all multiplexes after retunes next year.

If you already have a Group T/ Wideband aerial then see the following -
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
So I'd suggest you check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate potential issues with your aerial or downlead. Also check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction.

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John
3:57 PM
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I live in Wibsey BD61LE and for this location my transmitter should be Bilsdale in the North East plus I have a self imposed handicap in that my aerial is in the loft and it points toward Emley Moor. The aerial is a log Optima L20F Group W and my DIGIAIR dB says it receives at about 45dBuV. This feeds into 5v dc pass thru amp a Vision 20-1127 with 27dB gain which in turn feeds a house distribution amp. House TVs were tuned using auto then selecting Yorkshire as the area which in hindsight was a bit naive.

The retune of Oct 23, 2019 meant that COM8 HD CH56 was changed to CH37 and this caused problems with low signal level and dropout. To cut a long story short I moved the Group W aerial to point to Bilsdale (56dBuV) and added an extra Group B (Blake CR10B) to point to Emley Moor (45dBuV) and resorted to manual tuning of TVs and PVRs. The new MUX channel map looks like this:

CH MUX Operator
23 PSB3 BBCB HD Bilsdale
29 PSB2 D3+4 Bilsdale
31 COM7 HD - Bilsdale
37 COM8 HD - Bilsdale
40 COM6 ArqB Bilsdale
43 COM4 SDN Bilsdale
46 COM5 ArqA Bilsdale
47 PSB1 BBCA Emley Moor

CH47 is used used only to receive BBC1 Yorks on TVs whilst PVR tuning relies entirely on Bilsdale. In these cases CH47 is changed to CH26 PSB1 BBCA Bilsdale. The signal strength at the TV CH26 is 84dBuV with CH47 lower at 69dBuV. TV reports signal strength 100% with varying quality for CH47. Not that I anticipate any problems, I will swap the Group W log aerial for a similar Group K one to avoid any 5G issues and only because I have easy access to the aerials.












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7:50 PM

John:

The question you need to ask yourself is which region is my preferred region? You are in Yorkshire after all, do you not want local Yorkshire news?

Not sure why you think that Emley Moor COM8 moved from 56 to 37 as it's still on 56. UHF37 is as you've seen where Bilsdale COM8 currently is. You must have inadvertently (auto) mistuned!
Eventually the temporary muxes COMs 7&8 (where they are still transmitted) with be on UHF 55 & 56 as SFNs.

But also I'm not sure where you get the idea that Bilsdale should be the transmitter you should be using. According to the Freeview Coverage Checker the "Most Likely Transmitter" is Emley Moor, it's only 19km away and the main 6 muxes transmit with 174kW each COMs 7&8 are a touch over 50kW.
Whereas Bilsdale is 77km away, the PSBs transmit with 100kW and COMs 4-6 are 50kW and COMs 7&8 are currently a fraction over 18kW.

What's more, there is a retune event at Bilsdale on the 13th November where the PSBs are moving around those lower channels. COMs 7&8 are moving to UHF 55 & 56 as SFNs and although their power will increase to ~27kW, you are predicted to lose coverage of COM8 from Bilsdale and COM7 will become "poor" reception! But what is worse, is because of some retune events elsewhere in Q1 next year, you are predicted to lose coverage of COMs 4-6 from Bilsdale! There is also a retune event at Emley Moor in Q1, but it's only COM7 predicted reception being slightly worse when it moves to UHF55.

Not sure why you have a self imposed handicap with your loft aerial for Emley Moor (as opposed to Bilsdale), do you have Solar Panels, water tanks, walls or other objects in the way in the Emley Moor direction? I find it strange that you say some of your signal strengths are about 45dBuV from Emley Moor and 56dBuV from Bilsdale considering distance and transmitter power, also for PSB1 84dBuV from Bilsdale and 69dBuV from Emley Moor, you also mention varying quality. Are you absolutely sure that something isn't getting overloaded with all the amplification? That could explain apparently lower signals and varying quality from Emley Moor. IMHO I think some careful checks are needed ;)

Well I've spelt it out for you, I can't give you a direct link to your predicted reception since the changes/amalgamation made to the DigitalUK and Freeview sites last week (a right mess IMHO), but you can check all the details for your self as follows -

Go to Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free scroll down the page to the box "Check Freeview at my home" and enter your postcode and house number/name. Scroll down the new page where available channels are shown in "tiles". Below the initial block there is a "down arrow" if not all are displayed. If you are only interested in a particular group of channels click on that button on the top row.
If you scroll down just after half way down the page, there is a button "Detailed view". If you click on that it will show the predicted reception of transmitters and multiplexes that may be receivable at your location on another new page. Transmitter distances and aerial directions etc are given at the top of that page.
If you hover over any given channel number a pop-up box will show you the transmission details, power etc.
HTH.

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8:01 PM

Not sure what happens on this site from time to time, but one can't get back to previous pages as the links seem to get corrupted eg. at present Page 209 has the link Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) Full Freeview transmitter | free and easy and it just stays on Page 210. The corruption seems to be the _(U) after Emley_Moor.
The workaround seems to be Right Click the page number and select Copy Link Location. Paste that into the address bar and delete the _(U) from the address before pressing Return/Go.

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