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The symbol shows the location of the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter which serves 720,000 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 Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Mendip 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C32 (562.0MHz)591mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) West, 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
C34 (578.0MHz)591mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (West), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C35 (586.0MHz)591mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South 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
C48 (690.0MHz)591mDTG-8100,000W
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
C33 (570.0MHz)591mDTG-8100,000W
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
C36 (594.0MHz)591mDTG-8100,000W
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

LBS
 H -10dB
C30 (546.0MHz)591mDTG-1210,000W
Channel icons
from 22nd September 2014: 7 Made in Bristol,

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 Mendip transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 25km north (3°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 23km north (11°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)

Are there any self-help relays?

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How will the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-132013-182013-1727 Feb 2018
C/D EEEC/D EC/D E TW TW T
C30_local
C32BBCA
C33com7com7
C34D3+4
C35com8com8
C36ArqB
C37C5wavesC5waves
C48SDNSDNSDNSDN
C49tv_off BBCABBCA
C51tv_offLBSLBS
C52tv_offArqBArqBArqB
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4D3+4D3+4
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offArqAArqAArqACOM8tv_off
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.

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

Analogue 1-4 500kW
Analogue 5(-6dB) 126kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 100kW
com7(-8.4dB) 72.4kW
com8(-8.6dB) 69.1kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBS(-17dB) 10kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Mendip was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Friday, 12 April 2013
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Bob
7:15 PM

For those wanting to contact Arqiva, you can email the "Head of Communication and Reputation", Natalie Field, from the Crawley Court office in Hampshire at this address:
your.feedback@arqiva.com


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Jonny
8:10 PM

Hi, I am wondering why I am unable to pick up Film4? I have a Freeview Digital TV and live in central Stroud. Has it got something to do with the power of my ariel or does the Stroud area have limited frequencies? I have tried retuning.

Many thanks for anyone's help?!

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Dave Lindsay
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8:23 PM

Jonny: If you are receiving from the Stroud relay, or "filler-in" transmitter, then you will not have the Commercial (COM) channels; it only carries Public Service (PSB) channels.

For a list of which services are carried on which multiplex (i.e. which are PSB and which are COM), see:

DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex

The COM channels only broadcast from the largest transmitters as their prmiary objective is profit and they have no "Public Service" obligation. See here:

Londonderry (Northern Ireland) digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice

If you are receiving from Stroud then you may be able to receive the full service from another transmitter such as Mendip or Wenvoe. The latter carries Welsh regional programming and you may be able to use a separate receiver for it (or use Wenvoe as your main transmitter and Stroud via a separate set-top box for regional programming).

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Dave Lindsay
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8:31 PM

Jonny: I would suggest that you're not likely to be able to receive from Mendip and that you're only option in the centre of Stroud might be to receive all channels from Wenvoe and regional PSB channels from Stroud. Unfortunately due to the channels (frequencies) used by these two transmitters being interleaved, you won't be able to have the two feeds (from each aerial) combined so as to feed it into one receiver.

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EL
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8:31 PM
Bristol

Jonny: probably best to check your postcode on this website to see what your forecast coverage is likely to be.

Depending on where in Stroud you are, I would imagine the hills surrounding the Five Valleys may get in the way of the main signal from Mendip. In that case, you may be getting your signal from a local public service relay. For example, Stroud has its own relay (https://ukfree.tv/shutdowndetail.php?tx=SO836077), which you may be getting if your main BBC1 channel comes in on UHF 40 (on Mendip it comes in on UHF 49).

If it's only relaying public service ("Freeview Lite"), then I think you'll only get PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3. Since Film 4 is on COM6, a commercial set of channels, you may not be able to get it at all.

Are you also missing channels such as ITV4 and Yesterday? Can you get Dave or ITV3? These are all on commercial UHF channels which the Stroud transmitter is not relaying.

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Monday, 15 April 2013
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Paul
10:48 PM
Swindon

HI been through the reset procedure on my mums Samsung TV which is about 2 years old there is no free veiw box so i think the tv has the freeveiw tuner built in it was working fine before event now no BBC
their postcode is Sn2 7Pr which is Swindon they live in community housing so the service is provided by landlord for all the tenants they have another tv in the bedroom which uses the same Ariel point and this receives all the channels after it was retuned I have done the reset procedure scan minus the Ariel lead unplug power off wait 30 seconds power on scan again I removed the set in the bedroom from the point before starting and finishing procedure but to no avail the set did find BBC around 800 MHz but the picture was pixellated with no sound it used to show as channel 1 and channel 2 now the first Channel is number 3 but to no avail any ideas as their set seems to be the only one that's not picking up BBC

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Saturday, 27 April 2013
MikeP
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2:11 PM

Whilst it is often not advisable to diplex two aerials into a single feed there is another possible solution, one that I used when living in Swindon and could receive from Mendip and Oxford main transmitters. Both aerials were mounted on a good strong pole, thicker than is normally used, and each had a separate good quality downlead into the lounge by the TV set. They connected to a coaxial switch that had two inputs and one output, so only one aerial was connected at a time. Simply moving the manual switch allowed selection between sources. The switch has to be a good quality coaxial one and fully screened to avoid picking up interference and to maintain the integrity of the coaxial connections. It must be designed for 75 Ohm coaxial UHF systems, can be either IEC coax or F-connector but not BNC connectors. Works with all UHF TV signals with no problems if cables and connections are made properly. You'll need to search for one but avoid any 'automatic' ones.

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Monday, 13 May 2013
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Pete Green
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4:03 PM
Weston-super-mare

Transmitter engineering

Please explain "Radio (analogue) working normally, no analogue radiio."

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Dave Lindsay
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4:13 PM

Pete Green: Transmitter engineering is a bot whose job is to scrape the information from official sources. In this case it is from Digital UK, as the presence of its logo denotes.

The information comes from Digital UK's engineering page at:

www.digitaluk.co.uk/engineeringworks

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Pete Green
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5:47 PM
Weston-super-mare

Dave Lindsay. I still don't understand the message whoever it comes from.

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