Full Freeview on the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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 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.
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?
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?
Cheddar | Transposer | 15 km E Weston-super-Mare | 1674 homes |
Luccombe | Active deflector | 6 km w Minehead | 38 homes |
How will the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||
C/D E | E | E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | |||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
C33 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
C36 | ArqB | ||||||||
C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C48 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
C49tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
C51tv_off | LBS | LBS | |||||||
C52tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | COM8tv_off | |||||
C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 | 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
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Tuesday, 8 April 2014
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jb3811:14 PM
Iain Davies: Thanks for the update!, pleased to see that you have now managed to rectify this problem.
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Thursday, 17 April 2014
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MR P POPE4:29 AM
Cheddar
Good morning,
Moving house ...... can you please send to me by post me information relating to TV / Radio reception options / arrangements for Cheddar, Somerset.
Thank you.
MR P POPE
36, ST ANDREWS ROAD
CHEDDAR
SOMERSET
BS27 3NG
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MR's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
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Kathy Comerford12:53 PM
Cheltenham
GL51 8LW Can I get BBC West in Cheltenham Gloucestershire? If so, what number is it on?
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Kathy's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Jim8:11 PM
Kathy Comerford:
You're in the BBC West Midland region, so on Freeview it's doubtful that you would be able to receive BBC West. (No BBC West region transmitters serve the Cheltenham area.)
All BBC regions (including West) are available to you by Sky and Freesat.
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Richard Sangster9:46 PM
Taunton
Why can't i receive CBeebiesHD and CBBCHD? I can get BBC1HD, BBC2HD, BBC3HD, BBC4HD and BBC News HD, but not the two childrens programmes.
My post code is TA2 7HG
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb3811:16 PM
Richard Sangster : What you have reported suggests that your best policy is to carry out a "factory reset" procedure on your TV followed by a normal auto-tune, as the programme channels that are missing are already being carried on multiplexes that you are presently receiving, CBBCHD (73) being on the same mux as BBC1,2,3HD and with CBeebiesHD (74) being broadcast on the new COM7 mux as used by BBC4HD.
By the way, "factory reset" is also known as "default setting", "first time installation" or some similar sounding term dependant on the brand name of the set.
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jb3811:45 PM
Richard Sangster : To add to that said, although the factory reset (etc) procedure is really the guaranteed way of resolving the problem by deleting any glitches that may be lurking around in the tuners memory system, however "sometimes" the problem can be rectified simply by manually scanning the mux channel(s) in question.
If you wish to try this first, then in the case of (74) CBeebiesHD go into the set up menu / tuning menu / manual tuning / then enter and scan C33 (570.00Mhz), whereas with CBBCHD (73) you enter then scan C58 (770.00Mhz)
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Friday, 25 April 2014
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Bizman3:05 PM
Why is it that ITV West sometimes shows the weather & local news for the Meridian region? Does someone press the wrong button?
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Bizman: If you watch on ITV HD (or ITV+1) you will see a different region because ITV has not implemented (due to costs) all of the regional news programmes on +1 and HD.
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Saturday, 26 April 2014
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Bizman7:00 PM
I realise that, but I watch in SD on LCN3 which is why I queried it. Only happens occasionally.
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