Full Freeview on the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter
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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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Mendip (Somerset, England) mast?
Mendip transmitter - Mendip transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 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 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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Wednesday, 20 March 2019
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Iain Davies10:52 AM
Early hours of this morning Mendip had all it's new channels on test with it's existing channels. Ch. 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 14 in all being broadcast.
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Wednesday, 27 March 2019
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Chris.SE5:34 AM
Terry Burton:
If you meant aerials rather than dishes and are actually getting Freeview not Freesat, there has been some testing going on at Mendip in preparation for the forthcoming retune events (eg. see post above mine) and there have been breaks in transmission as you have described, usually late in the evening.
Note, all those channels are not on air at time of this post, & retune events are on 4th April, 5th June and 19th June.
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Wednesday, 3 April 2019
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Chris.SE1:38 PM
All:
May wish to note that at time of posting, BBC MuxA is currently being simultaneously broadcast on UHF32 presumably in readiness for the retune event sometime after midnight tonight.
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Thursday, 4 April 2019
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Adrian10:27 AM
All,
I have quite an old set and have to manually scan all mendip multiplexes to avid being flooded by wenvoe.
Is there a definitive list of channels after each retune event?
Would I be right in thinking the ones now (after 4th April 2019) are:
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 48, 51, 55 (HD), 56 (HD) = 9 in total
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StevensOnln11:03 PM
Adrian: According to Digital UK the current allocations are 32/54/58/48/33/52/36/35 (also 51 if you're within the local mux coverage area). There will be further changes on 5th and 19th June. If you put your postcode into the Digital UK checker and tick detailed view it will show you all current and future mux allocations predicted to be receivable at your location.
Digital UK - Coverage checker
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Roger Rundle2:01 PM
Bristol
Roger
Since todays retune I can't get BBC digital - but I can get BBC HD my post code is BS35 2HY - so I should be on the Mendip transmitter.
Is there a signal problem?
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Roger's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE3:47 PM
Roger:
There was no problem when I last checked about an hour ago. Your location means that you may get a strong signal from Wenvoe as well. You best check using manual tuning that you are tuned to UHF32 for the BBCA mux (PSB1). The other possibility is if you have a very old group C/D aerial you may get insufficient signal as UHF32 is in Group A and you really need a Group T/Wideband aerial. Having said that unless you aren't in a very strong signal location most C/D aerials should give you some signal.
What sort of signal strength are you getting on the other multiplexes, especially those on UHF33, 35 & 36? Again you'll probably need to go into Manual Tuning mode to check that, or you may have a check signal setting.
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MikeP
9:35 PM
9:35 PM
Roger:
As of the time of writing, Mendip is operating correctly now, that's the transmitter I use. A retune is needed, but ensure you do not get the Wenvoe signals. The correct Mendip channels will be shown on the Digital UK Coverage Checker as long as you select the Detailed View and scan down for the Mendip listing.
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Friday, 5 April 2019
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mymatenige8:13 AM
Some of the channel numbers / frequencies listed here are currently incorrect.
As 2019-04-04 they should be: 32, 54, 58, 48, 33, 52, 51, 36, 35
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Graham10:42 AM
Mendip has been experimenting. My neighbour has had to retune twice to get BBC.
At 11 am 5 April the BBC Mux is transmitting on both Ch32 and Ch49. With my old C/D aerial I can only get 49.
I was having trouble with ArqA on 333 - (strength 65%, quality 0 to 95%); that too is dead today. Wonder how much longer 49 will continue.
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