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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 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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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
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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),

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 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
C33 (570.0MHz)591mDTG-8100,000W
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
C36 (594.0MHz)591mDTG-8100,000W
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

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?

CheddarTransposer15 km E Weston-super-Mare1674 homes
LuccombeActive deflector6 km w Minehead38 homes

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
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
M
Mal
5:08 PM

Yes it is the transmitted descriptors.

COM5 must be very low power.
PSB3 T2 is still missing or gone low power.

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Mike Dimmick
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5:12 PM

Alex B: Bit of disagreement on Mux A/SDN's current mode. DUK's installer newsletter says it should have changed to 8K mode, the postcode checker still shows it in 2K mode.

The installer newsletter shows FULL power - 100kW - for SDN, and Ofcom show no restriction after today.

Ofcom's licensing information shows ArqA at 26 kW and ArqB at 25.7 kW until 28 March 2012, which DUK's installer newsletter say is to avoid interfering with Salisbury.

(References to these documents are in my earlier post.).

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Mal
5:41 PM

SDN is 8k mode

Just done a full spectrum scan still no COM5 or PSB3.

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Alex B
6:19 PM
Bristol

Thanks, Mike Dimmick; now, if only the advisor I spoke to on the phone at DUK had access to the same DUK Installer Newsletter...

Looking forward to being done with these regular retunes...

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craig
7:18 PM

reset and returned and no channels on mux 48
disconnected aerial and turned off box
reset
tried manual retrune and still noc hannels on the mux 48
help please!

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James C
7:36 PM
Highbridge

I'm all present and correct here as follows
near Highbridge

CH48/690000 SDN
CH52/722000 ARQ-B
CH54/738000 D3+4
CH58/770000 PSB3
Ch61/794000 BBCB
CH67/842000 ARQ-A

A bit of a mission to get a couple of older boxes to scan up right - One needed the 'first birthday' and the other I scanned 'aerial out' and then manually put the muxes in - I eventually got everything with the right channel numbers! - I'm not very optimistic about there being an end in sight, there is the March 28th retune already scheduled and then the new frequencies. More of the same I fear!!!







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Mal
7:56 PM

ditto dvb-t are all 8k mode

I have reception of both COM5 & PSB3 now.

COM5 along with the rest giving out 754Mhz.

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Thursday, 29 September 2011
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Jack Sukerman
10:37 AM

Thanks Mike, I've tested with nothing else plugged in so I'm guessing if it is interference its outside the building. Strangely though all other multiplexes are clear as a bell. Could it be that my aerial is not wideband? or would I miss other stuff too if this was the case?

Thanks,

Jack

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JimBilly
12:48 PM

Jack

I think that your problem is channel 67 itself. As a higher frequency it is not robust and, for example, does not tolerate coax cable runs as well as lower channel numbers without attenuation even when the transmitted strength is the same.I have exactly the same problem with no reception on two tvs of channel 67 when all other multiplexes are fine, even channel 52 which is transmitted at almost exactly the same power as 67 at 25.7Kw.

Things will not improve until 67 moves back to channel 56 in March. As far as I can see there are no adjacent transmitters on 67 so I don't know why they can't transmit channel 67 stronger than 26Kw from now until March when Salisbury frees channel56 for high power transmission from Mendip.

Good luck

Jim

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D Gadsden
3:33 PM

since yesterday 29th sept I have only been able to get the BBC channels.Trying any other and the screen is blank other than the words NO SIGNAL.Can tou tell me why please??

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