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 27/11/2023 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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Friday, 27 July 2012
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Jeff Glynn7:21 AM
As there seems to be spate of aerial distribution amplifiers failing, I would suggest that, if
possible, a passive splitter is tried first. If there is sufficient signal strength, there will my no problems, and nothing to fail. My own setup is configured as follows: aerial to splitter, one side
of which feeds a Panasonic TV, the other side feeding a Panasonic DVD recorder/PVR, the RF output of which feeds a Humax PVR. The signal strength /signal quality bar graph on the
TV and Panasonic PVR shows 100% for both values; the figures on the Humax PVR
shows 79-81% signal strength and 100% for quality.
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jb387:49 AM
Jeff Glynn: Yes, passive types might be OK in areas where as you have said, a sufficiently high signal strength exists to be able to use them successfully, but unfortunately that doesn't apply to most areas that suffers from reception problems, plus!! you are using a combination of equipment fitted with top class tuners, as Panasonic and Humax tuners are about the best around, as the types fitted in most other brands are simply not up to their standard in sensitivity nor stability.
Humax of course being about the most accurate for its signal strength readings, whereas Panasonic is inclined to err slightly on the exaggerated side of reality.
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Saturday, 28 July 2012
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
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mark5:32 PM
My tv started freezing last night at 7pm on 30-7-2012 bin ok all day next day to 5pm and started freezing again never had problems befor
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Lordgeous8:13 PM
Bath
Ben Ward, seems we had similar problems! Glad Kevin was able to help.
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Ben Ward10:17 PM
Lordgeous, thanks for the contact. Kevin was a big help!
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Sunday, 12 August 2012
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T B Jones5:11 PM
We cannot get Film4 nor ITV3 from Mendip transmitter.
I believe we could get them when digital first available. but not now.
We are also able to receive Wenvoe but that doesnt have these transmissions either
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jb385:28 PM
T B Jones: Its impossible for anyone to be able to offer advice without having knowledge of your location, this in the form of a post code or one from nearby, such as a shop etc.
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Sunday, 9 September 2012
Hi guys,
we cannot receive any BBC freeview channels at our house. We have 3 different freeview boxes. We have retuned them and still no BBC.
Can anyone tell me if there are problems in my area in Bristol?
How do I get BBC back on the freeview boxes?
Nige
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Monday, 10 September 2012
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jb3812:22 AM
nige burr: Unless you are located in some horrendous localised black spot for reception then as the Kings Weston transmitter is located at only 1.8 miles away from you its possible for you to be receiving an excessively high level of signal dependant on the aerial system being used, as this can completely block reception by overloading the tuner.
If you are using any form of amplifier then for a test try by-passing it, or alternatively use a piece of wire (about 2 or 3 feet) connected into your equipments aerial socket and carry out a "manual" scan on mux Ch43 (Kings Weston BBC1), if though your equipment does not offer a manual scan option then carry out an auto-tune "after" having blanked out anything stored by auto tuning with the aerial removed.
By the way "if" you are receiving from Mendip then the BBC channel is mux Ch61
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