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.
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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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-west-west.jpg)
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, 18 January 2011
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Michael Bane4:54 PM
Ann:
Try retuning again....my Post Code is BS16 and since the retune I am getting Sky Sports perfectly ok via BT Vision and have not lost any channels as far as I can see.
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chris 5:05 PM
Were we not informed in the very beginning that this changeover would not cost us anything and would not have to buy special equipment, so far I've had to have a digitial outdoor aerial fitted & had to buy freeview digital boxes or freeview tv's for various rooms.All working ok until month ago when all channels lost & could not re-boot or re-tune freeview box, friend said it was broken, 3 weeks after exactly same happened to another of my freeview boxes, I thought it strange both not working within such short time of each other but friend convinced they were broken & probably something to do with circuit as could not get them to re-boot or re-tune so they ended up in the bin. About a month ago lost itv, ch5 & others on a freeview tv, & today cannot get half my channels even basic itv, ch5 & many others on another freeview tv and many channels are breaking up with coloured lines, so can someone please tell me what the hell is happening & in plain engish how do I get all my channels back, one of my tv's won't let me search channel by channel have to do automatic search & still can't get channels required itv, ch5 etc also just renewed tv licence so not happy can't watch channels I want to. I am now convinced 2 recordable freeview boxes were thrown out because we thought they were broken when in actual fact were probably ok, so thank you for all the aggro etc due to this changeover & all this messing about by whoever is dealing with this, I can only see more problems ahead. Does anyone know who it is I can actually complain to and who or what is Mendip?
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Steve5:20 PM
Melksham
Briantist: Many thanks for your advice. I now have all channels on my DVD recorder apart from MUX A. Thanks again.
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Steve's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Christopher9:50 PM
This is somewhat annoying.
Bought a new Humax PVR last week, set up The Mentalist on serial record so I never miss a recording again (so rubbish using other recorders). Go away for the weekend. come back and no recording. wondered what I had done wrong. then the channels start having trouble and now lost 5 completely.
Was beginning to think I had a dodgy box...now it looks like its not me after all.
What a time to get a new box! Thanks for letting me know.
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
ALL: If you have the wrong channel list do this - My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
Otherwise see Mendip transmitter - January 11th retune required | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Thursday, 20 January 2011
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John5:39 PM
Wotton-under-edge
Since about a week ago I have not been able to receive several Freeview channels including Yesterday. They were fine previously. Is this because of the work on the Mendip transmitter? The problem is on every television in the house (5) and is not removed by retuning.
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 21 January 2011
Saturday, 22 January 2011
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Andrew Poulton6:29 PM
After the retune on Mendip last week I had all my channels now they have all gone on COM 6 arqB
I have tried all the fixes but nothing has sorted it.
I have 2 other TV's in the bedromms on a cheap short aerial they are both okay but my bog array and line of sight Mendip is not working.
What is the answer please.
A new aerial? It is in the loft for easy access. I put it there.
Why has it stopped?
Cheers Andrew
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Unhappy Mendip Viewer7:17 PM
Is there anything that can be done for those of us that have lost so many channels after a channel switch? We may be in outlying areas but we have had all channels with a good signal for several years... if I had known it was happening i would have saved the money I spent on a Freeview PVR and bought a Freesat PVR instead!
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Andrew Poulton9:30 PM
EEERRRR
WHAT HAS HAPPENED.
All the missing channels are back on the Humax PVR !! [they were .NO SIGNAL' on there and TV before.
I did not retune it but I did the TV and lost them all.[COM 6 arqB]
I have just done a retune on the TV and they are all back !!!
What was that about. I did not hear or see anything on any outage?
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