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 04/12/2023 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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Wednesday, 3 April 2013
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John Crabb12:31 AM
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The general complaint on these posts is the loss of BBC channels. It was my experience too. Logically, it was bound to be these channels that would have problems as they are the only ones that are now being transmitted at a different frequency; everything else has stayed the same I believe.
Despite the large number of unhappy people conributing to this site, the fact seems to be that the vast majority have survived the retuning without any problems. This suggests that the problem is not with the transmitter. I think the problems arise because the new frequency that we are all now trying to retune to is causing issues with our particular receiver set up. The fact that everything was fine before does not indicate that our receiver is blameless, it just shows that it managed to receive C61 but has problems with C49.
This means that we have to try ways of coaxing our receiver arrangements to behave properly on the new frequency. Once you start fiddling with seemingly trivial things you can be surprised by the results. In my case I ended up replacing the aerial lead that passes between my HDD recorder and my TV with a shorter one that I made up. This took me from zero C49 to quality 90%.
The article on "single channel interference" on this site is well worth reading carefully.
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Colin5:53 PM
On the West Somerset coast we can have a problem when retuning because Wenvoe is line of sight across the Bristol Channel.This means that even though the aerial is pointing at Mendip sometimes we pickup the Welsh channels.
However I was very pleased that this time the retunes that I did were successful and BBC West is received.
So I must agree with John Crabb and suspect that the problems are at the receiving end and not at the transmitter.
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Michael Perry
6:34 PM
6:34 PM
We are north east of Mendip, sitting on a hill above Calne, Wiltshire. All was well until Wednesday 27th March 2013. Now no BBC services at all but all others OK. BBCA multiplex has n=moved from Ch61 to Ch49 but that shouldn't make much difference after a retune. Humax retuned perfectly and all programmes available, but Hauppauge Nova-T stick in laptop has no BBC services at all. They don't know why.
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Michael Perry: The only thing I can say is that you are not alone!
Out of interest, do you know if your reception of C48 (COM4: ITV3 etc) degraded when the change happened? Some people have difficulty with this now when they didn't before.
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Michael Perry
6:40 PM
6:40 PM
To John Crabb
There is still a multiplex at Ch 48 on Mendip so if that is being received well then Ch49 should be as well. The problem you appear to have had is due to reflections within the cable that happened to resonate close to 698 MHz so shortening/lengthening the coaxial cable would change the resonance and possibly solve the problem. A well known phenomenon but us 'old' TV service men.
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Michael Perry
6:42 PM
6:42 PM
To Dave Lindsay
No change to any other services at all on either receiver, testing software scans of stick output show 100% on all multiplexes. Only those on Ch 49 (ie BBCA multiplex) are affected.
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jefferson6:50 PM
no signal still
but got bbc on analog witch was very poor befor
first time ive used atv on this telly
4 years old in may
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John Crabb7:19 PM
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To Michael Perry: Thanks for that info Michael, very interesting. Is there a book that I can read all this practical stuff up in?
In addition to fiddling with the cable length, I have now installed a new wideband, high-gain aerial. This did not initially seem to make much diffence over my ancient C/D Yagi. What finally made it all click into place was moving the HDMI cable coming from the HDD to a second socket on the TV. The second one was further from the aerial socket. Is there any possible explanation for this!? The improvement in the signal quality indicator was quite marked.
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Mazbar7:51 PM
Michael Perry: do you have a wideband aerial or a grouped cd aerial. If the latter 49 is at the end of the normal acceptance of the aerial, if the aerial is good and reception fine there will be no problem but if the signal is medium to poor or you have damage to the coax this could make 49 not work.
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