Full Freeview on the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter which serves 270,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Ridge Hill 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 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Ridge Hill transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 69km northeast (39°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 69km northeast (39°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Whitton | Transposer | 35 km NW Hereford | 40 homes |
How will the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1968-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 1 Mar 2018 | ||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | W | W T | W T | W T | W T | ||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | +SDN | +SDN | +SDN | SDN | |||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | +BBCB | +BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C24 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
| C27 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | |||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C29 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
| C30 | _local | _local | _local | ||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | com7 | ||||
| C34 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C42 | C | ||||||||
| C45 | D | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C53tv_off | 1 | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | com8tv_off | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | 2 | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | A | ||||||||
| C63 | B |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) by 30 June 2020 - 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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, PSB2 iw, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| com7 | (-9.8dB) 10.5kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| com8 | (-10.1dB) 9.8kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Ridge Hill transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSunday, 25 August 2019
MikeP
8:03 PM
8:03 PM
JB:
Have a look at Coverage Checker - Detailed View which will show the transmitters you potentially may be able to receive from.
It definitely looks as if Sutton Coldfield might give you better results than Brierley Hill and probably better than Kidderminster. The Wrekin may give you some of the channels and Ridge Hill will be problematical.
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Wednesday, 28 August 2019
J
JB7:53 AM
MikeP:
Hi - I spun the aerial around towards Ridge Hill and set up horizontally and it's giving me 100% on all muxes except 55, which is 25-30% quality but watchable most of the time. No doubt if I spent a bit of time or had better equipment I could probably improve on 55 as well.
All a very strange set up here but my gamble and intuition paid off!
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J
JB8:21 PM
Update - managed to align the aerial better and getting all 8 muxes now at 100% quality from Ridge Hill so really pleased. I don't know why others are not using
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Sunday, 29 December 2019
L
Lib. 9:10 PM
Stourbridge
Trouble getting programs. DY9 0HY. Ok till today. Well this evening. The 40. And 50. Channels.regards. Lib. What's happening.
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Monday, 30 December 2019
C
Chris.SE2:42 AM
Lib. :
There are unusually high levels of "Tropospheric propagation" at present, often associated with High Pressure weather systems.
These levels of propagation are unusual at this time of year - they cause signals from more distant transmitters to travel a lot further than normal. It is currently affecting different parts of the country by varying degrees and signals can change by the second or remain stable for much longer periods.
In the old "analogue" days there was a lot of talk about "continental" interference often in the summer months, but the interference can come from transmitters anywhere in the UK or Europe and even further afield. At the moment some people are getting DAB radio from the Netherlands and FM Radio from France as well as the interference to DTV.
It is predicted to continue for a couple more days, and you are advise NOT to retune as you will likely lose the correct tuning that you had. The "propagation" can be very frequency dependent, and it can only affected one frequency or several, but it can/will be different for others.
People will however have noticed the unusually mild weather which the Met office is referring to as a "Foehn effect" but it's not helpful that it seems none of the major broadcasters are making any reference to the interference being caused to TV and Radio reception! So it's no surprise that people wonder what is going on and think there is a transmitter problem.
For those that have retuned and lost correct tuning, you will have to try again and it could be hit and miss whilst the unusual propagation continues. If you are able to do a manual tune for the correct UHF channels, you may still receive interference or the wrong programmes.
The correct UHF channels for Ridge Hill (Central) are C28, C25, C22, C21, C24, C27, C55, C56 If you don't have an HD tuner ignore C22 & C55/C56. You may not get C55/56 - COMs7&8 at your location anyway.
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Wednesday, 1 January 2020
Transmitter engineering
6:07 PM
6:07 PM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
6:23 PM
6:23 PM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 2018-09-06 10:11:19. . [BBC]
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