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.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.
DTG-3 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?
| years | 1968~85 | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 1st Mar 2018 | |
| aerial group | VHF | A K | A K | W | W | W | W | W | |
| C6 | ITV | ||||||||
| C21 | +SDN | +SDN | +SDN | SDN | |||||
| C22 | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | +BBCB | +BBCB | +BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C24 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C25 | ITV | ITV | ITV | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
| C27 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | |||||
| C28 | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C29 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
| C30 | _local | _local | _local | ||||||
| 600 | C32 | C4 | C4 | C4 | com7 | ||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | C5 | C5 | |||||||
| C42 | C | ||||||||
| C45 | D | ||||||||
| 700 | C51 | _local | _local | _local | _local | ||||
| C53 | 1 | ||||||||
| C55 | com7 | ||||||||
| C56 | com8 | ||||||||
| C57 | 2 | ||||||||
| C60 | A | ||||||||
| 800 | C63 | B |
orange background for multiplexes names more
green background for transmission frequencies
lilac background for power levels in watts
800MHz band: 4G mobile started in 2013
700MHz band: 4G from 30 June 2020more
600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 6th April and 20th April 2011.
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 |
Local transmitter maps
Ridge Hill Freeview Ridge Hill DAB Ridge Hill TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)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 withheldWednesday, 3 October 2018
Transmitter engineering
12:06 AM
12:06 AM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:11 on 06 Sep. FM: Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:11 on 06 Sep, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:11 on 06 Sep, Radio 4 FM Weak Signal from 10:11 on 06 Sep. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 7 November 2018
T
tfc11:57 AM
Nov 07 2018 since 11am
RidgeHill com7 & com8
Receiving poor signal level on both of these. Other muxes OK
Location Cheltenham
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Tony3:39 PM
Freeview muxes com7 and com8 are not working/providing low signal from around 10:30 today. All programs on tose muxes are NOT available, all other muxes working OK.
Information here shows no fault on the transmitter. How can it be? The above reports are carried out from the same reception system. So, that would seem to eliminate a local aerial problem. (Tests repeated with with 2 separate TVs.)
Location Cheltenham.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018
S
STUART8:10 AM Hereford
no signal on all terrestrial channelsat HR4 8NB since Sunday
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StevensOnln111:56 AM
STUART: There are no faults showing for the Ridge Hill transmitter and you are predicted to have a strong signal at your postcode. Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? Do not attempt to retune.
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Friday, 21 December 2018
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Andrew Mark10:14 PM
Over the years, there have been many, many complaints in these website pages, and elsewhere including to MPs, from people in North Gloucestershire who have to suffer BBC Midlands Today, and cannot get BBC Points West.
The usual response is to get Freesat (or Virgin Cable, if you live in Cheltenham or Gloucester) both of which will give you BBC Points West as your default BBC region....but at a cost.
There is another solution, which is to use the BBC Iplayer, and go to "settings" to select BBC West. I have a NowTV stick in my backup TV in our kitchen/diner, through which I access BBC West via the IPlayer.
My NowTV stick cost ?14...much cheaper than an aerial or satellite being put up, and also less than a cable instillation.
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