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.
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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
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 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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-midlands-today.jpg)
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 69km northeast (39°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-central.jpg)
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 | 1 Mar 2018 | ||||
VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | W T | ||||
C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C24 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C27 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C29 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | |||||
C34 | com8 | ||||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 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 |
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, 20 April 2011
Granny S.: Because the switchover happened last night, you will need to do a "first time installation" to your box, you can do it this way - 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 .
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Mike Dimmick2:25 PM
Chris: Yes, the Ridge Hill West transmission is a 'mini-mux' carrying only ITV1 and ITV1 +1. The legal framework does allow D3&4 to broadcast BBC channels, but the BBC would have to come to an agreement with the ITV companies and Channel 4 over how much it would cost.
The BBC have never shown any interest in providing a BBC West service to this area. The ITV service was only added in December 2006.
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Mr K2:58 PM
How is the HD channels working for you lot? I'm not getting anything. I was looking forward to checking out freeview HD on my new Bravia but after the re-tune I can't seem to find them. I've set my tv to factory default settings and re-tuned the built in freeview. No luck. All of the other SD channels are fine, though.
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Mr K: You must have a Freeview HD set, not just an HD Ready one. Please see What does "Full HD Ready" actually mean? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Mr K5:50 PM
Thank you for your reply, Briantist. It's a Bravia KDL32EX403U with built in Freeview HD. Sorry, I should have made that clearer in my original post. I'm thinking that it might be my signal strength. Would 38 out of 100 be high enough to receive a HD signal?
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Mr K: The signal strength is not really the most important thing, go by the signal quality.
If you have any booster, amplifiers or similar in your system, remove them as they tend to destroy the digital signals.
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David Bate7:08 PM
Re-tuned all 4 Freeview TVs this morning and getting signal break-up on some channels on the bedroom sets that use portable aerials. OK before today. Are some signals weaker than before? If so, I hope this is a temporary problem. And what channel is ITV West news on? Maybe 800 or 801?
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David Bate: No the signals are considerably stronger than before.
ITV West is on 803 usually.
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Thursday, 21 April 2011
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Mr K1:51 AM
Ok, thanks again for your help. I suspect that it is the splitter I'm using that could be the problem and that I will have to look at a more direct way of getting the signal to my TV.
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RIDGE HILL transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal; DSO related from 14:14 on 01 Apr to 00:36 yesterday [BBC]
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