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 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?
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 | 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 |
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 withheldTuesday, 10 November 2015
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MikeB8:31 PM
Macclesfield
philip lambley: The panasonic is probably a 130 or something similar, so has an HD (T2) tuner. The Logik certainly doesn't (HD Ready means the panel, not the tuner). Since Talking Pictures etc can only be picked up via T2 tuner, the TV wont do it.
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MikeB's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 3 December 2015
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Richard Sutton5:25 PM
Evesham
Any help with Ridge Hill would be appreciated.
Our reception in Evesham WR11 4HQ has always been poor but recently even worse on mux 25 (ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) so I was playing around with the manual tuning on our 2 HD TVs and HD Humax. I have discovered that the signal quality on mux 29 which is supposed to carry the same TV channels is much better than mux 25 - 95+% rather than 80%.
However, when I do a manual scan on mux 29, all three devices only show one TV channel on mux 29 which is ITV. I have now tuned all three devices to mux 29 and ITV is perfect but, of course, Channel 4 and Channel 5 still show some picture break-up because they are still on mux 25.
Is there any reason I can't pick up all the channels shown on the website on mux 29?
Thank you
Richard
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jb386:45 PM
Richard Sutton: That can only happen if Mux 25 is still stored in the tuner, therefore the way around the problem is to to carry out an auto-tune on your equipment "after" having removed the aerial from same, verifying the procedure has been a success by witnessing "no signal" on any attempt made to select a channel.
If OK, reconnect the aerial followed by "manually" tuning in each Mux required from Ridge Hill, substituting C29 for C25 as shown below.
C28 - 29 - C22 - C21 - C24 - C27 - C32 - C34
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Friday, 4 December 2015
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Richard Sutton6:47 PM
jb38:
Many thanks for the very quick advice.
Using the Humax which has be easiest manual scan procedure I unplugged the aerial and ran an auto scan. No signals were picked up any channels were blank. I then did a manual scan on each mux starting with the lowest C21 and working through towards C34. On each mux the expected number of TV channels were discovered - expect for C29 which only discovers one channel which is ITV.
If I then go to live TV the channels up to ITV working fine but there is no entry for Channel 4, Channel 5 or any of the other stations which are supposed to be on C25. The only way I can get the missing stations is to do a manual scan of 25. The stations all then re-appear but with the poor quality associated with C25.
ITV is fine because that's still on C29.
Any further advice would be much appreciated.
Richard
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Saturday, 5 December 2015
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jb389:52 AM
Richard Sutton: Well, I suppose that you are now really back to square one, however, the fact of only being able to receive one programme channel on Mux29 could point to a glitch having occurred in the tuners memory store, possibly as the result of receiving the same programme on two different Muxes, but from the same station.
I fully agree with the point made regarding the Humax and manual tuning, therefore, I would like you to try another test on same but by first of all carrying out a "factory default", this procedure being the ultimate way of eradicating problems caused by possible tuner glitches, the important point to observe whilst carrying out the procedure being to ensure that the "format hard drive" box is NOT checked, as this would erase programmes previously recorded, obviously only applicable if box in question is a PVR.
On completion of the aforementioned, carry out a manual scan on only Mux29, this being suffice for the purpose intended.
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Richard Sutton10:18 AM
jb38:
I'll continue to play around with this Mux 29 issue but I've just done a Google search and found this:
On 2 February there are changes to ITV reception for the Oxford and Ridge Hill transmitters | Freeview
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to say what has actually changed on the Ridge Hill transmitter earlier this year but that is exactly when my problems started. Before that change my preferred ITV mux was C25 and C29 was weaker. Now C25 is poor at my location and C29 is much better but only seems to carry ITV.
Whatever they have done to this transmitter has done me no favours. Indeed, I wonder whether they now broadcast only ITV on C29 and the chart above is incorrect?
Richard
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jb381:58 PM
Richard Sutton: Yes, I was aware of that article as the BBC had also published similar information. But though, as far as the changes referred to are concerned, this, at least to my knowledge anyway, was purely for the purpose of updating the EPG listings to accommodate changes made to the news services, plus also to ensure that Ch4 adverts of the more local variety were received from the appropriate transmitter.
The undermentioned being the BBC links referred to.
BBC - Engineering Announcement - ITV changes - Help Receiving TV and Radio
BBC - Manual retune - Help Receiving TV and Radio
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jb385:34 PM
Richard Sutton : In addition to that said in my previous reply. The fact of you having observed an increase in the signal strength of Mux29 over that of Mux25, somewhat backs up reports seen of the signal from the former having been biased to favour towards the Gloucester area. Unable to check, as the radiation patterns are withheld.
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Richard Sutton6:28 PM
jb38:
Thanks for all the info. At least it shows I'm probably not going mad and something has changed in the way that Ridge Hill directs its signal.
I've spoken to the Freeview technical help desk. I'm not sure how technical they are but they say that C29 is still broadcasting the same TV channels as C25 and that if I can only get ITV on C29 it must be because there is something wrong with my system and, because all my TVs and Humax have the same symptoms, it must be a "common" problem like water in the aerial cable.
I asked how could this be possible because C29 is in the middle of the frequency range of all the Muxes I can receive and I can receive ITV on C29 perfectly. I asked if it was possible for a fault to be so specific that one station can be received on a mid-frequency mux but all the other stations on that mux to be blocked? They said that it was difficult to understand but that all the stations were on C29 as normal.
I now have all my devices tuned to ITV on C29 and Ch4 and Ch5 on C25 as that's the best I can do until someone suggests something new to try.
This is really strange but I'm not a broadcast expert so am well out of my depth with all this.
Richard
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Richard Sutton6:34 PM
I should also add that the only reason I've been persuing this is because if we want to want Channel 5 we have to use C25 as it's not available in HD. We can, and usually do, always watch ITV and Channel 4 in HD and the HD muxes are fine.
If I could get Channel 5 on C29 I'd be happy but that seems not to be possible.
Richard
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