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 withheldThursday, 8 March 2018
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Richard Baylis11:45 AM
@StevensOnin1, So what you are saying then that changes are planned without any consideration for the loss of major broadcast channels for a proportion of populace that live in more remote areas to provide for future mobile capacity that also doesn't cater for people in remote rural areas. Terrific.
It doesn't interest me in the slightest that commercial companies pay to broadcast the largely redundant +1 services. Availability of major channels in HD to everyone should be prioritised over time shift channels and minor interest channels. Surely the plethora of timewarp TV and shopping channels could be moved to the ones that we now fail to receive BBC News HD on? Those nearer the transmitters would be far more numerous and still able to get them if they desired.
But, as you say, the authorities don't give a damn about actual quality of Service and only are looking at s and EUROs Then they wonder why some people resort to illegal means of obtaining a full range of channels using IPTV!
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MikeB4:16 PM
Richard Baylis: 'So what you are saying then that changes are planned without any consideration for the loss of major broadcast channels for a proportion of populace that live in more remote areas to provide for future mobile capacity that also doesn't cater for people in remote rural areas. Terrific. '
Steve's not saying that at all. He's simply pointing out that such changes are long planned, and try their best to cover as many people as possible. Has anyone actually lost 'major broadcast channels' - if they have they were pretty marginal anyway.
And if your in a remote rural area, you do have to put up with fewer services than those in built up areas - you probably dont have too many world class heart centres in your village either. If you want the full range of channels (bar C4 HD), then go for Freesat.
Whatever you might think of plus 1 channels, the reality is that they pay the bills - someone has to pay for the transmitters, and the bulk of those are commercial channels, who are interested in the bottom line - they have to be. You cant supply all channels on all transmitters, and somethings are not going to be possible with the existing capacity.
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Friday, 9 March 2018
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Richard Baylis11:20 AM
I accept your point that we rural dwellers are disadvantaged in many ways. We've only just got fibre broadband and still don't have mobile coverage. Of course, we have many advantages of rural living too. In my case, it wasn't a matter of choice so I do feel more annoyed than those who might have made a conscious decision to locate to the country.
But my point is that our regulators are letting people down by putting money considerations over availability of channels that are from a public service broadcaster and paid for by our licence fees. True, those channels that we are now unlikely to receive due to the changes are also available in SD, but on a large screen TV look so much better in HD it isn't unreasonable for us to expect them to be part of the ring fenced service delivery.
You can spout commercial realities to me as much as you like, but I still think it is a very poor decision by the regulators and distinctly anti-consumer.
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StevensOnln112:41 PM
Richard Baylis: BBC News HD and BBC Four HD are broadcast on commercial multiplexes because there isn't space for them on the BBC's own capacity. This has nothing to do with any regulator. It's far better that BBC News HD and BBC Four HD are on commercial capacity with limited coverage, whereas if COM7 & COM8 didn't exist they probably wouldn't be on Freeview at all.
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Richard Baylis8:29 PM
I'm not going to respond at all after this post as it's clear that there are apologists on here for the bad decisions being made by the regulators and the attitude is we have to put up with it. Which is a pretty poor attitude. Any way you cut it the principle of prioritising access to quality HD broadcasting to as many people as possible has been thrown out in favour of purely commercial considerations. Prior to these changes I could get channels 107 - 113 and now I can't. Added to the fact that 108 is Al Jazeera HD which is not broadcast in SD so that is a channel now denied to me. As I consider it's world news output vastly superior to the BBC that is a significant loss and you can't fudge that by saying I'm only losing channels that I can watch in SD. Channel 113 is RT HD that is another not broadcast elsewhere on Freeview in SD. It's a bad decision and that's it. I can't see any good reason why these channels couldn't have stayed where they were and other far less important channels could have shifted to the weaker parts of the transmission system. Like most consumers I have been sold on the idea of large screens HD capable screens and bought an expensive Freeview PVR and blu ray player, only now to see a dwindling number of HD channels due to the need to flog more capacity to mobile networks that can't even be arsed to provide proper coverage in rural areas. I was in Turkey last year and got a mobile signal wherever I went, even five miles out at sea. Yet the UK is lagging behind once again and we are told we just have to put up with it. And you wonder why I sound angry?
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MikeB10:27 PM
Richard Baylis: Could you put your postcode into a reply - because I'm slightly surprised that you'd totally lose those channels, unless your signal was very marginal. Have you checked your system?
And of course if you do want a more reliable reception and all HD channels on Freeview, then Freesat would be an effective way to get that, with possibly a minimal outlay, depending on what equipement you already have.
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Monday, 12 March 2018
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MarkO12:20 AM
I receive my Freeview TV from Ridge Hill and I too have lost out on the COM7 and COM8 multiplexes as a result of the frequency move. However I have two television sets connected to the same antenna, one of them receives a perfect signal on C55/C56 and I get BBC Four HD, BBC News HD perfectly. The other television set shows zero signal strength. This implies to me that the change has involved not just a change in frequencies but also a change in the modulation of the signal - one of my sets can cope, the other cannot. Can anyone shed any light on whether a new modulation is being used on C55/C56 from Ridge Hill?
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Tuesday, 13 March 2018
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StevensOnln112:00 AM
MarkO: The only change that has been made to COM7/8 from Ridge Hill is the frequency that each multiplex is broadcast on. Both still use the same DVB-T2 modulation that they have used since launch. Does your second TV pick up COM7/8 if you swap it with the TV that is able to receive them?
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Wednesday, 14 March 2018
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Dave11:20 AM
I also have lost com6 and com7 from ridge hill. My postcode is Gl526yz , aerial on post above roof and I got these channels until recently.. what is going on.?
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StevensOnln16:09 PM
Dave: I assume you mean COM7 & COM8 (there have been no changes to COM6 at Ridge Hill). Have you retuned since the frequency change on 1st March?
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