Full Freeview on the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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?
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 withheldWednesday, 7 November 2018
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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
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STUART8:10 AM
Hereford
no signal on all terrestrial channelsat HR4 8NB since Sunday
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STUART's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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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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Monday, 11 March 2019
I currently have no signal been like it for two days now is there a problem somewhere
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StevensOnln12:38 PM
Chrissie cruickshank : There are no faults showing with the Ridge Hill transmitter, if it has been off air for 2 days there would be thousands of complaints. Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? Do not attempt to retune.
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Sunday, 17 March 2019
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Melanie Marchant8:24 AM
I currently have no signal and have had intermittent signals for two day's on 13th of this month I had my aerial had my aerial repaired checked and found to be 100% ok.But am still not getting consistent reception what is the problem?
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MikeP
11:13 AM
11:13 AM
Melanie Marchant:
If you provide a full post code then we can look up what the expected reception conditions are like at your location.
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Sunday, 31 March 2019
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Andrew12:25 PM
I'm in Cheltenham. GL52 3xx During the week, at 18.30, after the BBC News on BBC 1 HD, I get the red screen of rubbish. When will I finally get BBC West seamlessly so I can watch Points West without having to switch to my satellite for it? Thanks.
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StevensOnln11:22 PM
Andrew: There are no regional versions of BBC 1 HD in England due to the huge cost of upgrading the studios, the links to the transmitters and the large amount of additional satellite capacity required. This is unlikely to change until plans are announced for BBC 1 to go HD only and close the SD versions.
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