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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) mast?
Ridge Hill transmitter - Ridge Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/05/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 withheldSunday, 10 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 PM
5:32 PM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:09 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
8:32 PM
8:32 PM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:09 today to 17:58 today. [BBC]
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Monday, 11 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:09 yesterday to 17:58 yesterday. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:09 on 10 Jul to 17:58 on 10 Jul. [BBC]
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Friday, 15 July 2016
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Mrs Rosemary Bashford6:27 PM
My Humax seems to be playing up or have you changed the numbers for retuning, please? I do retune my Humax at regular intervals, having been told to do so, but since doing it 2 weeks ago I can't get ITV4 either on my television or via Humax and am missing the Tour de France. Also, although I put in 130 for BBC News, 130 comes up for perhaps 2 seconds and then it changes to 131 the Parliament channel. What is going on, please? I've been getting a lot of no signal or channel scrambled messages over the last two weeks as well.
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StevensOnln16:53 PM
Mrs Rosemary Bashford: All the retuning you've been doing may have caused the tuning data to have become corrupted. Try unplugging the aerial and retuning to clear all the channels, then plug the aerial back in and retune again to fill the channel list. There shouldn't be any need to keep retuning unless there have been technical changes to any of the channels you watch, or you wish to add new channels which have launched.
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Monday, 25 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
9:09 AM
9:09 AM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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Tuesday, 26 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
2:32 PM
2:32 PM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:20 today. [BBC] Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
5:32 PM
5:32 PM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:20 today to 15:14 today. [BBC] Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:20 yesterday to 15:14 yesterday. [BBC] Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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