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 withheldMonday, 29 April 2024
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Chris.SE10:31 PM
Paul Evans:
Just a thought. Somewhere in your TV Tuning section, it will give Signal Strength, but does it give Signal Quality?
Can you post the Strength and Quality figures for each UHF Channel?
If you can also indicate what they typically are - how much variability under "normal" conditions.
We might be able to make some useful comment.
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Steve Donaldson11:37 PM
Paul Evans: While you may have line-of-sight to the transmitting antenna at the top of the mast, the Malvern Hills are well within the Fresnel zone, meaning they could potentially cause reception difficulty. This isn't to say it will.
The radius of the Fresnel zone varies according to frequency, the lower the frequency the longer the wavelength and the bigger the radius. It is largest half way between the two antennas, getting smaller the closer to the two antennas.
The radius of the Fresnel zone as the signal passes over the Malvern Hills is in the region of 82m to 87m. However, line-of-sight at this point is only around 20m above ground at its closest point, this judging by the following terrain plot:
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
If the reserve antenna is in use, then line-of-sight runs even closer to the ground over the peak, as this is lower down the mast.
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Thursday, 27 June 2024
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Brian Thomas3:18 PM
Ridge Hill / Gloucester transmitter All tv services on Ch 24 498 MHz VERY POOR SIGNAL QUALITY AND Bit Error Rate. Please repair this Ch as this has been like this for long time it effects Sky News ch 233, Really ch i7 and all others on that Frequency.
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Chris.SE11:26 PM
Brian Thomas:
This sounds like you are suffering some sort of interference if it's been going on for a long time. However as you haven't given a full postcode, we can't assess your predicted reception and the likelihood of interference.
There'd been Planned Engineering by Arqiva (who maintain the transmitters) in previous weeks as detailed in several posts before yours, but there's been none listed this week and apart from the DAB fault, there's no faults currently listed for Ridge Hill (Freeview).
Arqiva or any Broadcaster are not likely to see your post here, or respond. It's a free technical help-site, but providing that full postcode would enable some assessment of the likely issue.
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Saturday, 3 August 2024
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Charlie S6:36 PM
Tewkesbury
Hello;
any indications of missing sound track, or "something changed in sound track" for Ridgehill ? Temporarily at GL20 5PG , with 100% signal quality on all channels from an aerial at about 3m height ; using an old LG set (model # M197WDP) sound was dropping for a few seconds on BBC1 last night ; picture stable; today sound is not present for any channels most of the time (picture still stable).
tomorrow I wil be able to test at my usual location with a high aerial and new gear available at the same time to confirm if it is an old dying set issue...
thanks &
regards,
Charlie
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Charlie's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 5 August 2024
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Charlie S6:52 AM
Tewkesbury
sound was back on all channels Sunday am...
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Charlie's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
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Paul Evans10:09 PM
Update on my reception problems: The aerial signal went to an unpowered splitter with 2 outputs. The aerial guy has now replaced that with a Labgear 2 In 4 Out amp. I have checked signal quality and it is now well over 90%, 100% in some cases. Things are looking good, so far...
p.s. Only using the UHF input, I don't have VHF or DAB aerial
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Thursday, 29 August 2024
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Chris.SE12:36 AM
Paul Evans:
Hi Paul. Thanks for the update. Noting your comment about signal quality, ideally it ought to be 100% in normal circumstances for all multiplexes.
Whilst Ridge Hill isn't listed for Planned Engineering this week, we can never be certain that the lists are totally accurate as we've found instances when work ha over-run.
On the assumption that work is currently complete, I'm wondering that because you've got to use Ridge Hill with obviously weaker signals, whether you may be getting a bit of interference from any new/upgraded phone masts near you. There's at least 4 such potential masts.
Although your postcode supposedly hasn't been send postcards from Restore TV, see
https://restoretv.uk/post…ure/ we have come across a number of cases where fitting the free filter has solved reception problems.
I'd be inclined to give them a call on 0808-1313-800, explain why you can't use Bromsgrove because of the trains and explain that despite your aerial installer making improvements, you do have an amp/splitter, you are still not getting 100% signal Quality and want to try the free filter as there are phone masts near you.
Give it a try, you've nothing to lose.
The filter would need to be fitted at the amp/splitter UHF input.
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Paul Evans9:35 AM
Chris.SE:
The amp is a Labgear LDA204K. The blurb says it has "Class 1 filtering to provide a typical 40dB protection from interference from 4G and 5G signal transmissions." I'll see how we go for a bit before doing any more tinkering.
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Chris.SE2:23 PM
Paul Evans:
Hi Paul. Ah, having looked at it, it does seem a quite well spec'd device. As you say, see how it goes.
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