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 withheldWednesday, 20 April 2011
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Mike Dimmick8:13 AM
Reading
Geoff Coupe: The BBC never provided a West-region service on analogue, and there is no plan to provide one on digital either.
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Roger10:25 AM
Malvern
Looking at the list of new muxs post switchover for Ridge Hill, can anyone please tell me what the + means in, for example, C22+.
Also further down there is reference to two mux's New7 and New8 on 30 and 23 but no reference to any channels.
thx
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Chris12:55 PM
Cheltenham
It means the channel frequency is ofset by +0.167MHz.
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Chris1:30 PM
Cheltenham
I notice that the second ITV D3+4 MUX on ch29 is not transmitting the entire West region MUX but just ITV West (HTV). If this is the permanent arrangement then perhaps there is a chance the BBC could come to some arrangement and transmit BBC West on the same MUX!
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Granny S.1:59 PM
Gloucester
Have just turned tv on .......... can only get bbc1 and bbc2 . Itv says ''no information available'' , channel 4 and 5 says ''no signal'' . Everything was ok when I turned the tv off last night .
The ''help switch team'' came and fitted a tvonce box a couple of weeks ago , as I'm disabled .
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Mike Dimmick2:12 PM
Roger: I really wish Brian would take down the NEW indicators, they just confuse people. Nothing new has started and nothing new will start in the immediate future.
They're the result of a study that the then-owner of half the transmitters, NGW, did in 2008, on which channels could *potentially* be allocated to new services at some point in the future. The regulator, Ofcom, has not yet begun the auction process or even announced when they might. It's now tied in with the government's pet local TV project so probably even further out.
The main frequency plan wasn't finalized when they did the study - more than half the country hadn't been published, and Tyne Tees and Ulster *still* haven't been published even now. Since it was done, there has been a Europe-wide agreement to release everything over C60 for mobile phones which involves reshuffling everything a bit.
The only reason for putting them in these lists was to guide choice of purchasing new aerials, but the rules for the study tried to ensure that the allocated channels would be receivable on an existing aerial anyway.
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Granny S.: Because the switchover happened last night, you will need to do a "first time installation" to your box, you can do it this way - My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Mike Dimmick2:25 PM
Chris: Yes, the Ridge Hill West transmission is a 'mini-mux' carrying only ITV1 and ITV1 +1. The legal framework does allow D3&4 to broadcast BBC channels, but the BBC would have to come to an agreement with the ITV companies and Channel 4 over how much it would cost.
The BBC have never shown any interest in providing a BBC West service to this area. The ITV service was only added in December 2006.
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Mr K2:58 PM
How is the HD channels working for you lot? I'm not getting anything. I was looking forward to checking out freeview HD on my new Bravia but after the re-tune I can't seem to find them. I've set my tv to factory default settings and re-tuned the built in freeview. No luck. All of the other SD channels are fine, though.
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Mr K: You must have a Freeview HD set, not just an HD Ready one. Please see What does "Full HD Ready" actually mean? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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