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 |
Local transmitter maps
Ridge Hill Freeview Ridge Hill DAB Ridge Hill TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)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, 20 May 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:21 AM
5:21 AM
Ridge Hill transmitter - Ridge Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 20/05/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 27 May 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:10 AM
5:10 AM
Ridge Hill transmitter - Ridge Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 27/05/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 3 June 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Ridge Hill transmitter - Ridge Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 03/06/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Ridge Hill transmitter - Ridge Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 03/06/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 10 June 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:11 AM
5:11 AM
Ridge Hill transmitter - Ridge Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 10/06/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
5:11 AM
5:11 AM
Ridge Hill transmitter - Ridge Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 10/06/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 17 June 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:06 AM
5:06 AM
Ridge Hill transmitter - Ridge Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 17/06/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Saturday, 22 June 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:07 PM
5:07 PM
RIDGE HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 22 Jun 16:09 until 22 Jun 16:23. . [BBC]
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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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