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 withheldThursday, 14 April 2011
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Sid6:45 PM
Ridgehill:-
BBC4 on ch63? this was switched off on 6th April as part of DSO switchover part 1.
It is now on ch28.
From the 20th April part 2 of DSO should happen. You will find CH21+/CH22+/CH24/CH25/CH27/CH28 should give you all of the Freeview channels available including HD.
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Mike Dimmick7:20 PM
Sid: They don't actually shut down Mux B at stage 1, you just get two copies of the BBC channels in the two weeks between step 1 and step 2.
John: People who had good reception before switchover often find that they have too much signal once switchover starts. If you have an amplifier or booster, remove it. If not, or that doesn't help, try adding an attenuator. If it is a case of too much signal, it will probably get worse after switchover.
If Mux B on C63 is working with a Group A aerial, you are probably very close to the transmitter - most people would find it didn't work without a wideband.
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Friday, 15 April 2011
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john8:53 AM
Mike, Cheltenham 3 storey terrace aerial on pole on chimney. BBC 4 on 63 breaks up but perfect on ch28 prog 803. Sure it will be ok after 20th.
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Saturday, 16 April 2011
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caroline11:26 AM
Cheltenham
when i moved here[cheltenham] i had to get in tv aerial people as my bravia did not pick up to well a booster and aerial splitter were put on [4 tv`s]will i have to disconnect the booster when retuning on 20th?
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caroline's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby12:10 PM
caroline: If the signal strength now is showing very high you might have too much signal, the power increase is ten times for the PSB muxes and five times for the COM muxes. However if you are having no problem currently with high power MuxBBCA you should be ok after switchover step2.It is perfectly reasonable for some amplification to be used to run 4 tvs and the aerial installer should have installed equipment which would be ok after switchover. If you merely switch off the power or remove the power supply to the amplifier the tvs might mot work at all.
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Sunday, 17 April 2011
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Granny S.7:07 AM
tv switchover team said that Ridge Hill have having problems .
I keep getting ''no signal'' across a perfect picture at times or the screen suddenly goes blank and I lose the channel. Have retuned every day ........sometimes several times a day. Engineers said my signal was fine .
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011
RIDGE HILL transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal; DSO related from 14:14 on 01 Apr to 00:36 today [BBC]
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