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The symbol shows the location of the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter which serves 720,000 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 Mendip (Somerset, England) mast?

Mendip transmitter - Mendip transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Mendip transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C32 (562.0MHz)591mDTG-100,000W
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1 BBC One (SD) West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C34 (578.0MHz)591mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (West), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C35 (586.0MHz)591mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H max
C48 (690.0MHz)591mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H max
C33 (570.0MHz)591mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H max
C36 (594.0MHz)591mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LBS
 H -10dB
C30 (546.0MHz)591mDTG-1210,000W
Channel icons
from 22nd September 2014: 7 Made in Bristol,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Mendip transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 25km north (3°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 23km north (11°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)

Are there any self-help relays?

CheddarTransposer15 km E Weston-super-Mare1674 homes
LuccombeActive deflector6 km w Minehead38 homes

How will the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-132013-182013-1727 Feb 2018
C/D EEEC/D EC/D E TW TW T
C30_local
C32BBCA
C33com7com7
C34D3+4
C35com8com8
C36ArqB
C37C5wavesC5waves
C48SDNSDNSDNSDN
C49tv_off BBCABBCA
C51tv_offLBSLBS
C52tv_offArqBArqBArqB
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4D3+4D3+4
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offArqAArqAArqACOM8tv_off
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 500kW
Analogue 5(-6dB) 126kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 100kW
com7(-8.4dB) 72.4kW
com8(-8.6dB) 69.1kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBS(-17dB) 10kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Mendip was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Friday, 18 October 2019
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James
1:59 PM

Is there still transmitter engineering works ongoing at Mendip?
Experiencing weak signal on Mendip CH35 and CH36 multiplexes for week or so. All other multiplexes unaffected. Has transmitter power been fully restored to MAX?

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Chris.SE
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11:50 PM

James:

AFAIK there's been no engineering work and none has been listed for the last couple of weeks. The six main muxes are all supposed to be transmitting at full power of 100kW. I'm not seeing any issues with UHF 35 & 36.
COMs 7&8 on UHF 55&56 transmit on less power than the others, but again all seems normal.

If you provide a full postcode, we can see what predicted reception at you location should be according to the DigitalUK checker.

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Wednesday, 6 November 2019
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allan smith
3:14 PM

will i receive freeview if i use a set top aerial in Martock

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StevensOnln1
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5:21 PM

allan smith: We need a full postcode, the coverage checkers don't work with place names or partial postcodes. In general, indoor aerials only work in areas with a strong signal (most a made up of little more than a piece of wire sticking out of an amplifier which picks up as much unwanted electrical noise as the wanted signal).

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MikeP
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8:22 PM

Allan Smith:

Knowing the area fairly well, I would suspect that it would be unreliable as it is a bit too far from the transmitter. You may get some reception but it would be quite variable. It would be far better to have a suitable outdoor aerial install at roof level and away from any water tanks and solar panels.



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Friday, 8 November 2019
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Tracy
8:28 PM

Hi
I live in Burnham on sea and I am not able to get channel 50.
Can you tell me why?
Thanks

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MikeP
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9:37 PM

Tracy:

Please provide a full post code, then we can look up what services you should be getting. A partial post code is of no use as the Freeview system requires a full post code.



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Tuesday, 12 November 2019
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John H
7:50 AM

This isn't a reception problem but does anyone know what's happened to the Digital UK website? Several replies on this forum have directed users to this site, which contained a lot of useful info such as coverage checker, channel nos etc. Now a search for Digital UK appears to redirect to the Freeview website which doesn't contain anything useful in this respect.

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Chris.SE
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8:41 AM

John H:

Yes it has been amalgamated into the Freeview site and a very sloppy even bad job has been made of it, and some of the issues that I would have expected to have been fixed quickly have not.

The only old link that redirects correctly is the channel listings, but here is some links that will provide most of the useful information

Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/700mhz-clearance">What is 700MHz clearance? | Freeview
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free service-updates">Service updates | Freeview
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/planned-engineering-works">Planned engineering works | Freeview
Freeview seem incapable of providing decent fault information so check this site (BBC) -
Welcome to BBC Reception Advice | Help receiving TV and radio or Advice about receiving TV and radio | RTIS
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/channel-listings">Channel listings | Freeview

For the Coverage Checker -
Go to Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free scroll down the page to the box "Check Freeview at my home" and enter your postcode and house number/name. Scroll down the following page where available channels are shown in "tiles". Below the initial block there is a "down arrow" if not all are displayed. But if you are only interested in one group of channels click on that button on the top row.
If you scroll down just after half way down the page, there is a button "Detailed view". If you click on that it will show the predicted reception of transmitters and multiplexes that may be receivable at your location.

It's not currently possible to get/derive links for specific postcode predictions but there's a long winded work around for a given postcode. At the top of the Detailed View page there is a button for "View Region". If you select that (for the region for the postcode) it will give a url with postcode (and house number if provided) which is of the form -
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free help/coverage-checker/detailed-view/west?postcode=bs35%202yj&address=80
To get to the predicted reception for that address, scroll down the page slightly and click on "Summary view". Scroll just over halfway down the new page and click on "Detailed view". It will now display all the transmitters and multiplexes that are predicted to give some reception at your location.
The only advantage I can see for this method is so others might be able to look at exactly what you've looked at, because otherwise they may as well check for themselves using the instructions in the previous paragraph.
NOTE: The Yorkshire Region information is not working at time of posting and wasn't last I checked when it was DigitalUK. (The pdf for Yorkshire clearance events wasn't working either last I checked!).
It does seem that Region pages can be accessed from a cut-down of the above example link, eg. -
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free help/coverage-checker/detailed-view/west
For other regions, replace "west" with the relevant region name eg. central, wales, etc.
However I have discovered some inaccurate information on some of the above pages.

HTH.


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John H
12:51 PM

Thanks to Chris SE for the full reply, amongst other things I'd missed the "detailed view" button.

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