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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


Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Mendip 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C32 (562.0MHz)591mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
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
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
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Gareth
10:34 AM
Chippenham

Thanks for the advice, Mike.

This is weird but as suddenly as it started 2 and a bit weeks ago, last night I had no problems with any terrestrial channels. The only variable was rhat last night was warmer.

This morning, so far so good.

Thanks once again

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Sunday, 15 March 2015
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Charles Stuart
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11:16 PM

I'm finding aspects of the revamped site rather difficult to use. The biggest single problem is the "My Freeview" setting page. The site asked me to share my location, which I duly did. However, it didn't work correctly, placing my location in Calne, which I think is about thirty miles by road from my actual location in Bristol. There doesn't seem to be a means to reset it, so I'm stuck with inaccurate information and to view the Mendip page, I have to go through the Transmitters page.

I wanted to look at the Mendip page to see which MUX the Horror Channel is using. It's a good addition to Freeview, having several programmes that I enjoy.

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Monday, 16 March 2015
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7:05 AM

Charles Stuart: Purely on the subject of the Horror Channel / LCN70, this is transmitted on Mendip's COM6 / 722.0Mhz, if 70 isnt seen on the EPG list then a retune is required to update the listings.

As far as your location problem is concerned, the post code you entered "is" for Calne, the location being close to the Oxford Road / Wood street mini roundabout, the Calne Freeview light / PSB only "relay" transmitter (no COM4/5/6 etc) which is listed as covering that particular area, located at 0.5mls from the post code location.

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7:21 AM

Charles Stuart: I just noticed on one of your earlier postings made back in January, that BS15 is listed as the post code area, whereas the latest is SN11, so there has to be an error somewhere along the line.

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Charles Stuart
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11:13 AM

This time I didn't enter a postcode. It simply asked me to share my location, which I did. How do I revert to a manual postcode input?

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jb38
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4:38 PM
Stamford

Charles Stuart: Although, just like yourself, I preferred the previous system rather than this updated one, however the easiest way I found is to click on the "cog wheel" seen on the extreme right hand side of the red header bar at the top of the postings, this will open another screen where you can enter your post code, once entered click on "predict" and that will (or should) have changed your location.

You can check if it has without even typing out another posting, as your new location should be included in the information under "Your comment please".

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Charles Stuart
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5:47 PM

jb38, thanks for the suggestion but it doesn't seem to work. No new screen appears. Perhaps Briantist could set up a nice easy system to change one's location. After all, this site will be really useful when moving house.

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jb38
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8:43 PM

Charles Stuart: Well, Briantist really is the best person to advise on this, as he designed the whole system, but though when you say that No new screen appears, I omitted to mention that the one that allows you to enter your post code will "not" appear if a post code is already stored, which in your case should apply albeit with the incorrect code, the point being that you have to click "clear" to the right hand side of the code that is showing before the one I referred will appear.

Of course it all depends on what system you are using, as I noticed others also experiencing problems since the update, I use Win7 Pro with the browser being Mozilla FF36, but I also tried the same test on an older Win XP Pro PC that I keep a load of technical files stored in and the results were exactly the same as on Win7.

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Charles Stuart
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10:17 PM
Bristol

Thanks for telling me about "clear". (I use Firefox for Mac and it seems the same as Windows.) I now have a new problem. Instead of getting a map, I get this error message:
Warning: file_get_contents(class_googlemaps.js): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/admintv/public_html/class_googlemaps.php on line 308

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11:24 PM
Stamford

Charles Stuart: I also experienced that very same problem, but I managed to get over it by clicking on "terrain plot" seen in the middle of the three choices (mapping - terrain plot - full details) this then allowing the newly entered post code to appear.


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