Full Freeview on the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter which serves 200,000 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 Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) mast?
Bluebell Hill transmitter - Bluebell Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 Bluebell 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 Bluebell Hill transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 28km southwest (218°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 5km south-southeast (155°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||||
| E | E | E | W T | W T | |||||
| C21 | _local | ||||||||
| C28 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqA | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | SDN | ||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | ArqA | ||||
| C45 | SDN | BBCB | |||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | ArqB | ||||
| C54tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 13 Jun 12 and 27 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 30kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-1.8dB) 20kW | |
| com8 | (-7.8dB) 5kW | |
| com7 | (-8.1dB) 4.7kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 3kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A* | (-11.8dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Bluebell Hill Freeview Bluebell Hill DAB Bluebell Hill TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bluebell Hill transmitter area
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Friday, 5 October 2012
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Ken Collyer7:35 PM
Gillingham
Dave; Just to clarify; the re-tune that cleared the fault I had was a manual re-tune of ArqB only which from Bluebell Hill is channel 54.
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Tuesday, 16 October 2012
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maxine 11:50 PM
Maidstone
Hi, i am hoping someone can help me with a problem that occurred around 3days after the dave, yesterday etc channel number reshuffle. I didnt do a retune and so the channels were displaying wrongly as would be expected. My tv picture was perfect tho and i had no problems. Went to bed around 3am, freeview working fine, next day no signal whatsoever on any channels. After checking connections etc, i did a first time install rescan by uplugging ariel to erase all channels, then did another first time install with ariel reconnected (this worked after dso when i lost all signal). Still nothing. Am now using a set-top ariel and can get all channels but picture breakup, blackouts etc are frequent. My main ariel is in my loft and was working fine before channel reshuffle.
My set-top ariel is using the bluebell hill transmitter - postcode ME16 0AW - and i assume my loft ariel was too, but am wondering why my set-top ariel is picking up channels without probs as such and my loft ariel has suddenly stopped working. Could the lead between ariel wall socket and tv be faulty? Has my loft ariel suddenly stopped woking - have checked it and hasnt moved and cabling in good condition. Has the channel reshuffle caused this? Am pretty broke and dont want to spend money if something more simple could be wrong.
Please help coz its doing my head in and altho im quite technically minded, this has got me stumped! Many thanks :)
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Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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John Breeds4:36 PM
Why do I keep losing all of my BBC transmissions even though I still have all of the others? I have had to re-tune my T.Vs three times over the last two days to get BBC programmes back. I do understand that I am a fair distance from the transmitter (TN37) but I have not had this problem since the switch.
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John Breeds: I will make one observation which you could perhaps be unaware of and that is that the new Bexhill relay transmitter is co-channel with Bluebell Hill's PSBs.
TN37 is obviously a large area and how likely it might be a problem will vary across the area.
The Bexhill transmitter is horizontally polarised, like Bluebell Hill. It is on the roof of the Hastings Direct building.
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Lee7:43 PM
I keep losing signal on certain channels, yesterday, dave, e4
Is this just due to the weather lately or not? I thought when we switched to digital signal it was supposed to cure all these problems that we had when it was analogue?
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Monday, 5 November 2012
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Ken Collyer4:44 PM
Gillingham
On September 19 we had all the fuss of a re-tune because some stations were being give new numbers including the "News" channels and the "Childrens" channels, but here we are in November and I'm still getting Childrens channels on 70, 71, and 72, and News on 80, 81, 82, 83 and 84. So can someone tell me what's going on.
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Thursday, 8 November 2012
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Geoff Redsell8:23 PM
I have just installed a Televes DAT45 aerial (with a 12v PSU) and pointed it to Bluebell Hill. Whilst I get good quality and max signal level on 4 of the 5 channels (43, 45, 39 & 54) it is poor quality on C46. Could this be an alignment problem (or possibly "something else)?
My postcode is DA12(Gravesend) and the aerial was set up to approximately 130 ('ish) degrees.
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Sunday, 11 November 2012
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steve canham9:03 PM
Why does my new Panasonic DVD recorder keep pestering me for uploads but my Phillips box doesn't,when they are both plugged into the same aerial?
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Thursday, 15 November 2012
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kevin rose9:48 PM
Herne Bay
We and neighbours lost signal from bluebell hill totally. Couple weeks ago, midweek(most of day/eve for two days or so).
During footy yesterday eve and most of today, same thing happening. Keeps cutting out, and if u retune it picks up further tv transmitters like London and Anglia even befordshire area.
Towards later eve bluebell signal is back but weak and pixelated. (yes we have a wide band ariel)
Any transmission errors or faults being kept quiet?
Or is someone bleeding and blocking signal area with some new radio mast perhaps.
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KMJ,Derby11:13 PM
kevin rose: I have just had a look at yesterday's chart from the William Hepburn's Tropospheric Ducting forecast and it shows that the Inversion effect could be responsible for your loss of signal.
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