Full Freeview on the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter which serves 1,550,000 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Emley Moor 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
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 Emley Moor transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 22km north-northeast (22°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 22km north-northeast (16°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
Are there any self-help relays?
Derwent B | Active deflector | 74 homes | |
Derwent C | Active deflector | (second level) | |
Dunford Bridge | Active deflector | 14 km S Huddersfield | 15 homes |
Hmp Leeds | Transposer | 30 homes | |
Thixendale | Transposer | 25 km ENE York | 40 homes |
How will the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1956-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Feb 2020 | ||||
VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | W T | ||||
C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C32 | com7 | ||||||||
C33 | SDN | ||||||||
C34 | com8 | ||||||||
C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C39 | _local | ||||||||
C41 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C44 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C47 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C51tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | SDN | |||||
C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | LLS |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 870kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 174kW | |
com7 | (-12dB) 54.8kW | |
com8 | (-12.3dB) 51.2kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-19.4dB) 10kW | |
Mux A*, LLS | (-22.4dB) 5kW | |
Mux D* | (-23.4dB) 4kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area
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Monday, 9 January 2012
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David6:15 PM
I'm on Emley Moor transmitter and over the past week we have had lots of storm winds, it surprised me how the slight movement of the aerial that occured messed reception up.
With anologue this slight movement would not have effected reception, so it is most important I think to have the aerial alignment spot on.
Regards
David
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jb388:18 PM
John Procter: Thanks for the update. If you see pixilation on the stronger channels then you will obviously have to increase the attenuation, the thing to remember though being that SDN (ITV3 etc) is indicated as being on lower power (123KW) than the main muxes (@ 174Kw) until the end of January, and ArqA (Pick TV / Dave etc) very much so (87Kw) until the same period, so makes allowances for that when judging signal levels.
That said, ArqB (Film4 / ITV4) is indicated as being on 174Kw, although it has also to be appreciated that figures published aren't always necessarily what is happening in real life, as only the engineers at the station know what the true situation is.
Of course I feel that with the attenuator now in place further experimenting with aerial position on the horizontal plane might even out the channels, especially ArqB.(Mux Ch48)
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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John Procter4:23 PM
Here's an interesting side issue.
Alongside the loft aerial location we have a dormer bedroom containing a portable TV with cheap Freeview box. Just tuned it in as I didn't do so last September. All channels perfect.
The curiosity is that the connected aerial is a cheap ribbon type originally used back in the early 80s for stereo radio reception. No aiming, simply secured to the wall with three nails and plugged in. Interesting ?
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Adam B5:10 PM
Dunstable
John Procter:
Because you are so close to Emley Moor (a high power transmitter), you would probably get good reception using a wire coathanger!
Hope this helps,
Adam.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012
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A.A.Wright10:51 AM
I live at s65ga and get look north on bbc covering south yorkshire,my friend lives a mile away in sheltered housing at s66aj and the look north comes from east yorkshire,both are on freeview.ITV seems ok.Is the the problem the aerial or can the set be adjusted to get the local south yorkshire news
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A.A.Wright: Sometimes, even though an aerial points to a particular transmitter (Emley Moor in this case), it picks up the signal from another transmitter as well and sometimes when this happens a TV can decide to go with the signal from the other transmitter.
In this particular case, a workaround to avoid it picking up the wrong signal (from Belmont) is to run the automatic tuning with the aerial unplugged and then plug it in when it gets to 25%. That way the aerial is unplugged when it is scanning frequencies used by Belmont and plugged in for those used by Emley Moor.
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KMJ,Derby11:33 AM
A.A.Wright: Whether your friend can receive the preferred news service really depends on which transmitter the aerial is pointing to on the housing complex. If it is pointing at Emley Moor (NNW, with rods set horizontal) or Crosspool (roughly SE with rods set vertical), there should be no problem, it is just a matter of the TV being tuned to the correct frequency. As a matter of interest check in the 800s of the channel list on your friend's TV to look for additional versions of BBC1. It is likely that the South Yorkshire variant will be found there. There might even be a BBC East Midlands as reception is also shown as possible from Waltham at your friend's location. To get the correct set of frequencies tuned in the best way is to clear the channel list, then tune in manually the set of frequencies for the transmitter that the aerial is pointing to. An alternative method is to start the scan with the aerial unplugged to miss out C22, which is the unwanted Belmont frequency for Lincolnshire, then plug the aerial back in before your local frequencies are found. If Emley Moor this means about C38; however if Crosspool is the transmitter of choice it would mean having the aerial unplugged for C22, but plugged in for C24, and also C21 if it is an HD receiver, so is a bit trickier to achieve.
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A.A.Wright: Following KMJ,Derby's posting I had a look at the home in question and there are two aerials on the roof (mounted at the highest point). One is definately on Emley Moor and the other is probably on the Sheffield transmitter (it's difficult to be 100% looking at Streetview photographs).
If it is the Emley Moor aerial that is being used, then carry out the procedure I outlined above (run scan with aerial unplugged until it gets to 25%).
If it is Sheffield that is being used, then that is more tricky because its signals are around the same frequency as those used by Belmont (the transmitter that your friend doesn't want). Thus, it's far more tricky to do a workaround by plugging in and unplugging the aerial lead and manual tuning might be the only option.
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Sunday, 22 January 2012
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Lindsey Towler2:02 PM
Wakefield
All of a sudden Freeview BBC channels on my TVs downstairs and upstairs have stopped working or are very scrambled. Reception has been fine up to now. Our aerial is in the loft. Some channels work perfectly, some are slightly scrambled and as I said BBC channels are terrible
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Ron Lake
11:21 PM
11:21 PM
Lindsey Towler, I am almost in Featherstone and getting all channels very well on an old hifi radio loop. In Wakefield you are very close to a powerful transmitter. If you have any amplifier attached, (you say ALL tv's, which you may be running from a powered splitter), this really must be turned off or you will be getting too much signal. If you supply your full postcode, the very nice and helpful people who maintain this site will be able to help you further.
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