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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?

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
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
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sbmarlborough
3:00 PM
Marlborough

Hi David S

You should have no problem receiving HD unless there is something very local to you blocking the signal. I checked your postcode and you should have a very strong signal. Mine is far weaker and i receive HD without any blockiness or sound issues.

Could it be your aerial?leads/equipment?



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Tim
3:12 PM
Drybrook

I live in nr Westbury Forest of Dean and have now lost the set of channels including itv4, yesterday and film 4

I have tried clearing out channels and retuning ...no luck.

Any other ideas anyone please

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sbmarlborough
3:31 PM
Marlborough

Hi Tim

Same here and I have lost those on C67 too, they have changed the modulation which appears to manifest itself as a poorer signal on some equipment.

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Gareth
3:53 PM

Update from Chippenham.

The current situation is: I have all Channel67 progs on 1 V Box, 1 Set top box, and 1 iDTV, but not on another iDTV. I have replaced a splitter and about 15 metres of coax cable. However, on all devices there re Channel 56 progs with sound but no vision. Everything was hunky dory prior to the January 11th retune debacle just to get ITV1+1 from Wales.

Has anybody noticed that there are 3 channels ITV Preview 1 which broadcasts (ITV Nightscreen) for 2 hours per day, Home broadcasting for 1 hour per day and Big Deal for 1 hour per day. Talk about wasting resources. Whose idea was it to have Mendip transmitter 'liable to disruption' less than 7 days after the post retune problems started?

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Alex
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3:58 PM
Broadway

Higher modulation = greater compression... higher liklihood of drop-out, interference, etc. Get Freesat instead, it's just easier.

Freeview used to be all 64QAM, which was why it was rubbish under ITV Digital... all the BBC bits are 16QAM now, which is why they're better.

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Miss Moppet
7:56 PM

Anyone needing answers try the Arquiva Mendip Transmitter man, Bruce Randall, on 01962 822582. Friendly helpful chap. He claims that 99% of problems are caused by not having a roof aerial, but like the rest of you I've had a perfectly good signal from a loft aerial, till recently.

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Wednesday, 26 January 2011
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michael
sentiment_satisfiedGold

9:45 AM

Bruce is right. Exceptions "prove the rule" - such as when all muxes radiate final full power. Unless close to and within view of the mast, a good quality roof aerial, sat-quality cable and good connections are advisable.

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Tonyn
6:17 PM
Chippenham

Something very strange : I have a Panasonic digital TV downstairs and an old Philips digibox upstairs both fed from the same roof aerial. Following the Mendip changes I have rescanned both and also done the whole clear-down procedure you suggest. No matter what I do the "Blue" service stays on LCN 190 on the Panasonic TV, but correctly moves to LCN 98 on the Philips box. Everything else is OK. Any ideas ?

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peter
9:13 PM
Blakeney

Following the recent Mendip changes I re-scanned. I can no longer get Sky News. Additionally the signal on many Non BBC channels is variable, ranging from pixel freeze to unwatchable

My daughters got TVs for their bedrooms at xmas. Splitting the cable may have caused some of my problems, but I could definitely got Sky news on the main TV after the aerial was split. On one of my daughters TVs Sky news is still available. My gut feeling is that my problems are partly due to splitting the aerial.

Anybody got any ideas?

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