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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter._______
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, 22 April 2011
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b cutmore10:30 AM
same again last night,same time and came back on the same time this morning.This is also happening to my neighbours.
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Steve10:41 AM
Maidstone
Just checked the Freeview site and for Bluebell Hill all of the ITV channels are blanked out with a statement saying
"Good news. You should be able to receive some Freeview channels now and the entire service after the digital switchover."
Good news, yeh right....
Steve
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pamula11:32 AM
Maidstone
all ch4 and related programmes and ch5 etc are on a low transmission for the bluebell hill area, can't get them in the evenings. so why don't they boost the signal to maximum or even medium as there are thousands of angry people out there who have paid a fortune updating their equipment and can't watch tv in the evenings. bet the controllers have sky or virgin!!!!!!!!
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Steve3:49 PM
Maidstone
Anybody any idea how to contact Freeview?
Looked on their website and no contact details I can find.
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Steve3:51 PM
Maidstone
Found an address, how about everybody write to them letting them know this situation is just not acceptable?
Freeview,
DTV Services Ltd,
27-29 Cursitor Street
London
EC4A 1LT
Steve
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Steve: That's a marking company, they don't do the broadcasts.
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All: Your problems will be down to the weather conditions over France - see What is the Inversion Effect and why does it effect my Freeview TV reception?
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This will occur until the whole network is digital, when it should only occur occasionally.
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barry5:01 PM
Maidstone
been having this problem for the last couple of nights and called the bbc today who are responsible for freeview and its down to the weather and they said its happening all over the country, not really much we can do about that really. if it goes off again tonight i'll use tv catchup and watch it online live
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Saturday, 23 April 2011
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Mel8:50 AM
Just retuned and now lost ITV, Ch4, 5 and lots of other channels! What , in Lay man's terms please, is going on? Thought it was something to with the weather being so hot but I'm sure we had all the channels through last Summer!
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