Full Freeview on the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter
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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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) mast?
Emley Moor transmitter - Emley Moor transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 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
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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Friday, 25 February 2022
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Graham White5:50 PM
Lost all signal for all itv channels last two days. We are on emley Moor transmitter but no problems reported. What is going on?
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Chris.SE10:41 PM
Graham White:
Emley Moor has just been listed for Planned Engineering with "Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels", this is likely to mean some reduced power. If you are in a low signal area that can result in no signal!
If you provide a full postcode we might be able to advise.
No faults are currently being reported.
Have you looked at your aerial? Is it still intact and pointing in the correct direction?
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Sunday, 27 February 2022
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Steve11:16 AM
Ventnor (Isle of Wight) relay station seems entirely off air this morning Sunday 27 February
There is no FM, DAB or Freeview
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Chris.SE3:13 PM
Steve:
The BBC are reporting a fault for Ventnor. If it's up-to-date DAB may be back on air but Freeview and FM still off-air.
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Thursday, 3 March 2022
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H ALEXANDER12:09 PM
Most of the time I have a good signal on all channels. At the moment GB News and some other channels are pixilated. Why is this happening. Do you keep reducing the power of your transmitters.
I live at North Rigton near Harrogate and can see the Emily Moor masts from my bedroom window.
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Chris.SE2:33 PM
H ALEXANDER:
"We" don't keep doing anything, this is an independent technical helpsite for people for technical and reception problems. What I can tell you is that Emley Moor is currently listed for Planned Engineering with "Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels".
However considering you general location, the predicted reception is excellent for all multiplexes and I'm a little surprised that you are seeing a problem like this unless perhaps your reception is marginal for some reason.
If you are correctly tuned, other than that, check that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction bearing 188 degrees (8 degrees W of due S) with the rods (or squashed Xs) horizontal and that your downlead looks undamaged and isn't flapping in the wind.
GB News is carried on the ArqB multiplex, so you may be noticing the issues with other channels on ArqB.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplexes.
Are you seeing problems with channels not on ArqB, if so which ones?
Check in your TV tuning section that you are tuned to Emley's UHF channels -
Emley's Multiplexes & UHF channels are as follows, in the order -
PSBs1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ArqA, COM6/ArqB, COM7 HD, & Local
C47, C44, C41, C33, C36, C48, C55, & C39/C42. Whether you get satisfactory reception of COM7 will depend on your aerial installation.
Also check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them.
See what Signal Strengths and Quality (or Error/BER) figures you are getting for the multiplexes (groups of channels) shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate potential issues with your aerial or downlead.
If you post the figures for each it may give us a clue.
Roughly how old is the aerial installation? There might be some degradation somewhere.
Do you have a distribution amp/splitter and where is it located? If you have one, check that it still has power and check the connections to it.
Aerial misalignments, problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just AN individual or several multiplexes.
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Thursday, 17 March 2022
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steve phillips6:03 PM
Hi, I live just north of York, and have always had good reception with a loft aerial pointing towards the Emley Moor transmitter, to get the Leeds/Yorkshire version of the local news. That was until a few weeks ago, when we noticed that some channels were breaking up. Yesterday I looked at the signal strength, and found some channels were very poor. I checked that the aerial was still in the right place (it is) and then had a go at the Freeview reset/retune. What I found has got me baffled.
Looking at the channels & frequencies given on this site, it looks as if some channels are coming loud and clear from Emley Moor - ITV on Ch.44, and SkyArts on Ch.36 for example - while others are being picked up from Bilsdale - Drama on Ch.43 and DaveJaVu on Ch.40.
Going through each of the Emley Moor frequencies, Ch.47, (BBC1 etc) is showing very poor signal strength (jumping from nothing to 75 and back again, with 0 quality). But Ch.44 (ITV etc) has strength 75 and quality 100. Ch.36 (SkyArts) is also fine, but Ch.48 (DaveJaVu) is showing no signal at all.
The biggest puzzle is that when I look at BBC1/2, they are coming to me on Ch.27, which as far as I can see is not used by either Emley or Bilsdale. So where are they coming from? It says it is BBC NE & Cumbria, and there are some smaller transmitters using 27 up in Northumberland, but could that be getting all the way down here?
I suppose my main question is - is there a problem with Emley Moor which has thrown my previously good reception into chaos?
Thanks
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Friday, 18 March 2022
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Chris.SE12:01 AM
steve phillips:
Now it depends on exactly where you are north of York (you haven't provided a full postcode) but a number of locales in that general area can receive signals from Bilsdale, and reception predictions from the new temporary Bilsdale Tower are good.
Bilsdale does indeed use C27 for PSB1! Multiplexes PSB1 & 3 swapped UHF channels back in February 2020 IIRC, the listings at the top of the transmitter page didn't get updated (the site owner hasn't found time to do all the updates after the 700MHz Clearance programme!).
But from one of my posts on the Bilsdale pages -
Bilsdale's UHF channels are C27, C24, C21, C43, C46, C40, C55 that's in the multiplex order
BBC A/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBC B HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ARQ A/COM5, ARQ B/COM6, COM 7
You may be aware that aerials do have some ability to pick up signals from the rear of the aerial as well as some side lobes, so it's possible that you are easily getting signals froim Bilsdale Tower at this time.
Now just to complicate matters, I can't find any faults listed by the BBC for their multiplexes at Emley, and the transmitter isn't listed for Planned Engineering BUT there is some upcoming predicted Temperture Inversion/Tropospheric Ducting which will enable signals from more distant transmitters to be more easil;y received - and that will in a few instances result in interference to normal reception (you'll see the sort of thing you have with Signal Strength varying considerably and Quality dropping, often to zero)..
The predictions I've looked at (and just checked again) hadn't shown this affecting your area until tomorrow, and its likely to get quite severe over the early part of the weekend - but predictions are predictions!
My best suggestion would be to manual tune, if you can't get a stable enough signal from Emley then try Bilsdale's channels but I'm afreaid it's a case of things will likely be disrupted and not remain stable for a while.
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steve phillips3:41 PM
York
Thanks Chris. That explains the Ch27 mystery - another set of channels reaching us from Bilsdale. I will give it a few days and see if anything has changed if I go through the manual tuning options again. I am still puzzled why some Emley frequencies are virtally non-existent, while others are as strong as ever.
Thanks for your advice.
Steve (YO32 5ZN)
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Terry Thomas7:33 PM
Barnsley
Hi, getting No Signal on the PBS2 cluster of channels, (ITV SD, Channel 4 etc. Is this a transmitter fault, my post code is S71 2EF ( Barnsley)
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