Full Freeview on the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter
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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 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 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.
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?
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?
| Cheddar | Transposer | 15 km E Weston-super-Mare | 1674 homes |
| Luccombe | Active deflector | 6 km w Minehead | 38 homes |
How will the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||
| C/D E | E | E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | |||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C36 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C48 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C49tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C51tv_off | LBS | LBS | |||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | COM8tv_off | |||||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 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
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Tuesday, 12 November 2019
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John H12:51 PM
Thanks to Chris SE for the full reply, amongst other things I'd missed the "detailed view" button.
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Wednesday, 13 November 2019
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Chris.SE3:09 AM
John H:
The Planned Engineering link now redirects correctly.
New pdf's with the 2020 clearance events are now available - including Yorkshire!!
However, the Yorkshire Region on the Detailed View page is still "not found"!
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Chris.SE7:00 PM
Tracy:
A lot of the Sony channels were moved by Sony to Local multiplexes back in the summer. If you aren't getting the Bristol TV channel at LCN7 then you can't be receiving the Local multiplex. You could try a manual retune on UHF30 to see if you can pick it up, but it's not available in all areas.
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Friday, 15 November 2019
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Chris.SE7:33 AM
John H:
Some old links for the 700MHz clearance now redirect correctly. Also a tip when loading Channel listings | Freeview - clear your browser cache first or simply press <ctrl>F5 to make sure it loads the current version - it may have updated the Film4+1/More4+1 changes sooner than I thought, it has already updated the E4+1 change. On the 20th there's apparently going to be a change for PBS America and a +1 variant.
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Saturday, 30 November 2019
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wes.w5:42 PM
Freeview channel allocations seem to be changing at a furious rate. A few weeks ago I copied the channel allocations from Channel listings | Freeview . PBS America had disappeared, and the list I copied said it was on COM8 which is transmitter channel 56. I manually re-tuned today, but this gave me PBS+1 ! When I went back to the Freeview list, PBS is now on ARQ B. I had similar problems on other missing channels. It seems like Freeview are determined to make retuning as difficult as possible!
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Chris.SE6:01 PM
wes.w:
It's not Freeview making these changes, it's the broadcasters themselves (Freeview do it on their behalf). The changes give greater coverage as COMs 7&8 are not receivable in all areas.
It's worth keeping an eye on Service updates | Freeview where they should post information of such changes - but sometimes they can be a bit slow!
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Thursday, 2 January 2020
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Simon Watkins11:16 AM
You have the mux names incorrect in the frequency table for 27th Feb 2018.
You have two lots of com7 and com8 muxes listed. The ones incorrectly placed at channels 33 and 35, should be ArqA and BBCB respectively.
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Chris.SE11:38 AM
Simon Watkins:
As has been said quite a few times round here (see previous posts) the site owner has not had the time to keep up with all the 700MHz clearance changes. There are 1100+ transmitters in the UK. See my post at the top of this page (p203) for detailed information.
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Wednesday, 8 January 2020
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Dibbens7:14 PM
I was hoping the latest changes to the Mendip transmitter would bring back some channels that in recent years have been lost or removed.
Ch 48 - Sony Channel & bring in Ch 50 - Sony Movies Classic.
Is there any chance that these channels will return to the Mendip transmitter soon?
Charlton Musgrove area on the fringe of South Somerset & North Dorset border with aerial in my loft for over twenty years.
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MikeP
10:53 PM
10:53 PM
Dibbens:
Sony decided to move all their channels onto the local multiplexes last year. To determine whether you might be abkle to get them we need a full post code as the Freeview serviced=s require that before it will show anything useful for you.
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