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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Friday, 29 March 2013
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K Searle3:50 PM
Bristol
No channels from 1 through to 9. Ariel on roof.
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Dave - Thanks again for the tip. Guess what - friend has found a set-top aerial in the cellar and have now got one TV going - everything now even including ITV3 and 5* - signal a little unsteady though. Will give the coathanger a go on the others...
Alison
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KMJ,Derby7:03 PM
louise: If all channels now give poor reception when they were all OK prior to the re-tune it suggests that possibly you are storing the channels from an alternative transmitter with each scan; Wenvoe most likely in the Bristol area or more towards the South of the region Stockland Hill or Rowridge could be delivering alternative signals. Check the frequency for each mux that you have stored, often shown on the relevant info screen. For Mendip BBC1 should be on C49, ITV should be C54, QVC (C48), Sky News (C56) and Film4 (C52). You could try doing a scan with the aerial unplugged for the first part of the scan in order to miss out alternative transmitters on lower frequencies, making sure it is plugged in before C48 for the Mendip frequencies.
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chloe7:43 PM
So i take it those of us in the Taunton, Wellington area are not to have BBC for the foreseeable future then as no one seems to be taking us seriously about there being a problem?
Ive tried all the channels you suggested to others but nothing is picking up, I've set the tv back to factory settings, there's just no BBC channels!
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Ron10:57 PM
Hi,
Ilive in Warminster and since March 27th cannot get bbc channels back after many retunes.Have a portable ariel which is working okay with digibox.
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J Powis11:02 PM
Gloucester
Since the retune on 27th March at Mendip, we have good signal and no inteference on all channels. However, whenever we use our Techwood digi recorder to record any channel, picture on channel we are watching jumps. Any recordings are also impossible to watch. We never experienced problems prior to 27th. Any ideas?
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Saturday, 30 March 2013
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mike wilson8:25 AM
Dave Lindsay: a really weird one. living near devizes. All TVs in the house retuned successfully! except a Philips! it has lost all the BBC channels, 698Mhz shows poor of Mendip, yet on all the other TVs signal is strong! I think that Philips has a problem?
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Sue Johnson8:33 AM
30th March still no BBC channels in Yeovil can you please explain what we should do about do about this.
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KMJ,Derby9:12 AM
chloe: If you do a manual tune and enter C49 what strength and quality is shown for the signal? What kind of aerial are you using, is it a communal one or do you have two aerials combined for reception from two transmitters? Do you receive ITV3 and QVC OK on C48? Further advice can be given with this information.
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chloe9:34 AM
We have one digital aerial put up a few years ago for just our house to use and only one tv connected which does not need a digital topbox. I have reset the tv again back to factory settings this morning and still nothing. Ch49 is red and showing around 1mhz for signal quality and grey with around 2mhz for signal strength. Ch48 has no signal quality at all and the same signal strength as C49. ITV3 works but is not the best picture the same with QVC, in fact all the stations seem much weaker than before. I have channels starting from ITV-ITV3 (3-6) then nothing till Pick tv on 11. Really don't know what more I can do to get back the BBC channels and the quality back on the others!
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