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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Saturday, 30 March 2013
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Dave9:55 AM
Following 27th March my Sony pvr keeps losing all the channels, my Panasonic pvr keeps losing C49 (the new BBC site). The TV, however is fine... I keep re-tuning, the same thing keeps happening. Wretched Digital TV! Used to have a super reliable Analogue picture here in Yetminster.
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Bizman1:20 PM
@chloe, I live in Taunton and the retune went without a hitch, I have all the BBC channels, including radio, which eliminates the transmitter end. This suggests it is either a settings problem with your equipment or a frequency effect due possibly to some geographical feature such as building reflections.
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Hazel1:24 PM
Bristol
I live in Yate BS37 4LY. No BBC Channels on any of my 3 freeview TV'S. Very cross about this ok up until 27th March.I am paying my licence this is awful and Bank Holiday
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Mike
2:56 PM
Cinderford
2:56 PM
Cinderford
I am not getting any signal on BBC channels right now. I have re-tuned three times. It worked okay last night. All other channels are fine with a good signal.
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Sunday, 31 March 2013
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Rob Wilkins1:26 PM
Bristol
Just fixed my mother's TV issue and reading through the above issues I thought I'd share the solution as there may be a lot of other people with the same issue.
Problem was that after the recent change in transmitter configuration my mother's Philips TV (26PFL5522D/05) had lost all the BBC channels (BBCA multiplex). Easy I thought. I'll just retune it. This worked but each time the set was power cycled they were lost again.
In the end I worked out that I needed to do a factory reset. The methods using the menu button on the set did not work. I rang Philips on 08443380488 and spoke to a very helpful gentleman. He told me about the menu buttom method (whilst watching TV press and hold the menu button on the side of the TV for around 20-30 seconds). Initial menu will be shown allowing full re-tune of TV. This did not work so I asked if there was any other way of getting to the menu. He said that you can press 123654 123654 on the remote. This worked and all was well.
Interesting thing was that the support engineer was convinced that even doing this would not fix the issue - so good thing I tried it anyway.
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phil2:43 PM
we have for the last 2 or 3 weeks been having problems, have retuned numerous times to have a different outcome on every occasion, our signal was fine before.
Have done the unplugging and clearing .
Can seem to get HD sometimes with no normal channels. Burnham on sea
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jb382:58 PM
Rob Wilkins: Pleased to read of your success with regards to sorting out the reception problem on your mothers TV, but when say that the initial advice given by the Philips rep of carrying out a full retune did not work are you referring to "reinstall all services" via the installation / service set up menu?
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jb383:15 PM
phil: If every time you carry out a rescan the outcome is different then thats inclined to indicate that you might be intermittently picking up channels from another station, however its not possible for anyone to be able to assist without having knowledge of your post code or at least one from nearby such as a post office etc, as only then can details of the transmitter covering your area be accessed as there are two Burnham's.
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mark4:07 PM
We are yet another load of Tauntonites with no BBC channels, and progressively losing others as well. Tempers are a lot more than frayed here, I can tell you. We are in the stratosphere about it. This is a public holiday and 27 March was an asinine date on which to do the change when we all know that there is this problem on every one of the many occasions on which we are told to re-tune. Now, above the box that I am writing in there is a statement to the effect that if a I am disrespectful or rude I will be counted out. OK, so, since I now feel very much that way about the transmitter, how is it justifiable that this is one-sided? Eh?
The practical problem is that I can find NO WAY of contacting the people who do the transmitting at Mendip. I can imagine just why this is, of course. But I have now contacted OFCOM and I will be filling up their form every ten minutes until I get action. And then I shall be doing what I can to get back a proportion of my licence fee.
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mwhite4:27 PM
I'm in Chippenham, I have this kind of problem every time they do this kind of work. I think it has something to do with some new flats that have been built. didn't have any problems until then. Anyone realy desperate may want to think about FREESAT. Satelite seems to work pretty much anywhere in Europe, maybe even further afield who knows?(and they don't have TV licences to watch what us mugs pay for).
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