Full Freeview on the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter which serves 270,000 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 Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, 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 Ridge 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 Ridge Hill transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 69km northeast (39°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 69km northeast (39°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Whitton | Transposer | 35 km NW Hereford | 40 homes |
How will the Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1968-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 1 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | W T | ||||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | |||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, PSB2 iw, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| com7 | (-9.8dB) 10.5kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| com8 | (-10.1dB) 9.8kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Ridge Hill transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldMonday, 23 September 2013
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claire10:29 PM
Betty: Having lots of trouble in B60 area getting signal ..retuned the telly and getting a few channels but not al and interference intermittently
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Betty10:40 PM
Hereford
claire: Hi just retuned my tv again and getting London news there is a report that says com5 is down which is some of the vhannels I am missing but I am also missing com 4 according to the info for ridge hill, will try again tomorrow
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Tuesday, 24 September 2013
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C Dukes10:47 AM
Leominster
Postcode HR6 0HW.
Extremely poor signal since yesterday afternoon, varying from no signal across the board to receiving a few channels.
Retuned last night and was quite surprised to be receiving ITV West Country and a good selection of FRENCH TV channels!
A second retune this morning has found a few channels but nowhere near the full complement.
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Wednesday, 25 September 2013
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P S Billingham8:22 AM
Stourbridge
My mom is on Ridge Hill (as are some of her neighbours) even as far east as DY9 9XA as local conditions prevent decent reception off other transmitters. Lost channels Monday night and pretty much nothing since, despite clearing TV's memory, retuning etc etc. Surely must be a transmitter fault for problems to be so severe and so widespread?
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KMJ,Derby9:08 AM
P S Billingham: The problem is out of area signals travelling further than normal blocking reception of the normal service from Ridge Hill. Since Sunday (22nd September 2013) high pressure has resulted in tropospheric ducting affecting an area including West Midlands, South Wales, West country through Devon and Dorset extending across the English Channel. It is unusual for the effects to be so strong in the current locations, but normality should return by the end of the week!
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P S Billingham9:52 AM
Situation has improved somewhat this morning, but as you say symptoms now seem to be picking up signals from other areas.
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Betty10:15 PM
Hereford
re set my tv lots of times and as others have said many different areas have come up, we are now back to normal but are still receiving from Gloucestershire
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Saturday, 28 September 2013
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miranda michels7:33 PM
I have had pixilating screen for six days, yesterday evening screen froze altogether.Thank goodness for radio 4 LONG WAVE not digital we don't have that either.Tonight 28th Sept. no signal at all.have had no problems since we went digital until now. Living in the sticks, no one cares much.A friend six miles away same problem
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Si10:00 PM
WR15 8
Yet again another night with intermittent reception from Ridge Hill Transmitter.
What is the problem?
The Transmitter report say's there is no problem?
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Betty11:04 PM
Hereford
had problems again today tonight was yuck did rescan and we are still on Gloucestershire but in Ridge Hill area watched programmes on internet even though that is slow bring back old way.
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