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 18/11/2024 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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Thursday, 7 November 2019
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Chris.SE5:53 PM
Hi John,
Apart from LCN56 the other missing LCNs you listed are COM7 ;)
I don't know how your box works, but depending on the order you went through the UHF channels, you might find the "duplicates" up in the 800s.
Don't forget that there's a good chance you'll lose COM8 from Bilsdale on the 13th when it moves to UHF56 according to the predicted reception, and COM7 moving to 55 is predicted to get flakey.
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Saturday, 9 November 2019
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richard6:39 PM
Wakefield
wf2 6rt
roof mount
Since 23 Oct we have been unable to retune to BBC4 HD on either Panasonic TV or recorder9both recent and worked fine until recent change.
As we use BBC4 HD a lot having to use SD version seems like a big step back
Any advice or are we stuck with it ?
Many thanks
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Sunday, 10 November 2019
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nobody2:11 AM
richard: The Coverage prediction for your postcode is good but assumes a group T aerial. Your current aerial is likely a group B, which will not now provide sufficient signal for BBC4 HD since the change to a higher band.
If you have no other way of getting BBC4 HD, you may qualify for a free replacement aerial.
Find out how, here:
Important changes to Freeview | Freeview
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Chris.SE3:08 AM
richard:
The good news is you aren't stuck with it. According to the Freeview detailed coverage checker, you should have no problem receiving all the multiplexes from Emley Moor - that includes the Local multiplex which carries Leeds TV at LCN7, 3 Sony channels at LCNs 48, 50, & 60, and Children's channel Tiny Pop at LCN207.
My suspicion about your problem would be confirmed if you did not previously get this Local mux before the retune on the 23rd October when it was previously on UHF56 now moved to UHF39. The multiplex carrying BBC4 HD is COM8 (HD) which moved to UHF56. The other temporary HD mux COM7 is due to move to UHF55 on date just announced Feb.5th 2020 along with COMs 4&5 (SDN & ArqA) moving to lower UHF channels 33 & 36.
If you got the Local mux before Oct.23rd, then a retune should resolve the issue, but done as follows - unplug the aerial and do a retune, this will clear all previous tuning. Plug the aerial back in and again repeat the retune. This should restore all multiplexes and channels.
If you did NOT get the Local mux before Oct.23rd and now not getting COM8, then this is probably because you've got an old Group B aerial, do you know (roughly) how old your aerial is?
With the changes you'll need a Group T / Wideband otherwise you probably also lose COM7 when it moves (carries BBC News HD & others).
If you have an old Group B then providing you don't have Satellite or Cable TV you should get free help by contacting the Freeview Advice line on 0808-100-0288 where they should be offering to send an engineer to replace your aerial with a Group T / Wideband which is what you'll need to have satisfactory reception of all multiplexes.
Having said that, I've heard of cases where they aren't providing the free help because it's not the main BBC channels that you are having trouble with - those on PSB1/BBCA and PSB3/BBCB HD. You MAY need to try ranting on a bit about losing BBC4 HD and you'll be losing BBC News HD along with others with the next change.
Hopefully it won't come to that and they'll send an engineer to replace your aerial without a problem.
If you post back about your aerial there maybe other advice that could be offered.
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Chris.SE3:11 AM
Ha, it seems nobody beat me to a post whilst i was typing my detailed reply and doing other things!
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Wednesday, 13 November 2019
J
John1:50 PM
Bradford
Hi Chris
> Don't forget that there's a good chance you'll lose COM8 from Bilsdale on the 13th when it moves
> to UHF56 according to the predicted reception, and COM7 moving to 55 is predicted to get flakey.
As of today 13-Nov-2019 COM8HD has gone from Bilsdale.
Bilsdale - Optima L20F Group W
CH MUX LCN
21 BBCA 1, 2, 9, 201
24 D3&4 3, 4, 13, 18
27 BBCB 101, 102, 103, 104
32 COM7HD 57, 67, 78, 92
40 ARQB 29, 25, 31, 37
43 SDN 12, 20, 21, 27
46 ARQA 11, 17, 19, 28
TV reporting of LCN is not in numeric order so I'm using LCN from:
Channel listings | Freeview
TVs not picking up any TV signal on Bilsdale MUX CH55,56?
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Chris.SE2:03 PM
Hi John,
As just mentioned on the Bilsdale page, the COM7 you have there is Emley Moor. As predicted you aren't getting C55 & C56 from Bilsdale, signal too poor.
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Chris.SE7:03 PM
John:
In case you don't read the Bilsdale page soon, try 55&56 from there again. It looks as though they may still have been off-air until quite late.
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John7:44 PM
Bradford
Hi Chris
> As just mentioned on the Bilsdale page, the COM7 you have there is Emley Moor.
> As predicted you aren't getting C55 & C56 from Bilsdale, signal too poor.
Strange? I'm seeing two lots of COM7 with LCN 57, 67, 74, 78, 86, 92, 99, 107, 109, 110, 113, 733
on MUX CH32 and CH55. CH32 Signal Quality is a solid 100% which I assume is Bilsdale.
CH55 Signal Quality hovers between 19% and 50% so I'm assuming its Emley Moor. If that was
the case then I should see something on COM8 CH56 regardless of the Group K aerial but I'm seeing
nothing and have lost COM8 on both Bilsdale and Emley Moor. The problem is the TV signal condition
meter says COM78 for both CH. Is there anything else, something buried in the signal that might identify
the the transmitter?
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Chris.SE8:12 PM
Hi John,
Ch.32 is definitely Emley Moor. It's not transmitted from Bilsdale which is 55. There will be something else buried in the signal but I can't tell you what it is I'm afraid, BUT it seems your reception from Bilsdale is exactly as predicted. COM7 yes, but flakey, COM8 no.
Your predicted reception of COM8 (UHF56) from Emley Moor is good (not quite as good as the other muxes) and as I said in one of my previous posts, if you got the Local mux previously when it was on 56, you should get COM8. COM7 from Emley is predicted to be very similar to what COM8 is now, after the retune events next year (5th Feb.) when it goes to C55.
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