Full Freeview on the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmitter which serves 200,000 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 Bluebell Hill (Medway, 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 Bluebell 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 Bluebell Hill transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 28km southwest (219°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 5km south-southeast (156°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||||
| E | E | E | W T | W T | |||||
| C21 | _local | ||||||||
| C28 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqA | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | SDN | ||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | ArqA | ||||
| C45 | SDN | BBCB | |||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | ArqB | ||||
| C54tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 13 Jun 12 and 27 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 30kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-1.8dB) 20kW | |
| com8 | (-7.8dB) 5kW | |
| com7 | (-8.1dB) 4.7kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 3kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A* | (-11.8dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Bluebell Hill Freeview Bluebell Hill DAB Bluebell Hill TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bluebell Hill transmitter area
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Thursday, 21 April 2011
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brian3:06 PM
Mike, yes, the problems posted here are all the same , break up on ITV1 and ITV3 etc. It's Sandy and especially Lille on high power. Nothing can be done. Probably most people are using old group E aerials so pick up might not be fantastic on D24+D27 anyway. Throw in some hot weather and there you have it.
Anyway, I am going on holiday for a fortnight. You can deal with !
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Steve10:01 PM
Maidstone
Would I be better to try to go to Crystal Palace?
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Friday, 22 April 2011
Steve: No, your reception from Crystal Palace would be much worse.
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Andy6:34 AM
Maidstone
Signal gone again. About 20:30 .... again!
Map seems to indicate that I can receive a stronger signal...only investigation of the other maps does not support this.
I live on top of a hill and can actually see the hill that the transmitter is on!!!!
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tony319:15 AM
Sittingbourne
ME10 3DA postcode both 64qam mux,s (D24 & D27)not working again. no chanels from either of these mux,s, no signal message, other 4 mux,s perfectly ok. all resets etc tried but still no signal same with all my neighbours. Something has happened recently to knock out the 2 mux,s.
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tony31: You are predicted to have variable reception on those two multiplexes at the moment, so you might expect this. See Two frequency interference
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tony319:23 AM
sorry forgot to say on these 2 mux,s the signal strength is the same as it has always been but the signal quality has gone from 100% to 0%.
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Steve9:33 AM
Maidstone
So I take it that I will not be able to rely on receiving anything on D24 and D27 until next year?
So no
ITV 1,2,3
Channel 4,5
More 4
But the good news is I can still get QVC, Yesterday, Dave, Create and Craft etc. (sarcastic emoticon here).
Hmmm
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tony319:57 AM
its been of all night again and all morning suddenly at 09.50 hrs its returned to normal all 6 mux,s working fine
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