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 22/05/2023 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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Thursday, 28 March 2013
Becky : You need to speak to whoever is responsible for the communal aerial system.
It may be fitted with filters that only allow through, from the aerial, the frequencies used by the transmitter. Now some new frequencies are being used any filtering is likely to need adjustment.
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Tony Ellis: Perhaps it was caused by some fault in the aerial system, or at least something outwith your control.
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Jonathan12:13 PM
I had to do a second (manual) retune to get C49/PSB1 back - but I've no idea why those stations (and no others) were lost overnight after they'd been accessed and stored yesterday.
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Jonathan: If it doesn't happen again, say no more about it.
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Sandra7:00 PM
Dave Lindsay: Help. We don't have any BBC channels since yesterday and have retuned umpteen times. Tempers are fraying in this house. What can we do to get BBC channels back. In fact, I've retuned again and have lost even more now. WTF!
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Friday, 29 March 2013
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Chloe8:03 AM
We have no BBC channels in Taunton, have reset the tv back to factory settings and still not picking up any BBC channels. Have just asked friends in Taunton and Street and they have no BBC channels either. We had a new aerial so sure this is not the problem, please sort it out!!
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John Crabb10:14 AM
Dave, I live south of Taunton and after several manual retunes still have no BBC channels either - although my neighbour has (she has an old set top box)! If it is a general problem, is there someone somewhere who might be able to do something about it? Can we contact them? Thanks.
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Dave - that's very interesting - and helpful. Thank you. We've contacted the landlord... Pity it's a holiday w/e. Have a good one.
Alison
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John Crabb: It shouldn't be expected to be an issue.
Failing all else, then the only option left is to do a full reset on the TV in the hope that there is some remnant of the old BBC channel left in its memory now that the full reset will clear. This will, of course, likely reset everything else like picture settings.
The only other thing is if you have another aerial facing another transmitter and it is combined with the Mendip one; this may be an issue with C49 and C48 from Mendip.
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