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This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter which serves 1,550,000 homes.

Other maps:Emley Moor (U) DABEmley Moor (U) AM/FMEmley Moor regionBBC NorthYorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

What do the colours on the map mean?

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.


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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.

MuxAerial positionFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 horizontal -0.6dB
C47 (682.0MHz)578m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		174,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One North, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 BBC Red Button 1, plus 12 others

PSB2
D3+4
 horizontal -0.6dB
C44 (658.0MHz)578m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		174,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV (Yorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)), 4 Channel 4 North ads, 5 Channel 5 The North ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 North ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor),

PSB3
BBCB
 horizontal -0.6dB
C41 (634.0MHz)578m256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4		174,000W
Channel icons
101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 horizontal -0.6dB
C51 (714.0MHz)566m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		174,000W
Channel icons
10 ITV 3, 20 G.O.L.D. (not free), 25 Dave ja vu, 26 Home (not free), 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5*, 31 5USA, 34 ESPN UK (not free), 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 21 others

COM5
ArqA
 horizontal -0.6dB
C52 (722.0MHz)565m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		174,000W
Channel icons
11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, 302 BBC Red Button 2, plus 9 others

COM6
ArqB
 horizontal -0.6dB
C48 (690.0MHz)565m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		174,000W
Channel icons
15 Film 4, 18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 21 VIVA, 24 ITV 4, 41 Sky Sports 1 (not free), 42 Sky Sports 2 (not free), 47 4seven, 83 Al Jazeera English, 85 RT English , plus 22 others



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
to BBC North region - 55 masts.

ITV Calandar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 22km north-northeast
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 BActive deflector74 homes
Derwent CActive deflector (second level)
Dunford BridgeActive deflector14 km S Huddersfield15 homes
Hmp LeedsTransposer30 homes
ThixendaleTransposer25 km ENE York40 homes

How will the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

years1956~851984-971997-981998-20112011-132013-182013-18
aerial groupVHFB EB EB EB EB EW
C10ITV
600C32com7
C34com8
C37C5C5
C40-2
C41C4C4C4BBCBBBCBBBCB
C43-A
C44BBC1BBC1BBC1D3+4D3+4D3+4
C46-B
C47ITVITVITVBBCABBCABBCA
C48ArqBArqBArqB
700C49-D
C50-C
C51BBC2BBC2BBC2SDNSDNSDN
C52+1ArqAArqAArqA
C56local

orange background for multiplexes names moregreen background for transmission frequencieslilac background for power levels in watts800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 7th September and 21st September 2011.

  • Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Leeds including Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Emley Moor transmitter using C56
  • COM7, COM8 projected for 2013-16. COM7 and COM8 to operate as Chesterfield, Emley Moor SFN.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-5 870kW
com7, com8(-6.4dB) 200kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 174kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C*(-19.4dB) 10kW
Mux A*(-22.4dB) 5kW
PreDSO-BBCB*, Mux D*(-23.4dB) 4kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area

May 1956-Jul 1968Granada Television†
May 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Oct 2002Yorkshire Television
Oct 2002-Dec 2014ITV
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only.


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Mike Davison
Monday 29 August 2011 3:22PM
Mark Harrison - just a thought but the 64QAM channels may be more susceptible to multipath reception which is possible at your location if there are any good size buildings further away from the mast but sending a comparable signal to your direct signal by reflection as they could be better illuminated. In that case it may be advantageous to point your antenna at the reflection so long as the source is going to be permanent. Checking your analogue reception(while you can) may show up ghosting so this could be the issue.
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Thomas
Monday 29 August 2011 5:43PM Leeds
For most of the afternoon, BBC1 analogue kept flickering (like a loose connector) and occasionally flipping to a different feed that was 4:3 instead of 16:9, and slightly delayed relative to the 'normal' feed. It happened several times during Total Wipeout.
The flickers could have been caused by my aerial or connectors, but that would NOT cause it to flip to a delayed feed! It's almost as if the Emergency Rebroadcaster kept activating for some reason… perhaps they're preparing to switch the transmitter to digital?
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CHRIS BLAKEY
Monday 29 August 2011 10:50PM Wakefield
I go on holiday 6/09/2011 to 14/09/2011.i cannot retune until return. which channels can i record while on holiday.i receive a direct signal from emley moor and can record all 5 analogue channels and all Freeview channels
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KMJ,Derby
Tuesday 30 August 2011 12:21AM
CHRIS BLAKEY: Mux1 is replaced by MuxBBCA on a new frequency (C47) and MuxA changes frequency to C52+ (vacated by Mux1). On analogue BBC2 is switched off permanently and ITV1 changes frequency to C51. You should therefore avoid setting timers to record any Mux1 or MuxA digital channel or analogue BBC2 or ITV1. The remaining digital Muxes and analogue BBC1, C4 and C5 continue to transmit on the existing frequencies until 21st September 2011. Note that on 7th September all channels might be off air for a while prior to 6AM .
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 30 August 2011 10:38AM
EMLEY MOOR transmitter - Over the next week Emley Moor main transmitter: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) Possible weak signal, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 30 August 2011 10:38AM
EMLEY MOOR transmitter - Over the next week Emley Moor main transmitter: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) Possible weak signal, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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Emma
Tuesday 30 August 2011 1:27PM
I have 3 TV's connected to a splitter box which also boosts the signal from my aerial in the loft.
Recentley i lost a group of channels after a lot of messing and repositioning of the aerial i now have these channels back with reasnoble signal. However, i am now unable to view more than one TV at once or even have the aerial plugged into the digi box/digi tv without the images sticking and cracking up.
Does anyone know why this is happening and how i can fix it?
Briantist
Tuesday 30 August 2011 1:51PM
Emma: You are getting exactly what you would expect with a loft aerial. Move the aerial to the roof if you want reliable Freeview reception.

You didn't provide a postcode, so I can't be any more specific.
Briantist
Tuesday 30 August 2011 1:53PM
Thomas: I'm not sure what you mean. BBC One analogue broadcasts in 14:9, not 16:9. On analogue there is part of the broadcast (half of line 12) that is used to indicate the aspect ratio of the rest of the picture, if you have some forms of interference the set can miss the information and get the aspect ratio wrong.

I would expect this is more likely than your proposal.
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Emma
Tuesday 30 August 2011 5:24PM Leeds
My postcode is LS6 3NW. The aerial cannot be moved outside as the property is rented and the landlord won't move the aerial. (It's already been asked)
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Thomas
Tuesday 30 August 2011 9:49PM Leeds
Briantist: Sorry, what I meant was that every so often, it looked like BBC1 was losing its analogue feed and rebroadcasting from another transmitter (perhaps a standby Freeview box tuned to Belmont). This would explain the delay, and also the 4:3 instead of 14:9 picture; Freeview boxes by default are set to pan and scan.

I made a video of it, but I'm reluctant to post on Youtube because of copyright concerns...
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Thomas
Tuesday 30 August 2011 10:01PM Leeds
Emma: If the landlord won't move the aerial, there's not much you can do. You could try using an indoor aerial, but that may not give you a good enough signal for Freeview. Could the landlord put a dish on the house so you could get Sky/Freesat? Is cable an option? If all else fails you might be able to get TV through broadband internet.
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David
Wednesday 31 August 2011 8:33AM
Surely best to wait untill the 21st Sept/ 7th. Sept and then see.
After that if problems all tenents will be after the landlord to do something.
Briantist
Thursday 1 September 2011 8:51AM
Thomas: The BBC transmitter network for analogue is delivered by a multi-routed optical network. If this fails completely, then a professional (rather than a "freeview box") feed is taken from the separate optical-network that feeds the digital terrestrial system.

If THAT fails to work, the next feed is taken from the BBC satellite backup system, which is used to feed Freeview if the optical network stops working.

If the satellite backup fails then an off-air feed from another analogue transmitter would be used, but this network is disappearing as analogue regions close down.
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m akram
Sunday 4 September 2011 8:36PM Huddersfield
please tell me what the digital ch no,s from emley moor will be on 07 09 2011 and on 21 09 2011
at the moment 40,43,46,49,50,52
i notice 41,44,47,48,51,52,56* after 21 09 2011
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David
Sunday 4 September 2011 10:12PM
Think a ch39 involved.
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KMJ,Derby
Sunday 4 September 2011 10:26PM
m akram: On 7th September 2011 MuxBBCA starts on C47 replacing Mux1 (and analogue BBC2). MuxA changes frequency to C52. Use therefore 40,46, 47,49,50,52.and 39(HD) until 21st September 2011. Then as per your second list.
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David
Monday 5 September 2011 2:24PM
Are there transmitter problems at Emley Moor today?
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M Peacock
Monday 5 September 2011 3:09PM
I am over 70 and I thought my TV would be OK but it is not. Please could I contact someone to come and look at it? Thank you
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Hacker
Monday 5 September 2011 3:41PM Leeds
David: "Are there transmitter problems at Emley Moor today?"

Analogue or digital? I've just checked all the Freeview muxes and they're looking okay. I usually get around 75-85% signal strength.
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Hacker
Monday 5 September 2011 3:43PM Leeds
M Peacock: "I am over 70 and I thought my TV would be OK but it is not. Please could I contact someone to come and look at it? Thank you"

Do you mean your TV is analogue only or do you think your aerial won't be suitable? Does your TV work at the moment? DSO doesn't start until Wednesday.
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Matt
Monday 5 September 2011 5:05PM Godalming
@ Brianist-Hannington has a log periodic on Rowridge for backup. Also, couldn't they use the log to receive an emergency digital signal too?
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David
Monday 5 September 2011 6:41PM
Hacker.

Yes as the subject of this Blog, Freeview.
Only getting Ch 52 and at 85% like yourself.
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David
Monday 5 September 2011 6:56PM
Hacker, problem solved, slight out of line aerial, must have been stroger wind today than I thought.
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Thomas
Tuesday 6 September 2011 6:29AM Leeds
Less than 24 hours to go of BBC2 Analogue, until DSO stage 1 starts. Hope you're all ready with Freeview, satellite or cable!

I'll be recording the switchover, though it's rather windy so my aerial is blowing around. BBC2 Analogue seems to be the worst affected by wind, for some reason...
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David
Tuesday 6 September 2011 12:10PM
Thomas just what are you going to record?
I would think think you will set recorder on BBC2 analogue to start at just before midnight and record for say a couple of hours.
11-20pm to 12-20am is The Death Of Respect.

Will you be able to set up a recording of digital without being there to physicaly re-scan/setup?
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David
Tuesday 6 September 2011 12:13PM
Brian, what do we expect to happen, say regarding main station at Emley Moor and the various relays?
Do they have a person at each relay site or is it automatic?
Briantist
Tuesday 6 September 2011 2:04PM
David: Most relays will be done "at 6am" along with Emley Moor, except:

7.30am: Beecroft Hill

9am: Addingham, Cop Hill, Copley, Cullingworth, Halifax, Hope, Shatton Edge, Skipton, Skipton Town, Wharfedal

noon: Batley, Bradford West, Holmfirth, Kettlewell

3pm: Cowling
Briantist
Tuesday 6 September 2011 2:08PM
David: There's not much record. BBC TWO is a England-wide service, so there will be little fanfare when the analogue service is turned off, ITV1 will appear in place of BBC TWO and then ITV1 analogue just goes to snow. That's it.

About the same time, multiplex 1 will close down.

A few hours later, the BBCA multiplex starts up on the ITV1 analogue frequency.
Briantist
Tuesday 6 September 2011 2:09PM
Matt: The BBC have a satellite-based backup system if the primary (correct regional) Freeview service fails, there is no requirement for an "off air" backup.
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David
Tuesday 6 September 2011 3:34PM
Thanks Brian both those post are very helpful.
Think the ITV on analogue being on number 2 inplace of number 3 will cause the old folk a problem who use number 3 for ITV1, will standby for a call over the fence in the morning "lost my ITV".
The lady uses the analogue for the main 5 programs and a Freeview box for the others.
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sharealam
Tuesday 6 September 2011 4:54PM
picktv+1 to leave freeview on 20 september 2011.
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sharealam
Tuesday 6 September 2011 4:56PM
picktv+1 channel 44 to leave freeview on september 20 2011.
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Thomas
Wednesday 7 September 2011 6:28AM Leeds
No captions, but we did get a nice voice announcement over the credits of the previous BBC2 show shortly before the channel went off air.

BBC2 off 00:22
ITV1 off 00:23

Not sure when ITV1 started again on BBC2's old frequency, but it was off for so long that I fell asleep.

Retuned my TVs this morning at 6am, and something odd has happened. BBC channels are in their usual place, on C47 now, but there's a duplicate set of BBC channels on C46 (which my TV puts into the 800s)! Both are reported as being on the 'Yorkshire' network.
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Mike Dimmick
Wednesday 7 September 2011 7:49AM
Thomas: C46 is Multiplex B from Emley Moor. The duplicates will be BBC Four, CBeebies and BBC Parliament, along with the radio stations. The new BBC A on C47 is higher capacity and carries all the BBC's SD services after switchover. This is so Multiplex B can be cleared for HD services.
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Peter Leadill
Wednesday 7 September 2011 8:42AM
Quite a long wait for the multiplex for the main BBC channels to come up. It would have helped if Emley Moor T.x website had shown which multiplexes would be used for the two week period starting today. For info they are : C40 C46 C47 C49 C50 and C52. Especially important here in York where if you use Autotune you can end up with a mix of signals from Emley Moor and Bilsdale. In this area manual tuning is required to receive programmes from Emley Moor
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Hacker
Wednesday 7 September 2011 9:17AM Leeds
So far, so good. I've just done a rescan and the signal strength on C47/BBCA is 95% (compared to around 75%-85% on the pre-DSO muxes). Strange that I can now pick up other bits and pieces that I couldn't see before (C22, C25, C28)?
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David
Wednesday 7 September 2011 9:39AM
Yes same here near Leeds Belmont is still more power and getting in with its BBC local Lincoln news and not the local news from Leeds.
I guess a lot of Joe Publics will be joining the Peter Levvy fan club tonight, what a surprise for them.
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Hacker
Wednesday 7 September 2011 10:05AM Leeds
@David : That explains it, the new muxes I've picked up are from Belmont (since the DSO of the 17th of August?).
Dave Lindsay
Wednesday 7 September 2011 10:12AM Doncaster
Mux A has now moved to Channel 52 (in place of the pre-DSO Mux 1).
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David
Wednesday 7 September 2011 10:31AM
Yes Dave but it is the Mux A on ch22 I'm talking about and it is that which is going to program number 1 possition.
Ok here we have disscussed this and how to avoid it happening in great detail but I guess Joe Public will be stuck with Lincoln News and not his Leeds, Yorkshire local news because of this in my view excessive power of Belmont and the Freeview box/TV set limitations in design.
Briantist
Wednesday 7 September 2011 10:34AM
David: see Digital Region Overlap | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice please. It is BBCA not MuxA.
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Hacker
Wednesday 7 September 2011 10:46AM Leeds
Hopefully the problem should sort itself out on the 21st (assuming Emley Moor gets the promised signal boost?)... fingers crossed!

I think there's going to be a lot of confused people this evening - my Dad has already phoned me to ask what he's supposed to do.
Dave Lindsay
Wednesday 7 September 2011 11:12AM Doncaster
I was echoing Peter Leadill's comment that the list at the top of this page showing the frequency of Mux A should now be C52 and not C43-.
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James Kyle
Wednesday 7 September 2011 11:43AM
I'm still a little confused. The retune went fine but the HD channels are now breaking up quite badly with no evidence of the increased power output from the tower. Is there still work going on regarding the HD? Also could someone clarify that the HD switch to CH41 happens on the 21st or between the 7th and the 21st. Many Thanks.
Dave Lindsay
Wednesday 7 September 2011 12:11PM
James, the HD mux is still on C39 and according to the leaflet published by DigitalUK will not move until 21st:

www.digitaluk.co.uk link icon http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf

(See page 2).

It can't occupy C41 now because it is currently being used for Channel 4 analogue. (DN31NJ)
matthew wilkinson
Wednesday 7 September 2011 12:12PM Bradford
i had all channels last night(albeit 90% of them had no signal)
ive done the full factory reset this morning, and ive lost half my channels, i have no itv1,ch4,ch5, none of my hd channels, ive tried it about 10 times and still only get about 53 channels, will i get the full set of channels on the 21st? or is there anything i can do now to get them back?
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rosie
Wednesday 7 September 2011 12:13PM
ok for all bbc channels after retune this morning via my new sharp tv ( no freeview box) but no itv or channel 4...should i still be able to get them via analogue???? |Should i just wait for a fine day when the tuning signal is strong enough ????
Dave Lindsay
Wednesday 7 September 2011 12:24PM Doncaster
rosie: ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 are still available on analogue for two weeks.

From what you say, I think that you should probably get these other channels on digital (Freeview) in two weeks' time.
Briantist
Wednesday 7 September 2011 12:29PM
James Kyle: All the other changes happen on the 21st, as per the information at the top of the page.
Briantist
Wednesday 7 September 2011 12:37PM
Peter K: Yes, please see Digital Region Overlap | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .



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