Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter which serves 280,000 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast?
The Wrekin transmitter - The Wrekin transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the The Wrekin 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)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the The Wrekin transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local |
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, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSunday, 27 August 2023
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Chris.SE5:38 PM
Paul Robinson:
Paul, are your channels back/when did they return?
If they were off for some time, I find it odd that they would interrupt services at that time on a Saturday!
I can't find any reports of the transmitter being off-air due to a fault or "essential" engineering.
Whilst it's still listed for Planned Engineering I still find it odd.
I think eliminating the possibility of mobile phone mast interference would be a good idea (your area should have had postcards from https://restoretv.uk/ )
Have you got a Free filter from https://restoretv.uk/ ?
If not, I would get in touch with them 0808 -1313-800 or email on the Contact Us page.
Tell them you are having persistent interruptions to your signal even when the transmitter isn't listed for Planned Engineering, can you please have a free filter.
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Monday, 28 August 2023
I've got a filter on its way, but having come back it's just gone again so tested strath and quality. Strength 8%, quality 0%
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Sunday, 17 September 2023
When oh when will they stop messing about with this transmitter!!
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StevensOnln111:31 PM
Paul Robinson: Nobody is "messing around" with the transmitter. All engineering work that is carried out is essential to ensure that the structure is properly maintained and that all services are able to continue operating reliably. This will mean occasional interruptions to services as some works cannot safely take place whilst the transmitter equipment is operating at full power. Most work is also weather dependent as the engineers cannot safely work in high winds or heavy rain etc.
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Monday, 18 September 2023
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Chris.SE4:53 AM
Paul Robinson:
Hi Paul. It's probably worth remembering that it's now a good 10 years since DSO and quite a few transmitters have been having extended periods of Planned Engineering. It's highly probably that not only is quite a lot of maintenance needed, but some equipment may need to be updated/upgraded, not something that can be done in an instant especially as a thorough inspection would be needed first to know the extent of what might be needed.
Has the filter helped give an overall improvement and better stability in strength and quality? Also, reception won't have been helped by the recent disruption to reception for some when the high pressure/hot weather brought some strong Tropospheric Ducting!
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Thanks Chris, I fitted the filter, but it's difficult to tell. All was working well, until Friday when the SD Channels started to break up a bit and the HD channels dissapeared altogether ( they returned this morning)
My main gripe is why these organisations ,whether it be the engineers or TV companies can't be more honest. If they came out and said it'll probably take 2 months of disruption but may overrun I could understand and deal as such. Instead there seems to be this veil of secrecy which helps No one.
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Monday, 2 October 2023
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Ed2:30 AM
I live in Stourbridge in the West Midlands and am tuned to The Wrekin via a roof aerial and powered signal booster, For the past 3 weeks, I have only been able to receive BBC SD channels. I have seen that engineering works on The Wrekin transmitter have been scheduled' the past few weeks and I assumed this was the cause. But there is nothing in my local newspaper about this and can't see any publicity about it online. Surely it would be very well publicised if the lots of people are being affected? I now find it hard to believe that these works have going on for such a long time and are the cause of my reception problems for all these weeks. I don't know what to do and am close to asking an aerial company to check my home aerial. Can anyone give me any advice? Also, when are the Wrekin engineering works due to be completed?
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Chris.SE7:30 AM
Ed:
As per my previous reply here (18th September) Arqiva never give the details of the work of how long it will take, especially if any of it is weather dependent. It'll be very rare to see such work detailed locally.
You may not be in the best of reception locations, there could be other reasons, but as you haven't provided a full postcode, we can advise on that. If you retuned at any time when you had no signal or badly pixellated pictures, it may have just cleared your correct tuning, if correctly tuned, it's never advised to retune whatever the cause of loss of signal.
Please give a full p[ostcode and we should be able to advise further.
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Ed9:38 AM
Stourbridge
Chris.SE:
Thanks Chris. My postcode is DY8 2DU. The powered aerial was fitted 13 years ago and I had no problems until now. Normally, both signal strength and signal quality was a steady 100%. About 4 to 5 weeks ago I noticed intermittent, bad pixilation on most channels but only for a few hours. But since around 10th Sept there is very bad permanent pixilation or 'No Signal' on all channels except BBC SD. My TV is saying the signal strength is 100% but signal quality is low (10%) and fluctuating. I haven't manually retuned during this period.
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