Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter which serves 1,870,000 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 Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sutton Coldfield 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 Sutton Coldfield transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km south-southwest (201°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Burton (shobnall) | Transposer | 1 km W Burton-on-Trent | 60 homes |
| Coalville | Transposer | 18 km NW Leicester | 600 homes |
| Solihull | Transposer | Land Rover building | 400 homes |
How will the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | W T | ||||
| C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C40 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C46 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C48 | _local | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | LB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
| com7 | (-10.5dB) 89.2kW | |
| com8 | (-10.7dB) 86kW | |
| LB | (-20dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 8kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Sunday, 13 March 2011
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Richard10:04 PM
Alcester
Hi, the signal quality has reduced from level 10 to 6 for all BBC channels over the last few months causing pixelation, stuttering,etc I have reset freeview tuner but to no avail, can you help? B504BE thanks
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Monday, 14 March 2011
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sue brown5:10 PM
Stoke-on-trent
i live at st10 1xs & have recently brought a icecrypt freeview+ hd box & have used hdmi cables but don't seem to be able to get any of the hd channels which is why i brought the thing! can you help?
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Mike Dimmick6:11 PM
Reading
sue brown: Your TV aerial may not cover the frequency used by the early HD transmissions, which actually come from Lichfield at the moment, because it's a lower frequency than the group used by other transmissions from Sutton Coldfield. At switchover, in September, they will move to Sutton Coldfield, on BBC Two's current analogue channel (C40).
Another good indicator is whether you get C5 analogue reliably, because this also is on a lower frequency (C37) and comes from Lichfield.
If the aerial did cover C34, Digital UK expect that HD should be about as reliable as ITV1, C4 and C5.
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Steve7:31 PM
Tamworth
We have a Humax recorder in our lounge & a cheap Goodmans set top box in our bedroom. They are both conected to the same digital aerial. Why are we getting different quality signals? The Goodmans is better. I know there is transmitter work being carried out on the Sutton mast. Any ideas????
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011
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Matt2:57 PM
Hinckley
Hi
To anyone who has the knowledge,
We get what seems like really bad electrical interference.
We have a televes 'infinito' mounted in the attic (not possible to put on roof) feeding a televes distribution amp.
We have 3 TV's connected to the amp, all with satellite double screened coax. yet we still get electrical interference from appliances, the heavily used road outside and anything else.
My question is would a (MRD) Margin rising device attached to the aerial help in anyway. Are the MRD accessories significantly better than the standard accessory? Would this go some way to solve the problem?
Thank you for your time.
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AlexG
3:23 PM
3:23 PM
Digital signals should never be split... and really shouldn't be amplified either. You're just adding noise and amplifying interference from other sources. In the ideal world, you should really have one clean aerial feed per TV... or get Freesat.
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Peter Cook6:45 PM
Peter from Stourport on Severn, why is my sutton signal on BBC2 stating "please wait", then changing to BBC1? been doing all day.
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ian, notts8:05 PM
alex g .... what would you recommend for a 7 bedroom house with a tv in kitchen and consevetory? 10 aerials? and why have mast amps + distributters if they dont work? what do you do in weak signal areas? you have misread something mate?
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Peter Cook- Is your equipment a Humax box by any chance? If so, there seems to be an issue at the moment with these boxes. I will post further as soon as any further info comes my way.
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Nigel9:36 PM
My wife reports that BBC2 has been doing the "please wait" bit and flicking back to BBC1 all day.
Chester area BTW (though we have to also contend with the "WELSH" transmitter too.
Humax integrated twin tuner in a Humax TV as well!
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