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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) mast?
Sutton Coldfield transmitter - Sutton Coldfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 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
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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Saturday, 9 April 2011
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Jez11:01 PM
Retuned and now all channels back on. (How long it will last is anyone's guess).
Phoned a mate up who lives a couple of miles away and he's been having the same problems as me for the last couple of days.
Must be some work going on somewhere.
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Ryan11:48 PM
Alfreton
Mike, sorry, was going to put it, but didn't think it was needed.
DE55 7DG is my post code.
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Ryan's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Jez11:52 PM
BBC signal just gone again (no signal screen).
The brilliant picture I had lasted all of 50 minutes!!
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Sunday, 10 April 2011
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Martin12:01 AM
Whitchurch
I retuned again 20 mins ago, still watching BBC1, but like Jez, waiting for it to suddenly fail....
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Martin's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Pete Mitchell11:50 AM
Whats with BBC freeview constantly going on and off this morning 10/04/2011? Its getting to be a little annoying. Sutton Coldfield transmitter.
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Mr.R.Herbert4:49 PM
Dear Sir/Madam, DY130AS
I cannot get rid of the wrong date--27 03--which is being shown on BOTH my video recorders.I have correctly reset the clock/date etc.,but when I check a few hours later,I find the
wrong date again.Hence programmes cannot be timed properly to record. Where is the information transmitted from?
I hope you can help me with this problem.
Yours
R.J.Herbert
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Monday, 11 April 2011
Mr.R.Herbert: Can you provide some more information about the make and models of your equipment please?
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Pete Mitchell: No such thing has happened, I would see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011
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Christopher Pugh10:02 AM
Derby
Location: DE23 2LG (Derby)
Alba STB8 box, software version 3.4.2 (with teletext EPG). I can receive all multiplexes from both Sutton Coldfield and Waltham. I use Sutton, because signal strength is better.
I had the same trouble as Martin on April 6th, with the loss of BBC channels and their reappearance in the 800 series. I have spent hours experimenting and now have the channels back in the right order and with the correct channel numbers.
This is what I did: I carried out a first time installation procedure but removed the aerial plug from the box when the Waltham channels were being scanned, reinserting it when the Sutton Coldfield channels were scanned. Thus the aerial was in place for channels 41 44 47 51 52 and 55 and was withdrawn for channels 23 29 33 42 45 and 49. When the scan had finished, the teletext EPG attempted to load. I immediately terminated the load and selected the channel list from the menu.From this list I selected BBC2, one of the channels which was affected by the problem. (This previously disappeared after 3 minutes, being renumbered as channel 800). 15 minutes later it had not disappeared. I went through the channel list deleting those which I did not want. I exited the menu and all the BBC channels were numbered and ordered correctly. Later the channel change list appeared saying that 19 channels had been added. These were not in the 800 series but were the reappearance of channels that I had just deleted. I deleted these again. The same cycle happened several times but eventually by repeated deletion, these channels disappeared permanently. The channels are still correctly displayed today. The only problem is that the teletext EPG fails to load at 3 am and an error message appears when the box is first used. I have some ideas as to how this might be overcome but have not tried them yet.
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Christopher's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Christopher Pugh: You might find that a more modern set-top box will work correctly.
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