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 - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 24 Nov 11:05 until 24 Nov 11:06. . 
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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 withheldWednesday, 13 April 2011
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Chris Wilson10:09 AM
Whitchurch
I am in the north Shropshire area at SY13 2BT, and the house has three cheap, (and old), Alba STB8 digital set top boxes feeding analogue TV's. Recently the channel allocations were changed on our local transmitter so I did a retune to delete the original channels and get new ones. Despite still not being able to receive ITV4, which went after the last channel change months ago, presumably due to too weak a signal, we now have an issue with BBC2. Immediately after a full re tune BBC2 is present and correct, but after several minutes a box pops up saying something like "29 new channels found, 3 channels have stopped transmitting" Press select to continue. as soon as you press select BBC2 is no longer available. It does the same on all 3 boxes. We have also lost BBC3 and BBC 4 entirely, even immediately after a re tune So, from hoping for a signal increase and the return of Dave and ITV4, we have still lost those, and effectively lost three more channels. There does not appear to be a firmware upgrade available off air. Any ideas? We have another box in the spare room, and that, despite still not picking up a signal for ITV4 or Dave, picks up BBC2 (from the same aerial and distribution amplifier) after the re tune. There is a wideband multi element in the loft of the bungalow, with a good quality amplifier feeding the boxes from 4 of its six ports.
Is my only option to buy new boxes? I am tempted to put a dish up and go Freesat, so I can get ITV4 again, and hopefully Dave, too, which has some motor sport on occasionally.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
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Sid1:42 PM
The commercial stations change over next week on the 20th on the Wrekin transmitter. You should then get everything on freeview including the HD ones.Regarding your Alba box some very early ones were built for the ONdigital spec and not the later Freeview spec so after the change over in your area may not work due to transmission mode changes. Try a full factory reset/new install rather than a retune.
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steve5:17 PM
Whitchurch
Chris Wilson - are you using the Wrekin?
Both this p[lace and wolfbane say you can't see it!
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Mike Dimmick5:55 PM
steve, Chris Wilson: This site considers any terrain obstruction as completely opaque, preventing any signal getting through, which isn't the case. Wolfbane's calculations are way off, far too low, suggesting that most people can't get the signals they actually do get.
The Digital UK predictor shows The Wrekin as possible at that postcode, although - today - variable on BBC A, poor on Mux B, and no prediction for the other four. Next week it changes to variable for D3&4 and good for HD, non-existent for commercial muxes.
Chris should be able to get reasonable results from Sutton Coldfield now, and good results after switchover. His best option is Winter Hill, which switched at the end of 2009, although ArqB is still on low power until SC switches over in September (same channel as Sutton Coldfield Mux D).
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Sunday, 17 April 2011
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Dennis9:03 AM
Just bought a dion reciever twin recorder.I am based in Stoke and receive signal from the Wrekin. have done auto tune but can only receive all BBC channels, nothing else. However, I can still receive itv, Ch4 and 5 on normaal tv but not via set top box. After 20th April will i be able to pick up all chnnels???
or does anyone have ideas on tune in, although it does tune in automatically. Thanks
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steve3:11 PM
Nottingham
Dennis - At the moment the Digital BBC signals are 10 times stronger than the others, which will get stronger next Wednesday, when the "normal" TV signal is switched off.
Thew Digital BBC has taken over the old BBC1 slot. Presumably you now get "normal" BBC1 where BBC2 used to be?
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011
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Jiles1:11 AM
Since the switchover has begun has anyone noticed a loss of all digital channels I've restored my tv to factory settings and scanned about five times no signal at all and same for my living room tv.
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