Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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?
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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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Friday, 22 April 2011
Mike: C31 is used by Waltham, C22 is Belmont. Your best signals, however, come from Sutton Coldfield which uses C44+.
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Mike9:09 AM
Thanks for the prompt reply Briantist, still somewhat confused though (please forgive my ignorance and sorry for going slightly off post) as I understand it the TV, when auto scanning, locates and sorts the channels in order of preference/strength relative to the signal received and worked ok prior to yesterday which I assume was then receiving them via CH22, do you think there may be a problem with the autosort on my TV (Sony 3mths old) or could it be that rightly or wrongly it was receiving channels then, which are no longer being transmitted on that channel as of yesterday,sorry again for being a pain but am concerned that there may be a problem with my TV, up until now I have been very happy with the reception.
thankyou once again for your help.
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Mike: Actually, that is not normally what happens.
Most Freeview equipment will use the signal found on the lowest broadcast frequency, not the one with the stronger signal.
I was incorrect about C22 being for Belmont, it isn't yet, the only transmitters that use C22 from BBCA are in Wales and Scotland - Find a Freeview transmitter by frequency | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - , which you shouldn't be getting at all.
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Mike9:35 AM
Thanks for the information Briantist,will now try to get my head around what is going on.
once again thanks and keep the faith
regards Mike
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Mike: Probably the best thing to do is to tune the multiplexes from whichever transmitter you are using manually.
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Saturday, 23 April 2011
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Mike8:01 AM
Cheers Briantist was about to carry out your suggestion and noticed an option on my TV for "full" scan on autotune instead of the default "normal" next scan picked them up although the channel is 31 so I must be picking up transmissions from waltham.
thanks and best regards
Mike
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Sunday, 24 April 2011
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Paul1:52 PM
Briantist: My previous post -
"Can anyone suggest the relevant transmitter ... suddenly receiving extra TV channels"
The aerial direction had not changed (Sutton Coldfield), the transmitters in line with the aerial did not match the frequencies of the additional channels we are receiving.
Looking through your posts I came across -
UK TV Frequency map - channel C21 (474.0MHz) before switchover map | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
I love this web site.
Thanks
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Stephen Bedfrord4:53 PM
Kidderminster
Sudden complete loss of digital signal shortley after 3pm (roughly)24/04/11 all attempts to retune unsuccessfull
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Stephen's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Stephen Bedfrord: Please see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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