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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Monday, 25 April 2011
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Chris9:19 AM
Briantist and Mike:
I think Ridge Hill is now using channel 22 and mostly other low channel numbers as of switchover last Thursday (20 April). Don't know if that signal would reach you. (50,1.37)
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011
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Peter Spencer11:40 AM
Nottingham
My post code is NG5 6QX. I have lost all 4 of the HD channels on HD BBC1HD ITV1HD Channel 4HD and BBCHD. Have tryed several times to retune but still no luck. Any ideas
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Peter's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Peter Spencer: There seems to be a fault on the Nottingham transmitter that the BBC and Digital UK can't see. Please report it to them via BBC - Reception problems .
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011
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AlvinF10:51 AM
Birmingham
Thanks for the Transmitter info, that has answered ny question as to why I have lost ITV1 and numerous other channels completely and BBC1 & 2 are so pixelated its impossible to watch I am at B37 6BT approx 6/7 miles from Sutton and usaualy have excellent reception.
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AlvinF's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Dimmick11:56 AM
AlvinF: You're very close to a very high-power transmitter. If you have a roof aerial, it's possible that you have too much signal. If you have any amplifiers or boosters, try removing them.
My expectation is that they're moving services from one antenna to another (though I thought they'd finished this already). The antennas and transmitters are constructed in halves for redundancy. It's likely that they're powering down one half of the first antenna, moving that connection to the first half of the second, then powering down the second half of the first, turning on the first half of the second, then repeating with the other half.
A reduction to half power is not actually all that significant, and would only cause problems if your reception was already marginal - but it doesn't seem likely at such a short distance from such a major transmitter.
You've mentioned a loft aerial before - for tips on siting a loft aerial see http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/articles/whatsat-201007.pdf . I would strongly recommend a roof-top aerial, particularly if, as it appears from Google StreetView, the aerial might have to point through neighbouring properties.
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N Omara 12:56 PM
Tamworth
My post code is B79 0dp. I have lost all 4 of the HD channels on HD BBC1HD ITV1HD Channel 4HD and BBCHD. Have tryed several times to retune but still no luck. Any ideas
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N's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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John Allen1:37 PM
The reported maintenance for today appears to be in the form of a low flying helicopter which has been going round in circles since 1100 and according to Birmingham Air Traffic Control will be there for another 2 hours.
Who will be watching digital TV from 1500 feet??
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Philip Evans10:13 PM
Birmingham
missed whole of mux A and mux 2 for 2 hours plus from 7:30- 10pm so far. still not happening B23
usually excellent reception, aerial on roof
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