Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
Google Streetview | Google map | Bing map | Google Earth | 52.600,-1.835 or 52°36'1"N 1°50'5"W | B75 5JJ |
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?
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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Friday, 22 July 2011
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Rob5:31 PM
Birmingham
Thanks Brian,
Had a look at the I dont have any other devices connected. I'll try to get my head around the technical jargon but sound like I just need to wait until September.
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Saturday, 23 July 2011
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KT10:07 PM
Hi Brian,
Thanks for the advice but still no luck I turned everything off but the picture remained the same. It starts around 9pm and goes on all night, 7am-9pm the picture and quality is fine.
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Sunday, 24 July 2011
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Mike7:59 AM
Hi Brian
I should have said Freeview Ch54 which is the channel BBC2 HD programmes are screened on. Last night, Saturday 23rd July, my HD signal dropped out on all HD channels. I had to resort to SD for everything.
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Monday, 25 July 2011
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Mike11:42 AM
Birmingham
I checked all my connections yesterday morning and last night's HD viewing was excellent. I can only assume I had a poor connection somewhere. Strange that I could receive perfect pictures in SD but no signal at all in HD.
Perhaps someone can tell me the technical reason for that.
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
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Gordon3:44 AM
Yesterday I had a to attend to a TV reception problem.
Scenario .....
Direct aerial connection to VCR and out via fly-lead to TV. Recorded signal via fly-lead on meter was 76dB with useless reception on ITV, CH4, CH5 etc and only 76 TV / radio channels tuned in.
Signal on direct cable from aerial was 68dB. Connected the aerial cable direct to TV and re-tuned to receive 97 perfect TV / radio channels. Sorted!
Fly-leads that are not double screened and of digital quality can be the cause of many reception poor problems. Watch out for that one!!.
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tony2:34 PM
Coventry
KT.
I have a similar problem.Take a look out of your window just before you expect a poor signal.Did your public street lighting just kick in?
Tone
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mike6:34 PM
I live in Sutton Coldfield and my daughter has a goodmans freeview box which has stopped showing BBC1, 2, ITV, Ch 4 and Ch 5. Why?
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Mike: The technical reason is that the HD multiplex comes from a different transmitter at Lichfield and very low power (4kW) transmission.
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Martin4:51 PM
Leicester
Yesterday, while watching the TV, most of the freeview digital channels suddenly disappeared, except 17 channels of BBC4, Sky News, Dave,and radio channels etc after tuning. The tv has been retuned several times, the same result. The analog has the 5 channels. The DigitalUK was phoned to, but said there was no problem with transmitter. Can you please help?
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