Full Freeview on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter which serves 710,000 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 Belmont 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 Belmont transmitter?
BBC Look North (Hull) 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Hull HU1 3RH, 47km north-northwest (346°)
to BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region - 4 masts.
ITV Calendar 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 106km west-northwest (299°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Belmont) region - 4 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Emley Moor region
How will the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | ||||
VHF | A K T | W T | W T | W T | W T | ||||
C7 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C13 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C23 | ArqA | ||||||||
C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C26 | ArqB | ||||||||
C27 | LDN | ||||||||
C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C30 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | _local | |||||
C33 | com7 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | ||||||||
C53tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | COM8tv_off | ||||||
C60tv_off | -ArqB |
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 3 Aug 11 and 17 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-5.2dB) 150kW | |
ARQA, ARQB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
Analogue 5, SDN | (-10dB) 50kW | |
com8 | (-10.9dB) 40.9kW | |
com7 | (-11.3dB) 37.1kW | |
Mux 2* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
LDN | (-20dB) 5kW | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 4kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Belmont transmitter area
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Monday, 25 July 2011
Des Collier: Yes, that date is listed above and shown in full on Freeview on Belmont TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011
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Peter Dawson6:53 PM
I am having problems with the BBC Digital freeview signal from the Belmont Transmitter. It has had a very low signal for about two weeks now. Is there any issue with this frequency. I know of other people that are having the same problem too.
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jb389:26 PM
Peter Dawson: Work is constantly going on at Belmont in preparation for switchover next month, and although engineering information bulletin's are frequently seen as having been given, I really do think if they represented the true picture of whats happening there would be twice as many as what there are.
I have a number of friends in the Newark area and they are always on about it.
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Thursday, 28 July 2011
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Steve1:23 PM
Spalding
Belmont currently transmitting an incorrect date for switchover, the message box is saying to retune on the 10th and 24th August. Checked with Digital UK and they haven't put the date back.
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Ian8:22 PM
Hull
What is ment when you say."After switch over you will have needed to upgrade to a wideband aerial to receive some or all digital televison services" SOME I thought that they would all be available?
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jb389:31 PM
Ian: Yes, that statement could really have been cut out, as its partially duplicating what has already been mentioned about wideband being necessary to receive Ch5 on analogue in the early days when it first started.
As most people who already receive Belmont will already have a wideband aerial no further alterations are necessary, except maybe to remove any aerial amplifiers that may be fitted to avoid the possibility of tuner overloading problems, this of course done after switchover should any signal overloading problems be suspected, e,g: signal cutting out or even no signal at all, as too powerful a signal can have exactly the same symptoms as one that is too weak, that being the beauty of digital, totally misleading symptoms to baffle the non-technical!
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Friday, 29 July 2011
Steve: Those dates are for Chesterfield and Sheffield, not somewhere you can get signals from.
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Steve9:23 AM
Spalding
Briantist, I know but for some reason when I was setting up products yesterday for a couple of customers (manually tuned so I know they were on Belmont) the message was coming up on screen with the incorrect dates. I phoned Digital UK as I thought they may have put the dates back. They confirmed it's all on track for tghe original dates and said they would look into the incorrect dates being given on the message. I thought I'd post on here in case anyone else was confused by it.
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Steve's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Steve: Yes, there would be no way that dates would be changed, they are always fixed at least twelve months in advance.
The messages are created by on-site caption generators (for analogue) or MHEG5 insertion (for Freeview) so it is just possible that someone made a simple mistake.
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