Full Freeview on the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter which serves 74,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter._______
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)
The Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, 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 Nottingham 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)
The Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, 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 Nottingham transmitter?
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 9km east-southeast (117°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 72km southwest (218°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)
How will the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | W T | |||||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C50tv_off | LNG | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| LNG | (-13dB) 100W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 40W |
Local transmitter maps
Nottingham Freeview Nottingham TV region BBC East Midlands Central (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Nottingham transmitter area
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Thursday, 11 August 2011
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ian winter9:44 AM
Nottingham
Shocking reception on NG12 2FJ last night / this morning.. Pics keep breaking up on anything but four major channels. Aerial on roof. This is not an infrequent occurance. Aerial of latest spec and recently checked. I am really disappointed with the digital signal. Will this improve or are we stuck with these issues
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ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
ian winter: It really depends where your aerial points.
Sutton Coldfield will go from being "marginal reception" to "full power" on 21st September 2011.
Waltham will go from "poor" to "full power" by 12th October 2011, and be good on 5/6 services by 31st August.
Nottingham offers "good" reception, but this will not improve and you will only get the public services with a decent signal.
I'm not sure what you mean by "aerial of latest spec", but you don't need anything special as long as it is roof mounted.
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Friday, 12 August 2011
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jamesanthony1:46 PM
Can you help? I have installed a wide band UHF ariel and retuned my freeview box. However I'm now picking up BBC lincoln/NE News instead of my previous East Midlands Central News. Tried retuned manual channel 49 for BBC channels still no success, why?
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Mike Dimmick2:31 PM
jamesanthony: The Belmont transmitter has just started switchover, and therefore the BBC service. It's possible you would have had the issue even if you hadn't retuned.
If you want to use the Nottingham transmitter, the aerial should be set up with its elements going up-and-down rather than side-to-side. There should be enough cross-polar rejection to ignore the signals from Belmont. For 'X' type aerials you want the Xs to be standing up rather than laying on their sides - narrow rather than tall.
Your box might be one which won't discard channels it thinks it already has - you will have to delete the BBC channels so that it actually stores the manual-tuning results. If your box doesn't have a delete feature you'll have to unplug the aerial, do a full reset, then plug in after the automatic scan has completed. Then do a manual scan on the frequencies above - note that right now, SDN is on C67, ArqA on C63 and ArqB on C49, at low power.
On 24 August, ArqB moves from C39 to C48 so you will need to retune. Then on 27 September, SDN and ArqA move to their final channels.
Belmont's version on BBC A is on C22, so you can't just plug the aerial in after the scan gets to a certain point.
You haven't said exactly where you are so it's not possible to say whether you'd get better results from a different transmitter.
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
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Paul12:38 PM
Derby
I have to manually tune my Humax Freeview box to the Nottingham transmitter, as auto-tune goes to Waltham, which gives me Look North instead of East Midlands news. Nottingham appears to transmit on several channels, some of which seem to be 33, 45 & 49. However, whichever I tune to, I can't get reliable reception on ALL TV channels. Either BBC is good, or Dave is good, or ITV is good. Sometimes the best reception is on channels in the 800s range. How do I get them ALL good, and all on the correct channel numbers (i.e. 1 for BBC1 not 847)?
It's driving me to almost consider cable!
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb385:14 PM
Paul : Nottingham presently transmits on Mux channels 27(main BBC) - 24(main ITV) - 67(SDN) - 21(HD services) - 63(ArqA) - 59(ArqB), the latter three mentioned operating on low power (40w) until September / October of this year when they then adopt their final frequencies & powers.
Anyone living in an area where signals can be received from more than one source will always have auto-tune problems unless their box has an area selector incorporated within the tuning menu, and in my experience not that many have, so manual tuning is always required.
Needless to say, anyone who has to use manual tuning should always resist the usual temptation that many have of carrying out a re-scan as soon as they might lose some channels, as this never helps! as all it does is require further frequent scans to recover them, as if they had left things alone they would have returned of their own accord.
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jb385:18 PM
Paul: Correction - The latter three NOT including Ch21HD, it should have been Ch67(SDN) that I included.
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Thursday, 18 August 2011
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a9:17 PM
My aerial in Wollaton is directed at Waltham however my Humax PVR continually picked up BBC1 Look North. I suspect that this could only have come from Belmont however the aerial is definitely pointing at Waltham. Only by carrying out a manual tune could I pick up the Waltham BBC mulitplex
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Friday, 19 August 2011
a: Please provide a full (not partial) postcode, I can't really help without one.
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Robert Towning5:11 PM
reception NG3 pre 17th August could recieve all freeview chanels 10/10 but no HD chanels.
Post 17th August still no HD chanels and now lost most of the BBC freeview chanels. Commercial chanels: ITV, Chanel 4 and 5 plus all the others still 10/10 but BBC 1,2,3, 4 and other related chanels etc from rubbish (picture pixal brake up and distorted sound) to none existant (invalid chanel message on a blank screeen).
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