Full Freeview on the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 58,000 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 Malvern (Worcestershire, England) mast?
MALVERN transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 21 Dec 13:29 until 21 Dec 13:33. Off the air due to a fault from 18 Dec 22:44 until 18 Dec 22:47. . 
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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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km northeast (36°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km northeast (35°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
| C53tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C57tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C68 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 200W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Wednesday, 7 September 2011
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Mart G5:38 AM
Hi
For some reason I'm having major issues getting itv1 ch4 ch5 at all via digital from the malvern tx and scince this morning I am not getting
Now I can't get bbc1 bbc2 or bbc news at all I have rescanned my box 4 times nothing seems to work will the signal be turned up for malvern and surrounding areas in the future as the power level being used is totally inadequate for the area I know it isn't just me having issues either.
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Mart G5:51 AM
The recepption is that bad I honestly feel we should get a 95 per cent discount on our tv licence @mark the engineer how does such a weak tx cause interference at sutton colfield ? Surely its gonna be the other way around sutton blocking the malvern tx out!
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Mike Dimmick8:28 AM
Mart G: First, check that your equipment can actually handle the new transmissions. Digital UK have two lists of equipment with known problems at http://www.digitaluk.co.u…ment and http://www.digitaluk.co.u…tnit .
If you are on a communal aerial system - a shared antenna - it may be channelised, only amplifying selected frequencies for distribution, and it will need retuning for digital.
You could now have too much signal, if you're quite close to the transmitter. If you have a booster, remove it or turn it down. If that doesn't help, add an attenuator.
Before switchover, five of Sutton Coldfield's multiplexes were on the same channels as Malvern's, so would interfere with each other if the relative distances were right - it would be down to the aerial to provide enough margin between the wanted and unwanted signals for the receiver to decode. If Malvern was too strong, 'Mark the Engineer' should have used a smaller aerial and added an attenuator, not tried to point an aerial at Sutton Coldfield!
The ITV1/C4/C5 multiplex is the one that was not affected, so this is unlikely to be your problem. If you never replaced your aerial for digital, it could be that the gain down on C39 just isn't sufficient - this is at the bottom of Group B and an aerial installed for analogue services would be Group C/D. The nearest source of co-channel interference is Hannington BBC One, so that can probably also be ruled out.
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Mart G9:41 AM
Cheers mike
Am off to get a freesat box as I have a dish left by previous house owners so think I'm gonna ditch the freeview
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Graham B12:25 PM
hello Mart
I had the same problem, and I can wave to the Malvern transmitter, but "no signal"....
what hasn't been mentioned is that BBC digital channels have relocated to ch53. So you'll need a retune.
Improves things a lot!
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Will1:06 PM
Malvern
Hi I have just retuned my Freeview HD TV I am not and my Philips Freeview HD Recorder
and am unable to recieve the HD channels as promised on the 7th September When will Malvern start transmitting these channels and on what ufh channels will they be.
All the retuning of my equpment has so far gone smoothly as I can see the malvern transmitter fom my house
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Will's: mapW's Freeview map terrainW's terrain plot wavesW's frequency data W's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Dimmick1:22 PM
Will: HD services start at the *second* stage of switchover, on the 21st.
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Mike Dimmick1:23 PM
Mart G: See Compare Freeview and Freesat TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for the difference between the Freesat and Freeview line-ups.
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Mike Dimmick1:26 PM
Mart G: I should have added, make sure you do a full retune - first time installation, default setting, full reset, 'virgin mode', reinstall all channels, it's called different things by different manufacturers - as many receivers won't pick up a change to a different frequency when you just use 'add channels'. See TV Re-tune for some product manuals and retune guides, or check the manufacturer's support site.
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Steve2:04 PM
Will (Freeview) BBC HD be available?...asuume it will occur on the next switchover for Malvern on 21 September 2011?,as it has not happened on first-stage digital switchover. We are in Droitwich.
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