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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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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Neil3:48 PM
Before switch over in the Stoke on Trent area I used to get lvl 10 signal strength with two TVs connected on one aerial now Iam only getting 6 sig strength so the signal is definately a lot weaker.
This seams to cause the Digi boxes not to tune in as required especially the BBC channels.
If other people have more than one TV connected together I would suggest removing even the aerial wire to the other TV as the signal strength is not "more" as they lead us to believe. (It is a lot weaker and fluctuating in quality).
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Sid4:08 PM
John Townson:
Kidderminster Transmitter which serves Bewdley/Stourport etc is classed as FREEVIEW LITE. This means it only has two multiplexes plus the HD One. These are 49/58/and 54 (HD).
Regards
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Louise4:20 PM
Did the first part of the switchover the other week ok. But now I am trying to do the second part it will not work. It just says no signal and also power overload on occassion.
I have plugged aerial into another tv and it works fine so what can the problem be?
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jb384:33 PM
Louise: Your location, which you havent mentioned, could be a possible cause of the problem "if" you are receiving too strong a signal, as an over powerful signal can block the channels (or channels) from being received.
Just because it worked on another TV can simply be because that TV is not quite so sensitive, and as such can cope with a higher input signal.
People in high signal areas can get over the problem by using a simple attenuator in line with the aerial socket, needless to say having prior tried disconnecting any boosters that they may have before purchasing the attenuator.
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Phil5:09 PM
Birmingham
Retune appeared to go well. When set switched off and then on again later a message saying no reception due to aerial positioning/signal strength. After another tune fine again until switched off and then on again sometime later. It appears I need to retune almost every time I switch on the set. I note that the frquency is 65000Khz following retune. Appears to become 64300Khz when switched on sometime later.
I am not sure what is happening here?
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Tracy5:39 PM
Just done a factory reset then scanned for new channels. I'm completely missing mux D3+4. Have tried retuning several times and still can't get ITV, channel 4, five etc. All other channels are working perfectly. Have checked and I am receiving freeview from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter. Anyone know what's wrong?
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Jon5:42 PM
Hi everyone,
We live in Rowley Regis, B65, and we have an indoor loft aerial pointing north east towards Sutton Coldfield. We use a mains powered signal splitter/booster in our lounge to feed the signal to our HD Freeview TV and Freeview PVR. We've never had a problem with Freeview reception before and were looking forward to the new HD channels that come online today.
Thing is, we can't get any new channels. We haven't lost any and our signal strength remains high, around 85%, with no bitrate errors.
But the HD channels are nowhere to be seen, even when scanning manually around 626.2mhz.
Is anyone else having the same problem or have any idea how to resolve this?
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Steve6:01 PM
Telford
Brian, to be clear again, I 100% have 2 FULLY HD compliant TV's with built in HD receivers, I am well aware of the difference between HD ready and what is needed to receive HD signals. I always make this point for the reason that I always get this response, but rest assured the TV's have built in HD receivers and I built to receive HD content without need of an external box...
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Steve6:30 PM
Telford
...and yes, they are Freeview HD not Freesat HD, which would probably be were we went next ;)
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