Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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, 30 September 2011
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Chris.SE7:13 PM
Sean:
You could be getting Too Much signal now, especially as you are getting in a number of other transmitters. Try taking your booster out of circuit and see what you get.
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Billy7:25 PM
Sean, this helped me, as I have said before, decide, find out which you should be on, it Sutton, note the channels on this page.
Now, assuming and you might, who knows, have too strong a signal, you need to do this:
Unplug the connection at the back and then factory reset tv or box, or and, do a complete rescan, should get nothing.
Now plug in the aerial connector again.
Now if it lets you, do it manually, not auto.
Trouble I had with the T215 Top up box, is won't let you do this, comes up with this screen and when you press menu, nothing, have to press ok, then it scans, so I pull it out and wait until gets close to channel 39, lowest one on Sutton and then plug in aerial connector, so it on say 37, as goes quicker with nothing in.
Once it logs 39, pull it back out quick, store those 10 channels and radio and then once scanned the lot, plug it back in yet again and do it manually.
Hopefully, not like mine and your Box/TV can be done manually from the start.
Since doing this, I do not pick up the Allesley Park ones yet again, box seems to retain the Sutton Coldfield ones.
Remember though using a 23 db gain amp, with hill in the way, 17.4 miles may as well be over 30 to 40 plus miles away and I get sometimes, often 95 SS 100% Quality. That is in the loft as well.
Using Log Periodic, 22 element, quoted as only 7.5 db gain on box.
So my point is, someone with a roof aerial living less than 20 miles from Sutton should not longer what so ever, unless a crap old thing, need an amplifier any more.
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Saturday, 1 October 2011
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Billy4:44 PM
Last night appears my top up box has one it again.
Tuned itself to Allesley Park, lol, thought wow signal good, not one break up, then checking, yup, channels have changed again.
Not sure if faulty, but I'm keeping it anyway, but it is strange and likely that could be what is happening to others, hence they put things in, wake up next day and put it on and channels have gone, or changed etc.
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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Chris.SE2:27 AM
Briantist: Brian, now that's an interesting Transmitter engineering report - there's no analogue TV at Sutton Coldfield now ......cough cough ;)
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Billy: you might want to try turning off automatic updates if your box has that option?
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Chris.SE9:20 PM
Ryan:
John Gaunt:
Neither of you have given a postcode, so I can't be of specific help.
You both may be getting more than one transmitter or too much signal now power has increased.
So first try a full reset/new install with the aerial unplugged to clear all previous settings and channels (the link "Freeview reset procedure" in the yellow box below has some more details), then reconnect the aerial and do a MANUAL install using Sutton Coldfield UHF channels C43,C46,C42,C45,C39 and if you have HD C40.
Then, if you are still suffering picture breakup etc, if you have any booster/amplifiers in circuit, remove them and see if things improve.
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stephen9:41 PM
Walsall
i live in the walsall area,and my tv channels go upto 49 and go straight to 70,i cant get any hd channels at all,im using a samsung fullhd 1080 tv so shouldnt get any problems,but there it is,any suggestions welcome
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stephen's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
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Chris.SE12:37 AM
stephen: hi, are you sure your model has an in built HD tuner? Give us the full model number and we can check.
Did you get the HD channels before DSO?
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ken9:26 AM
Alcester
Any chance of widening the stripes denoting the ariel bands in the channel list above for those of us with poor screens or eyesight. Or putting a little white stripe between the colours so they are separate?
Try looking at it on a notebook screen.
(Good site by the way. lots of useful stuff)
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ken's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jack10:53 AM
I agree with ken
The design of this page is terrible.
Also please put DATES on the engineering info. "Over the next week" could mean anything.
I'm getting a lot of drop outs at the moment and HD is never much good. I dont think the power is at all high enough from sutton even with a 21db amp in my line.
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