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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Friday, 30 September 2011
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Mick Lemon8:23 AM
Nottingham
Thanks Briantist. Will this mean that I have to orientate the aerial for horizontal polarisatition? I cannot receive this from waltham with the present orientation. I am in eastwood (4 miles from the Kimberly mast) and the compass direction to both masts is almost identical.
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Mick Lemon: Yes, Waltham is vertical southeast 124°, Nottingham is horizontal southeast 134°.
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Mike Dimmick3:15 PM
Mick Lemon: Correcting Briantist: Waltham is HORIZONTAL, Nottingham is VERTICAL. Nearly all main transmitters use horizontal polarization, nearly all relays use VP.
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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brendan12:59 AM
Nottingham
Hi, I am in nottingham and I am on the nottingham transmittor, everthing was fine untill the final changes about a week ago and not I sometimes get noise on Sky News mux, only occaionally and brielfly though so it's 'almost perfect'.
Reading this it seems I woudl be better switching to Waltham, I just checked the predicted signal strengths on the wolfbane sight and Walthanm is slightly stronger (51 v 50 dbuv/m) so I will try that, my aerial is in the loft so hopefully it wil be easy to do, I think I can basically sling the aerial on the ground pointing in the other direction!! :O)
It was much harder getting the aerial horizontal for nottingham, I had to build something to hold it 'upright'. I will have to sort out my eldrly parents too as that is a nottigham one.
However this last half hour I habe noticed no interfereence so maybe I will be OK, I did leave a message, on this forum I think about he problem, so maybe they fixed it (the message seems not to be here!). Maybe it was a different forum?
Anyhow all does seem fine now so I will leave it as it is for the time being.
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brendan1:18 AM
Nottingham
brendan:
OK I found my post I refered to on this forum it was on the shieffield and nottingham switchover page.
Anyway my recpetion has been perfect on the problem Sky mux so hopefull the problem is solved!!!
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Wednesday, 5 October 2011
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Pixelated9:33 AM
Hello, 1st post...so sorry in advance if I repeat anything / ask simple questions.
Im in the Cotgrave area and have retuned all TV's / Boxes and my Aerial is pointing to Nottingham Trans...I can receive MUX's 24,27,48,51,52....but not 21..as don't have HD equipment to show? The Signal Quality is good 100%...but strength is 40-60% at best, and there is picture break up on BBC in evenings. It sounds like I need to go for Waltham...any Aerial recommendations, as Im hoping for a loft install?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Thursday, 6 October 2011
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lan from notts9:30 AM
Nottingham
pixalated
are muxs 48,51,52 from nottm as emley moor in yorkshire uses these?
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Mike Dimmick2:54 PM
Nottingham
Pixelated: If you had reliable results before switchover, you could have too much signal. I can't advise any more on that or on the possibility of using Waltham without a full postcode.
At NG12 3JL - roughly the centre of Cotgrave - Waltham gives a better chance of reliable reception than Nottingham, or at least will do after the SDN multiplex reaches full power next Wednesday. You would need a wideband aerial for all multiplexes. It looks as though that postcode is shielded slightly by the terrain, so a higher-gain aerial is probably necessary, and I would recommend an outdoor aerial.
ian from notts: Yes, Emley Moor and Nottingham now use the same frequencies for the SDN, ArqA and ArqB multiplexes, since the retune on the 27th. I don't think these are actually co-ordinated so will interfere with each other in some areas.
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Pixelated6:47 PM
Thanks Mick... full postcode NG123NX and yes I belive there is some Terrain Sheilding. Im only going by readings from my TV's and PVR but the signal strength has never been great before or after swichover. Virtually the whole street is pointing towards the Nottingham Transmitter.
Could I get Waltham from this location...and which External aerial would you recommend?
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Saturday, 22 October 2011
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brendan C1:24 AM
Nottingham
NG7 2FW
I am still getting problems on channels 51 and 52 (sky news and itv2 + 1).
This is extremely disappointing given I had no problems before the recent change.
My parents also have the same problem and they are much nearer the transmitter so it seems to be a universal problem. The other channels are fine, but I get pixels occasionally on 51 and 52.
As I had no problems before I find the situation unacceptable.
How do I make an official complaint?
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