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 |
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| 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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Monday, 24 October 2011
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
J
Jordan New12:28 PM
Belper
is there an eta on when the transmitter will be working properly again?
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Jordan's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Jordan New: The works are only done during "office hours", the services should work perfectly well during the evening.
Work is shown on a week-by-week basis by Digital UK.
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011
K
Ken9:31 AM
Alcester
Hmmm
I have had poorer reception from SC during certain westher types (Really wet weather recently). Is this normal and what weather will degrade reception? I am on poor reception area and have a masthead amp and wideband antenna.
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Ken's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Ken: If you have poor reception during rain, the usual reason for this is that the water is getting into your aerial cable.
This will be a particular problem if you have a masthead amplifier as it will short out the power supplied along the cable.
To be honest, you don't need a masthead amplifier, so you should probably get some new (satellite-grade) cable and bypass the masthead amplifier.
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Friday, 28 October 2011
M
Mat12:39 AM
I live in Coventry and am use the Sutton Coldfield Transmitter. Since last week I can only receive a digital signal from my main television.
The televisons in the kitchen and two bedrooms show messages such as "No video" and cannot pick up any digital channels. Occasionally in the afternoon they come back.
One set top box in a bedroom detects a signal overload. The others do not.
Why doo I lose all digital channels in other rooms? Any ideas?
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Ryan10:36 AM
Stephen, I don't get too much signal. Well, I don't believe it to be too much. It typically ranges between 55-85 %.
I thought the issue was due to work still being carried out on the transmitter, but Briantist states that's just analogue radio stations they're working on.
Sorry if this appears a little, dumb, but did you mean digital radio stations Briantist?
My aerial is only a few years old, so surely the issue doesn't lie with my aerial?
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jb381:35 PM
Mat: No two TV or boxes have exactly the same sensitivity, the ironical aspect being that if a person resides in an area where the signal is a bit "over the top" strength wise, its always the devices with the best tuners that are first to suffer from overloading and likewise fail to operate.
Coventry should (in theory) get blasted with the signal from Sutton Coldfield, and the simplest way to check if this is applying is to try a test using a set top aerial, or maybe even a short length of wire (600mm or so) into the middle of the aerial socket. (crude but works in this type of situation!)
It should also be noted, that a re-tune will be required "if" nothing had been received since a previous scan, as the device might not have stored the channel.
Needless to say, if you have any type of booster fitted it should be removed.
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