Full Freeview on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter which serves 710,000 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 Belmont 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 Belmont transmitter?
BBC Look North (Hull) 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Hull HU1 3RH, 47km north-northwest (346°)
to BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region - 4 masts.
ITV Calendar 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 106km west-northwest (299°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Belmont) region - 4 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Emley Moor region
How will the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | ||||
VHF | A K T | W T | W T | W T | W T | ||||
C7 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C13 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C23 | ArqA | ||||||||
C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C26 | ArqB | ||||||||
C27 | LDN | ||||||||
C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C30 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | _local | |||||
C33 | com7 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | ||||||||
C53tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | COM8tv_off | ||||||
C60tv_off | -ArqB |
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 3 Aug 11 and 17 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-5.2dB) 150kW | |
ARQA, ARQB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
Analogue 5, SDN | (-10dB) 50kW | |
com8 | (-10.9dB) 40.9kW | |
com7 | (-11.3dB) 37.1kW | |
Mux 2* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
LDN | (-20dB) 5kW | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 4kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Belmont transmitter area
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Tuesday, 1 October 2013
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mathew morel12:00 AM
yay it`s stopped , no more disruptions! ty if anyone on here had anything to do with it being in the industry .Annoyed that it took a week to put it right though :/ (53.7457,-0.3367)
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mathew morel1:35 PM
sigh ITV seems to be having problems again ........ (53.7457,-0.3367)
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Thursday, 7 November 2013
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Colin12:31 PM
Peterborough
Hi
I had terrible drop out last night on ITV.
Is was better when I used 804 (Central) instead of 3 (Calender)
Seems my auto tune is selecting Waltham & Belmont transmitters.
Psb1 =C22 (Belmont?) should be C49
Psb2 =C25 (Belmont?) Should be C54
Psb3 =C58 Hd not used.
Com4 =C29 Waltham
Com5 = C56 Waltham
Com6 = C57 Waltham
Would I be better off getting my Arial pointed at Sandy heath instead?
That way when I do auto re-tune it will be correct?
I have a Panasonic TX32lxd70 and my post code is pe3 8nr
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Colin's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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MikeB1:57 PM
Colin: I'm in PE1, and having a look down my street, there is a fair mix - many are Sandy Heath, fewer are Waltham (like mine), and a fair number have aerials pointing towards both.
Belmont is always a pain - its on a vaguely similar bearing to Waltham, and is on Ch22, so pops up first when using an auto scan from my basic freeview box. The really strange thing is that my Sony picks up all three transmitters - see what your signal strength is like - it might be topping out like my PVR does, and just killing a little of the signal strength might mean it misses Belmont completely.
You could try the David Lindsay method - remove the aerial for the first third of the scan, so Waltham never gets picked up, or try a manual tune.
As for moving the aerial - depends on how much of a faff it is - but your right - Sandy Heath is pretty much by itself, so is less hassle.
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Friday, 8 November 2013
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Colin8:35 AM
Peterborough
Update
Late afternoon Chanel 61 (True Entertainment) kept dropping out.
This is tuned to the correct transmitter Com4 =C29 Waltham
So it's not just a Belmont problem.
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Kevin Wright12:41 PM
Over the last few days I have seem to have lost all BBC channels, I am tuned to Belmont transmitter and I am in Sheffield with post code S72BY. All other channels are fine although I do get some that break up now and again like Film4 and 5USA. Has anyone else lost BBC in the last 2 days, I am still waiting for it to come back.
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Kevin Wright: I suggest that the ongoing engineering works might be the cause, and indeed anytime Belmont is on low power you could, potentially, not be able to receive it.
The Digital UK predictor doesn't think you will get reception from Belmont, except "poor" for the HD multiplex.
However, it predicts good coverage by the Sheffield Crosspool transmitter. I guess you might be using Belmont because Crosspool is out of the question.
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Kevin Wright3:42 PM
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your response. Yes Crosspool is no good as I am in a bit of a valley in the shadow of 'Brincliffe Edge', so have never been able to get decent reception. I forgot to say that I have 4 tv's all coming off the same ariel but have discovered that one of them is still getting all channels fine (including BBC) with very little if any breakup. I guess the next stop is at my splitter boxes ?
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Saturday, 9 November 2013
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STEVE WILKINS4:17 PM
Saturday 9 November- 16 20
Is Belmont Freeview off the air at the moment ?
FM is ok
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jb385:29 PM
STEVE WILKINS: Just checked Belmont and the signal from same is being received at normal strength / quality down here in Stamford which is located at approximately 50 miles from the station.
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