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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Tuesday, 12 November 2013
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Ezra Pound11:23 AM
Any news on the start date for COM7 from Sutton Coldfield?
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Michael1:40 PM
Ezra Pound: 10th December according to the Digital UK postcode checker.
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Saturday, 16 November 2013
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S.Eaton4:55 PM
Is there engineering work taking place at Sutton Coalfield Transmitter 16/11/13 @ 4.53pm - my freeview ITV channels have all vanished without trace - have done the re-tune etc but still no signals - NOT impressed with freeview !!!
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MikeB10:29 PM
Since there is nothing listed for the transmitter in the way of problems, if you have no signal, its almost certainly due to a failure in your system. Check your aerial connections.
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Sunday, 17 November 2013
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Ian from notts10:33 PM
Nottingham
S.Eaton- Just ITV ? is CH4 still ok ?
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Sunday, 24 November 2013
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stephen11:07 AM
Northampton
Hi
I have been tuned to Sutton Coldfield (We are in Nortampton and should be on sandy Heath but have a hill behind us) for nearly 3 years with good reception. On Tuesday everything disappeared. The ariel was errected and positioned for this.
Retuning made no difference - we seemed to tune but signal strength was poor at less than 60
Has something changed?
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Christine7:24 PM
Leicester
I think I get my signal from Sutton Coldfield although I live in Oadby Leicestershire as I have West Midlands news. Over the past week I have all but lost signal for all commercial channels. Only a decent picture for BBC channels, why is this?
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Wednesday, 27 November 2013
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Bernard R9:23 AM
We are also suffering a loss in quality from Sutton Coldfield over the past week or so. Nothing in house has changed.
Located in B94 area.
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Friday, 29 November 2013
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Aerialman7:52 PM
As of today,Arqiva have been broadcasting from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter a test transmission with tone at LCN 791 and 792,labled respectively Local TV test 1 and 2
This is for the local TV service City TV for the Birmingham and Black Country area.
Using channel 51,the signal strengths are a full 25dB down on the other digital services from S Coldfield,but it appears quite robust here in the South-east Shropshire area.
Be interesting to compare notes in other parts of the West Mids?
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Sunday, 1 December 2013
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Sid6:33 AM
Worcester
Getting it here in Worcester WR4 since it powered up on Thursday afternoon. Also the 2 new HD coms (com7 & com8) .when they tested briefly on Wednesday afternoon ready for December 10th launch.
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