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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, 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)
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?
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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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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
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Fred perry10:06 PM
Weare in worcester, all our HdD channels steadily got worse over several weeks. This last week I have retuned on several occasions and now cannot pick up any HD channels at all. Any help please?
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Friday, 13 December 2013
Saturday, 14 December 2013
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Stephen2:03 PM
When I search for channels on ch33 which is meant to be com7 the freeview hd box lists the wrong channels. It lists the PSB3 channels which should be on ch40. When I try to watch them it says "Service unavailable". This is quite an old freeview HD box from 2010. Why is this happening. Wanted to see the new HD channels and I cant..
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Ian from notts3:24 PM
Belper
Stephen- You say the box is quite old? does it have the capability to receive HD signals ? as they are different to the normal signals
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Stephen5:22 PM
Lichfield
Yes , it is an HD Box. I have no problem watching the HD channels on PSB3 ch 40. The weird thing is though , when I scan for the new channels which should be on ch 33 it finds the same old stations BBC2 HD etc... only it wont display them it says service unavailable. If it was just interference on ch 33 locally I still dont understand why it lists the wrong channels ??
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Sunday, 15 December 2013
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Aerialman10:58 AM
I have exactly the same issue with my LCD Freeview HD TV.I can manually scan for CH 33 from S Coldfield and the duplicated PSB 3 HD channels appear!Bizarre!
I am wondering if this is an older software issue with the TV,but obviously very frustrating!
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Stephen1:10 PM
Whenever it finds anything on ch33 com7 it means all the HD Channels stop working. If I just scan for ch40 PSB3 in isolation I can watch the old HD channels. Whatever is on ch33 com7 it doesn't like and confuses it somehow ?? It is very odd , almost like some kind of co-channel interference but there shouldn't be any ? It could be software related I suppose...
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KEVIN GARDINER2:04 PM
Stourbridge
This morning, the two channels 791 and 792 that are broadcasting carriers for the new local tv service in the Birmingham and black country region , have started to show a test card for the first time. Does anyone have any idea when it is likely to start broadcasting?
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KEVIN GARDINER: The expected start date is 30th January 2014.
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KMJ,Derby2:21 PM
KEVIN GARDINER: Latest information suggests 30th January 2014, as shown above.
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