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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Saturday, 23 November 2013
Adrian: It's on a bearing of 68 degrees. Remember your compass uses Magnetic North which varies slightly by location rather than True North or Grid North.
I would suggest that you won't get a usuable signal from Nottingham, but instead should use Waltham, which is at 103 degrees and also carries East Midlands programmes.
Nottingham is vertically polarised and Waltham is horizontally polarised.
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Friday, 31 January 2014
nottingham has started today jan 31st.to radiate local tv tests on ch.791 and 792 . signal quality 100 percent strength 55 percent .not bad as the predicted radiation pattern is not in my direction.
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Tuesday, 6 May 2014
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jenny jones4:54 PM
Im having some trouble witn free view in long eaton nottingham the signal keepd dropping out is there a fault it has been like this now for 3 days
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Wednesday, 7 May 2014
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Claire T7:53 PM
I am living in the Gedling area of Nottingham and have had issues re: interference with Freeview for last 3/4 days. The picture and sound on all channels is breaking up, and at some points the picture is lost completely and all I see is a black screen with 'No Signal'. I have not been made aware of any likely interference issues. Have seen the post from Jenny @ Long Eaton who isn't too far away from my location. I am beginning to think that something must be happening in the area. It would be nice to be forewarned and told how long we can expect this annoying interference for!!??!
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014
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john cliff6:54 PM
notts tv is now on air ch. 8 freeview with a static caption prior to its launch this week
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MikeP
8:57 PM
8:57 PM
Jenny and Claire
It is possible that the weather is having an effect on the signals. Long Eaton is some way from Gedling (I used to live and work in Nottingham) but both could be affected the atmospheric events while we have warm sunny weather.
I advise against retuninbg as you may loose more programmes.
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014
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bren3:18 AM
I have been have some problems recently on Sky News channel and another channel (the COM4 and COM5 channels basically).
Cant get either at the moment, although I had Sky News yesterday, I think weather related, there has been thunder in in the UK.
Those are the high frequency channels which 'don't travel as well as the lower frequency ones, hence I think the power could be turned up!! :O)
Re-tuning is a bad idea a you will lose the lot even when the signal improves (unless you retuned again then).
My aerial is in the loft with a booster. I always find things are worse in summer. So why not turn the power up in the summer?
I m in Lenton. Might have a fiddle around in the loft :).
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bren3:31 AM
Fiddling about did show it improved a bit, got a badly blocked picture briefly.
If you are losing all channels sounds like it could be local electrical interference.
Oh just as I was typing Sky news briefly flashed on for a few seconds - gone again.
I am gonna buy a higher gain aerial and see if that helps otherwise might have to pay to have one put up outside.
You can watch a lot of channels on-line it you have the bandwidth allowance available. Im not too bad I can always watch BBC news, I get BB1 BB2 and ITV OK pretty much all the time.
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MikeP
9:17 PM
9:17 PM
Bren
Lenton should have reasonable signals fromthe Waltham transmitter providing you are no behind any of the large buildings or a hill. There could be a chance that the signal may be too strong and not too weak. Using the User Manual for your TV, check what the signal strength for Sky News is showing. If it is over 80% it may well be too strong and a boost will make it worse and not better. If, however, the strength is less than 50%, then a booster may help and could be worth trying.
Come back here with the readings, please?
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Thursday, 22 May 2014
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bren2:09 AM
MikeP, My aerial points to the Nottingham transmitter, the aerial is in the loft so that make the signal harder to pick up, I don't think I can get all of the Waltham transmitter from the loft.
The Nottingham transmitter is strongest for me according to Wolfbane.
UK digital TV reception predictor
60 dBµV/m v 51 dBµV/m
Furthermore some of the the Waltham signals are on even higher frequencies than the Nottingham ones and the higher frequencies signals do not travel so well and so are harder to pick up.
However I have just noticed that Waltham transmits those signals at a higher power level (to compensate presumably). The Nottingham transmitter should so this too but they don't they are all transmitter at the same level which is stupid!
I did have Sky news back earlier today but it has gone again, well it back again slightly at 80 but very blocky (unwatchable), earlier it said signal strength of 0!!! (says service not available). Now it is back again, it is on the cusp, sometimes there sometimes gone.
It think there may be thunder somewhere affecting it. So it is definitely not too strong!!!
I could try pointing it at Waltham, I tried there before but I was not using a booster then (I am now).
Only other options are to put the booster close to the aerial ( it's ~2 metres of coax away).
If that does not work I think I will have to try a better aerial, it currently has cheapish aerial, not one of those high gains ones you can get now.
The signal strength is 100% on other channels, but 79-80% on sky news, needs to be 83+ really for a watch-able picture.
I suppose I should try and get a new aerial ASAP before so I can test it on the bad signal. Trouble is I don't fancy forking out the money only to find it makes no difference!
I also tried on my DVB-T USB stick and I onl;y get 3 bars for Sky, I get 4 for BBC whcih works OK.
As I said I have a booster, but not a mast head amp just a signal booster, same though in a way but it's not designed to used as a mast head amp.
I will try and get this aerial tomorrow if they have it
52 Element Digital Wide band TV Aerial
52 Element Digital Wide band TV Aerial | Maplin
It is only £22.44, a bit easier to swallow than the ones nearly £40.
There are no reviews for it unfortunately or even values for the gain, which is a bit disconcerting.
Last time I went they only had log periodic ones I think, which might work better in the loft but they are lower gain so I won't know until I try so probably safer to go for the high gain Yagi? type
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