Full Freeview on the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmitter which serves 45,000 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 Storeton (Wirral, 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 Storeton (Wirral, 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 Storeton 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 Storeton (Wirral, 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 Storeton transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 51km east-northeast (74°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 51km east-northeast (74°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
| A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | W T | A K T | |||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C23 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
| C26 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C29 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | |||||
| C30 | LL | LL | |||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C53tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
| C57tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | --BBCB | --BBCB |
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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 2.8kW | |
| PSB1 wa≡, PSB2 wa≡, PSB3 wa≡ | (-1.5dB) 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 560W | |
| LL | (-16.7dB) 60W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 56W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Sunday, 7 September 2014
C
Corin8:01 PM
Storeton Local multiplex frequency is 545.833 MHz (166 khz negative offset from 546 MHz)
tune to: QAM_AUTO f = 545833 kHz I999B8C999D999T999G999Y0
(time: 12:04) ===================== parse_network_change_notify_descriptor ===========
len = 20
0x00: 07 00 00 10 01 01 DE 47 13 30 00 01 00 00 13 00 : G 0
0x10: 20 0B 23 3A : #:
========================================================================
service = POP ((null))
service = Chart Show TV ((null))
service = QVC EXTRA ((null))
service = BAYTVLIVERPOOL ((null))
service = POP ((null))
Using the non offset frequency of 546 MHz does NOT work so please provide accurate data!
And to repeat for the third time, the transmission mode is QPSK not QSPK.
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Saturday, 13 September 2014
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Karen8:46 PM
Wallasey
Hi, just got normal digital tv's in the house (not got sky)but for last couple of week picture breaks (digitization?)constantly (worse at night) Any ideas what we need to do/ Thanks :o)
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Karen's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 4 December 2014
C
Corin4:08 PM
Bay TV Liverpool launches at 17:30h UTC today, Thursday December 4th, on Freeview EPG LCN 8, with a 60 minutes opening special, and then the regular evening report of 30 minutes of news, business and sport.
The station is transmitted from Storeton on UHF Channel 30 and from Winter Hill on UHF Channel 56.
The start date of June 30th given above and on the Winter Hill page is incorrect, and repeated comments to get the start date, the transmission mode typographical error, and the frequency corrected have been ignored.
Clearly the provision of accurate information on this site is not a priority.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2014
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andrews10:43 PM
v bad reception on every channel free view . nO INFORMATION ON ANYTHING LIKE I USE TO GET ;green lines crackling ch63 7 ta
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015
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Norman Mason5:14 PM
Liverpool
Rooftop aerial L25 7XE
I have excellent reception on my Panasonic TV from most channels. BBC1, ITV, and the HD versions all show 100% signal strength and 95% to 100% signal quality. However, Drama on channel 20 band 23 shows 100% signal strength but only 30% quality and lots of errors and is often unwatchable. The signal strength meter on my Sagen PVR shows similar results..
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
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Thursday, 25 February 2016
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Paul Shepherd7:08 PM
Hello
I want to watch channel 81 - Talking Pictures. I get my TV reception from Storeton. Why can't I receive Channel 81? I pay the same as those who get their signal from Winter Hill so why do I not receive the same level of service? Who is going to do what and when to provide this channel to those who have to use Storeton?
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Tuesday, 29 March 2016
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D Whittaker7:48 PM
Prenton
My Dad lives on the Wirral (CH43 2LB) and has always got his TV from the Storeton Transmitter. After recently getting a new TV and YouView box he has suffered from poor signal on some channels (Quest and Drama). When investigating the channel numbers I discovered that he was getting some channels from Storeton, some from Winter Hill and some from Moel-y-Parc. In some cases BBC1 and 2 HD a better signal from Moel-y-Parc. Does anyone else have similar problems or can anyone suggest if an aerial upgrade would improve things?
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Monday, 13 June 2016
C
Corin6:28 PM
Paul Shepherd asked"I get my TV reception from Storeton. Why can't I receive Channel 81?"Because Multiplex COM 7 is not broadcast from Storeton. If you cannot receive a signal from Moel-y-Parc or Winter Hill for COM 7, then you should consider a satellite dish and receiver. ($ky is not needed, just a generic free-to-air satellite receiver or if you prefer to have your satellite services filtered according to the ability of the service to pay Freesat an extortionate fee and EPG numbers dorced upon you, then a Freesat receiver).The widest possible range of free-to-air/non-encrypted TV and radio services (including all FTA transmission to the UKofGB&NI) will be available to you with a generic FTA receiver and a motorised dish." I pay the same as those who get their signal from Winter Hill"
So what? If you are referring to your live TV reception licence, that does not guarantee reception of any TV service. COM7 (hint is in the name) is a commercial service multiplex and commercial multiplexes are only provided where the commercial operators consider the provision of the service to be commercially viable and where a frequency is available which will not interfere with broadcasts from other transmitters.
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C
Corin7:46 PM
D Whittaker: "can anyone suggest if an aerial upgrade would improve things?The transmissions of the North West multiplexes from Storeton are VERTICAL polarisation (the WALES PSB1,PSB2,PSB3 highlt directional towards Clwyd are actaully horizontal) whereas those from Moel-y-Parc and Winter Hill are HORIZONTAL. Therefore your father in Prenton will have a southward directed vertically aligned antenna pointing towards Storeton. It is therefore only due to the high signal levels from Moel-y-Parc and Winter Hill that he is receiving any multiplexes from the off-beam wrong polariztion.So to improve your reception of mutliplexes (COM 7 and 8) not broadcast from Storeton and to maximize channel choice, the best arrangement is to keep the current antenna pointing at Storeton and install an additional horizonally aligned antenna pointing to Moel-y-Parc.Again to receive all available FTA UK radio and TV services and those from other nations, a motorized dish and an FTA satellite receiver is the solution. Last time I checked the only (non-shopping) services on terrestrial which were not FTA on satellite were AlJazeera English HD., Channel 4 +1 HD, Channel 4seven HD, 4Music, Dave, Dave ja vu, Home, Quest, Quest+1, and Your TV +1.
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