Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter which serves 280,000 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, 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 The Wrekin 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, 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 The Wrekin transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local |
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 2 June 2016
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Helen11:58 AM
Following the June 1st changes we find the following
- we have an amplifier as we are on the edge of the signal area. The signal strength was 40% and the signal quality 2%, our sagemcom box could not cope at all.
- removing the amplifier raises signal quality to over 90% but signal strength is below 20%. Sagemcom box now working (!), not sure how.
would be very interested to know what you actually did! Have to say that these changes were not well publicised - this afternoon's job is to go and retune a relative's TV and recorder box as she's lost all BBC channels.
thanks.
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Tuesday, 28 June 2016
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steve P2:43 PM
Helen this website is nothing to do with the transmitting people; it just gives information.
One of the peculiarities of digital signalling is that if the strength is too strong it will stop working.
So if the strength where you are increased it is quite possible that it was too strong amplified and Goldilocks unamplified.
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neil3:28 PM
steve P: i can not get vintage on freesat as of today 28 june 2016
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Wednesday, 29 June 2016
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steve P12:38 PM
neil - If you mean
Vintage TV (TV channel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- which I have never heard of - it is there on Ch 369 of my Freesat from Sky.
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Tuesday, 19 July 2016
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Carole Hughes9:48 AM
Wolverhampton
when will I be able to get Talking Pictures on Freeview? I am really upset I cannot get it. My postcode is WV10 6LP and I have an HD TV
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Carole's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln111:49 AM
Carole Hughes: Talking Pictures is not broadcast from The Wrekin transmitter, however a check on your postcode suggests that you should also be able to receive the Sutton Coldfield transmitter, which does broadcast Talking Pictures, however you may need a different aerial pointing in a different direction.
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Richard Cooper1:02 PM
Norwich
Carole Hughes: Hi, Carole. In order for you to receive Talking Pictures TV, you will need to re-align your television aerial from The Wrekin to Sutton Coldfield. Sutton Coldfield is East-South-East from your postcode. You will obviously need to take extreme care and caution when climbing up on to your roof to do this. It is recommended that you put sacks of straw or hay on the roof tiles before you crawl over them so that you do not damage any of the roof tiles. You are probably using a wideband aerial which will probably be OK for Sutton Coldfield. Richard, Norwich.
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
MikeP
1:32 PM
1:32 PM
Carole Hughes:
If you decide to try receiving from Sutton Coldfield, you should be able to get a full range of services, but as stated by StevensOnln1 you will need to use either a Group B aerial (and not the Group A one used for The Wrekin) and have it mounted pointin g at the Sutton Coldfield transmitter, at a bearing of 98 degrees East of North.
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Wednesday, 20 July 2016
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jb3812:03 AM
Carole Hughes : In addition to all already said, although the signal path from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter (@12 miles/99 degrees) is indicated as suffering from a line-of-sight obstruction at just under 2 miles prior to your location, DUK does indicate good reception.
However, dependant on the actual level received and also the type of aerial being used, "reverse pick up" reception (i.e: reception via the rear of your aerial) might be possible from this station, as Sutton Coldfield is located at almost exactly 180 degrees from the direction your aerial will facing for reception from The Wrekin.
Therefore, if your HD TV ("not" an HD ready type) offers a manual tuning facility? it might be worthwhile trying a manual tune test on C33, this being Sutton Coldfields COM7 HD transmitter which carries Talking Pictures (81), if nothing comes up, do the test again but pause after entering C33, as stopping at this point allows the tuner to act like a form of signal meter indicating signal strength levels well under that necessary to resolve a picture.
Further advice dependant on outcome.
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Wednesday, 28 December 2016
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C Bennett4:29 PM
Hi I I have no signal at all in the Gobowen area 28/12/16 at 16:29 - weather conditions are freezing fog, any ideas?
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