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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Thursday, 20 April 2017
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jim2:25 PM
Is it just me or is anyone else totally p'd off with channels
sticking text and logo's all over the program you're trying to watch?
Pick and that sony movie channel are totally unwatchable on logo's alone.
Seriously I've had enough of this.
If i want to know whats on I'll press the menu button - every remote has one.
enough already.
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Friday, 21 April 2017
MikeP
10:26 PM
10:26 PM
jim:
It would appear that most people are not troubled by the low contrast channel identifier logos.
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Saturday, 22 April 2017
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Gezza10:19 PM
Why am I having intermittent reception for channels in the evening. It is okay all day then about 7pm it starts playing up. Tonight it lasted until 9pm before going wrong.
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Sunday, 23 April 2017
MikeP
9:23 PM
9:23 PM
Gezza:
It always helps us to help you if you give a full post code please.
However, it could be that some local electrical equiment is causing interference. Check around to see if there are any devices that start at the times your reception becomes poor.
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Monday, 1 May 2017
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Lesley11:49 AM
Sutton Coldfield
Hi,
I know this is wrong place to ask this question, but I can't find anywhere else to ask. I've been subsbribed to uk free tv for ages, but I need to change my email address. I can't find anyway to do this. Do i have to unsubsribe and resubsribe? Posting this under new email, as I think this may subscribe me automatically.
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Tuesday, 23 May 2017
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fred3:54 PM
For around 3 weeks now we have had very poor signal on mux channels 45 46 meaning we get
total breakup on all channels on those muxes
breakup is total about every 3-4 seconds
No E4 - no film4 no sky news etc.
Signal levels have dropped from the normal 50-55% right down to 20-23%
installation is checked no problems. all other muxes seem fine
This seems to be day and night but is slightly better during very early morning (2-4 AM ish)
We are really fed up with freeview now. We have 2 Humax boxes and both respond the same.
Thats almost 1k of equipment made useless.
B34 1AR area
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StevensOnln14:33 PM
fred: Is your property newly built? I'm not getting any result for your postcode on either the Digital UK checker or Google Maps. When you say the installation has been checked, was this by an aerial engineer/installer? If not, have you checked all the cables and connections as this is the most common cause of problems such as yours.
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Wednesday, 24 May 2017
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JC8:10 PM
Same for us in Coventry. This mux has been a problem on and off for months.
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Friday, 30 June 2017
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Phil Draper9:57 AM
Hi can you please advise , I have had to have my roof aerial reposition ed to Sutton Colefield from
Waltham but now I can't get BBC East Midlands news
My post code isDE73 7JY
Any advice would be welcomed I have fitted a amplifier
Kind regards
Phil
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StevensOnln110:17 AM
Phil Draper: Sutton Coldfield only carries West Midlands news on BBC/ITV. There don't appear to be any other East Midlands transmitter available at your post code, other than Waltham. What was the reason for having your aerial realigned?
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