Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
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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?
| Burton (shobnall) | Transposer | 1 km W Burton-on-Trent | 60 homes |
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| Solihull | Transposer | Land Rover building | 400 homes |
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, 26 October 2017
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StevenH7:01 PM
Sutton Coldfield channels on C33 and C35 have disappeared for the last two afternoons between 12 and 6pm approximately. I'm in Nottingham, but normally have a strong signal with quality hovering around 100% (according to the Humax tuner) at other times of the day. Are they doing any work on the transmitter or could it be something else? Thanks for any suggestions.
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Friday, 27 October 2017
MikeP
2:09 PM
2:09 PM
StevenH:
Com7 and Com8 from Sutton Coldfield are broadcast at a just under half the power used for the main services so are susceptible to reception problems at the distance Nottingham is from Sutton Coldfield. As you have not given a full post code, we cannot determine what the reception conditions are like at your location. However, most of Nottingham receives either from the Waltham transmitter or else the Nottingham one, not far off the A610 near Kimberley. So why are you trying to get Sutton Coldfield signals? Note also that many areas of Nottingham and the surrounding area are not served well from Sutton Coldfield - just look at the map at the top of this page.
You are more likely to get better results using Waltham perhaps, but a full post code would let us check for you.
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Stuart Harris2:17 PM
Same here, although I receive main tv from Brierley Hill, can normally get a very decent signal from Sutton Coldfield for COM7 & 8, however as Steven said the last couple of afternoons there has been no signal, plus at other times the signal has been a lot weaker than normal.
Problem is the only websites that give transmitter information only seem to show the BBC Muxesso you can't really check although Sutton Coldfield was down on the DigitalUK site as having engineering works this week.
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Saturday, 28 October 2017
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StevenH12:25 PM
MikeP: Thanks for the reply. I have an aerial pointed at the Nottingham transmitter too, but as you are probably aware, it doesn't broadcast the full range of HD and additional channels (exactly those I was having problems with from SC in fact). Geography prevents me from accessing Waltham, though I have tried! Had I not had many months of trouble free viewing, up until this week, I wouldn't have made the query. Hopefully it's a relatively isolated problem. I couldn't check yesterday afternoon, but so far today all is well.
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MikeP
2:21 PM
2:21 PM
StevenH:
To advise further it is essential that you give a full post code. Then we contributors can see what the reception conditions actually are.
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StevenH3:24 PM
Nottingham
Thanks Mike,
My postcode is NG5 2HA. By the way, the coverage map isn't showing any coloured areas at the moment, at least on my iPad. I'm sure I've referred to it previously on this same tablet.
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StevenH's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 29 October 2017
MikeP
1:10 PM
1:10 PM
StevenH:
Maybe you are zoomed in too close as that removes the green coverage area mapping.
From my previous knowledge of that part of Nottingham (quite a bit of reconfiguration has happened since I move away in 1989), I suspect you would get signals from Waltham. All my then TV customers in that area, even in Haydn Road, Crossman Street, Osbourne Grove, etc all received signals fro Waltham and had East Midlands local news services. Then consider that your area is partially shielded by the hill where Nottingham High School is (or was) near Arbetum Park than that could be causing sone reception problems of the weaker signals of Com7 and Com8.
The detailed listing at Coverage Checker - Detailed View shows you should get good reception from Sutton Coldfield though amd doesn't even mention Waltham, which seems strange to me.
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StevenH5:34 PM
Thanks Mike,
I've tried the coverage map on a Windows machine too and that doesn't show any coloured areas either at the moment, whether zoomed in or out, just a grey map.
I think Waltham is blocked by the higher ground of Mapperley Park, though I did try for a signal without success when I was fitting the aerial.
Everything has been fine the last couple of days, as it was for months previously, so I'm hoping whatever was causing the problem has resolved itself. The signal is strong enough from the Nottingham transmitter for me to pick up BBC 1 and ITV East Midlands on the aerial pointing at SC, so they appear in the 800's when I want local news.
Thanks again for your time, much appreciated.
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Wednesday, 1 November 2017
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Dave 1:32 AM
Once again no signal on any channel! I am in stoke on trent and for some reason the aerial points to sutton Coldfield.
However it is showing no issues? This is a regular problem.
Please help?
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paul bolger8:41 AM
no programmes screen just says service not running
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