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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast?
The Wrekin transmitter - The Wrekin transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 withheldSunday, 3 May 2020
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Chris.SE10:48 PM
Richard:
I can't find any reports from The BBC or Freeview about low power, is it still the same?
Due to the current situation reporting of issues may take time to update.
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Saturday, 12 September 2020
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Eric Hedges10:19 PM
Shrewsbury
Sy3 6an
Aerial in loft.
Most of the time channels: 11, 16, 20, 21, 30, 31, 32 & 81 = no signal or broken picture.
Prior to August 2020 reception of the above channels was mostly very good & has been good for many years. Has your transmitter changed?
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Sunday, 13 September 2020
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Chris.SE4:50 AM
Eric Hedges:
It's not our transmitter, this is an independent Help site. However we can offer advice and information.
The various channels you've listed are on the COM multiplexes - SDN, ArqA, ArqB. For a list of which channels are on which multiplex see Channel listings | Freeview
Whilst the transmitter isn't currently listed for Planned Engineering, that doesn't mean there isn't any - the Freeview list may be in error. Normally you should receive all multiplexes with excellent reception at your location.
The UHF channels for the Wrekin are C23, C26, C30, C41, C44, C47 in the order PSBs1-3, COMs4-6 check in your tuning section that your are tuned to those channels.
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Sunday, 27 September 2020
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Gareth Edwards11:05 AM
Totally lost all channels on channels 41 and 47 in sy38jl and those on channel 44 have broken picture.
Normally very good reception. This started to change end of August
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Chris.SE9:34 PM
Gareth Edwards:
As per the post previous to you, the transmitter isn't currently listed for Planned Engineering and I can't find any reports of current transmitter faults. However, if the problems have only recently recurred, there is some "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation. It's currently affecting the west of GB and It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. At times it can wipe out your reception.
You are not advised to retune when you have lost signals or they are badly pixellated as this usually just clears correct tuning and you have to repeat a retune when signals are stable.
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Friday, 2 October 2020
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Colin Richards11:44 AM
I've been reading the previous comments and I've suffered a similar problem. I retuned my Freeview PVR to get Sky Arts on channel 11, and since then I've lost all the channel 47 ones - 25 Yesterday, 32 Sony Movies, 39 CBS Justice, 42 HGTV, 67 CBS Drama, 79 Dave ja vu, 81 Talking Pictures etc. I wonder if the channel 47 transmission power has been reduced...
I'm going to try fitting a signal amplifier.
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Chris.SE11:19 PM
Colin Richards:
If you read the post immediately before yours, then fitting a signal amplifier may be of no help whatsoever, in fact depending on your predicted reception (a full postcode is needed to look at that) you may end up up with too much signal which could give you a host of other problems.
IF this was due to the unusual weather conditions then all you need to do is retune again.
You could try a manual tune for UHF C47 (there has been no reduction in power).
If manual tuning isn't possible , try the following -
Unplug the aerial and do a full automatic retune, this should clear all previous tuning as nothing will be found.
This doesn't work on some devices and you'll have to do a reset, see you manual. You may need to reschedule any recordings.
Plug the aerial back in a repeat the automatic retune.
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Monday, 12 October 2020
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Roger Davies10:07 AM
Shrewsbury
Has the Wrekin fault been fixed on a?
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Roger's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE10:03 PM
Roger Davies:
According to the Freeview Coverage checker there is a "Live issue" which could be affecting reception. The BBC Transmitter checker says the transmitter currently has reported faults although the only detail it provides is for the 10th October. Whilst the transmitter isn't currently listed for "Planned Engineering" it appears there may well still be an ongoing fault if you are still having reception problems.
You need to provide a full postcode to readily get the most accurate up-to-date information.
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Tuesday, 13 October 2020
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Chris.SE4:30 PM
Roger Davies:
Update - Freeview have posted a specific notice about problems at the transmitter -
https://www.freeview.co.u…urry
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