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Freeview reception at B62 8LT

For reliable and stable Freeview reception, you need an unobstructed path between the TV aerial on your roof and the digital TV transmitter. The map below shows the transmitters predicted to provide a signal at this location.

You can click on any transmitter symbol to show the coverage area as a green overlay on the map. Double click on a transmitter symbol to go to the transmitter information page.

You can also view the ten closest potential '4G-at-800' mobile phone masts within 1.5km of the selected location - these masts may be used for 4G-at-800 mobile broadband services from 2013-2015.

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There are 9 mobile phone masts within 1.5km of B628LT (page shows closest 10)

What do the map symbols mean?

EE, Multiple operators, O₂, 3, Vodafone, location on line-of-sight, Selected location, Freeview transmitter, Freeview light transmitter, Engineering/fault today.

These icons show the potential locations for 5G-at-700MHz services that may interfere with Freeview reception. For actual mobile device reception prediction (at 800-960MHz and 1710-2170MHz) see these phone operator's mapping sites: Three O2 EE VM

Predicted Freeview channel list

1	BBC One (SD)	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
2	BBC Two	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
3	ITV 1 (SD)	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
4	Channel 4 (SD)	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
5	Channel 5	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2

6	ITV 2	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
7	Big Centre TV	Sutton Coldfield	LB
9	BBC Four	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
10	ITV3	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
11	Sky Mix	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

12	Quest	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
13	E4	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
14	Film4	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
15	Channel 4 +1	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
17	Really	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

18	More4	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
19	U&Dave	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
20	U&Drama	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
21	5USA	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
23	BBC Three	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1

25	U&W	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
26	ITV4	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
27	U&Yesterday	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
28	ITVBe	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
29	ITV2 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4

30	E4 +1	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
31	E4 Extra	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
32	5STAR	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
33	5Action	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
34	GREAT! movies	Sutton Coldfield	COM6

35	ITV1 +1	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
36	Sky Arts	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
38	Channel 5 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
39	DMAX	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
40	Quest Red	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

41	Legend	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
42	GREAT! action	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
43	Food Network	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
44	HGTV	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
46	5SELECT	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3

47	Film4 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
48	Challenge	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
49	4seven	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
52	GREAT! christmas	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
56	That's TV (UK)	Sutton Coldfield	COM6

57	U&Dave ja vu	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
58	ITV3 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
59	ITV4 +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
60	U&Drama +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
63	GREAT! romance mix	Sutton Coldfield	COM6

64	Blaze	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
65	That's TV 2	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
67	TRUE CRIME	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
68	TRUE CRIME XTRA	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
70	Quest +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

71	That’s 60s	Sutton Coldfield Central (West)	PSB2
73	HobbyMaker	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
74	&UYesterday +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
75	That's 90s	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
76	That's TV 2 MCR	Sutton Coldfield	COM5

81	Blaze +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
82	Talking Pictures TV	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
83	Together TV	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
84	PBS America	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
91	WildEarth	Sutton Coldfield	COM4

93	ITVBe +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
101	BBC One HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
102	BBC Two HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
103	STV HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
103	UTV HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3

103	ITV 1 HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
104	Channel 4 HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
105	Channel 5 HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
106	BBC Four HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
107	BBC Three HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3

108	BBC Scotland HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
110	Channel 4 HD (Wales)	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
201	CBBC	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
202	CBeebies	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
204	CBBC HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3

205	CBeebies HD	Sutton Coldfield	PSB3
209	Ketchup TV	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
210	Ketchup Too	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
211	YAAAS!	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
231	BBC News	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1

232	BBC Parliament	Sutton Coldfield West Midlands	PSB1
233	Sky News	Sutton Coldfield	COM5
235	Al Jazeera Eng	Sutton Coldfield	COM6
251	Al Jazeera English	Sutton Coldfield	COM4
255	FRANCE 24 (in English)	Sutton Coldfield	COM4

265	Rok Sky +1	Sutton Coldfield	COM4

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Comments

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Dave Lindsay

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9:50 PM

Rosemary: I second jb38's reply!

By paying £10.50 per month would, in effect, be renting the ability to record prrogrammes. Set at the side of what jb38 has highlighted, there would seem to be no contest.

To look at it another way, if you are paying over £30 per month now, the will be roughly the same as four months' payments to . And after that there are no other charges.

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Rosemary
11:45 PM
Morpeth

Thanks for that.

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Monday, 28 October 2013

Paul B
11:22 PM
Exeter

Good evening. I am coming to the end of my fairly good electronics knowledge. We have 3x TV's 1x HD box and 1x HDD PVR and after a lot of weak /poor (breaking up) since Friday 25th Oct 2013 (before the bad weather), all the appliances have stopped receiving (from Stockhill southwest) ch25, ch26 & ch28 from Sunday. The TVs are all picking up signal strength (5-6 out of 10) but not even 1% of signal quality (the HD Box shows 60% quality and 0% strength!), whereas, ch22 & ch23 are picking up 8-10 out of 10 on strength and 45% - 90% on quality. Unfortunately none of my neighbours point/use this . I have a 4 way (amp) with variable (5-20dB) in the which has been set on 20dB over the past 3 years and has been working very well upto now. I have tried turning it down towards 5dB but it losses all signals at around 12dB. I have even purchased and fitted an at800 filter (moving it around TV to TV) to no avail. What am I missing? Has the transmitter nearby been turned up, pushing my signal away? PS. Ariel is mounted on chimney bracket.

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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

MikeB

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10:59 AM

Paul B: It sounds like you might have more than one problem, but they might be getting tangled up in each other, so the best thing to do is break everything down first.

Stockhill looks fine for you in both terrain and distance, and seems to be working fine. The is really close, and not hugely off Stockhill's bearing, but you should be fine for the main transmitter (and if your getting more than just the basic , your not tuned into the relay).

Your strength/ is all over the place, and although too much signal seems to be my default dignosis to everything, the numbers you've posted dont make much sense from that point of view.

You've got an on the chimney, which then comes down to a 4 way in the , which then splits the signal off to various rooms. I'd start with the feed from the aerial, above the splitter. If you have a , then plug it in there, and see what the signal is like - if its 90-100% quality and strength is about 80%, then you know thats fine. If its jumping all over the place, and the signal strength is 100%, then you know its a bit too powerful. If its rubbish, then you know something is up with the aerial or its connection. If you cant do that, then next step is:

Ok, assuming the aerial is OK (or you cannot do a ), test the splitter, by testing each via a portable, or just take the splitter out of the circuit - connect the aerial to each split in turn, getting someone to note down the strength/quality, etc on each TV, box. This way you can see if the splitter is causing a problem, and isolate any problems with cabling.

Your TV's might have different tuners, and react in different ways (make sure they are all on the same transmitter), but if you break it donw to each component, and test each bit at a time, then hopefully you'll find out what it is.

BTW - if its is 4G, then the filter should be as close as possible to the aerial, so put it between the aerial and any splitter. The likelihood is that 4G has nothing to do with the problems you've got at all.

Let us know what happens.

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Margaret
11:24 AM

Hello thank you for your email. If you read my email you will know your reply was not really the reply I was hoping for, but I have been thinking if there is advantage re . I am an older person and not very technical in fact I am at a lost. Can you advise me re cost, what programmes, can I record, does it take on .

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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Janet
11:46 AM
Stoke-on-trent

Last night I lost all many of my - BBC channels are fine but no ITV, channel 5 etc and no HD channels. This has happened on both boxes and I have just retuned one of them but it has omitted all the channels I had lost yesterday. There doesn't seem to be a problem with the ariel so I am wondering if there is a transmission problem. My postcode is ST10 2LY.

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Thursday, 31 October 2013

Peter
12:39 AM
Colchester

After the storm a few nights ago I lost about half my from the . The used to point north, now it points ENE and I manually retuned the tv to use the transmitter for Ch 22 and 25 and get a fairly good from these multiplexes, although this transmitter is of me. Obviously the aerial needs to be sorted, but in the mean time I have fairly good reception.
Just saying if anyone is in a similar position with their aerial that could be a work around

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Louis
1:33 PM
Derby

I live in but I don't get East Midlands News, instead I get Midland News. I presume it's because my is pointing towards the ? Any idea how I can get East Midlands News back?

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Dave Lindsay

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2:00 PM

Louis: If your faces then you have what is being broadcast from that . To receive East Midlands would mean using the aerial to pick up a from a direction other than that which it faces which could mean poor .

Looking at Streetview, most of the aerials I can see are due east, so are pointing to which is the East Midlands transmitter. If you're on Sutton Coldfield then could this be because there is an obstruction preventing good reception of Waltham? Some of the houses are three storeys and there are trees along the A38 which could perhaps be a cause of difficulty.

Anyway, if you wish to have a shot at it then if your TV has manual tuning, use it. If it doesn't then it gets more tricky - I will make suggestions if that is the case.

Wipe what's stored, probably by running the through with the aerial unplugged. Then tune in the six (five if it isn't HD) :

PSB1 - BBC One | W= | SC=
PSB2 - ITV | W= | SC=
PSB3 - BBC One HD | W= | SC=
COM4 - ITV3 | W= | SC=
COM5 - Pick TV | W= | SC=
COM6 - 4Music | W= | SC=

W=Waltham; SC=Sutton Coldfield

So, for example, for PSB1, which carries BBC definition TV and radio, manually tune to C49. I have given the Sutton Coldfield channels as well. I suggest that you use the three Sutton Coldfield COM channels (rather than those of Waltham) and if your set is HD its PSB3 as well.

In short, manually tune 49, 54, 42, 45 and 39. Also 40 if it's a HD set.

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2:11 PM

Louis: One further thought: If it turns out that from is poor, but you would like to persevere in order to view local news, then you might wish to tune in on all the logical channel numbers (i.e. BBC One Midlands on number 1, ITV Central West on 3 etc).

To achieve this, having wiped what's stored, manually tune Sutton Coldfield's , 43, 46, 42, 45, 39 and 40 for HD.

Then manually add 49 and 54. These will be put in your 800s. Depending on the design of the set you may be able to swap them round so that BBC One East Midlands is on 800 and ITV Central East is on 801. You should be able to identify which you are watching by viewing the signal strength screen - it usually gives the UHF channel number (e.g. 49 for BBC One East Midlands from Waltham). Some pieces of equipment don't give channel numbers, but give only frequencies in MHz instead, so you might need to convert.

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