Full Freeview on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
Google Streetview | Google map | Bing map | Google Earth | 53.335,-0.172 or 53°20'7"N 0°10'20"W | LN8 6JT |
The symbol shows the location of the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter which serves 710,000 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.
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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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Belmont 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 Belmont transmitter?
BBC Look North (Hull) 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Hull HU1 3RH, 47km north-northwest (346°)
to BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region - 4 masts.
ITV Calendar 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 106km west-northwest (299°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Belmont) region - 4 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Emley Moor region
How will the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | ||||
VHF | A K T | W T | W T | W T | W T | ||||
C7 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C13 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C23 | ArqA | ||||||||
C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C26 | ArqB | ||||||||
C27 | LDN | ||||||||
C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C30 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | _local | |||||
C33 | com7 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | ||||||||
C53tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | COM8tv_off | ||||||
C60tv_off | -ArqB |
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 3 Aug 11 and 17 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-5.2dB) 150kW | |
ARQA, ARQB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
Analogue 5, SDN | (-10dB) 50kW | |
com8 | (-10.9dB) 40.9kW | |
com7 | (-11.3dB) 37.1kW | |
Mux 2* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
LDN | (-20dB) 5kW | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 4kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Belmont transmitter area
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Monday, 21 February 2011
luke: As above "Freeview power increases from 9,667W (average) to 116,667W, 12 times stronger."
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Saturday, 9 April 2011
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graham9:07 PM
please help my freeview aerial is tuned to
Belmont transmitter and I get good reception
on all chanells.I have a digitalstream box
but still cannot get any HD channels.
dose anyone know why not??????
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Sunday, 10 April 2011
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nigel11:21 PM
Malton
Is Bridlington in East Yorks geting DTTV transmitter at DSO (Mux 2 Ch 56)
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Monday, 11 April 2011
nigel: No, you continue to use the Belmont transmitter.
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graham: HD service do not start from Belmont until Wednesday 17th August 2011.
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011
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Des Collier2:38 PM
Brigg
BRIAN:- What's the reason behind ARQUIVA A & B swopping frequencies & being restricted on power at dso?
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Des Collier: It is to protect the continued use of the frequencies on other transmitters.
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Mike Dimmick6:53 PM
Reading
Des Collier: In general the frequencies have been assigned with the best one going to BBC A, then D3&4, BBC B, SDN, ArqA and ArqB in that order. I'm guessing C60 has slightly less interference from other transmitters between step 2 and power-up day, which is why it was going to be used for ArqA until then, but C53 is better after the programme completes.
However, Sky Sports 1 and 2 have ended up on ArqB after switchover, and Arqiva's arm is being twisted by BT who went to a lot of trouble to force Sky to make the channels available. Arqiva have probably asked to use it for B rather than A.
As for why they stay on low power, as Brian says, other transmitters are still using these frequencies for analogue or for low-power digital services, and increasing the power here causes problems over there. Looking at the map, Tacolneston uses C53 for Mux A and C60 for Mux 2. The power-up at Belmont is scheduled for the same day as DSO 2 at Tacolneston.
(Actually, Tacolneston Mux 2 is moving to C59 on 17 August, which is Belmont DSO 2 - possibly to reduce interference on ArqB at Belmont?)
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Thursday, 14 April 2011
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chris5:51 AM
Sleaford
Hi i live in sleaford and have a aerial mounted on the roof and am using a sagem DTR 6400T/6700T recorder box.Until yesterday i had no problems,now i cant recieve itv,channel 4,itv 2,channel 5 and may be more.I have done a scan,and even defaulted to factory settings and re scanned.still cant get these.It was fine before.Any help appreciated.
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