Full Freeview on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter
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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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) mast?
Belmont transmitter - Belmont 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
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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Friday, 15 April 2011
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Des Collier6:47 PM
Brigg
Brian & Mike:- THANKS FOR THE INFO,THAT EXPLAINS A LOT.MUCH APPRECIATED.
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Des Collier7:17 PM
Brigg
Nigel:-You shouldn't have any problems after dso,except maybe ARQA & B which will stay at low power until end of november,rest will be at full power.
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011
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Ben Lockett3:21 PM
Hiya, I was wondering if you could help, in the last two months my freeview reception has been very erratic, losing signal regularly on nearly all channels but has been fine for the previous 4 years. I live in Hull and the transmitter is Belmont. This is apparently a common problem with several of my neighbours too, each one of us has bought a booster but they don't seem to help. Has something been erected in the path of our signal or has something changed at Belmont? I would be grateful for any help that you can give.
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Ben Lockett: I would look at Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - boosters usually destroy digital signals, try removing it from your system.
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Friday, 29 April 2011
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ANDREW SMITH1:24 AM
Wells-next-the-sea
AT 01:00 this morning The Digital Signal for Channels 30 , 48 , 57 , 60 , 66 & 68 have stopped working ! Coverage of The Royal Wedding is due to start at 06:00 , everything was set to watch BBC & ITV programmes HOW CAN I SET UP WITHOUT A SIGNAL ! Please rectifi this situation
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Tuesday, 3 May 2011
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robert pitt10:26 AM
Mansfield
A few of my channels have been breaking up itv 1 Channel 4 & 5 and a few others could you explain to me why this it is and when will it be put right. PC NG18 5QQ
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Ian Taylor1:27 PM
Lincoln
My 95 yr old mother lives at LN50SJ and appears to have 2 aerials on her roof. The longer one points more or less NE (Belmont?) and the shorter one SW ish (Waltham?). She has been using an analogue TV for about 7 years and because of changeover I bought her a Panasonic with built-in analogue and Freeview.
I tuned in the Freeview and found that ITV1 and Channel 4 both had "bad" signals and ITV1 was tuned to "Central" and not "East". The analogue ITV1 channel "used to be East" to quote my mother.
I have also tuned in the Analogue tuner, but I'm not sure which ITV1 this is picking up. The reception doesn't seem to be as good as on her old analogue TV.
I couldn't tell which of the two aerials was in use from the ground, but I'm assuming it's the one pointing to Belmont, since the other bungalows in the group all have their NEW aerials pointing to Belmont.
Will it all come right at switchover in August 2011, or will she need a new aerial as well? and which ITV1 will she get?
Thanks
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Mike Dimmick7:36 PM
Ian Taylor: Belmont 'used to be East' about 40 years ago! It was switched from the Anglia programme company to the Yorkshire company in 1974.
The terrain of Lincolnshire permits a choice of transmitter for many people. The predictions for that postcode show best results from Belmont, but also very good results from Waltham. After switchover, Emley Moor is a third possibility.
It's possible that the installer has provided a system which combines - with a diplexer - the signals from both aerials, with part of the frequency range coming from one aerial and part from the other. This was fine for analogue, but unfortunately for digital at present, each transmitter's digital transmissions are in the other one's analogue group.
This kind of system was obviously a lot more useful when the different ITV companies provided different content. Since all of the English (and Welsh) ITV companies merged together, it hasn't been so useful.
If you do nothing, after switchover you should get the PSB multiplexes from Belmont, plus the SDN mux, and also the PSB multiplexes from Waltham, plus ArqA and ArqB. The commercial multiplexes carry the same content throughout England, whichever transmitter you use.
Check whether the cables from the two aerials go into one box, and only one cable comes out. It may be a box mounted on the mast, or in the loft. If so, it probably is a diplexed system.
As to which ITV1 will end up at number 3 in the programme guide, that will depend on how the TV handles the situation. Some store the first version found at 3, in which case it will be Belmont as it uses a lower frequency. Some store the strongest version, in which case it could be either. Some now ask which one you want to store, if they find more than one, in which case it may put the other somewhere else in the guide, or not store it at all.
With a system receiving two transmitters, of course, you have twice the retuning to do (though Step 2 at Belmont and Step 1 at Waltham coincide).
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011
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