Full Freeview on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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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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Which Freeview channels does the Belmont transmitter broadcast?

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C22 (482.0MHz)	463m	DTG-	150,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C25 (506.0MHz)	463m	DTG-	150,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Yorkshire (Belmont micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C28 (530.0MHz)	463m	DTG-	150,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -4.8dB	C30- (545.8MHz)	463m	DTG-8	50,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H -1.8dB	C23 (490.0MHz)	492m	DTG-8	100,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H -1.8dB	C26- (513.8MHz)	492m	DTG-8	100,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LDN	H -14.8dB	C32 (562.0MHz)	463m	DTG-12	5,000W
	7 Estuary TV Doncaster,

DTG-8 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	ITV_waves
C13	BBCtv_waves
C22		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C23						ArqA
C25		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C26						ArqB
C27						LDN
C28		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C30					-SDN	SDN
C32		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves		_local
C33						com7
C35						com8
C53_{tv_off}					ArqA
C55_{tv_off}						com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}			C5_waves	C5_waves		COM8_{tv_off}
C60_{tv_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

Local transmitter maps

Belmont Freeview Belmont DAB Belmont AM/FM Belmont TV region BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Yorkshire (Belmont micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Belmont transmitter area

Oct 1959-Jul 1974	Anglia Television
Jul 1974-Feb 2004	Yorkshire Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Ian
11:52 PM

@Steve, During the days, in the area to the South of Lincoln, was always affected by High Pressure with signals from the South and blasting through (That's the direction the Aerials point), I used to often get perfect pictures from TVS/Meridian ( , Hampshire) and Central (). Are you sure that you are not on the Waltham transmitter?

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rachel
10:40 AM

Is there a problem? has just died. Holbeach are (PE12).

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MikeB

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8:53 PM

rachel: Its looks to be fine, although ask around the area to make sure. If everyone else is OK, I'm afraid its your system.

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Mr B.Hanwell
9:21 PM

My 1 on up to Monday of this week was titled and was very good. From Monday the title is York's & Linc's and the reception poor. My is directed towards both the and transmitters which are in line from my location to the south of Sheffield.

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Dave Lindsay

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11:41 PM

Mr B.Hanwell: So it's retuned to ...

Judging by your description your is directed to . has not broadcast TV since VHF in 1985!

Unplug the aerial for the first 30% of the to miss out Belmont.

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gary porter
8:24 AM

Hi.

I recently moved to Ruskington near Sleaford and was able to receive all the BBC HD on my Humax Box. However for the last week these are plagued with intermittent pixelation on BBC 4 hd in particular which is my fav channel.

Any idea of cause?

Thanks

Gary

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Dave Lindsay

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1:18 PM

gary porter: Check that BBC Four HD is tuned to on UHF channel 33 and not on . Also, COM7 () from Belmont is on lower than the rest, according to UK it is 37kW but this is by no means "low" and should be expected to be ample to serve you (possibly local obstructions excepted).

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Andrew Smith
11:41 PM
Wells-next-the-sea

varies throughout the house . Although we live in Norfolk the ONLY that we get our Signal from Aerials is which is a minimum of 70 Kilometers away . From the to the of the house we get signals on 22,25,30,53 & 60 . from the same Aerial on the South of the house we get signals on 22 , 25 & 60 . From an Indoor Aerial Upstairs on the West we get signals on 22,25,30,53 & 60 but on another Indoor Aerial on the West we can only get signals on 22 , 25 & 60 . From The BT Broadband Freeview Box obviously we can get any that we want .

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Keith
5:09 PM
Market Rasen

sorry ...omitted to include ... is in ..

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Mike Davison

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10:15 AM
Wetherby

Keith :- I assume you mean re-tune rather than which was the process of switching from analogue to digital TV some years ago now. My Humax PVR does the auto in two stages. The first stage only looks for DVB-T and then it restarts the scan looking for DVB-T2 channels which are the PSB3 and COM7 . Did you accidently interrupt stage 2? Just an idea which nearly caught me out when I got my HD Humax PVR.
If you are manually scanning the single channels for PSB3 and COM7 don't forget to select DVB-T2 before you start the scan on each.

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