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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Sunday, 25 September 2022
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Chris.SE8:39 AM
Carl Draper:
There has been some essential engineering carried out at Belmont and this may have caused a brief interruption to some services and if they are operating at lower power then you may get no signal if you are not in a strong signal area - we'd need a full postcode to check that. Do NOT retune if you have no signal.
Drama is carried on the SDN multiplex UHF C30 at Belmont and both Film4+1 and Sky Arts are carried on the ArqA multiplex on UHF C23.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplex.
If you are not in a strong signal area the current weather conditions may also have caused brief disruption to reception, but that should now have cleared. Again don't retune if you have no signal.
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Friday, 10 March 2023
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Ian Green6:31 PM
Are you aware that your webpage like this one but for Emley Moor does not load and has not done so for some weeks now. It just says "subroute_tv(Emley_Moor) returned null"
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Chris.SE8:53 PM
Ian Green:
Hi. I'd noticed this a while ago and assumed it was a "passing" glitch. Obviously not. I'll see if we can get the site owner's attention to fix this.
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Tuesday, 21 March 2023
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Chris.SE3:09 PM
Ian Green:
You may wish to note Emley is listed for Planned Engineering this week.
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Monday, 8 May 2023
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Paul Cook10:47 AM
King's Lynn
2 x Roof aerial .Main aerial serves the Living room TV. Second aerial serves a tv at the rear of the property. both aerials fitted with signal boosters and are using the Belmont transmitter. The main aerial has 4 inline filters fitted by Freeview engineers due to interference. as of now we are unable to receive a picture or retune due to pixilation on all channels with the main aerial. The second aerial is also pixilating but not to the extent of the main aerial. Pixilation has always been a problem mainly affecting the BBC channels and some of the higher number channels. But for the last week we have been unable to receive a decent single and as of now all channels are pixilating. What is the solution as this is most unsatisfactory. I await your response. My Post Code is PE30 5PY. 6 London Rd
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StevensOnln11:55 PM
Paul Cook: There has been engineering work going on at Belmont this week, which will have necessitated running the transmitter at a lower power level and/or broadcasting from a reserve antenna which may have reduced coverage whilst the work is taking place.
Were you given an explanation as to why you have so many filters fitted? 4 in line seems quite unusual and would cause the signal strength to reduce each time it passes though another filter.
Your postcode is not predicted to get a strong signal from any transmitter (Belmont appears to be best of the lot) so it might be worth considering getting Freesat if this is a long running problem.
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Chris.SE2:12 PM
Paul Cook:
Trying to resolve difficult issues like this remotely is never easy. As this is an independent technical help-site, we don't have any history of your installation so we'll need some more details shortly.
Belmont was listed last week for Planned Engineering with "Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 01/05/2023" "Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels". It's not on the current list this week but it's possible work hasn't been completed, we know the lists have been inaccurate on some occasions. So this may have been the cause of your problems last week. In addition to which, there was some brief variable weather related tropospheric ducting which can result in interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK.
That all said, your predicted reception is not the best being that you are 76km from Belmont albeit it's your most likely main transmitter, but note, your location could receive signals from 3 other main transmitters. Whilst predictions aren't always 100% they suggest that reception from Belmont of the PSB multiplexes should be more reliable than the COM multiplexes.
(See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which TV channels are carried on which multiplexes. PSBs are BBC A, BBC B, D3&4. COMs are SDN, ArqA & ArqB.)
Reception in a specific location can of course be affected by local surroundings, potential obstructions on the line -of-sight, trees, buildings etc. as well as aerial position. As you've noticed you are getting slightly different results form each aerial, but there may also be other reasons for this. It may be helpful if you can say which other TV channels especially you get problems with apart from BBC (SD or HD) ones.
It does concern me that you mention you have 4 filters on your main aerial. You don't mention the second aerial. You do however seem to have a lot of mobile masts nearby especially in the general direction of Belmont!! You mention "Freeview" engineers - were these sent by Restore TV or were these local aerial installers you called?
You mention amplifiers, can you advise if these are masthead or internal, and make & model if internal - also do any have variable gain control? Please detail each aerial installation separately and if possible do you know the make and model of the aerials, and/or roughly when they were installed?
I assume they are both pointing at Belmont, compass bearing 327 degrees ~almost NNW.
As you may have retuned at some point (never advised if you have no signal or pixellated pictures if already correctly tuned), can you check in each TV Tuning section that you are correctly tuned to Belmont's UHF channels - C22, C25, C28, C30, C23, & C26 (as listed at the very top of this page).
Also for each set, in the TV Tuning section can you list the Signal Strength & Quality (or BER/Error) figures for each multiplex.
Sorry that's a lot of information, but as much of it as you can provide will be helpful, do one set/aerial at a time if you like. Oh out of curiosity is Yorkshire your "preferred region" for local news or would you have a preference for Anglia or Central (East)?
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Chris.SE2:17 PM
:) Both of us compiling replies at the same time!
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Sunday, 18 June 2023
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Andrew Smith8:42 AM
Usually now between 5 pm ( 17:00 ) and 8 pm ( 20:00 )
We have lost our Belmont Transmission coverage.
However Yesterday durring The King's Official Birthday
We lost transmission when The Household Cavalry
Started trooping past The King & Transmission was still faulty
For The Flypast .
We put it down to atmospherics when we had hot
Sunny weather but yesterday it was overcast here .
We live at Holkham on Norfolk Coast .
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Andrew Smith8:52 AM
For 37 years we have had to watch Yorkshire &
Lincolnshire TV Prigrams from Belmont Transmitter
But We Live in Norfolk , We cannot make contact with
Tackleston Transmitter or Wells-next-the-Sea sub
Transmitter or any other Norfolk Transmitters ,
We miss out on our local news and Weather because
BBC Looknorth sometimes features our Weather but
YTV Calendar Weather presenters never give us any
Regional News or Weather , Complaining is pointless
I have been told .but When we have been flooded
We didn't know we were going to be in advance .
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