Freeview Light on the Belper (Derbyshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Belper (Derbyshire, England) transmitter which serves 6,500 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Belper (Derbyshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Belper (Derbyshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Belper 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C33+ (570.2MHz) | 221m | DTG- | 6W |
 1 BBC One (SD) East Midlands, 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 | V max | C50 (706.0MHz) | 221m | DTG- | 6W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C36 (594.0MHz) | 221m | DTG- | 6W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Belper (Derbyshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Belper transmitter?
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 25km east-southeast (105°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 66km south-southwest (205°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)
How will the Belper (Derbyshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 4 Mar 2020 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | W T | |||
| C33 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
| C55tv_off | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C59tv_off | +BBCA | +BBCA | +BBCA | ||||||
| C62 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C66 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C68 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves |
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 17 Aug 11 and 31 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 30W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 6W |
Local transmitter maps
Belper Freeview Waltham TV region BBC East Midlands Central (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Waltham transmitter area
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Tuesday, 1 November 2011
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ian from notts9:02 AM
Belper
briantist
bridge st in belper itself de56 1az.
lots of aerials on the relay but some also on sutton coldfield which has a similer alignment.
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ian from notts: As long as you are northeast of the transmitter (which you clearly are) you should be getting a full-power signal from the transmitter.
Which of course leads to the thoughts about Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ...
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ian from notts7:19 PM
Belper
briantist
yes to much of a good thing ! so just stood on a roof with a contract 10 element w/b in hand and a short cable into my meter, i cant try it any simpler ?
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ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
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ian from notts8:45 AM
briantist
this is my first experiance of the signal being to strong at first source?
was going back to try that as i wasnt sure about work on transmitter on my first visit?
could the strong signals cause a quatro lnb on a dish to fail if they go to the same distributter as this has also stopped working? longshot?
cheers for helping
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Thursday, 3 November 2011
ian from notts: It could be, after a decade or so of the digital signals being weak, it does seem somewhat unusual when they are suddenly too strong.
I think you might be right about the second suggestion being a longshot.
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Friday, 9 March 2012
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DAVE SANDERS12:01 PM
Belper
SOME OF MY BBC1 & ITV PROGRAMS HAVE A SPEECH IN THE BACKGROUND FOR BLIND PEOPLE,HOW TO I GET RID OF IT.
THE RECEPTION IS GOOD OFF BELPER RELAY BUT THE AMOUNT OF PROGRAMS RECEIVED COMPARED WITH VIEWERS OFF WALTHAM MAIN TRANSMITTER IS VERY POOR.
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DAVE's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dave Saunders: Not sure about getting rid of the speech descriptions, but the reason that you don't get all the channels from Belper is because the Commercial (COM) broadcasters don't wish to transmit from it. They broadcast from about 80 of the largest (by viewer population) transmitters in the country and cover 90% of the population. For a more in-depth explanation, see here:
Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
You appear to be in an area served by Sutton Coldfield which carries the COM channels, although it carries West Midlands regional programming instead of East Midlands which Belper broadcasts (as a relay of Waltham). You could have a second aerial fitted for Sutton Coldfield to allow reception of the COMs. Not sure how this might work (or not as the case may be) with recording equipment though.
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Mike Dimmick7:06 PM
Dave Sanders: On my Humax PVR-9200T, the Audio Description appears as a separate soundtrack. You have to press the Soundtracks button and select the other option. It seems to remember this setting for each channel.
Boxes that properly support Audio Description have an 'AD' button on the remote. If yours does, just press that to turn it off.
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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dave sanders4:58 PM
Belper
The reception of freeview is ok off the belper relay but i an a bit disgusted that my relations coming off the waltham trasmitter get a lot more programs than i can get.when are you going to add these extra stations on the belper relay
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dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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