Full Freeview on the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmitter which serves 83,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmitter._______
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)
The Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Brierley Hill 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)
The Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Brierley Hill transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km east (86°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km east (86°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | A K T | |||||
| C29 | LB | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C33 | _local | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +D3+4 | |||||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | |||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux B*, LB | (-17dB) 200W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux C* | (-20dB) 100W | |
| Mux D* | (-21dB) 80W |
Local transmitter maps
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Wednesday, 7 September 2011
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michael bridgwater7:11 PM
Living in Kingswinford and receiving my signal fromBrierley Hiil after retuning my Humax box I cannot now receive BBC programmes other than on channels 800 &801. Although the box shows a signal strength for both BBC1 & BBC2 on channels 1 & 2 there is no "Quality" strength shown. Is there something wrong at my end?
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michael bridgwater: Yes, you must do a "first time install" on your box, and not just an "add channels". See Switchover starts in 4 million homes in Yorkshire, West Midlands 7th September | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice please.
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michael bridgwater7:21 PM
I went to "Menu" & "Installation" and did a complete Automatic Search finding 146 TV channels. I did not manually try to add channels
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michael bridgwater: That doesn't sound right. You need to do the type of search that first erases everything. If you can't see it, do what you have done already with the aerial out first, and then do it again with the aerial back in the box.
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Thursday, 8 September 2011
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Paul 12:42 AM
Solihull
Today after the 7th September 2011 and after retuning my pictures on 1, 2,3,4,5 etc. are all a lot more clear and crisp. I have gone through my DVD, DVB, and freesat and checked all the signal strength on all of them. On the DVB, the HDMI signal is showing poor in red and yellow, and fluctuating between them both. I feel they should all be in green. However, the picture is crisp and great. Why are they in Red/Yellow? Can anybody help please? Paul
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Paul : An increase in signal strength will have no impact on the "crispness" or otherwise of a digital television signal. It is simply impossible as it is DIGITAL service not an ANALOGUE one. Please see How digital television works | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
The signal strength and the coloured boxes your devices use to indicate this is mostly irrelevant. What matters is that the QUALITY is sufficient for reception of the digital multiplex with no bit errors.
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Friday, 9 September 2011
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Craig Jones11:14 AM
Stourbridge
Lost BBC1 and BBC2 off my Humax 9200T freeview box a couple of days ago. Went through the retune stages as detailed elsewhere on this site (including retune with aerial disconnected) and all channels came back as normal. The problem I have now is with the EPG on the Humax, which is not loading all data for all channels... data for Monday and beyond is practically non-existant. I read on another page that I need to "add the 8k channel manually" until the switchover is complete, alas this means nothing to me :-/ Can anyone assist? Cheers, Craig
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Craig's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Dimmick12:26 PM
Craig Jones: On the Humax, make sure you do a 'Default Setting' to clear all existing channels before allowing it to auto-retune. Press MENU, go to Installation, enter the password (default is 0000) and select Default Setting.
This will delete the recording schedule and reset all other parameters to defaults as well as deleting the channel list before rescanning from scratch. You will need to restore the 16:9 mode if you have a widescreen TV (MENU > Preferences > A/V Control) and you might need to move the RF output to a different channel if it clashes with something (default is C36).
If that doesn't correct the problem, or that's what you've been doing, delete all the BBC channels - including any duplicates in the 800s - by pressing MENU, selecting Edit Channels, then Edit Channel Lists. Scroll through the list of channels pressing OK to select the ones to delete, then move the highlight to the Delete button and press OK. Press OK again to confirm.
You can then manually retune by pressing MENU, going to Installation, Manual Search. Highlight Channel, press OK, and select 60 from the drop-down list, then press OK. Move the highlight to the Search button and press OK to search that channel. It should list all the BBC channels - select Save to store them.
If it still doesn't work, do the Default Setting and cancel the automatic scan when it starts. Then use Manual Search to scan channels 60, 65, 56, 66 and 62. Don't scan the multiplex on C59, it now only broadcasts duplicates of a few channels on C60, plus Sky Sports 1 and 2 which are encrypted so you can't watch them anyway.
Hopefully on the 21st you will just be able to do an automatic rescan - you should use Default Setting again.
You may find that the box is storing off-beam signals from Ridge Hill or The Wrekin at the normal channel numbers, because they're on lower frequencies than the ones from Brierley Hill, which will be stored in the 800s. In that case, you will need to do a manual retune. (To check, while watching BBC One, press MENU and select Status, Signal Detection, and make a note of the channel number. If it is 26, that's The Wrekin/Bromsgrove/Lark Stoke, while 28 is Ridge Hill.).
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Craig Jones3:28 PM
Stourbridge
Mike Dimmick: Thanks for you your prompt and thorough reply, much appreciated. I will try what you suggest over the weekend and report back on Monday.
Many thanks, Craig
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Craig's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 12 September 2011
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Craig Jones11:23 AM
Mike Dimmick: I ran through your various suggestions on Friday night. BBC was already mapped to channel 60, so instead I manually searched the channels you suggested. The result was that I still had problems with the EPG... the listings Friday through to Sunday were fine, but Monday onwards was very patchy with huge gaps in the listings... I made a list of all the channels that were missing the EPG thinking there may be some pattern, but there wasn't... even more strange, the listings would switch from time to time as well. For example, Monday was showing programmes for BBC1 and BBC2 but nothing for ITV or C4. Half hour later, BBC1 and BBC2 programmes had vanished off the list, but ITV and C4 had appeared! It definitely appeared as if something was clashing and causing the Humax to confuse itself.
The problem carried on throughout Saturday, however by Sunday morning I noticed that all channels had the EPG loaded for the full week, with no visible data missing at all. Touch wood, it appears to have been okay ever since.
Not quite sure what happened, or indeed if I fixed it or if it fixed itself. Many thanks for your assistance, I will keep your notes to hand should everything fall over again in a few weeks time...
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