Full Freeview on the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 58,000 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 Malvern (Worcestershire, England) mast?
MALVERN transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 21 Dec 13:29 until 21 Dec 13:33. Off the air due to a fault from 18 Dec 22:44 until 18 Dec 22:47. . 
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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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km northeast (36°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km northeast (35°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 | W T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
| C53tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C57tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C68 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 200W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Wednesday, 19 October 2011
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jb385:16 PM
Iain Sherriff: A loft aerial can perform every bit as good as a roof mounted one provided that its not facing into a water tank, nor the angle for reception isn't through walls of adjacent properties. Also if the property is new'ish making sure that metallic roof materials haven't been used or that will screen the signal, other than these qualifications then there really isn't any great difference, although the one big advantage that a loft aerial does have over a chimney mount is that the aerial can be positioned (left or right) for the best reception, unlike when mounted in a fixed position on a chimney!
An ideal one for a loft being shown on the link.
Online TV FM DAB Aerial sales
As far as your equipment is concerned, although that model of Humax isn't without its faults, in the case of the Vestel chassis Hitachi PVR's, (practically all) although being extremely user friendly in use (I also have a HDR162) they are notorious for erratic performance when receiving the new 8k transmissions, and are prone to exaggerating the slightest glitch in the signal which results in recordings stuttering and jumping, thankfully though the aforementioned manual tuning seems to help to occasional no picture problem previously mentioned.
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jb385:55 PM
Iain Sherriff: Just in addition to that mentioned. The aerial I referred to in the link would still possibly require to go through an amplifier similar the one you are presently using to maintain the present signal strength, although I would try a test without it first should you go along the line of using another aerial.
This is a link for a slightly larger version of DM log that I meant to add to the one given in the previous posting.
Online TV FM DAB Aerial sales
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Iain Sherriff6:14 PM
jb38:
again, thanks for your help. I will try manual tuning on both, then i'm going to set both to record the same programmes for a week and see if both drop the same things.
Probably will go for a loft aerial as well for the cost (as I can do that myself),can't help feeling that our old one (that I cant reach) may have connection/age problems.............
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jb389:19 PM
Iain Sherriff: Yes, that's the best idea, making sure that everything stored is totally scrubbed before carrying out the manual tune or your test wont really be valid.
Looking forward to your next update in about a weeks time, and in particular if you have any problems with the Hitachi on Mux CH59, this channel having a negative offset which when coupled to an 8K signal can cause problems on "some" Vestel chassis.
Malvern's Mux Ch's 53 / 57 / 50 / 59- / 55 / (HD channel 60 obviously N/A).
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Sunday, 30 October 2011
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Iain Sherriff12:44 PM
Malvern
jb38: The more I do the less I know !
I did the aerial before manual tuning ('cos I wanted to see what difference the aerial made without changing anything else).
I got a the "log" aerial you gave a link to and installed it in the loft. I also got an in line signal strength meter (has four led's, 50,60,70,80) along with new cable and connectors.
I could get no signal (on the meter) at all from the new aerial.
I then tried the meter with the original aerial which still has it's masthead unit in place (I left all the connections in place)and it showed a strength of 60. Then tried the new aerial with the masthead unit (I have a spare same make masthead unit from when i bought a new PWS a few months ago) and got a strength of 60.
All channels were available with both aerials with the MH unit tho some showed brief freezing and some blockiness.
Then tried a room booster as well as the masthead unit and got a strength of 70. Now have no freezing and blocky BUT both PVR's still dropped recordings now and then.
Now I have done a manual tune on everything but dont yet know what difference it has made.
I did notice that on an auto tune I get "midlands" and "glouscestershire" channels stored.
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Iain's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Iain Sherriff12:46 PM
Malvern
.....also
I think the new loft aerial results have shown that there is nothing wrong with the original roof aerial ???
So it was worth trying that even tho I dont seen to have gained anything by it!
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Iain's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb383:20 PM
Iain Sherriff: Thanks for the update on the situation concerning the new aerial etc.
However, although I don't really know what procedure you used when installing the loft aerial, but its always best to spend a bit extra time experimenting with it in various "vertically" mounted positions within the loft (left or right side) to obtain the best spot for reception, this being where a loft aerial scores over the fixed position of a chimney mount, plus as you will know I did say that the loft aerial would still be operating through the booster, this being based on your reported findings from tests made on the roof aerial.
Of course aerial positioning within a loft being where these small flat screen portables are really handy in this type of situation, as they can be left sitting on their signal strength / quality indicator screen (should they have one) whilst observing changes during the movement of the aerial, in other words the next best thing to a more professional meter.
Of course in saying that, the device you are using serves a purpose albeit that none of these devices can display subtle changes in signal strengths, but worse, nothing at all as far as the quality of the signal is concerned, and the quality being the real issue over the strength and the aspect which usually causes most problems.
During experiments your main concern would be knowing what station you are picking up from, because as well your local Malvern transmitter, it could be from Sutton Coldfield, Bromsgrove or Ridge Hill, as these stations (main muxes) are also shown as a possibility, this where manually entering a Mux channel (e.g: BBC1) from each in turn and doing a rough sweep with your aerial around the direction angle that the station is located at is by far the most accurate method to assess what's possible.
In case you are interested in trying : Sutton Coldfield Mux Ch43 @ 37mls / 35 degrees - Bromsgrove Mux Ch26 @ 17mls / 40 degrees - Ridge Hill Mux Ch28 @14mls / 217 degrees. Only Bromsgrove being vertically polarised as is Malvern, Sutton Coldfield and Ridge Hill being horizontal.
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Monday, 31 October 2011
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Iain Sherriff1:46 PM
jb38: did the manual tuning and noticed no difference BUT
I later noticed that channel 23 was still stored.
I deleted all channels first then did the manual tuning again and it today recorded a programme that it usually misses :)
so maybe I'm progressing.
all channels show 100%quality and most show over 80% strength
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Friday, 4 November 2011
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Glenn Anstey2:39 PM
Worcester
WR2 4PB, looking at Malvern Tx.
Hi
Last night (Thursday at 2100 ish), heavy rain started and the PSB3 HD set all dropped out, although all SD stations continued ok.
Is this a common feature that HD PSB's appear more likely to fail during rain than SD bands?
I've read that Malvern's PSB3 has not been the most reliable - but I wonder if anyone actually believes viewers anymore when they report failures?
Also, could you tell me how page 101/1 can be accessed - as suggested at the end of BBC HD news progs?
Hope you can help
Regards
Glenn
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Glenn's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Glenn Anstey: The usual reason for rain problems with Freeview is that water is getting into your aerial cable.
Malvern's PSB3 is perfectly reliable.
To access the page, press the red button (or "text" button) on your remote and enter 101.
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