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, 21 September 2011
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Brian10:20 PM
I am also in WR5 and also using Media Centre (under Win 7). Interestingly, I have a slightly different issue in that since switchover ALL my channels have gone from 100% quality to 60% quality. After 07 September retune, all the channels on BBCA were at 60% but the others were all 100%.
Prior to 07 Sep I had no issues with signal/quality, now the "improved" Freeview leaves me worse of!
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Dave Adams: Looking at the predictions, you are in a very strong signal area, so have a look at Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
If you have a "shared aerial" then it might require the "common system" to be adjusted to work with the post-switchover frequencies. If you look at the "Transmission frequencies" section above, you can see that C59 and C60 were not used before switchover.
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Thursday, 22 September 2011
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Rich7:31 PM
Worcester
My full postcode is WR5 1BL. I've just unplugged my booster, as advised. It doesn't make any difference. Signal strength is 24% at its highest. Some channels are as low as 1%. No visible difference between the channels can be seen though. All start off being blocky, then improve when the channel has been on for 30 seconds or so. The best is not great though - often blocky and with sound interruptions.
The old version of Media Centre had an option for choosing a transmitter. I can't find it anymore - has it gone? Would this make a difference anyway?
Thanks for your help.
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Rich's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 23 September 2011
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Richard Worthington6:56 AM
Malvern
Brian WR5,
I've got the same issue/problems you have with Windows 7 and dual BlackGold BGT3620 cards with the signal being reported as 60%. Suspect it is something to do with the signal being too strong - the aerial is in the loft and I'm only a few hundred yards from the Malvern transmitter (though just round the end of the hill so not direct sight). There are a few clues ..
1) when looking at the channel source some channels have both the main frequency and the 166 MHz offset (i.e. 8 sources are quoted not the expected 4)
2) Other TVs in the house all at 100% strength and quality
3) When scanning for new signals media center picks up channels right at the start/lower channels so picking up either distant signals or potentially shadows of main signal
4) I have experiemented with attenuators in the past that didn't have much effect
5) I have a distribution box in the loft that suspect might be an issue if the input signal is way too strong - will try taking this out and see the effect
I plan to have a good session over the weekend to try and resolve the problem and will let you know how I get on !
Cheers,
Richard
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Rich11:47 AM
Both of the following:
1) when looking at the channel source some channels have both the main frequency and the 166 MHz offset
2) Other TVs in the house all at 100% strength and quality
are true for me, although I am further from the transmitter. Oh, and the offset on mine seems to be 167MHz.
I'll be interested to know how you get on.
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sid8:16 PM
Rich:
The problem with media center is that the only visable tuning indication is a row of dots that that move from left to right as it tunes up the UHF band.
This would mean that it tunes into the Sutton Multiplexes 39 to 46 before the Malvern ones in the 50s.
There is no way you can find the actual Ch numbers in Media Center.
Regards
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
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andy walker10:05 AM
I get no reception at all from com 5 ch 59 from malvern. All other channels fine. Is it online? Went off on 21st.
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Brian WR510:20 PM
Richard, Malvern,
Thanks for the comments, good to know it's not just me !!
I have taken out my booster/splitter and am still getting 60% in MC. I also have the offsets (both + and - on some frequencies) showing at the same 60%. In addition I have these "shadow" frequencies appearing - one is even at 80%. I am also getting some Malvern frequencies showing 0% quality but when I select them and disable the others, the picture is fine.
We have lots of trees and houses around and the signal has always been bad so I'm not convinced it's a problem with too much signal. My Humax shows 70% strength and 100% quality (same aerial, the RF cable goes to the Humax and then loops through to the HTPC).
Brian
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