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.
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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 |
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Sunday, 11 September 2011
Dave Adams: I would start by doing this My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice to the box.
However, the 9150 PVR has been known to have problems during the "mixed mode" situation between the first and second dates of switchover.
So, either wait until the morning of Wednesday 21st September 2011 or clear the channels out by scanning with the aerial out and then do a manual add for:
C39, C41, C44, C47, C51 and C59.
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Richard Worthington8:46 PM
Malvern
Briantist,
First a thanks for all your previous advice - sure much appreciated by all !
I have a media center and following the 7th Sept switch-over a few of the channels (BBC1, Channel 5 etc) have been dropping out/blocky especially in the morning. I've a couple of questions ...
1) During the 7th-21st period will the transmitter be having work done on it/reduced power for any reason ?
2) Did read previously the power at Malvern was going to be increased in this switchover - is this still the case ?
Many thanks in advance,
Richard
WR14 1QJ, Aerial in Loft, Windows Media Center, Windows 7, Dual Black Gold BGT3620 DVB-T cards
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 12 September 2011
Richard Worthington: Here goes:
1) No, aside from the time it turned off during DSO1.
2) Yes, see "Comparison of analogue and digital signal levels" at the top of the page, all go from 200W to 400W, an increase of 3dB.
If you have Windows 7 Media Center, make sure you do a full "delete all channels" before you scan again, Media Center will get very confused otherwise.
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Andy5:56 PM
Hey there,
Since the re-tune on 7th Sep, Ch 53 (all BBC) is rubbish. Both signal strength and quality are very poor. Everything was fine pre re-tune and all other chnnels are ok. Is anyone else having similar problems?
I have re-tuned again, checked the physical connections and turned the in-built booster off, all to no avail. Am I missing something, as it's getting to be a massive pain in the backside?
TIA, Andy (Malvern - on the Malvern Transmitter).
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Andy: Can please provide a full (not partial) postcode?
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Andy.11:42 AM
Malvern
Sorry - post code is WR14 2QJ.
Thanks for the help.
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gary4:03 PM
is it just bbc1 bbc2 cbbc if so likely cause single frequency interference. see link for resolution. Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
possibly hd skybox if you have one rf set to ch54 on some models, stamps all over ch53. (WR26HH)
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Thursday, 15 September 2011
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Andy.2:38 PM
Malvern
Yes, it's just the BBC stuff on that channel. The interference angle was one I hadn't looked at, but I can find nothing in the house that could be causing the problem - no skybox, have checked all other devices in the immediate vacinity and I can't think of anything else in the hereabouts that could be causing an interference problem. Bit of a nightmare at the moment.
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Saturday, 17 September 2011
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Matt1:24 PM
Anyone else having trouble with ITV 1 today? NO signal on digital.
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