Full Freeview on the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter
 | Google map |  | Bing map |  | Google Earth |  | 52.987,-1.252 or 52°59'11"N 1°15'8"W |  | NG16 2SU |
The symbol shows the location of the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter which serves 74,000 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 Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, 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 Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, 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 Nottingham transmitter?
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 9km east-southeast (117°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 72km southwest (218°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)
How will the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | W T | |||||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C50tv_off | LNG | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| LNG | (-13dB) 100W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 40W |
Local transmitter maps
Nottingham Freeview Nottingham TV region BBC East Midlands Central (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Nottingham transmitter area
|
|
Thursday, 22 May 2014
B
bren2:40 AM
I just tried a scan on a new monitior/TV I got recently and it completely missed the SKY mux, pretty much as I expected. I can get that mux 95% of the time which is why I have never bothered sorting it out before, but I think it is time I did, especially as I can get a cheap high gain aerial now, or so it seems.
Also it is pretty difficult getting into and working in my tiny loft!!
I am not in a great location either there are three story buildings in the line of sight which does not help much, plus some more building were built behind them (Nottingham Trent Uni campus, they built a huge red metal decorative tower right in the path!! And more trees too!!).
I might have a try pointing at Waltham first before I spend money, I know on my fathers TV he was picking Waltham through the back of his aerial whilst pointing at Nottingham!! I had to tune it with it lying on the ground to get rid of that signal.
He bought a high gain aerial even though he is only about a mile from the Nottingham transmitter!!
I could take that aerial and put back on his old aerial which is more than adequate but he would not understand. He has no idea what he is doing, He often has his aerial mounted in the wrong polarity, but it does not really matter as the signal is so strong where he is he could get it with a coat hanger!!!
So having said that he never gets a problem with the signal being too strong. It is 69
dBV/m and he is 2 miles away.
Oh and by the way Sky new is back with a perfect picture at strength 83, now it has gone again lol.
Gonna have a quick fiddle with the aerial!!
| link to this comment |
B
bren3:47 AM
Update, just had a fiddle, I used a compass to get the bearing better.
It seems to have improved, I have sky back and a retuned on my monitor/TV pulled in all the muxes.
However that could just be a change in the weather, it is raining now, which I think helps.
This is the problem for me as soon as I decided to upgrade the aerial the picture improves so I don't bother.
Having said that a small improvement should be enough to rid me of problem for good so I shoudl change it anyway!
Currently have a signal strength of 90ish but it just dropped to 83 and then back to 90, so again a small improvement in cabling might do the trick but I think it's best to get that aerial and have done with it!! (hopefully!!). Yep I'm getting the aerial it's not good enough, to unreliable.
| link to this comment |
B
bren11:28 PM
Well it turns out Maplin do not stock the aerial and it is home delivery only so I left empty handed.
However I do have an identical aerial which I connected on a shorter cable and layed it on the loft insulation with interesting results.
It seems I could get better Sky but worse BBC ( which was normally perfect) I think the problem with lofts is they are prone to giving reflections which can affect some signals but not others depending on the wavelength.
So I will do some further fiddling around in the loft. I could perhaps knock a few more metre off the cable in there which might help however it means it is harder to work on the connection as it is further from the access point.
At the moment I can switch to the aerial which gets Sky better if I want to watch it, but that means a lot effort in switching channels, ie up stairs and loft ladder. I suppose I could watch in the loft perhaps if I take my monitor up there!!
| link to this comment |
Friday, 23 May 2014
B
bren12:43 AM
Even weirder, I can get a very watch able Sky News on my PC monitor/TV, yet when I unplug the aerial from it and plug it into my main TV I get NO SIGNAL!!!!!!!!!!!
So there may be some issue with my TV perhaps maybe it is generating internal noise. I have noticed some other difficult to receive channel have got better. I have a lot to investigate!
| link to this comment |
B
bren2:21 AM
Moved the TV a bit and how I have good Sky on the TV and a worse one on the monitor/TV.
So it is all very fickle, it's like trying to get a good signal on a FM radio, a bit of a black art.
But right at this very moment I have a good clear picture on every channel, probably the best it has ever been!!!
Maybe a change in the weather occurred, it was raining, perhaps all the thunder has stopped?
| link to this comment |
B
bren6:11 PM
lol I've been busy, was looking at a video on how to make a log periodic on youtube, interesting stuff.
Anyway I was still having problems. I believe it is due to interference from other stuff like mobile phone or police or other digital transmissions, sometime I can see a checked patten.
Anyway I connected my spare aerial and laid it on the loft insulation and pointed it in the general direction of waltham to see what the signal was like from there. It was connected up to my PC /TV monitor as I didn't want to have to retune my TV to avoid losing a signal.
Anyway when I got down stair was I was very surprised to see Sky TV displayed on my monitor!!
I was thinking how can that be? I have not retuned it yet!!
I Had a check and all the other channels were there too I was wondering if it had an inbuilt receiver.
Then I checked the signal frequencies and found they were indeed from Waltham.
So I really do not know what happened there, does it have some clever software inside to find the channels?
Did it remember an old tuning from before I bought it? It i have never tuned it to Waltham, unless somehow my initial tuning picked up waltham and magically avoided Nottingham. Rather baffling!!
It is possible it picked up the signal through the back of the aerial after it missed to nottingham Sky Tv muc totally
But my main TV is now tuned to Waltham and I have all the channels with not interference or problems.
So problem solved for me!!!
But my advice for anyone with problems from the Nottingham transmitter is to try Waltham, it worked for me even though it is supposed to be a weaker signal.
I have also discovered I can get all the channels on my DVB-T USB stick, I have never been able to do that before so I am over then money as I can easily record to my PC as opposed to my slows cumbersome PVR type thing.
So problem solved for me, indeed better than ever, from my experience I would suggest the Nottingham transmitter is best avoided. I can get Waltham in the loft on a basic aerial (albeit with a booster) so I expect most can, not tried without a booster yet.
| link to this comment |
B
bren6:56 PM
OK seem like I spoke too soon,,,, I seem to be missing COM4 ie ITV 3 etc..
I didn't notice before as I don't really watch anything on that much.
What I think I will try is to see if I can can connect in the old aerial and selectively tune in that mux with both connected. I think I had two connect aerial working together before.
Also my PVR missed the BBC mux at the very least
So its not all sorted yet,
| link to this comment |
B
bren8:04 PM
Fiddled with the old aerial to try and get the missing mux but ended up losing the lot lol.
Back on nottingham on my normal aerial, Sky news is fine atm, however there is a mux with poor/no reception it is the ITV3 one I was hoping to pull in so it is poor on both aerials it seems.
However I have sky back on my main aerial, i could pretty much watch that 24/7 and often do so I am pretty happy, just had a tiny bot of noise on sky.
I am in the unfortunate position that the i am pretty much in a straight lline between the two transmitters.
Maybe if I tilt my aerial to 45 degrees and take the reflector off I can pick up both at the same time lol.
Might have a go at building that log periodic for a laugh :)
| link to this comment |
Saturday, 24 May 2014
B
bren5:14 AM
Made a new connector for the old aerial pointed it at waltham retuned seem to have pretty
much every thing 140 channel on my HD freeview recorder. Might be missing some local mux
but it might be off air.
Seems to be best ever I have channel 10 mux (itv3 ) which was previously missing.
Results :-
m1 95% 0 bit error psb1 c49
m2 92% 0 bit error psb2 c54
m3 hd psb3 c58 (on HD recorder signal strength 90% signal quality 79) BER 0 (bit error rate?)
m4 93% 0 bit error (itv3) com4 c29
m5 90%% 0 bit error (11 pick) com5 c56
m6 92% 50~100 bit error (18 4 music) com6 c57
lng missing
m7 missing (HD?)
| link to this comment |
Sunday, 25 May 2014
B
bren5:56 PM
Well I am fine on Waltham tramsmitter, I have every channel without noise.
I suspect if I switched back to nottingham I would get the same (will try later).
But I might as well stick with Waltham, it's easier to deal with I can just lay the aerial on top of the insulation
in the loft. Its much harder mounting a vertical.
| link to this comment |
Select more comments
Your comment please