Full Freeview on the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter
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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
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Tuesday, 27 May 2014
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bren3:09 AM
Just an update, I have been fine on Walthan for a while now so I will be sticking with it.
I have not got round to retesting the Nottingham one, but I imagine the recent interference has gone now.
Waltham is still better than Nottingham was.
I was using Nottingham because I thought it was a stronger signal, however Waltham transmits at two different power levels, so they (wolfbane site) may have used the lower power to give the signal strength.
But in the final analysis I now get all the channel pretty much perfect, and that was never the case with Nottingham, I always had some problems on at least one mux, ableit a mux I rarely watched.
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Wednesday, 28 May 2014
MikeP
12:29 PM
12:29 PM
Bren
The output power (ERP) of a transmitter largely determines the transmission distance, but obstructions between the transmitter and receiving aerial can seriously affect recption. Tall building, hills and mountains all have an effect.
Waltham has different ERP for the PSB muxes from those of the COM muxes, a common variation found at many full service transmitters. Lower power reduces the signal strength, I suspect you are equating 'strength' with 'robustness', which is not correct.
That you now have satisfactory reception from Waltham suggests you have elminated whatever was causing the problem.
A word of warning if you consider bringing the Nottingham transmitter back into your system, you can ruin your reception of all channels if you don't do the connection correctly. I would strongly recommend use of a UHF switch with two inputs and one output such as this at
Two Way F Plug Aerial Switch | Maplin (others are available), do *not* use a simple splitter/combiner as that will make signal reception much poorer! The F-type connectors are poften preferred nowadays and can be fitted to most good quality coaxial cable as used for UHF TV aerials or satellite LNB feeds.
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Monday, 2 June 2014
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bren1:26 AM
Thanks Mike, I thoght they might have boosted the power on the higher frequency muxes as I believed those signals do not travel so well, however after a careful look one on the low frequency signals is also high powered so it is indeed as you say the PSB one which are boosted, presumably because public service broadcasts are considered more important, no least because you actually pay for them!
I have no need to connect the Nottingham transmitter now because I get all the muxes with no bit level errors apart form COM6 which has an error level of typically 80, however there are no visible problems on the picture,
the only way I knew there were any errors was by looking at the signal info. Furthermore I am pretty sure the reception on that mux is even worse on Nottingham!
I think in the past I have managed to connect two aerial successfully just by twisting the cores and shielding together. That was before I had a booster in the loft, I found I could pick up some signals on my external aerial ( which was not wide band) which I could not get on the loft aerial.
I seem to remember the tuning on that was rather tricky, I vaguely remember having to unplug the aerial at the right time to avoid picking up the wrong signal! (I don't think I had the ability to selectively tune specific channels) separately.
Also it is much better on Waltham as I can simply lay the aerial on the insulation and get all the muxes (the signal is horizontal unlike Nottingham whcih is horizontal). The Nottingham one is precariously mounted high in the loft, if it was as low as the Waltham one I would probably lose a few muxes, it is also rather obtrusive in my small loft so I plan on removing it completely.
I could get a better signal if I moved the Waltham aerial higher, but there is not point really as there would be no visible improvement and it would be obtrusive.
Note I combined the two aerials, I didn't switch between the two, and they were pointing at different tranmitters.
At one point I did try having both aerials pointing at the same transmitter to 'double' the signal strength but that was the failure a professional aerial fitter told me it would be!! ( I still gave it a go though lol). I thought if I got the cable lengths exactly the same it might work but it was completely hopeless, couldn't get anything at all.
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MikeP
8:26 PM
8:26 PM
Bren
Twisting cores and sheilding together is *not* the correct way to connect three pieces of coaxial cable together - the impedance mismatch causes horrendous problems. You say the tuning was rather tricky - I'm not surprised as the tuners will have been compromised by the grossly incorrect cable joins.
Pointing two aerials at the same transmitter does *not* double the signal strength, it could in fact ruin reception of several channels! Aerials and the cabling of them do not work the way you seem to think. As you found out eventually!
I strongly suggest you borrow a decent book from the Library about how RF system work with particular attention to impedance matching, standing waves and lead lengths.
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Sunday, 19 October 2014
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Alan Keetley1:14 PM
Nottingham
we are experiencing constant interruption on the c24 frequency - ITV channel 4 & 5 etc. It used to be ok with occasional interference but now it is all the time making the channels unwatchable. Is this a common problem and what advice can you offer please. Many thanks Ruth Chapman and Alan Keetley
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Alan's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
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Langton Aerials 2:37 PM
Mansfield
problems in newthorpe since sunday ? aerialaligned to Ki,berley with constant interuptions but will pick up Waltham ok without adjusting the aerial ?
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Langton's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
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Darren Glynn 7:24 PM
when will Nottingham transmitter be up graded to high definition
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Dave Lindsay
7:31 PM
7:31 PM
Darren Glynn : All transmitters broadcast high definition services on their PSB3 multiplexes. Services available are the HD variants of BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, CBBC, ITV and Channel 4.
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jb388:03 PM
Darren Glynn : If the reason for asking this question is because you are unable to view programmes in HD?, then this is most likely down to your TV or box only being fitted with a DVB-T tuner, and "not" one of the DVB-T2 variety required for HD reception.
If you TV or box has a manual tuning option try scanning C21 which is Nottinghams PSB3 HD multiplex, if no signal is received then the tuner fitted in your receiver is a DVB-T type.
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Saturday, 6 June 2015
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Geek7:10 PM
No problems on the Nottingham transmitter? Well how is it that we've lost: Chs 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, (I could go on but)?
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