Full Freeview on the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmitter which serves 45,000 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Storeton (Wirral, 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 Storeton 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 Storeton (Wirral, 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 Storeton transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-north-west-tonight.jpg)
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 51km east-northeast (74°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-granada-reports.jpg)
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 51km east-northeast (74°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | W T | A K T | |||
C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
C23 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
C26 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
C29 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | |||||
C30 | LL | LL | |||||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C53tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
C57tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||||||
C60tv_off | -BBCB | --BBCB | --BBCB |
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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 2.8kW | |
PSB1 wa≡, PSB2 wa≡, PSB3 wa≡ | (-1.5dB) 2kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 560W | |
LL | (-16.7dB) 60W | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 56W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012
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john cassidy 2:30 PM
Wallasey
loft ariel
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jb384:56 PM
Colin Hill: If the 100% signal and quality are showing on two separate bars then this is not really an ideal level to be running at, as any further increases (caused by signal reflections etc) is liable to result in the tuner being slightly overloaded, the symptoms of being exactly the same as would be experienced with a weak signal
Your local transmitter is indicated as being Storeton @ 6 miles / 257 degrees with the aerial being mounted vertically, but I notice that there seems to be a level of uncertainty in your area as to where the best signal is from, as some aerials are facing Storeton and others Winter Hill, but should it be Storeton then you have to beware of the fact that the signal "might" be a little too high even although the transmitter is only rated with an ERP of 560 watts, and so whilst on the BBC mux take the aerial out and try a test with either a set top aerial or a short piece of wire (two or three feet long ) and see if any picture of sorts is obtained.
Of course this test is not necessary if you are using a signal booster, as just try by-passing the booster.
You could also double check that the BBC mux is from Storeton on mux channel 26 (Winter Hill being 28) as its not entirely impossible for Winter hills BBC to have been stored during an auto-tune if Storeton's BBC was down slightly at the time, the mux channel number of the transmitter being seen associated with the signal levels on the check screen.
It may well prove that it isnt an excessive signal level that's causing the problem, but the possibility of has to be eliminated.
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Saturday, 14 July 2012
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Robert Lee6:35 AM
Briantist - Now that S4C have announced that they are to drop HD from the end of this year, any word as to what the spare slot will be used for?
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Robert Lee: If you don't see Channel 4 HD I would be very surprised. But I suspect that someone will have to decide this Officially.
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jb382:33 PM
Briantist: Fully realising that you are a very busy person by having to constantly keep the wealth of information on the site up to date, but I would really appreciate if you could find a time slot to have a check at the feed used to enable access to site via Twitter, as the listings have not been updated since July 5th.
Many thanks in advance.
Regards jb.
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Friday, 20 July 2012
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Colin Hill1:45 AM
Liverpool
I checked and BBC was on K28. I retuned and it was still on K28!
I did a manual tune for K26 and all I got were the likes of E4+1, Dave, Pick TV, Really, Challenge and a number of adult programs.
I do also pick up BBC from Moel y Park.
The aerial is pointing to Storeton (I have a second aerial for another set/room that points to Winter Hill.
I'm a little confused as this page seems to say Storeton should be 28 for BBC - or am I misreading something?
According to this list (above these postings) I am getting the correct things - BBC on 28 and Dave etc on 26?
I think I must be misunderstanding something here.
Same results with/without signal booster and only when it rains. It's fine in dry weather.
Thanks for you patience
Colin Hill
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Monday, 13 August 2012
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Colin Hill11:30 PM
Liverpool
Well, it's still doing the same thing. Losing the one mux when it rains!
Must be water getting into the connection but why only the one mux? Same signal strength and quality on all the others regardless of weather. Most odd.
Good job it was dry for the Olympics.
Colin Hill
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Mark Fletcher11:57 PM
Halifax
Chris Jones.Preston,Lancashire.
Saturday 25 June 2011,12.51pm.
Im sure there are a lot of Welsh viewers in Wales/Cymru who dont want "foreign" programming from England,relating to England alone and concerning England alone to the decent Welsh population of Wales/Cymru as a whole.
Live and let live !
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
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jb387:32 AM
Colin Hill: On checking back on a reply I made to you on July 10th I notice an error in the channel numbers given in my reply concerning Storeton's and Winter Hill's BBC mux numbers, and I therefore apologise for any confusion caused by this error as what you found on checking "is" correct as Storeton's BBC is Ch28 and with Winter Hill being on Ch62.
However as far as the possibility of your problem of one mux dropping being caused by water contamination in the aerial connection, odd things like that are not exactly unheard of but have you tried a test with either a set top aerial or alternatively a short piece of wire connected into the aerial socket? as if on that test you managed to get a picture of sorts on all muxes but still not on the one that drops when on the proper aerial, then that would exclude anything connected with your installation as being the cause of the problem.
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Tuesday, 11 September 2012
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Colin Hill11:48 PM
Liverpool
Colin Hill:
The indoor aerial picked up nothing at all on anything.
I used a different make of box (HD box usually in the bedroom) and connected it up and it got the signal fine on DTV (while the usual setup was getting a very poor signal in both strength and quality).
The original setup has a recorder in the loop so may be either the older digibox or the recorder - or maybe the connections between them that must be causing the problems?
No idea why it should only affect the one mux why only when it rains though!
At least I know what the weather is!
Thanks for the help. Hopefully it will be OK now. Wish I could make sense of it though.
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