Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter which serves 1,870,000 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)
Which Freeview channels does the Sutton Coldfield 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km south-southwest (201°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
Burton (shobnall) | Transposer | 1 km W Burton-on-Trent | 60 homes |
Coalville | Transposer | 18 km NW Leicester | 600 homes |
Solihull | Transposer | Land Rover building | 400 homes |
How will the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | ||||
VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | W T | ||||
C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C33 | com7 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | ||||||||
C36 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
C39 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C40 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C42 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C45 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C46 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C48 | _local | ||||||||
C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C51tv_off | LB | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 | 1000kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
com7 | (-10.5dB) 89.2kW | |
com8 | (-10.7dB) 86kW | |
LB | (-20dB) 10kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 8kW |
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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CarlH12:19 PM
Coventry
Christina:
Your box is probably retuning starting at UHF channel 21, not the actual digital channel number 21, which are in fact two separate things. Just let the retune run through as normal and see if you have any missing channels afterwards.
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Steve12:27 PM
Carl, my box is only searching digital as that is the option I chose and I don't get all channels either...
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Neil12:27 PM
Steve!
you could try a factory reset.
Or retune without the aerial to get a clear channel list then retune to get new channels.
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
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Steve12:33 PM
Neil I've done the factory reset thingy, nothing improved but wil have a look at the other route. Cheers.
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Steve12:42 PM
Nope that didn't work either, why is this really so challenging. OK, so I have duplicate channels, what are the chances that my arial is pointed towards the wrong transmitter?
I seem to also be channels down compared to where I was pre-power up, makes no sense this does it.
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Brian Grogan12:45 PM
I cannot get any of the channels on ArqB. Live right in centre of sutton coldfield. Had no problems after last retune but my box only finds 5 of the 6 mux on rescan. Its a really new box . I live in flats with a communal aerial so an upgrade is not practical. Any ideas?
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paul hadley12:52 PM
I live in redditch post code b966ph. before sept 21st switch over i had 70% - 71% signal strength on all channels. now I only have 60% All publicity said that the signal strength would be 20 odd times stronger. I have caried out the resets ie power off and scan without tv signal to no avail. any ideas ??
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Dennis1:00 PM
Steve,if you have an internal aerial how do you even know it's pointed at Sutton Coldfield.
Try a manual tune on rf channel 40,that is where you will find the Sutton Coldfield HD multiplex.
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Steve1:00 PM
Annoyed with the hole thing, will give it the next 24 hours then I shall call a man, get the entire system from arial to outputs, to devices out.
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Steve1:01 PM
Dennis I've done that and I am finding zero channels, which is what let me to wonder if I am actually pointing at the correct transmitter, though I am pretty positive when it was installed it was aimed at Sutton.
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