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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Saturday, 3 December 2011
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Kevin Porter9:19 PM
Dudley
Sound problems on various channels from Sutton Coldfield, Mainly Dave, Pick TV, etc. Other channels BBC, ITV CH4 & CH5 appear to be working.
Sound appears to be modulated.
This appears at two locations with in the coverage area.
Is there a problem with Sutton Coldfield
MUX c (ARQA) ??
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Sunday, 4 December 2011
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Graham10:31 PM
No Channel 5 and lip sink problems on PickTV from Sutton coldfield.
Anybody else got the same?
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Monday, 5 December 2011
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Roy Grant12:40 AM
why are certain programs on freeview from transmitter out of sync.
Sky news is showing this problem for the past week and nothing seems to be being sorted out
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trewennack10:42 AM
Warwick
Agree with Roy above.Sky News has had sound sync problem for at least three days. Is this problem reccognised?
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steve10:45 AM
Leamington Spa
We are a TV repair company in the area and have noticed problems with ARQA since last week. Its effecting a range of Toshiba TVs and few other makes causing breakup.
Tested on our known good Aerial system and its still breaking up - this is not too much signal or poor signal. its a transmission problem and not faulty sets.
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trewennack10:50 AM
Warwick
Yes, My Toshiba TV has sound breakup on Sky News, whereas my Samsung TVs show a sound sync issue.
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Pete11:28 AM
My two Samsung tellys showed sound sync problems from Friday night on all channels broadcast on ArqA mux channel 45 from Sutton.
My PVRs are in sync but seem to be struggling to cope with intermittent freezing picture. On the tellys the sound is 1 second ahead of the picture. What is going on.
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Bob3:21 PM
I've got sound problems on channels 11,19, 20, 29, 45 and 46, when viewed via a Panasonic DVD recorder... All other channels seem fine via the DVD recorder and the channels listed above are also OK (though slightly out of sync) when watched direct via a Samsung TV. Picture is OK either way, but sound is garbled via the DVD recorder on just those six channels...
I tried re-tuning the DVD recorder but it makes no difference to them.
First noticed this Friday night - everything was fine until then. I'm in the SW corner of the coverage zone, near Kidderminster.
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Steve3:40 PM
Leamington Spa
Update:
We have just had a range of Pansonic DVD recorders, Samsung TVs and more Toshiba tv's etc into the workshop with these problems.
We have reported this directly to the BBC / Arqiva. They are looking into these problems as we speak
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Bob3:53 PM
Further to my comment at 3.21, I've just checked again and the situation is still the same, on the same channels - all are OK via the TV but those six have garbled sound if watched (or, obviously, if recorded) via the DVD recorder......
Silly thing is, the aerial is wired into the DVD recorder, so all channels come into THAT and FROM that to the TV....
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