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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Monday, 5 December 2011
Sorry once again about the spelling, this iPhone has a mind of its own sometimes
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Dave Doubledecks10:07 PM
Hi.
I'm also having problems with my freeview reception. It's the MUX with Dave, E4+1, Really, Challenge and Pick TV. I noticed it on Friday night. The sound is intermittent and 'breaks up' momentarily, constantly every second. It's still going on.
My box is a Matsui DTR2.
It's annoying and I hope something can be done soon. :)
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Dave Doubledecks11:27 PM
BTW, I'm in Leamington Spa. :)
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Tuesday, 6 December 2011
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Wrighty7:19 AM
Sky News/Dave/Really/Pick TV all suffering sound problems via a Bush HD Ready freeview set. Going on for around 5 days and I have reinstalled- no joy. I am in Coventry near m6. I gather it is not my aerial (outside on roof) at fault and there are transmitter problems. I wish that more was done via Central News etc. and people are not fumbling in the dark, as losing a 24hour news channel is extremely annoying. Any further info. would be greatly appreciated.
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steve9:13 AM
Leamington Spa
If its only happening on Arqa / Com 5 (Channels mentioned recently in this thread) then its the transmission and not your equipment thats causing the problem.
This will go one of two ways as we see it here:
1: Transmission problem will be cured at source meaning we dont have to do anything.
2: firmware updates will be required (however the scale of products on the market needing this is vast and only a small minority of products are still supported by the manufacturer)
If we here anything today i shall share it with you all. :)
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@Wrighty
You must be near us, Steve's commments above are pretty much spot on.
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Paul11:09 AM
Also getting exactly the problems here in Dudley on the same channels, started Thursday evening using an old Grundig 1500 box here. Have also spoken to my mother down in Solihull who also receives her signal from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter. She has an old Thomson 1000 box and a newer box made by Bush, both being affected with exactly the same problems as well. Very annoying, hope someone gets it sorted soon :-(
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picard11:23 AM
Same here has been going on a few days now.
COM5 ArqA channel are broken ie sound stutter or no sound. Have tried several tvs with built in boxes and stand alone boxes. Problem is on some older tvs and boxes plus some newer tvs and boxes. So it just being a problem with older built in and older stand alone boxes is wrong. This is affecting random models old or new. signal needs to be fixed back to how it was several days ago.
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Steve12:21 PM
Stourbridge
Steve
See 'This week's commercial multiplex changes'. Has the modification to the "forward error correction" caused lip synchronisation problems.
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Jamie12:53 PM
I'm getting the same sync problem on two Samasung TV's with built in freeview, both are approximately 3 years old. Only affecting the same Mux as mentioned before on Sutton Coldfield. Very annoying!
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