Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
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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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) mast?
Sutton Coldfield transmitter - Sutton Coldfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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, 22 July 2013
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Pete11:04 AM
jb38:
The EPG on my Sony recorder has finally been fixed with a return to factory setting and retune.
Many thanks
Pete
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013
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Doug H7:09 AM
Uttoxeter
I've lost all channels from PSB2 and COM5. They disappeared a few weeks ago, but I didn't worry too much as this page was showing transmitter problems. This page is now showing no faults, but the channels are still missing. I've tried rescanning, but no joy. This is through both BT and through the built in tuner on a Samsung tv. Any ideas anyone?
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Wednesday, 24 July 2013
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Graham T9:52 AM
Re SUTTON PSB2, COM5 & 4. Just come back from a week away and found these channels have problems. One receiver has jerky video and no sound, one has 'No Service' message, one (which updates on power up) seems OK. Not checked others yet.
The receiver with jerky video came good after a rescan but Davejavu still affected ( presumably have to rescan again when it's carrying program).
I don't recall seeing any warnings about changes, nor can I find any info about what changed and why. These changes are a pain. It's not as simple as just 'Rescan your receiver'. Duff channels have to be edited out, Favourites rebuilt and on a couple of RXs the channel numbering has to be rebuilt as well to get the LCNs in the right place. Can anyone point me to link that says what changed? Also, a recent transmitter service history list would be useful. thanks
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Thursday, 25 July 2013
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Bill 10:43 AM
My Sony Bravia got its epg messed up on Sunday, tried to retune and now it can't get any stable tuning at at, even tried factory reset, etc, etc. set is now basically a monitor, tuning useless. Am awaiting an engineer call under warranty.
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MikeB3:35 PM
Peterborough
Bill : Although tuners do go, and loads of us have had the EPG problem on our PVR's, I havn't heard of anything going wrong with Sony TV's (unlike Australia a while ago). If you know the model number, that might help to narrow down as to whether it is a software problem.
Unfortunately, you havn't included a postcode, so its difficult to to know if your reception has suddenly changed to a point its simply unusable (although Sony's have very good and stable tuners, so thats unlikely).
The problem is if it is a software problem, there is often not a lot any store can do to correct it, because the glitch might be something which is external to the machine, but interacting with Sony's own software.
The other thing that does occur to me is that it might be a result of a fault within your aerial system. If you have an old digibox, plug it in to the aerial feed and to the TV - if its having problems/picks up nothing, then you know its the aerial. If its fine, then its more likely to be the tuner/software.
Be interested to know what the problem is, since someone is bound to ask me a similar question at some point...
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Friday, 26 July 2013
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Monday, 29 July 2013
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Paul10:01 PM
Stourbridge
TV engineer SAS that the TV 'has a main board fault' and is going to replace the board under warranty.
However over the set 36 hours my old Freeview box, a normally bomb-proof PVR, cannot display any watchable channels. I have not yet tried a retune on this as some advice is NOT to tune during high pressure weather. Really rather lost as to what to pursue next. My post code is DY9 9XA, which means I should tune to Bromsgrove but there is a pylon and a cell phone mast in line of sight to Bromsgroveand no aerial engineer has ever gotten decent results off it, despite my neighbours only 20m away using it. They however can't get a usable signal from Sutton Coldfield.
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Tuesday, 30 July 2013
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Ian from notts7:48 AM
Alfreton
Paul- It sounds like 4G could be an issue when its rolled out, On the Bromsgrove Transmitter, tho with a pylon already confusing signals it doesn't mean much. Just to note, The Cell Phone mast must be "chosen" to use the "800" frequency's for it to cause interference ? If you want to retune your PVR can you do it manually? Sutton Coldfield uses frequency's 39,42,43,45,46 and I think HD is 50 but check that? Manual tune will stop high pressure confusing the results. High pressure may still cause interference tho.
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Paul/Ian from notts: It's worth noting that under normal circumstances, the 4G services are not mounted on the TV transmitter mast, but on the more localised network of mobile phone masts.
Even when the 4G is mounted near a mast, the power of the DTT signal will normally be so high in comparison that - as the London trails have shown - that no problems occur.
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