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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter._______
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?
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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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Sunday, 8 June 2014
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RH10:04 AM
Rayleigh
Please can you please tell me where Freeview channel 804 is transmitted from as I receive BBC look east very well on that channel. RH.
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RH's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby10:57 AM
RH: I'm guessing that you normally receive BBC London from Crystal Palace, so it is likely that your reception of Look East is from Rouncefall, which is about 3 miles away @ 50 degrees from your location.
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Dave Lindsay
12:54 PM
12:54 PM
RH: Rouncefall was a new transmitter at switchover and improves coverage of BBC East/ITV Anglia in the south of Essex, where reception of Sudbury can be poor.
It doesn't carry all channels so you would have to continue to rely on Crystal Palace for the rest.
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Thursday, 3 July 2014
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KEVIN GARDINER4:44 PM
Stourbridge
A new channel was launched today using the new local tv multiplex. QVC EXTRA is channel 57 in the standard Freeview channel line up. It will only be a temporary channel on this multiplex till its removed along with the "pop " music channel to make way for the local tv channel CITY 8 when it finally launches on November 3rd.
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KEVIN's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 7 July 2014
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brian perry4:21 PM
I have a freeview hd box,i am not receiving HD channels101-105 inclusive CHANNELS 106-111 working fine,is there something going on at the transmitter? I have done a full rescan and tested the box from my front room where I can receive the missing channels on my bt vision box,but again the mentioned missing channels on my freeview box are still missing.Can anyone advise? thanks.
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Dave Lindsay
6:06 PM
6:06 PM
brian perry: What's the make and model of the box?
I've read on here that some HD receivers have issues whereby they are unable to receive more than one HD multiplex at a time.
With digital broadcasts each signal is a "multiplex" and each multiplex carries several services. So the HD multiplex that carries HD variants of BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, CBBC, ITV and Channel 4 is missing.
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Tuesday, 8 July 2014
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jb387:28 AM
brian perry : In addition to that said by Dave Lindsay, this problem is known about by the BBC and whom have issued advice on a way around it to enable a viewer to "choose" which of the two HD muxes they wish to store in the receivers tuner, "choose" being mentioned as both cannot be stored at the same time until the TV or box manufacturer comes up with an "over air" software fix for the problem, as its not one caused by the BBC.
However although you can view the instructions by opening the undermentioned link, this procedure will only work if CBBC HD / BBC1HD / BBC2 HD etc are seen in the LCN / EPG listing, albeit that they cannot be viewed if selected, should they be seen in the listing then C40 would be the mux channel to enter ref:8 in the instructions.
If on the other hand they aren't seen in the listings then your best policy would be to remove the aerial followed by carrying out an auto-scan to blank out everything stored in the tuner, then on completion reconnect the aerial and carry out a "manual" tune on each of the muxes used by the station "excluding" COM7 (C33)
As you have made your posting under the Sutton Coldfield heading then the mux channels required would be as follows / 41 (BBC) - 46 (ITV) - 40 (HD) - 42 (ITV3 etc) - 45 (Pick TV etc) - 39 (4Music etc) - 51(local)
By the way, the advice given is to enable LCN / EPG 73 and also 101 - 105 to be viewed and not the COM 7 HD service.
Freeview Loss of BBC HD channels - BBC - FAQs - Home
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Thursday, 17 July 2014
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J Spriggs9:43 AM
What frequency is channel 303, BBC Red Button HD, broadcast on? I've lost it and can't find it listed above.
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MikeP
9:19 PM
9:19 PM
J Spriggs
Looking at the programme line-up given at the top of this page for Sutton Coldfield and expanding the listings to show all the programmes and services, there is no service listed on Logical Channel Number 303.
The BBC Red Button services are shown as being: BBC Red Button 1 on LCN 301 carried by the PSB1 mux on Ch 43 650 MHz, BBC Red Button on LCN 200 on the same mux, BBC Red Button 2 on LCN 202 carried on COM5 using Ch 45 660 MHz. There is no mention of a Red Button HD.
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Saturday, 19 July 2014
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J Spriggs6:06 PM
Thanks for your response. I have since found that BBC Red Button HD303 was introduced on Ch40 626MHz for special events such as Wimbledon and Glastonbury, and has now been discontinued.
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