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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Sunday, 25 January 2015
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Gordon Insley6:15 PM
Mr & Mrs I L Rubery
Hi,
There are local transmitters in Ashbourne, Bolehill (Wirksworth) and Belper (Firestone Hill / Chevin).
Reception is somewhat geographic / terrain / elevation related and dependent on exactly where your property is located will determine which local relay or main regional transmitter(s) are within range for suitable reception. I assume you are in or near to Hulland.
However, I do have clients in your vicinity who receive reception directly from the Waltham regional transmitter.
But to receive all the available channnels you do require a decent 'wideband' high gain TV aerial of professional grade and quality, an old 'Yagi' C/D grouped aerial will certainly not do the job.
Gordon.
picture-perfect@talktalk.net
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MikeB7:15 PM
Dave Kirk: I'd agree with MikeP - if only so you dont have to go up in the loft! And yes, they are cheap, which is fine, they seem to the job OK for me, so buy a couple of different ones, and see how they do.
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Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Saturday, 7 February 2015
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Chris Orme12:25 AM
Why did Sutton Coldfield do a channel update this week - I lost all my scheduled recordings because of this - and I'I'm not the only person around here who had this happen.
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Monday, 16 February 2015
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bob barfoot8:27 PM
channel 51 u.h.f. is transmitting pop qvc extra and big centre tv. where is the transmitter and what power.
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Tuesday, 17 February 2015
MikeP
8:57 PM
8:57 PM
Bob Barfoot
To tell you that we would need top know your location by supplying a post code for that (or of a close by shop).
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Sunday, 1 March 2015
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Neil4:57 PM
Wolverhampton
Been having trouble the last week with C33 - 570Mhz
Is it just me, located in WV11
Was working before and have tried retuning a number of times.
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Neil's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mark Wood11:48 PM
bob barfoot: Further to MikeP's reply - If you are receiving Big Centre TV (the newly launched local TV channel for Birmingham and the Black Country) then you can ONLY be receiving C51 UHF from Sutton Coldfield or Brierly Hill as those are the only two transmitters broadcasting that channel (on channel 8 of your EPG).
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Monday, 2 March 2015
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Mark Wood12:02 AM
Neil: Can you be a bit more specific as to what you mean by "having trouble" with the channels on C33 - i.e. total loss of picture, picture and/sound breakup etc. and is it on all of the C33 (COM7) channels or just one or two?
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Neil12:05 PM
Wolverhampton
Sorry Mark, I use a Quad Tuner DVB-T2 PCI card in my PC to act as a DVR distribution around the house, tried different tuner software, Argus TV on Windows and TVHeadEnd on Linux but for the last week or two when I try to scan in 570Mhz I get no channels found at all.
All the other multiplexes are fine.And I did manage to get the channels on 570MHz about a month ago when I rescanned.
I suppose it might be a problem here. I was wondering about interference from a network card I put in as I've read that COM7 is particularly susceptible to that sort of thing, but before I pull the thing apart I just wanted to check there was no problems network side.
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