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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Wednesday, 1 November 2017
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Andrew8:50 AM
Why has Al Jazera dissapeared when I re-tuned? It has also dissapeared for my friend in Worcester some months ago.
231 BBC News
232 BBC Parliament
233 Sky News
234 RT
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Kenneth Lowndes12:47 PM
Andrew Harrington: I am getting no signal on my freeview tv, could you tell me the possible causes.I have four tvs and they all showing no signal.Thank you.
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Stuart Harris1:59 PM
From The Wrekin pages today
"This is very likely caused by the high atmospheric pressure affecting various parts of the country, causing lift conditions which allow signals from distant transmitters which cannot normally be received to interfere with the signals from the transmitter you normally use. Do not attempt to retune as this will delete all of your channels which are already correctly tuned. As this is an entirely natural phenomenon, all you can do is wait for the atmospheric conditions to return to normal."
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Saturday, 11 November 2017
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Keith Cunliffe 9:54 AM
Do you know what the Kidderminster relay station channels are going to be
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StevensOnln111:55 AM
Keith Cunliffe : If you're referring to the new frequency allocations to take effect from Q1 2018, they don't appear to have been published yet for Kidderminster (or for many other smaller transmitters).
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Saturday, 25 November 2017
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ntscuser3:59 PM
@Keith Cunliffe
From 7th March Kidderminster's new channels will be 32, 34 and 35 (all Group A).
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Friday, 15 December 2017
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Thomas Lord10:17 PM
Sutton Coldfield
Hi there, postcode B721bY
we are lined up to the Sutton Coldfield transmitter and getting some interference on C40 BBCB TV channels. We get more interference when its rainy or windy but also when its not. Its not all the time and doesn't affect any other channels.
The TV says strength approx 80-95%, quality approx 70-100%. The signal gets grainy when quality drops to 70-80%.
The aerial is a class 1 W type in the loft. It has high quality cabling in the loft to a powered amp that splits the signal to 8 tv points in the house. Ive tried a variable attenuator which helped a bit but didn't cure the issue.
Can you advise what would cause the interference on C40 channels only and not the others?
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Saturday, 16 December 2017
MikeP
5:23 PM
5:23 PM
Thomas Lord:
The most common cause of this type of problem is poor connections between the aerial and the TV set. A bad contact in a plug/socket is the likely cause. It tends to affect just one multiplex. So please check all your aerial connections by unplugging and refitting the connections. Then see if the reception of the BBC B multiplex.
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Thursday, 21 December 2017
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Keith Cunliffe 7:35 AM
Thank you very much for all the information you have supplied recently, I very much appreciate the help and advice you have given.,
May I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year, and hope you continue this valued and good work on this website.,
Thank you once again
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Wednesday, 14 February 2018
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Dave Horne 4:20 PM
Teletext not working on BBC1 Freeview works on Freesat ok
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