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 04/11/2024 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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Wednesday, 21 February 2018
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tahrey4:26 PM
Here's an odd one for you... on this page we have listed channels 39, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 51 which work just fine with my TV and PVR... however 33 and 35 don't show any signal at all, not even a weak scrap (as I might have expected to see with a not-quite-right aerial as I suspect these flats have installed), on either DVB-T or DVB-T2. But the PVR has a Network Search mode that uses hints in each multiplex to find all the other muxes in the area, and it insists on looking for programmes on Ch26 regardless of which other channel I start the search from... there doesn't seem to be anything broadcasting in this area, even on the helper retransmitters, on 26, and there's no signal received from it either.
What exactly is going on? :)
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Thursday, 22 February 2018
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Stuart11:07 AM
tahrey, you don't say which area you are from but channel 26 is used by both The Wrekin & Bromsgrove transmitters. As for channel 33 & 35, I have noticed lately that the signal seems a lot less robust on COM 7 & 8,
From 7th March, COM 7 & 8 will move to channels 55 & 56, will be interesting to see if these channels are more robust after that.
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Saturday, 3 March 2018
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Ian11:18 PM
According to
http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf
LOC1 mux also moves 51 -> 48
And there will also be a new LOC2 mux on ch36, though I can find no information about LOC2 anywhere on the net
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Wednesday, 7 March 2018
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Darren9:58 AM
Wolverhampton
Hi, Some channels have moved to UHF 55 and 56 today as per
Freeview Frequency Changes - 7th March 2018 - Overview - a516digital
Does anyone know what frequencies are being used? I have to enter them manually into my PC TV card software.
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Darren's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Stuart11:25 AM
Channel 55 is on 746mhz and channel 56 is on 754mhz
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jim12:27 PM
Why on earth do they bother broadcasting channel 100 ?
Why is there pre-arranged and fault information on those pages ?
What a waste of electricity.
We've lost 30 channels today and there's no information or notice.
And it looks like it's country wide - all at the same time. Why for gods sake?
Freeview is going in the bin I think - we've had just about enough
of rubbish signals rubbish programs logos and text all over the screens
and picture quality massively below VHS tape !!!
We spent good money on HD equipment and they are STILL broadcasting HD as interlaced.
Its about time ALL channels were HD as well.
Its not as if they are even trying to provide a service to viewers.
There's so much advertising they're having to put it in the programs
now masquerading as "fashion advice"
6 advert breaks in a single movie is just flat out insulting.
Even the menu system is being manipulated to drive you to rubbish programs.
Calling it pathetic is an insult to the pathetic.
I'm sorry webmaster - but this is just gone on for far too long with no action
or public outlet.
And you should stop being a nuisance with the idiotic EU cookie notice - you dont need to put it there or as big.
Doesnt anyone know the meaning of "service" anymore?
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MikeB2:25 PM
jim:
Where to start....
'Freeview is going in the bin I think - we've had just about enough
of rubbish signals rubbish programs logos and text all over the screens
and picture quality massively below VHS tape !!!
We spent good money on HD equipment and they are STILL broadcasting HD as interlaced.
Its about time ALL channels were HD as well.
The signal strength is pretty much the same as analogue - and the picture quality certainly isn't below VHS tape - if you think it is, you need your eyes tested.
HD interlaced? So its below VHS quality, but 'only' 1080i? Which is the problem here - quality awful or not quite full HD? You cannot complain about both.
I'd like it if everything was in HD - blame the people who still insist on having a DVB tuner, rather than just getting a T2 tuner - if there was enough takeup then SD would vanish.
And the menu system is....the menu system. Nobody is driving you to watch rubbish programmes unless you want to.
A lot of noise....
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Thursday, 8 March 2018
MikeP
11:58 AM
11:58 AM
Jim:
Analogue VHS has/had a bandwidth of 3.75 MHz for the pictures. Analogue S-VHS has/had a bandwirdth of 4.25 MHz for the pictures.
Freeview SD has the equivalent bandwidth of 5 MHz so is better definition than even S-VHS. HD has an equivalent bandwidth of at least 6.5 MHz so is higher definition than any VHS system or Betamax, etc. It is also better definition than Freeview SD. (With Freeview being digital, the term 'bandwidth' is purely relative.) Analogue UHF TV broadcasts had a vision bandwidth on 5.5 MHz maximum, but cheaper equipment gave poorer results, as does cheaper digital equipment. So Freeview HD is higher definition, as broadcast, than SD and any previous analogue TV transmission.
However, the equipment you use makes a huge difference to what you see. Poorer quality TVs tend to show lower definition images, you only get what you pay for.
The amount of advertising shown by various channels is often the only way they earn an income to pay for the programmes and transmission, no adverts means no programmes unless it is a publicly funded service such as the BBC.
The EPG is probably the nearest listing to what will actually be broadcast. Many TV listings magazines have significant errors (example, one programme we wanted to watch Monday was shown in a listing mag as being on at 10PM, when it was actually broadcast at 9 PM!)
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Lesley12:17 PM
My retune went surprisingly pain free. I like freeview because it's free once you buy the equipment, all other options cost way more. If you don't like adverts, watch everything recorded or slightly behind live, and fast forward through them, I rarely watch an advert.
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Lesley12:18 PM
Actually I do have one gripe, partically on HD recordings, just lately it seems to cut the end of programmes off, never used to be quite so bad, what happened to the little message that supposed to be sent that detects when programmes actually finished?
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