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.
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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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-midlands-today.jpg)
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-central.jpg)
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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Saturday, 27 October 2012
Chris.SE: of course it was nearby Lichfield that did VHF IBA broadcasts...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
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Carmen Vassallo10:47 AM
Birmingham
I keep getting told online/postcode checks that my transmitter should be the Sutton Coldfield one. However, I no long pick this up. The transmitter that I pick up when I retune is called West Midlands.
Also, for many years, ever since Freview came out, I had no problem receiving every single Freview channel on all my TVs connected to my outside aerial, on my roof. However, several weeks ago, I suddenly lost several channels. I have retuned several times but this does not fix the problem.
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Carmen's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby12:18 PM
Carmen Vassallo: The transmitter identification now refers to a region or area rather than an individual transmitter. This is because relay stations show the same information as the parent transmitter, which could be confusing to those unaware that they were not receiving the main station directly. It also helps with selecting the choice of region on those receivers that offer a choice, the receiver then selects (with luck) the strongest signal/best quality from those available for the chosen region. Sutton Coldfield is therefore a West Midlands option. If the channels were lost as a result of doing a retune it could be that old data was retained, in which case doing a factory reset prior to retuning should restore the full list. Otherwise the problem could be too strong a signal on affected mux(es) or single frequency interference blocking reception on affected frequencies.
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Friday, 14 December 2012
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gbhall1:19 PM
Carmen,
cold weather may affect your reception on one or two muxes due to interference caused by a distant transmitter using the same channels (see inversion effect).
But losing many or all channels is also likely to be water entering the outside aerial connector or wiring. Only a good installer can help you with that.
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Monday, 31 December 2012
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x9:22 PM
"To receive Freeview from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter you will require an aerial of group E/W positioned horizontally. "
I understood that Sutton Coldfield was on Group B ?
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Tuesday, 1 January 2013
x: See "How the transmission frequencies change over time" above. This mast stopped being group B in 1998.
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Thursday, 3 January 2013
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guy8:13 PM
Mike: hi, using a humax pvr9300t i can get all channels except hd. they should be on frequency uhf40 but the system says no channels available from west midlands transmitter. any ideas. thanks. post code DY69BJ. we are not on wrekin like it says is the option.
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Michael8:46 PM
guy: A quick google of your humax's model number tells me it's not a Freeview HD receiver so it obviously won't pick up anything on UHF channel 40 :)
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guy: It doesn't have a Freeview HD (DVB-T2) tuner in which is why it won't pick it up!
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Sunday, 13 January 2013
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Vick1:43 AM
Birmingham
I have been receiving all the Freeview channels previous. On 12/01/2013 I had few signal problems and when I re-scanned several times I've lost all the channels now. I've tried resetting to factory setting but it still doesn't work. I'm living in an apartment, so I'm not sure whether there's a problem with the ariel. My postcode is B5 4TH.
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Vick's: mapV's Freeview map terrainV's terrain plot wavesV's frequency data V's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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