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?
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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, 16 March 2011
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Peter Cook5:07 PM
Sussex Customer, from Peter Cook. Answer seems to be if you want to watch BBC2, set it up to record before hand, let it start to record, then go into the record list and play from the beginning, BBC2 seems to record o.k.
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Friday, 18 March 2011
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Sussex Customer9:04 PM
@ Peter Cook
Problem resolved itself - if only they'd let us know, then we'd not have worried something was wrong with out TV !!
Thanks for your help and hope someone takes note that some customer relations would have been nice i.e. a warning.
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Sunday, 20 March 2011
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Matt8:03 PM
Film 4, 4 music... have all disappeared. I live in Birmingham
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Viru9:16 PM
Hi
I installed Freeview box recently. But am not getting Multiplex C&D channels. What is the procedure to get the same?
Thanks in advance
Rds
Viru
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josie10:20 PM
Hove
I have 2 HD ready tv's...the one downstairs in lounge has intergated freeview and keeps losing ITV channels..and when they are there..very pixillated. The TV on 2nd floor with seperate Freeview box has no problems at all. Both run off the same roof aerial. Sometimes the tv in lounge decides to cut out or pixillate BBC progs. There are no other appliances connected to it, and none near it. This seems to happen for about 2 weeks every 2 or 3 months.
I am in the BN3 area of Brighton/Hove.
Any hints for damsel in distress???
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josie's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
@Viru - Have you tried a manual installation of those two muxes? If you set to Frequency 52 or 55 does your box allow you to see the signal strength?
If you're not getting either are you using a feeder transmitter that isn't broadcasting them yet?
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@Josie - Running two receptors from one aerial can often lead to a poor signal. Have you tried plugging the 2nd floor box into the TV in your lounge and seeing if you get the same problem?
If so then it's probably the aerial connection; if not then the box may simply have a better tuner than the TV.
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Thursday, 24 March 2011
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wally4:05 PM
Sutton Coldfield
hi i have no hd channels on my freeview hd tuner tv, can not get channel 51
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wally's: mapW's Freeview map terrainW's terrain plot wavesW's frequency data W's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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andy 7:53 PM
Chester
Wally. Your TV aerial may not cover the frequency used for HD transmissions, which actually come from Lichfield at the moment, because it's a lower frequency and lower power than the group used by other transmissions from Sutton Coldfield. At switchover, in September, they will move to Sutton Coldfield, on BBC 2's analogue channel 40
Another good indicator is whether you get C5 analogue reliably, because this is on a lower frequency channel 37 which is transmitted from Lichfield
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andy's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 27 March 2011
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Roy Trubshaw10:41 AM
Wolverhampton
WV6 7BS
For the last few days MUX2 has completely vanished. All other MUXes (MUXen?) are being received without problems.
Other than this site (brilliant btw) I can find no mention of any problems or engineering works.
Currently I've manually retuned (where the freeview box allows) to the Wrekin E equivalent MUX (ch49) but the quality is a bit variable - not surprising really as it is coming in through the back of the aerial.
Does anyone know if this actually is a transmitter problem, or a reception problem or something else.
Thanks.
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Roy's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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