Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
Google Streetview | Google map | Bing map | Google Earth | 52.600,-1.835 or 52°36'1"N 1°50'5"W | B75 5JJ |
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?
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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Thursday, 1 September 2011
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Reg8:14 PM
Halesowen
Yep, all good here again :)
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JohnPlus8:16 PM
Tamworth
The problem has been since early afternoon. Checked first with neighbours and as they were also not getting HD knew the problem was elsewhere and not with me. Spent a lot of time this afternoon trying to find a contact point to report the fault to, no luck. Who owns and operates the Transmitter?
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Mike O'Pray8:53 PM
Daventry
Mike O'Pray:
Thanks Mike. ITV4 and Film4 did get better later in the evening but still "blocky" too frequently for enjoyable watching.It sounds as if I should be OK reception-wise after Sept 14th with a further improvement in some more channels after 23 Nov
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lee8:55 PM
Tamworth
wrong thread mike? i know our "no hd" is actually lol
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Lesley9:11 PM
Sutton Coldfield
Mine back now too. Johnplus - mast owned by Arqiva, both Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield, was going to try calling them tomorrow, if not back. Arqiva.com website
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lee11:03 PM
Tamworth
just as another confirmation on from 9pm ish tamworth
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Back to DE1 1PY: Digital UK have told me that the switch over at Waltham is causing my problem. Because Sutton Coldfield is still broadcasting analogue the stronger digital signal from Walthan is being picked up rather than the one I should be getting from Sutton Coldfield and when Sutton Coldfield is switched I should get my missing Sky Sports back.
Is this likely to be correct? My frequencies at the moment are defo Waltham frequencies but the aerial must be pointing to Sutton Coldfield as some other aerials point this way and other aerials are about 90 degrees eastwards (Waltham).
Could the Derby relay of Waltham be causing these issues which is why I am picking up Waltham frequencies?
Or is what UK Digital told me about the Waltham digital signal over riding the Sutton Coldfield analogue signal rubbish?
The irritating thing is there were no problems until the Waltham switch over - why mess with things that are already working and why have Waltham shoved Sky on Arqb where half the region can't get decent recption of? Stupid - bloody stupid!
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