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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Tuesday, 20 September 2011
James: Everything is listed on the Four million homes in Yorkshire, West Midlands "go digital" tonight | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
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martrin11:47 PM
Sutton coldfield supposed to be complete switch over by 6am on the 21st.
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Nik 11:49 PM
Leicester
Ah, 6am, I'll just be rolling in from work... I've waited 9 months to test the HD capabilities of my shiny, not so new, TV...
I must admit, I'm a little excited!
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Nik's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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Rob12:38 AM
Newcastle
Oh no only 20 channels available to me now after retune... hope it will rectify overnight!!
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Blu.Ray12:38 AM
Does this mean no digital channels until 0600 hrs ?!?
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ash1:12 AM
Birmingham
same question; does this mean no digital television till 6:00. how mad, I had to remove all the channels on my television and retune it from fresh just last night since it was showing "no signal" on some channels for a few days, that solved it. I've just turned it on tonight and all there was was BBC channels, retuned it thinking of the switchover and have none now. quite irritating
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GT1:17 AM
All SC/Lichfield channels went shortly after midnight ( as expected ) except BBC1 analogue and MuxA. Ah, I thought, maybe they're being sensitive and waiting till the end of the film. No such luck, the others went at 01.00, so no. This rather typifies the whole DSO process.
The digitalUK site says NO transmitter work in this region this week. Hah
Let's hope things settle down for a while now. Months of re-tuning, aerial shifting and digital breakup have been a right pain.
PS I'm missing CeeFax already!
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Dai1:32 AM
Sheffield
1.15 no digital signals at all from Sutton. Did a retune earlier at 12.20 and 108 channels found. W hat has happened?
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Alex1:36 AM
Absolutely no channels now on a Sony Bravia 32l
Everything disappeared around 1.10, 2 re scans and 0 channels. This is in Coleshill, about 6 miles from Sutton Coldfied Transmitter.
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