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?
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 September 2011
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Mike Dimmick8:41 AM
Ryan: You should be getting 100% signal *quality*. You will not get 100% level and you don't want it anyway - see Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Mike Dimmick8:44 AM
Iain: See Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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brian walker8:46 AM
Bradford eccleshill no signal from some channels even after retune 3 times this morning BBC 1 no signal months of irritation to get a picture that does not break up thinking wrongly it will be right after 21st September HOW WRONG! GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER ENGINEERS
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Mike Dimmick8:47 AM
Ryan: That assumes you have a box where the signal quality is calculated as percentage of data received without errors, after all error correction. Most boxes do. Unfortunately that makes it a completely useless stat, because it cannot tell you how far away from break-up it is. It will only go below 100% when it's already starting to break up!
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Mike Dimmick8:49 AM
brian walker: Please provide a full postcode. Note that many relays are still off-air as they had to wait for work at the main mast to be complete, the last is actually not scheduled to complete until 4pm as it relies on four intermediate hops.
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GT9:31 AM
Good signals from SC now, but getting duplicate MUXA(8k) on UHF ch62. Ae points north. Any idea where this is coming from?
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Viv Denham9:47 AM
I am trying to view Freeview on a WinTV TV Stick on my laptop. However, since switchover, I can only receive 23 channels, with those on 650.0 frequency showing "No Signal" and only those on the 618.2 frequency giving a picture.
I am on the Sutton Coldfield transmitter, and before switchover I could receive 76 channels from 4 frequencies: 634, 714, 722 and 746 MHz. However, I could only get pictures from 746MHz. All the others showed as "No Signal" on screen.
Doing a scan of the channels, it would appear that the Signal Strenth for both of today's frequencies is -21000 and the Signal Quality is 19% and 20% respectively.
Is there anything I can do to improve the Signal Quality?
Many thanks for any help you could give me.
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gpc110:14 AM
can you confirm that the awitchover process is complete .
I have a 6 year old channel master aerial (yellow } i belive group b .I have always had a perfect reception
retuned this morning normally i only see 100 % on signal.This morning 60% and even 50 % on the odd channel
i appear to have all channels but citv was breaking up and blocking ,
not a problem i have had before .
please advise
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Neil10:37 AM
I Cannot get BBC channels from Sutton Coldfield transmitter in Stoke areas.
One box stopped working at last change now the other is doing the same.
Grundig and Thomson set top boxes
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gbhall10:44 AM
After clear all channels and manual tune of channels 43,39,46,42,45 in that order, I have all expected channels, but a few programmes are not on the EPG numbers expected. For example, program 24 (supposed to be ITV4) is not assigned at all, and ITV4 actually shows up on 797 !!!
My box is a Nokia 221T
Is there any possible way to avoid this?
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