Full Freeview on the Sheffield (Sheffield, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sheffield (Sheffield, England) transmitter which serves 120,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Sheffield (Sheffield, England) mast?
Sheffield transmitter - Sheffield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 47km north (359°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 47km north (356°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
How will the Sheffield (Sheffield, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1969-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Feb 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | W | W | K T | W T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | com7 | |||||
| C35 | _local | ||||||||
| C37 | com8 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C55tv_off | LS | ||||||||
| C67 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 10 Aug 11 and 24 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 5kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-3dB) 2.5kW | |
| com8 | (-6.6dB) 1.1kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, com7, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 1000W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, LS | (-17dB) 100W | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 50W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011
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Joe11:19 AM
Sheffield
Hi Keith. Thanks for the advice. Yep, I can see the transmitter from where I'm sat and the signal is very strong. Fortunately/unfortunately, a CRT we had upstairs died last night in quite a melodramatic fashion so I nabbed the digibox from it and plugged it in to our main telly. Everything tuned in. Job's a good 'un. Should've tried the other digibox before...
Thanks again.
Joe
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
SHEFFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:44 today to 01:50 today [BBC]
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SHEFFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:44 today to 01:50 today [BBC]
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Thursday, 25 August 2011
SHEFFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:44 yesterday to 01:50 yesterday [BBC]
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SHEFFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:44 yesterday to 01:50 yesterday [BBC]
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Mike12:26 PM
Hello, I live near Meersbrook Park Sheffield - but have always needed boosters even after a new aerial. Good pics on all channels following retune but HD signal strength is only 9 - will this improve? and is a signal strength of 9 (on a new 32 full HD Panasonic TV)likely to affect the picture - not sure I can tell any difference from the revived DVB at the moment.
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Mike Dimmick1:01 PM
Mike: 9 is very good. You do not need to max out the signal strength - what is important is that the signal quality stays at a very high level. I'd leave it alone, or possibly even take out the booster.
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Robert Mansell4:14 PM
Transmitter engineering:
Signal in Retford was fine untill last night, used to get 79-81% on all channells, now it has dropped to 74%
What has happened ?
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Mike Dimmick11:31 PM
Robert Mansell: It looks like you're probably actually using the Emley Moor transmitter, which is yet to switch over.
Early yesterday morning, the Chesterfield transmitter completed switchover, and started using C40, C43 and C46. These clash with multiplex 2, A and B at Emley Moor for the next two weeks - the clashing transmissions from Chesterfield are deliberately on low power to reduce this, but you're quite a way out from Emley Moor so it's affecting you more than most.
Switchover starts on the 7th of September for you, when BBC Two analogue switches off, ITV1 analogue moves to replace it for the two-week switchover period, and high-power BBC digital replaces that. (Low-power Multiplex 1 shuts down. Multiplex A moves to replace it for the two weeks between stage 1 and 2.)
On the 21st, the remaining analogue services shut down, along with the remaining low-power digital services, and the remaining high-power digital services start up. On both days you should retune after 6am, when all changes should be complete.
74% is still a very healthy signal level, you could actually have too much signal after switchover.
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Friday, 26 August 2011
SHEFFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:44 on 24 Aug to 01:50 on 24 Aug [BBC]
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