Full Freeview on the Sheffield (Sheffield, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
Google map | Bing map | Google Earth | 53.379,-1.514 or 53°22'44"N 1°30'52"W | S10 5GL |
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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sheffield (Sheffield, 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 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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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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Lindsey Brown10:34 AM
Sheffield
dear kb my son has just started university at crewe flats post code S10 2LL there is no out door aerial so i am researching a good indoor one but need to know if it will work before forking out £145 for a tv licence. any comments or recomendations will help thankyou lindsey brown
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Lindsey's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Lindsey Brown: Indoor aerials are usually awful for Freeview reception, you can sometimes put them by a window that has a good view of the transmitter, but otherwise they are usually totally unreliable.
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KB Aerials Sheffield
4:55 PM
Sheffield
4:55 PM
Sheffield
Lindsey Brown
as much as I hate to say it
You are virtually on top of the local transmitter so the chances of an indoor aerial working is quite good
buy one from argos making sure you can return it if it doesn't work
try it and see don't get one with a built in amplifier as it will probably overload and not work
if not give me a call you would be looking at between £100- £120 For me to come out and install an aerial professionally
07946481125 Keith KB aerials
Would be interested to know if it does work by the way !
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KB Aerials Sheffield
7:53 PM
Sheffield
7:53 PM
Sheffield
Mark - how did you get on with the retune today?
Keith KB Aerials Sheffield
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Friday, 23 September 2011
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Andy6:46 PM
Sheffield
Hi
(S17 3DP - W band aerial (H) - currently Belmont transmitter - 100% quality)
Is Sheffield transmitter now transmitting all Muxes at full power? I thought ArqB and full power was going to happen on 27th Sept?
The reason I ask is that I am probably going to have my aerial altered so that I am getting my local programmes/news rather than Lincs.
I am sure I'll be able to get a good signal from Sheffield as even though my aerial is pointing the wrong way and wrong polarity I'm getting C24 (Strength 52%; Quality 90%) and C42 (Strength 43%; Quality 40%), but not the other Sheffield channels.
Cheers
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kB Aerials Sheffield
7:53 PM
7:53 PM
Andy 5 out of 6 muxes are on full power
Im going to make a leaflet up and distribute it offering this services as I think people will genuinely appreciate being able to receive the correct news
Im guessing you previously was in an area not served by crosspool because of Totley Relay
I Would be interested in taking a look at yours if you would like - im based in Beighton -
Keith KB Aerials Sheffield 07946 481125
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Andy11:52 PM
Sheffield
Keith: Thanks. Bring some leaflets with you - all my neighbours currently get Freeview from Belmont! :-)
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
kB Aerials Sheffield
7:46 AM
7:46 AM
ooooh best get designing!!!!!
there are masses of aerials in sheffield on Belmont and Waltham
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Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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Dave Higgins6:05 PM
I've just found that instead of being tuned to the Crookes transmitter as I thought I was I was actually tuned to Emley Moor for the 2 BBC muxes but Crookes for everything else. I was still getting reasonable pictures and sound (I live in Ecclesall) but the signal straength displyaed on my Digitalstream box was very low, less than 25% and I was getting breakup on the picture. Emley Moor is about in the same direction but a much weaker signal. I retuned the box manually for those 2 muxes and it all worked perfectly. Any idea why this may be - I don't retune unless I have to as it gets rid of series linked programs but I did an update and it did find some changes recently.
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Dave Higgins: I can't give you any definitive answer to your question.
At a mile or so from Tapton/Crookes so maybe the signal is a bit on the high side.
These things are never going to be perfect. In some cases you can unplug the aerial lead so stop the wrong transmitter being picked up. This needs knowledge of what it is that you want and what you don't want.
You could auto-tune with the aerial plugged in for the first 25% and then unplug it. Then you need to manually add the three commercial multiplexes on channels 39, 42 and 45. The reason you need to add these manually is because those of Emley Moor are mixed in (on intermediate channels).
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