Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter which serves 280,000 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast?
The Wrekin transmitter - The Wrekin transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the The Wrekin 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the The Wrekin transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local |
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 27 April 2011
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Steve5:12 PM
Wrexham
NickA - so do you need a HD tuner?
There are 3 Trefonen Roads listed - all Oswestry area!
I get 100% on BBC1 etc. - but what that means may vary. The weak signals do not convert properly until other areas switch off analogue, freeing frequencies for re-use.
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Thursday, 28 April 2011
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Mr Costa Constantinou9:35 AM
I am able to get all the digital channels from the Wrekin transmitter except those HD channels on channel 30. I have a new tv with built on FreeviewHD. I contacted Digitaluk who told me there is no high definition signal from the Wrekin transmitter yet -can you tell me when this will start. Thanks.
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Steve10:33 AM
Wrexham
When did you ask? I thought it was supposed to start on Weds 20/4?
You might check with the local TV shops?
Or the Spar/C&C?
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paul lowe11:07 AM
Leicester
postcode le2 7qg all bbc 1 2 3 4 channels are ok itv 1 2 3 4 channls 4 5 esp at night are unwatchable 5 star 5usa are worse cannot pickup any HD channels at all my analogue picture is great have retuned many times auto and manually
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Mike Dimmick3:51 PM
Mr Costa Constantinou, Steve: I would be astonished if HD had not started, though I haven't seen anyone positively confirming that it has.
Freeview.co.uk's HD coverage checker seems to be pulling the information from the first transmitter reported by Digital UK's postcode checker. This seems to be reporting transmitters in a random order, so for Steve - because DUK give the results for Llangollen first - it's telling me that he can't get HD. Nonsense, the next transmitter (Cefn Mawr) is showing as 100%, and The Wrekin as 92%.
It seems to have trouble where the transmitter it considered most likely for analogue signals has now switched over. All the four transmitters shown for Steve are shown as 'Alternative Transmitter'.
If DUK's phone staff are using the same data - which they probably are - you can't rely on it.
Mr Costa Constantinou: can you provide the TV's make and model number?
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Mike Dimmick4:00 PM
Paul Lowe: The predictions for Multiplex 2, A and D from Sutton Coldfield are indeed poor, most likely due to clashes with Winter Hill for Mux D and Emley Moor for Mux 2 and A. The Lichfield transmitter does provide HD services but they are weak, out-of-group, and aimed into Birmingham.
You could alternatively be using Waltham for East Midlands news services. If you are, you would have had to retune on the 30th of March and 13th of April to keep these services, as they moved frequencies. If your aerial is the wrong type - a Group C/D rather than a wideband - the gain at the new frequencies could be poorer than at the old frequencies. For a good-quality wideband it should be better.
Waltham does not yet broadcast HD services - it will start to do so from switchover on the 31st of August.
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Steve5:34 PM
Wrexham
Just to confuse things; I (Steve) certainly can't get Freeview coz. I have no tuner and I think ordinary tuners will not list HD channels at all?
And the postcode shown earlier is not mine but that of a recent poster who lives nearby, but in the deep narrow Dee Valley. He already knows that databases are unreliable - his actual number+postcode is unlisted!
Now changed to my own.
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Gary6:07 PM
Since the switch over I have lost all channels. My TV has Freeview and so does the DVD recorder but nothing. The guy at currys says I should factory reset the TV or it may be a problem with the TV. It is only 3 years
old.
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Gary: Check your set is not on this list TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Costa Constantinou9:46 PM
Mike,Steve; Just to be clear - I contacted Digitaluk this morning and they maintained that the Wrekin is not transmitting on Mux PSB3/BBCB frequency C30 -(546 mhz) yet, which transmits the high def BBC, ITV etc.
They could not tell me when it will start.
I own a Panasonic TX-P42GT20B which has built in FreeviewHD, and I have retuned several times, but frequency C30 (546 mhz) cannot find any of the 4 high def broadcasts. This tv will allow me to manually retune each frequency individually and since switch over I can receive crystal clear broadcasts (all tv channels) from frequencies C26, C23, C49, C53 and C57, but nothing on frequency C30 or any other frequencies in the range.
Is anyone receiving HD transmission from the Wrekin transmitter?
Thanks for any input.
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