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 04/11/2024 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 withheldThursday, 3 November 2011
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Graham8:22 AM
Walsall
Thanks again to all who responded. Last night I plugged a 0-20db attenuator into the back of my Humax box. At first I didn't think it had done anything because I still got 95% signal strength on the "strong" channels on my Samsung tv. However, turning the variable attenuator so as to give maximum effect, it did reduce the signal strength on the weaker channels only by about 10%. Lo and behold it seems to have done the trick and I managed to receive perfect reception. Still can't understand this though because only the weaker channels were playing up in the first place and now they're effectively weaker the reception is better ! By the way I checked the channel numbers and definately all of my signals are coming from the Wrekin. It remains to be seen whether the improvement is permanent
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Steve P9:43 AM
...and the signal strength you get from the Wrekin should not be excessive.
I wonder if you might be successfully attenuating very strong signals from S Coldfield that are interfering.
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Graham9:49 AM
Walsall
Steve, Yes I'm no expert but I wondered whether I had managed to sufficiently supress any spurious signal/s or interference. Time will tell, I guess
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Monday, 5 December 2011
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Allan Gainer3:46 PM
Wolverhampton
Why is it that, despite them being described in exactly the same way, I can receive COM4 and COM6 almost perfectly, but cannot receive COM% at all?
I receive my TV from the Wrekin transmitter using a roof aerial.
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Allan Gainer3:48 PM
Wolverhampton
That should, of course, be COM5 that I cannot receive!
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Allan Gainer: Please can you see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Sunday, 18 December 2011
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Allan Gainer3:40 PM
Wolverhampton
Thank you, Briantist. However, the problem does not seem to be single frequency interference, as COM5 is on channel 44 and the only UHF output I have is on channel 21. In any case, I have tried switching off the device and retuning, but I still get no signal on COM5 stations (E4+1, Sky News, etc). Neither is the fault intermittent - it is permanent.
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Friday, 30 December 2011
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Peter Matazinskas1:23 PM
Wolverhampton
Since the April switchover there have been no issues with the signal strength, that is until around mid November. We have has a very veried signal quality for BBC since then.ITV has remains at 100% quality. Today BBC is around 10% with no picture ITV is fine at 100% - the readings coming from the BT Vision strength within settings. Our high gain aerial since in the loft with a direct sight to the Wrekin.
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Peter Matazinskas: Perhaps the signal level going into your tuner is too high and "blinding" it, which would suggest that the high gain aerial is now OTT.
Try an attenuator. See here for information:
Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Steve P4:26 PM
Peter The fact that there is a local repeater at Brierley Hill suggests that there may be some local issues.
UK digital TV reception predictor
Odd that the two should differ so as they are on similar frequencies. Have you compared notes with locals? Or phoned a local aerials man?
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