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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 18/11/2024 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, 20 April 2011
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mando8:42 AM
After the switchover today I still get the same channels as before - no film4 or Dave or any on those two multiplexes. Then I read your note:
"NOTE: After the PSB multiplexes switch at The Wrekin, the Arqiva multiplexes will remain on their pre-switchover frequencies and powers, and SDN will use a temporary frequency, for a short period before all three multiplexes adopt their final frequencies and powers during September 2011"
Does this mean the switchover is only half done and there is another if september, and after a retune those missing channels should come up?
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Andy Higgins10:00 AM
Dudley
This morning at 7:45am I was getting excellent signal on PSB1 BBCA, PSB2 D3+4 and PSB3 BBCB, so I'm getting the 'core' and the HD channels.
But I didn't pick anything up on the other muxes. Although I can see the Sky Sports channels.
Is there any on-going maintenance, or was all work completed at 6am?
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steve10:44 AM
Nottingham
I retuned and seemeed to be getting the main channels OK - but think still some on C53/57.
Will leave it to later in the day and retune again. No point worrying until they have had time to finish and sort any problems.
I watched analogue ITV1 until it went off around 12:10! BBC1 on BBC2 was still on when I went to bed, but off now!
And my PVR seems to have mended itself. Said it needed a reformat - which I tried to do previously, and after that seems to have been OK. I have lost 250MB of recordings I would probably never have watched anyway! Suspect the problem may have been running with a full HD for months on end getting everything fragmented - no defrag tool afaik!
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steve11:22 AM
Nottingham
I'm getting all channels on the proper rooftop ae, but not the low power temporary ones on my set-top ae, but it is fine on the main channels, without an amplifier.
Will try an amp over the w/end, but giving them a few fays to finish tweaking.
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steve11:33 AM
Nottingham
Just seen the footnote above explaining why still got weak ch 53/57 until september!
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steve12:28 PM
Nottingham
Just checked with my set-top ae.
PSB1/BBCA/26 is 100%
PSB2/D3+4/23 is 50/60% despite apparently same 20kW
PSB3/BBCB/30 - dunno - not got HD
COM4/SDN/31 (not 49) - 10%
COM5/ARQA/57 NOT 53 as noted above - 10%
COM6/ARQB/53 NOT 57 as noted above - tiny/nil.
All usable except ARQB
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Bill Pine12:32 PM
At the end of American Pie early this morning my box went blank and asked for a re-scan which I did only to find I'm missing a large chunk of channels - rather annoying! My hope was restored when I noticed that Gay Rabbit and Television X was still receivable... on a serious note, what a waste of programming space!
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steve12:56 PM
Bill - If you did your rescan last night they might not have got all the new stuff switched on. Try again now.
Incidentally I am getting 53 and 57 reversed comapred to Brian's info.
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Bill Pine1:07 PM
OK will do, thanks steve!
On a side note I 'still' have the welsh channels blatting through, I'm starting to think maybe my aerial has moved more towards the welsh transmitter than The Wrekin?
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