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The symbol shows the location of the Belper (Derbyshire, England) transmitter which serves 6,500 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 Belper (Derbyshire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Belper 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C33+ (570.2MHz)221mDTG-6W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) East Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C50 (706.0MHz)221mDTG-6W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C36 (594.0MHz)221mDTG-6W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Belper (Derbyshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Belper transmitter?

regional news image
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 25km east-southeast (105°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 66km south-southwest (205°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)

How will the Belper (Derbyshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-132013-182013-174 Mar 2020
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TC/D E TW T
C33BBCA
C36BBCB
C50tv_off D3+4D3+4D3+4
C55tv_offBBCBBBCBBBCB
C56tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C59tv_off+BBCA+BBCA+BBCA
C62C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C66BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C68ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves

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 17 Aug 11 and 31 Aug 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 30W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 6W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Waltham transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Belper was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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jb38
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6:11 PM

dave sanders: The channels you are missing would be purely commercial enterprises and not connected in any way to the licence fee, and with these commercial interests not being willing to contribute towards the running costs involved of any additional multiplexes, basically as they do not consider that the returns expected from the smaller area's covered by the transmitter would be sufficient enough to justify the running costs involved.

This is just really the same type of thing as a larger department store chain not being willing to open a branch in a smaller town, i.e: simply because the financial returns expected would not make it a viable proposition.

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Monday, 7 March 2016
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Geoff Banks
7:04 PM
Belper

I have not been able to receive BBC channels since last Friday 4th March. I am not the only one.
What is causing the interference and how can the problem be resolved.
My postcode is DE56 1TY.

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Wednesday, 4 March 2020
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Chris.SE
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12:19 AM

All:

There is a major retune event on the 4th March. The transmitter will likely go off-air overnight and the multiplexes PSBs1&2 move to new UHF channels. The transmitter may be off-air for several hours and may not be back on air until late morning or early afternoon.
The new channels are as follows, in the order PSBs1-3; C33, C48, C36;
People will need to retune and a Group K aerial may be needed for satisfactory reception of all multiplexes.

Anyone having problems receiving the PSB multiplexes may need a new aerial. Providing they don't have Cable or Satellite, they can get help for a free replacement aerial from Freeview by ringing 0808-100-0288 (a free call, but there might be long wait times on the phone!).

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Sunday, 20 February 2022
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Anthony Lakin
2:34 PM

I live in Duffield for 6 years the been ok on all yours tv channels, but now I can receive BBC channels some of the ITV channels are very lealk with small square boxes or blank screen and freeview channel cannot receive at all. Why have you done this so people in Duffield bad signal so having no tv to watch.

KInd Regards
Anthony Lakin

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Chris.SE
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4:11 PM

Anthony Lakin:

"We" have not done anything, as this is an independent help website. Nor will Freeview have done anything, nor Arqiva who maintain the transmitters.
Having said that there is no currently listed Planned Engineering for the Belper transmitter nor can I find any reported power or transmitter outages that might affect it.

IF it is the Belper transmitter that you normally receive your aerial is likely to be pointing roughly NNNW with its rods (or squashed Xs) vertical. I can't be any more precise as you haven't given a full postcode, although parts of Duffield will receive a good signal from Belper, Duffield is not shown as being technically in the official coverage area.

As there are no currently reported problems, If you are correctly tuned, check that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction with the rods (or squashed Xs) vertical and that your downlead looks undamaged and isn't flapping in the wind.

The correct UHF channels for Belper are C33, C48, C36 in the multiplex (groups of TV channels) order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which TV channels/stations are carried on which multiplex.

If you happened to retune when you had no or bad signal you may have inadvertently got tuned to another transmitter with weaker or variable signals, so check in your TV tuning section that you are tuned to the correct ones. Are your neighbours having the same problems?

How old is your aerial installation? If you've had the same one for over 6 years it's possible that it's an old Aerial Group C/D as the UHF channels now used by Belper since the 700MHz Clearance program are now Group K (Wideband will do) and the old aerial will not receive the new UHF channels as well. You would have been eligible for a free aerial upgrade at the time (early 2020) if your reception had been affected then.

Also check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them.
See what signal strengths (if any) and quality you are getting for the multiplexes (groups of channels) shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate potential issues with your aerial or downlead.
If you post the figures for each it may give us a clue.

Do you have a distribution amp/splitter and where is it located? If you have one, check that it still has power and check the connections to it.

If you've altered anything around in your installation, check that you don't have any HDMI leads close to any aerial or flyleads, especially if the aerial and flyleads aren't high quality double screened types. HDMI is known to sometimes cause interference.

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Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
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5:11 AM

BELPER transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 15 Oct 01:34 until 15 Oct 01:45. . [BBC]

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Sunday, 27 October 2024
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11:20 PM

BELPER transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 27 Oct 21:51. . [BBC]

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Monday, 28 October 2024
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5:09 AM

BELPER transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 27 Oct 21:51 until 27 Oct 21:56. . [BBC]

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