Full Freeview on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter which serves 710,000 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 Belmont (Lincolnshire, 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 Belmont 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 Belmont transmitter?
BBC Look North (Hull) 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Hull HU1 3RH, 47km north-northwest (346°)
to BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region - 4 masts.
ITV Calendar 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 106km west-northwest (299°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Belmont) region - 4 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Emley Moor region
How will the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | W T | W T | W T | W T | ||||
| C7 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C13 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C23 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C27 | LDN | ||||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C30 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | _local | |||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | COM8tv_off | ||||||
| C60tv_off | -ArqB |
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 3 Aug 11 and 17 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-5.2dB) 150kW | |
| ARQA, ARQB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| Analogue 5, SDN | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com8 | (-10.9dB) 40.9kW | |
| com7 | (-11.3dB) 37.1kW | |
| Mux 2* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| LDN | (-20dB) 5kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 4kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Belmont transmitter area
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Monday, 8 May 2023
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Chris.SE2:12 PM
Paul Cook:
Trying to resolve difficult issues like this remotely is never easy. As this is an independent technical help-site, we don't have any history of your installation so we'll need some more details shortly.
Belmont was listed last week for Planned Engineering with "Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 01/05/2023" "Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels". It's not on the current list this week but it's possible work hasn't been completed, we know the lists have been inaccurate on some occasions. So this may have been the cause of your problems last week. In addition to which, there was some brief variable weather related tropospheric ducting which can result in interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK.
That all said, your predicted reception is not the best being that you are 76km from Belmont albeit it's your most likely main transmitter, but note, your location could receive signals from 3 other main transmitters. Whilst predictions aren't always 100% they suggest that reception from Belmont of the PSB multiplexes should be more reliable than the COM multiplexes.
(See https://www.freeview.co.uk/corporate/platform-management/channel-listings-industry-professionals for which TV channels are carried on which multiplexes. PSBs are BBC A, BBC B, D3&4. COMs are SDN, ArqA & ArqB.)
Reception in a specific location can of course be affected by local surroundings, potential obstructions on the line -of-sight, trees, buildings etc. as well as aerial position. As you've noticed you are getting slightly different results form each aerial, but there may also be other reasons for this. It may be helpful if you can say which other TV channels especially you get problems with apart from BBC (SD or HD) ones.
It does concern me that you mention you have 4 filters on your main aerial. You don't mention the second aerial. You do however seem to have a lot of mobile masts nearby especially in the general direction of Belmont!! You mention "Freeview" engineers - were these sent by Restore TV or were these local aerial installers you called?
You mention amplifiers, can you advise if these are masthead or internal, and make & model if internal - also do any have variable gain control? Please detail each aerial installation separately and if possible do you know the make and model of the aerials, and/or roughly when they were installed?
I assume they are both pointing at Belmont, compass bearing 327 degrees ~almost NNW.
As you may have retuned at some point (never advised if you have no signal or pixellated pictures if already correctly tuned), can you check in each TV Tuning section that you are correctly tuned to Belmont's UHF channels - C22, C25, C28, C30, C23, & C26 (as listed at the very top of this page).
Also for each set, in the TV Tuning section can you list the Signal Strength & Quality (or BER/Error) figures for each multiplex.
Sorry that's a lot of information, but as much of it as you can provide will be helpful, do one set/aerial at a time if you like. Oh out of curiosity is Yorkshire your "preferred region" for local news or would you have a preference for Anglia or Central (East)?
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Chris.SE2:17 PM
:) Both of us compiling replies at the same time!
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Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Transmitter engineering
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BELMONT transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 10 May 11:29. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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BELMONT transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 10 May 11:29 until 10 May 13:41. . [BBC]
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Friday, 12 May 2023
Transmitter engineering
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Belmont transmitter - Belmont transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 08/05/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 15 May 2023
Transmitter engineering
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Belmont transmitter - Belmont transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 15/05/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 22 May 2023
Transmitter engineering
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4:08 AM
Belmont transmitter - Belmont transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/05/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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