Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter which serves 1,870,000 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 Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, 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 Sutton Coldfield 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 Sutton Coldfield transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km south-southwest (201°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Burton (shobnall) | Transposer | 1 km W Burton-on-Trent | 60 homes |
| Coalville | Transposer | 18 km NW Leicester | 600 homes |
| Solihull | Transposer | Land Rover building | 400 homes |
How will the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | W T | ||||
| C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C40 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C46 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C48 | _local | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | LB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
| com7 | (-10.5dB) 89.2kW | |
| com8 | (-10.7dB) 86kW | |
| LB | (-20dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 8kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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Neil12:27 PM
Steve!
you could try a factory reset.
Or retune without the aerial to get a clear channel list then retune to get new channels.
My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Steve12:33 PM
Neil I've done the factory reset thingy, nothing improved but wil have a look at the other route. Cheers.
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Steve12:42 PM
Nope that didn't work either, why is this really so challenging. OK, so I have duplicate channels, what are the chances that my arial is pointed towards the wrong transmitter?
I seem to also be channels down compared to where I was pre-power up, makes no sense this does it.
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Brian Grogan12:45 PM
I cannot get any of the channels on ArqB. Live right in centre of sutton coldfield. Had no problems after last retune but my box only finds 5 of the 6 mux on rescan. Its a really new box . I live in flats with a communal aerial so an upgrade is not practical. Any ideas?
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paul hadley12:52 PM
I live in redditch post code b966ph. before sept 21st switch over i had 70% - 71% signal strength on all channels. now I only have 60% All publicity said that the signal strength would be 20 odd times stronger. I have caried out the resets ie power off and scan without tv signal to no avail. any ideas ??
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Dennis1:00 PM
Steve,if you have an internal aerial how do you even know it's pointed at Sutton Coldfield.
Try a manual tune on rf channel 40,that is where you will find the Sutton Coldfield HD multiplex.
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Steve1:00 PM
Annoyed with the hole thing, will give it the next 24 hours then I shall call a man, get the entire system from arial to outputs, to devices out.
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Steve1:01 PM
Dennis I've done that and I am finding zero channels, which is what let me to wonder if I am actually pointing at the correct transmitter, though I am pretty positive when it was installed it was aimed at Sutton.
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Neil1:07 PM
mm ideas ive run out of apart from wait and see if it goes better on its own or.
digitaluk.co.uk
The site gives the freefone number 08456 50 50 50.
The Freeview address is:
Freeview,
DTV Services Ltd,
27-29 Cursitor Street
London
EC4A 1LT
I cant find the number to contact freeview? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers (EC4A 1LT)
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Billy1:12 PM
NOTE NOTE NOTE ********************
Trying to make it stand out, sorry.
Those people not getting channels they used to, may now have over load, massive increase in power.
Many over the years have had hi gain aerials and amplifiers and boosters and not been told that at switch over, with power increased it can be too much, too much can be as bad as too little.
Attenuator is what is likely now needed from places like Maplins.
ALSO Note, just because you have an HD TV does not mean the freeview it comes with is also HD, so likely some, many will find only 20 channels if on a relay.
Those on main transmitter like Sutton, once all this is sorted, should be fine.
Problems arise when on transmitters like Waltham, where BBC booms in on channel 61, but 57 not so, difference in 50,000 to 25,000 kws.
To be seems a right mess up, but there you go.
Alternatives:
If you know what you are doing, and perhaps cheaper than attenuators, though won't lose a lot, try adding connections and cables etc. This may also help, remove any boosters, so on.
I hope that helps.
With so many posting now, and not checking previous posts this might be missed, vital info, cause many of you are going to be upset, on finding suddenly what you had before you no longer have while others struggling now get them all solid.
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