Full Freeview on the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 58,000 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 Malvern (Worcestershire, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern 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 Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km northeast (36°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km northeast (35°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
| C53tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C57tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C68 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 200W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Sunday, 30 October 2011
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jb383:20 PM
Iain Sherriff: Thanks for the update on the situation concerning the new aerial etc.
However, although I don't really know what procedure you used when installing the loft aerial, but its always best to spend a bit extra time experimenting with it in various "vertically" mounted positions within the loft (left or right side) to obtain the best spot for reception, this being where a loft aerial scores over the fixed position of a chimney mount, plus as you will know I did say that the loft aerial would still be operating through the booster, this being based on your reported findings from tests made on the roof aerial.
Of course aerial positioning within a loft being where these small flat screen portables are really handy in this type of situation, as they can be left sitting on their signal strength / quality indicator screen (should they have one) whilst observing changes during the movement of the aerial, in other words the next best thing to a more professional meter.
Of course in saying that, the device you are using serves a purpose albeit that none of these devices can display subtle changes in signal strengths, but worse, nothing at all as far as the quality of the signal is concerned, and the quality being the real issue over the strength and the aspect which usually causes most problems.
During experiments your main concern would be knowing what station you are picking up from, because as well your local Malvern transmitter, it could be from Sutton Coldfield, Bromsgrove or Ridge Hill, as these stations (main muxes) are also shown as a possibility, this where manually entering a Mux channel (e.g: BBC1) from each in turn and doing a rough sweep with your aerial around the direction angle that the station is located at is by far the most accurate method to assess what's possible.
In case you are interested in trying : Sutton Coldfield Mux Ch43 @ 37mls / 35 degrees - Bromsgrove Mux Ch26 @ 17mls / 40 degrees - Ridge Hill Mux Ch28 @14mls / 217 degrees. Only Bromsgrove being vertically polarised as is Malvern, Sutton Coldfield and Ridge Hill being horizontal.
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Monday, 31 October 2011
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Iain Sherriff1:46 PM
jb38: did the manual tuning and noticed no difference BUT
I later noticed that channel 23 was still stored.
I deleted all channels first then did the manual tuning again and it today recorded a programme that it usually misses :)
so maybe I'm progressing.
all channels show 100%quality and most show over 80% strength
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Friday, 4 November 2011
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Glenn Anstey2:39 PM
Worcester
WR2 4PB, looking at Malvern Tx.
Hi
Last night (Thursday at 2100 ish), heavy rain started and the PSB3 HD set all dropped out, although all SD stations continued ok.
Is this a common feature that HD PSB's appear more likely to fail during rain than SD bands?
I've read that Malvern's PSB3 has not been the most reliable - but I wonder if anyone actually believes viewers anymore when they report failures?
Also, could you tell me how page 101/1 can be accessed - as suggested at the end of BBC HD news progs?
Hope you can help
Regards
Glenn
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Glenn's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Glenn Anstey: The usual reason for rain problems with Freeview is that water is getting into your aerial cable.
Malvern's PSB3 is perfectly reliable.
To access the page, press the red button (or "text" button) on your remote and enter 101.
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Friday, 11 November 2011
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G J Anstey2:42 PM
Worcester
WR2 4PB, looking at Malvern Tx.
Hi
Ref. your reply of 4th Nov suggesting that rain was getting into the aerial downlead.
Surely rain getting into an arial cable would affect all PSBs signals the same? But in this case ONLY the HD PSB went down, the other SD PSBs were working fine?
And why would the HD PSB signal return 10mins after the rain stopped - wouldn't the cable be shorted until it dried out (ie a long time interval)?
Hope you can explain further.
Regards
Glenn
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G's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
G J Anstey: The high data rate of the HD multiplex means that at the same "ERP" power level the service will stop working first if the overall signal level is effected by a cable short.
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Wednesday, 30 November 2011
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David A7:49 PM
Malvern
Getting very poor, intermittent reception suddenly on Wed 30 Nov 2011, 19:45 - is this related to the engineering works at the Sutton Coldfield mast?
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 8 December 2011
David A: As there is no engineering works, no. Please see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Friday, 26 October 2012
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Jon11:50 PM
I can't see Dave ja vu anywhere in the list above, I believe it should be on C59
I did expand the list of freeview channels available on each multiplex by clicking 'plus n others', then searched for dave
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Saturday, 22 December 2012
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David warren4:42 AM
Worcester
Had BT engineer out. WR5 1SP to set up. All ok except NO signal for free view so unable to sort TV says aerial fault. It is on roof. Tried good portable one to TV in bedroom - says no signal. What could be wrong. BT just said it is the aerial but why with portable one in bedroom in attic space still no signal?
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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