Full Freeview on the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter which serves 74,000 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 Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) mast?
Nottingham transmitter - Nottingham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/04/2024 Screen may go black 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, 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 Nottingham 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)
The Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, 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 Nottingham transmitter?
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 9km east-southeast (117°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 72km southwest (218°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)
How will the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | W T | |||||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C50tv_off | LNG | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| LNG | (-13dB) 100W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 40W |
Local transmitter maps
Nottingham Freeview Nottingham TV region BBC East Midlands Central (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Nottingham transmitter area
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011
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Ken C.8:38 PM
Ripley
Stewart Crowe: Thanks for that advice. After much deliberation, and with the help of your confirmation that Nottingham IS working, I have realised (by checking the freqencies) that I am actually receiving direct from Waltham rather than Nottingham!
The two transmitters are in almost exactly the same direction from here. So no HD from Waltham until the DSO!
Really pleased that I've found this great website, could not have solved the problem without!
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Ken's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Stewart Crowe
10:32 AM
10:32 AM
Thank you for your advice gentlemen-most useful. As a corollary-last night at 20.10 I received a phone call from ANDY at the Control Arqiva Control Room-he rang to ask if everything was still OK-to say that my ghast was flabbered is putting it mildly.
Such good, friendly service! He further informed me that they had no idea what caused the problem, but that on Tuesday evening, after my intervention, an Engineer replaced the piece of kit which had caused the problem (and which he'd had to recalibrate) wth a brand new one, so hopefully the problem would not reoccur!
I was most effusive in my thanks for his help and his concern in calling me back!
What a thoroughly nice, competent individual Andy is, and a credit to Arqiva!Best Regards, Stewart
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Stewart Crowe
12:37 PM
12:37 PM
Mike Dimmick is right-this supposed update on BBC HD is causing this blip (sound drop-out) problem with all Sony and Samsung Freeview HD sets, and many more besides. Sony did a firmware update on 18/04 but it has not worked-how frustrating!!! Thanks BEEB!
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Mike Dimmick2:55 PM
Ken C.: While Nottingham and Waltham are in the same direction, Nottingham transmits on vertical polarization rather than horizontal, as Waltham does. Aerials are designed to reject signals from the opposite polarization - Digital UK's predictor allows for 16 dB of rejection, most practical aerials have more than this.
Nottingham's radiation pattern is concentrated to the south-east of the transmitter, attenuated by 7.4 dB (over 80%) in your direction. It's also much lower power than Waltham. On top of that, it looks like there might be terrain blocking line-of-sight.
Digital UK's postcode checker offers a number of alternatives, but Nottingham is not one of them. It is actually indicating that you might have a problem with SDN and ArqB multiplexes after switchover. It predicts a six-multiplex service from Emley Moor. Still, if you're getting reliable service from Waltham now, you may be OK after switchover (it's showing no prediction for any Waltham multiplex, except for Mux 1).
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Jim7:05 PM
Nottingham
My postcode is NG11 8NS.
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Friday, 29 April 2011
Jim: I would guess your aerial is pointing at Belmont, rather than Waltham.
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011
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john legan8:46 AM
Mansfield
i have lost itv east mids ch4 ch5, digital
aerial on roof signal lost about 2 weeks ago
i have done the freeview reset procedure several times still no signal analog still ok
post code ng20 0rl
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KMJ,Derby10:42 AM
john legan: The Digital UK postcode checker predicts zero reception for muxes 1,2,A and B from the Waltham transmitter at present so any reception you have had is above expectation. On 13th April 2011 the frequency of Mux2 was changed to C31 to avoid co-channel interference with the new high power digital service from The Wrekin in overlap areas. Unfortunately some fringe area viewers now have interference from analogue signals from Crosspool or Fenton and many others have experienced poor signal quality when trying to receive the new frequency. Did you do a factory reset to erase all memory of the old frequency before rescanning or doing a manual tune on C31? After switchover on 31st August 2011 you are predicted to have good reception on MuxD3+4. At present Belmont is shown as offering good Freeview reception but you would of course receive Yorkshire/Lincs local news rather than East Midlands.
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Thursday, 12 May 2011
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andrew1:09 PM
Nottingham
I've lost Yesterday and ITV4 after the last transmitter retune. I've all the other channel clear and fine as before just those two missing. I am using a new wide aerial and have done several retunes with no change.
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