Full Freeview on the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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52.987,-1.252 or 52°59'11"N 1°15'8"W

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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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C27 (522.0MHz)	175m	DTG-3	400W
	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, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C24 (498.0MHz)	175m	DTG-3	400W
	3 ITV (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, 25 ITV4, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV +1 (Central west),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C21+ (474.2MHz)	175m	DTG-6	400W
	73 Shopping Quarter , 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	V max	C33 (570.0MHz)	175m	DTG-8	400W
	CCXTV, 12 Quest, 20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 42 GREAT! movies action, 45 Channel 5 +1, 56 5SELECT, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 60 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 68 Horror Channel, 74 Drama +1, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 203 CITV, 211 Ketchup TV, 212 YAAAS!, plus 16 others
COM5 ArqA	V max	C36 (594.0MHz)	175m	DTG-8	400W
	11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 4Music, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 46 Film4 +1, 47 Challenge, 48 4seven, 57 Smithsonian Channel, 70 Quest +1, 75 Yesterday +1, 83 Together TV, 233 Sky News, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	V max	C48 (690.0MHz)	175m	DTG-8	400W
	25 Dave ja vu, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 41 CBS Justice, 44 HGTV, 68 CBS Drama, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 234 RT, 235 Aljazeera English, plus 17 others
LNG	V -6dB	C50 (706.0MHz)	175m	DTG-12	100W
	from 27th May 2014: 7 Notts TV,

DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 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)

Are you trying to watch these 11 Freeview HD channels?

The Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, CBeebies HD, Forces TV, FreeSports, More4 +1, Now 70s, PBS America +1, That's TV , Quest Red +1, RT HD.

If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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 (118°)
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	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	+BBCB	BBCB
C24	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C27	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C31	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves
C33					SDN
C34		C5_waves	C5_waves
C36					ArqA
C44					_local
C48				ArqB	ArqB
C50_{tv_off}					LNG
C51_{tv_off}				SDN
C52_{tv_off}				ArqA

_{tv_off} Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 - 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

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004	Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Nottingham 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Ted Slater
2:16 PM

After some very helpful input some months ago, I am still struggling to receive a decent (useable) on CH48 from the . I had previously answered a number of questions on the strength/ of the signal on all the Nottingham but had run into some issues relating to the status of the feed .

I apologise for the delay in getting back to you but this problem is now resolved and the integrity of that feed has been confirmed. I am receiving a reasonable level of signal on CH48 (averaging 8/9) but the signal quality is only 1/2. All other channels are providing perfectly useable signals. Do you have any suggestions as to what I should consider next please?

mounted at 75m elevation, 5km from the transmitter.

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Chris.SE

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11:56 PM

Ted Slater:

Hi Ted. Just been having a recap on those previous posts. if you recall you did some and strength measurements with the direct to the TV for each multiplexes UHF .
Results in this post https://ukfree.tv/extras/inreplyto/1032782 all other equipment out of circuit and switched off. The results showed this decrease in quality and strength with increasing UHF channel !

I did mention at the time about doing the same but with just the filter in circuit. Could you do that and post the figures please.
Depending on results, that will hopefully give me a clue about the next possible check.

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