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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) mast?
Sutton Coldfield transmitter - Sutton Coldfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 15/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering 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)
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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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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Chris.SE9:20 PM
Ryan:
John Gaunt:
Neither of you have given a postcode, so I can't be of specific help.
You both may be getting more than one transmitter or too much signal now power has increased.
So first try a full reset/new install with the aerial unplugged to clear all previous settings and channels (the link "Freeview reset procedure" in the yellow box below has some more details), then reconnect the aerial and do a MANUAL install using Sutton Coldfield UHF channels C43,C46,C42,C45,C39 and if you have HD C40.
Then, if you are still suffering picture breakup etc, if you have any booster/amplifiers in circuit, remove them and see if things improve.
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stephen9:41 PM
Walsall
i live in the walsall area,and my tv channels go upto 49 and go straight to 70,i cant get any hd channels at all,im using a samsung fullhd 1080 tv so shouldnt get any problems,but there it is,any suggestions welcome
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stephen's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
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Chris.SE12:37 AM
stephen: hi, are you sure your model has an in built HD tuner? Give us the full model number and we can check.
Did you get the HD channels before DSO?
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ken9:26 AM
Alcester
Any chance of widening the stripes denoting the ariel bands in the channel list above for those of us with poor screens or eyesight. Or putting a little white stripe between the colours so they are separate?
Try looking at it on a notebook screen.
(Good site by the way. lots of useful stuff)
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ken's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jack10:53 AM
I agree with ken
The design of this page is terrible.
Also please put DATES on the engineering info. "Over the next week" could mean anything.
I'm getting a lot of drop outs at the moment and HD is never much good. I dont think the power is at all high enough from sutton even with a 21db amp in my line.
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jack: The engineering information is provided by Digital UK and the BBC, the "over the next week" is their description.
You probably have too much signal, not too little - see Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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ken: You can always use the "Zoom" feature of your web browser, press ctrl and plus.
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Chris.SE: Yes, that's correct, I now run a filer on the Digital UK information to provide that message, rather than the "no problems" status that Digital UK show.
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Billy2:18 PM
No Dutchman, not that, honest, I'm happy with it anyway, reads 100 over 100%, but no playing up.
Rest can be 70% over 100%, even had 95% signal strength today on channel 39.
In trying the radio and then options on five live sport extra text, it crashed the box, think this is the second time this has happened, and had to turn it off.
This is the trouble with today's darn software driven things, compared to years back.
Fine, like computers when it works, bit instance, surely back in the day can not give a valve a virus, lol, or chips itself, but those carrying memory and software can mess up.
This box T215 fro Argos, Top Up TV one, was for sure the last time, auto rerun, because won't let you manual tune, but I did it with aerial connection out.
Once I'd gotten one of the Sutton Coldfield's channel in, I did the retune manually.
All was well for once, but after couple days once again I noticed when box was on, no playing up on BBC or Channel 5 like channels, checking, sure enough, the box had retuned itself some how, on it's own, lol, to Allesley Park, channels 22 and 25, and took out the Sutton Coldfield ones.
Talk about intelligent, lol, but GRRR, did not want that.
Okay, Sutton's would be 95% one minutes, then drop to say 45% signal strength and mess about a bit.
I did also as someone suggested, ran the whole thing automatic, with no aerial connection in, and then did again as above.
This box refuses to do as it was told, and I suspect, this could be what is happening with others, judging by what I have read.
Hence many complaining channels they had put in, next day vanish, or have different channels in to the ones they had.
These boxes should not be doing this, but clearly, cleverly, have minds of their own, and they decide which is the closet and best signal and retune themselves to it, lol, gosh, who needs humans.
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