Freeview Signal - Sutton Coldfield

nintenjo · 19 May 2011 at 20:50

Hi All,

I am based on the edge of solihull and my roof aerial points towards the sutton-coldfield transmitter afaik.. But recently i have been getting the worst signal ever..

Just to give a brief description of what has happened..

About 5 weeks ago i lost ITV and similar channels.. (plus some other rubbish ones)
2 weeks later i lost all BBC channels (as well as some other i never watched)
last week BBC has come back but the reception is appauling and there is a large amount of digital signal breakup..

So i am now left with Dave, Dave-Ja-Vu and PickTV as my only watchable channels..

Now ive looked online and it states there is on-going maintenance at the transmitter but only affects analogue TV not digital. And afaik the switch over in Sept should make it a lot better not worse.. So WTF is going on? :confused:

Anyone else having issues and/ or know where i can find out whats happening.

Ste · 20 May 2011 at 23:40

They are shifting things around in prep for the switch off, a retune fixed this for me

Pho · 21 May 2011 at 01:01

We're on Sutton Coldfield and the signal has been terrible on Mux 2 (ITV, Channel 4, Five etc) for a few weeks now, the BBC channels etc have been perfect though.

http://www.ukfree.tv/txdetail.php?a=SK113003 shows it's at low power, no wonder!

nintenjo · 21 May 2011 at 18:30

Shh that's makes more sense now then..
Hopefully they will up the output power again soon as its terrible at the moment.

According yo that site film4 is in freeview.. I don't have it.
Any ideas WhY?

Pho · 21 May 2011 at 21:13

Film4's been on Freeview for years. I can get it on mine so presumably you should get it too, might have to rescan when it's transmitting (e.g. now).

nintenjo · 22 May 2011 at 11:18

I've never managed to get Film4 no matter how many times i rescan.. WTF is up with that? Do you know what channel should it be on?

Pho · 22 May 2011 at 13:28

If you get a really bad signal then that could be why: whenever the trees are leafy

o) we would regularly lose channels.

It's on channel 15 and according to my PVR Frequency 746000 SID 27136.

davieg · 22 May 2011 at 14:16

nintenjo said:
I've never managed to get Film4 no matter how many times i rescan.. WTF is up with that? Do you know what channel should it be on?

Film 4 might not be carried by your transmitter, you can rescan all you want but if its not carried you wont get it.

http://www.digitaluk.co.uk fill in your details, tick your in the installation trade and check which Mux's your transmitter carries.

As an example I only get Mux 1 and 2 thus wont get film 4 and were fully switched over on our transmitter.

http://www.freeview.co.uk/Library/Side-content/Pannels/Generic/Generic-old-promos/Coverage-checker

Or above link will break it down to which channels you should be receiving.

PS, you might not be on the transmitter you think is most likely, you could be running off a relay and you will find they carry less channels than main transmitters a great deal of the time.