Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter which serves 280,000 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, 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 The Wrekin 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, 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 The Wrekin transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local |
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSaturday, 19 May 2012
leslierainer
9:51 AM
Skegness
9:51 AM
Skegness
Dave: it dont always work properly but u can keep trying
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leslierainer's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 25 May 2012
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nicholas greenwood3:24 PM
i live in oswestry shropshire and i can only
get 31 freeview channals way is that
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nicholas greenwood3:26 PM
i live in oswestry shropshire but i am only
getting 31 freeview channels way is that
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Mark Fletcher5:53 PM
Halifax
Nicholas Greenwood.Unless you leave a full postcode or a nearby location as such,we cannot be of valuable assistance to you !
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Stephen P6:01 PM
ng - no idea unless you give your postcode and say what aerial you are using and if it worked ok previously.
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nicholas greenwood: Which channels are you missing and which can you get?
See under the heading "After switchover configuration" on this page (you may have to press F5 to refresh to see the graphic):
Freeview multiplexes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Which groups are you missing? Has it been like this since switchover last April?
Is is the three Commercial ones which are SDN, ArqA and ArqB?
Roughly how old is your aerial?
Did you get any channels before switchover, and if so, which ones (refer to "Before switchover configuration" and identify which rows you didn't get and which you did)?
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Saturday, 16 June 2012
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Paul11:34 AM
Anyone else having problems with the Wrekin transmitter yesterday & today?
Yesterday evening (15/6/12 20.30) recording only found 6 mins of a 90 min program.
Checking today, no signal on HD channels. Did a rescan and no HD channels found. SD channels all fine, so looks like single frequency interference.
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Monday, 18 June 2012
Gil
12:40 AM
Worcester
12:40 AM
Worcester
Paul,
Ironically, I've had issues with HD channels for about 3 months now - absolutely no signal at all. However, just looked at them tonight out of interest, and they are all absolutely fine now!
Not sure what is going on :)
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Gil's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Gil: You should confirm that you are tuned to The Wrekin for HD channels. There appear a number of possibilities at your location and even though your aerial doesn't point their way, and in some cases is the opposite polarisation, you could be picking them up.
Click the Tradeview link next to your posting and view the channel numbers used by each transmitter for BBCB. Then check what you're receiving by looking at the signal strength screen whilst tuned to one of the HD services.
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Friday, 22 June 2012
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Paul12:29 PM
The response from BBC still maintained that there are no issues with transmissions from the Wrekin transmitter.
Re-tuned again today (for about the 5 time this week) and the HD channels are back, but the signal strength seems low and there was some break-up in the few minutes I watched. It's showing as 60% when I'm 6 miles from the transmitter with direct line-of-sight to it.
So I still think something isn't right. Will have to check out the cables & connections in the loft when I get time.
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