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52.355,-2.078 or 52°21'18"N 2°4'40"W

B61 9JD

4G at 800MHz (at800) Freeview reception issues

Tests now show that SOME households that use masthead amplifiers (and some communal aerial systems) AND are in poor signal areas AND that are very close to a 4G phone mast MAY have their Freeview service disturbed: C23: D3+4, C30: BBCB
See Expecting 4G interference? Tests now show that you have a one in 300 chance.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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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.

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Which Freeview channels does the Bromsgrove 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	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical max	C26 (514.0MHz)	200m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	400W
	1 BBC One West Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 BBC Red Button 1, plus 12 others
PSB2 D3+4	vertical max	C23 (490.0MHz)	200m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	400W
	3 ITV (Central (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 Midlands ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Central west),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C30- (545.8MHz)	200m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	400W
	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, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others 232 The Space,
COM4 SDN	vertical max	C41+ (634.2MHz)	195m	64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	400W
	10 ITV 3, 20 G.O.L.D. (not free), 25 Dave ja vu, 26 Home (not free), 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5, 31 5USA, 34 ESPN UK (not free*), 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 21 others
COM5 ArqA	vertical max	C44 (658.0MHz)	198m	64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	400W
	11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, 302 BBC Red Button 2, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	vertical max	C47 (682.0MHz)	198m	64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	400W
	15 Film 4, 18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 21 VIVA, 24 ITV 4, 41 Sky Sports 1 (not free), 42 Sky Sports 2 (not free), 47 4seven, 83 Al Jazeera English, 85 RT English , plus 22 others

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Bromsgrove transmitter?

BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 18km northeast
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.

ITV Central News 2.6m homes 9.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 18km northeast
to ITV Central (West) region - 46 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group	A K	A K	A K	K	K	K
	C21	C4	C4	C4
	C23			-B	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
	C24	ITV	ITV	ITV
	C26			-C	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C27	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2
	C29			-2			local
	C30			-D	-BBCB	-BBCB	-BBCB
600	C31	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1
	C33			-A
	C34			+1
	C41				+SDN	+SDN	+SDN
	C44				ArqA	ArqA	ArqA
	C47				ArqB	ArqB	ArqB

orange background for multiplexes names more

green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more

Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 6th April and 20th April 2011.

Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Bromsgrove could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Bromsgrove transmitter using C29

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	2.8kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-8.5dB) 400W
Mux 1, Mux D	(-17.5dB) 50W
Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B, Mux C	(-20.5dB) 25W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bromsgrove 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. Bromsgrove 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.

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Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:02PM

BROMSGROVE transmitter - Freeview - No reported problems -. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:58PM

BROMSGROVE transmitter - Freeview No problems on any service. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:59PM

BROMSGROVE transmitter - Freeview No problems on any service. [BBC]

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Walter Ego
Friday 8 March 2013 9:37AM

I live in Droitwich and for the last few days my YouView box has been unable to receive the Freeview HD channels from the Bromsgrove transmitter. Does anybody know what might be causing this? I have already tested this on a completely separate aerial and just get a patchy occasional signal using that. It seems as if the transmitter is running on reduced power.

Any help/sugeestions greatly appreciated. Tnx

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jb38
Friday 8 March 2013 4:54PM

Walter Ego: With regards to the problem you are referring to, no TX faults have been reported on the BBC's R/T investigation site nor according to DUK are there any planned engineering works taking place anywhere in the Central region, and so unless some fault has developed that has not as yet been reported (which I doubt if it has) I am inclined to feel that your problem is possibly caused by your receiver operating with a level of signal that's not really high enough above the cut off threshold for the equipment being used, the reason for no reception being that the signal (although still there) has now dipped under the level necessary to resolve a picture but though that the temporary aerial that you tested the box on is slightly better positioned than the one normally used, as the threshold levels referred to are quite tight between resolving a picture and not doing.

If your "You View" box has a manual tune facility then you should enter Bromsgrove's HD service on Ch30 but do NOT press search or scan, because most equipment will indicate the level that the signal is being received at as soon as the mux channel number has been entered, make a note of whatever it is then change the channel number to BBC Ch26 likewise noting its level, then using the same procedure again enter Ch23 (ITV) then compare its level with the other two as that will give an idea of what's causing your difficulty, because if the signals are generally all received on the low side then a booster would help the situation provided that the drop out is not being caused by the quality diving, as virtually nothing helps in that type of situation except by experimenting with alternative aerial positions starting a few feet to the left or right of its present position.

By the way I noticed that Sutton Coldfield as well as Ridge Hill are both indicating as being capable of proving a better signal than that from the Bromsgrove transmitter, have you previously tested out reception from either station? as the signal from Bromsgrove appears to suffer from a blockage in its path at about 1 mile or so from the Droitwich Post office I used as a test code by being unaware of your own.

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jb38
Friday 8 March 2013 5:08PM

Walter Ego: By the way please ignore the latter paragraph in my reply as I have now obtained the correct post code, this indicating a clearer path for the signal from Bromsgrove free of the obstruction referred to, at least anyway as far as anything of a hill nature is concerned as these terrain indicators do not take account of trees nor any man made objects no matter how large they may be.

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Walter Ego
Friday 8 March 2013 5:56PM

jb38 many, many thanks for your very detailed reply which is greatly appreciated.

My HD reception seems to have returned to normal now so I'll keep your advice on file for future reference.

I noticed that my YouView box was running quite hot last night so it may be an intermittent fault developing with that. The HD channel signal readings yesterday were c. 48% for strength and c. 54% for quality but now, although the strength is still only about 50% the quality reading has reverted to 100% which is fine enough for my gear to work properly!

My normal aerial is located in the loft with an 8 way powered booster distributing signals to various rooms. This arrangement was often a bit "iffy" before switchover but I've had no signal problems at all since then (until this week). My reserve aerial (without booster) is on the chimney and is aligned to the Sutton signal.

Cheers for now,

Wal

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jb38
Friday 8 March 2013 9:33PM

Walter Ego: Thanks for the update / explanation regarding your aerial arrangements which by the way I found rather interesting, insomuch that I noticed the signal from Sutton.C @ 27mls / 30 degrees is nearly in the same line as Bromsgrove @ 7.5mls / 27 degrees, and although you have mentioned that the quality had increased in level and which is now resulting in satisfactory reception, however I don't really feel that the signal strength reported is really running with a sufficiently high enough level of safety margin above that of the cut off threshold previously referred to, and so this should be kept in mind should any problems arise.

That said, I do accept that this is possibly because that the "You View" box you are using is fitted with a slightly insensitive tuner, older BT vision boxes suffering from this problem.

However, should the HD signal from Bromsgrove take another dive at some point in time (as I suspect that it will) then as well as immediately carrying out a signal test on Bromsgrove's HD channel, as the signal level should still be indicated even although no picture is seen, I would also be interested to know the result if you carried out the "manual" tune test procedure that I previously described (without pressing scan) but on Suttons HD Ch40 "without changing aerials", albeit of course that the polarity of the aerial used for Bromsgrove is incorrect for Sutton.C, the latter radiating on horizontal polarity.

As far as your "You View" box is concerned, if at all possible without causing chaos to your set up I would like to know the model number of box that you are referring to, this being for purposes of checking the technical manual for same to see if any defects have been notified as yet, my curiosity being triggered by what you have mentioned about it being inclined to run on the hot side, something not particularly conducive to the life of electrolytic capacitors, the info requested being basically for my notebook and not for any other purpose.

Anyway you could maybe keep that said in mind for the future.

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Walter Ego
Monday 11 March 2013 12:56PM

jb38 thanks.

My YouView box continues to work fine on all channels so I think it was just a blip.

The model is a Huawei/TalkTalk unit with hardware version DN370T.02.03.P

I only caried out a full rescan on the Bromsgrove arial but to no effect.

Cheers,

Wal

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