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The symbol shows the location of the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter which serves 710,000 homes.
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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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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 | horizontal -1.2dB | C22 (482.0MHz) | 463m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 150,000W |
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1 BBC One East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 12 others 200 BBC Red Button, 700 BBC Radio 1, 701 BBC 1Xtra, 702 BBC Radio 2, 703 BBC Radio 3, 704 BBC Radio 4, 705 BBC Radio 5 Live, 706 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, 707 BBC 6 Music, 708 BBC Radio 4 Extra, 709 BBC Asian Network, 710 BBC World Service,
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PSB2
D3+4 | horizontal -1.2dB | C25 (506.0MHz) | 463m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 150,000W |
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3 ITV (Yorkshire (Belmont micro region)), 4 Channel 4 North ads, 5 Channel 5 The North ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 North ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor),
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PSB3
BBCB | horizontal -1.2dB | C28 (530.0MHz) | 463m | 256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4 | 150,000W |
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101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, plus 1 others 232 The Space,
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COM4
SDN | horizontal -6dB | C30- (545.8MHz) | 463m | 64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 50,000W |
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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 22 others Mail Travel TV, Bluebird 1, ADULT Playboy, 16 QVC, 23 Bid TV, 49 The Jewellery Channel, 170 ADULT Section, 171 Television X, 180 XxXpanded TV, 201 Teletext Hols, 202 Rabbit, 203 Gay Rabbit, 204 1-2-1 Dating, 228 Christian, 229 CONNECT 2, 230 VISION2, 234 CONNECT 4, 235 God TV, 236 Sony SAB TV Asia, 724 Capital FM, 727 Absolute Radio, 728 Heart,
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COM5
ArqA | horizontal -3dB | C53 (730.0MHz) | 492m | 64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 100,000W |
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11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, plus 9 others 36 Create and Craft, 37 Price Drop TV, 43 Gems TV 1, 173 ADULT smileTV3, 175 ADULT PARTY, 176 ADULT Blue, 177 Babestation Xtra, 206 SkyText, 723 talkSPORT,
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COM6
ArqB | horizontal -3dB | C60 (786.0MHz) | 492m | 64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 100,000W |
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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 21 others Kerrang!, 22 Ideal World, 35 QVC Beauty, 40 Rocks and Co 1, 55 Argos TV, 172 ADULT smileTV2, 174 Babestation, 199 ADULT Section, 225 VISION, 226 CCTV, 227 Sports, 231 Racing TV , 306 Channel Zero, 711 The Hits radio, 712 Smash Hits!, 713 Kiss, 714 heat, 715 Magic, 716 Q, 718 Smooth radio, 725 Premier Radio,
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Regional news from the Belmont transmitter
How the transmission frequencies change over time
| years | 1965~85 | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-18 | |
| aerial group | VHF | A K | W | W | W | W | W | |
| C7 | ITV | | | | | | | |
| C13 | BBCtv | | | | | | | |
| C21 | | | | | | | local | |
| C22 | | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |
| C25 | | ITV | ITV | ITV | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |
| C28 | | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |
| C30 | | | | 1 | -SDN | -SDN | -SDN | |
| 600 | C32 | | C4 | C4 | C4 | | | | |
| C33 | | | | | | | com7 | |
| C35 | | | | | | | com8 | |
| C48 | | | | 2 | | | | |
| 700 | C53 | | | | | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |
| C56 | | | C5 | C5 | | | | |
| C57 | | | | +D | | | | |
| C60 | | | | C | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | |
| 800 | C66 | | | | B | | | | |
| C68 | | | | A | | | | |
| 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 WItalics for
analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 3rd August and 17th August 2011.
- Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Grimsby including Parts of Kingston upon Hull could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Belmont transmitter using C21
- COM7, COM8 projected for 2013-16.
Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| com7, com8 | (-4dB) 200kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-5.2dB) 150kW | |
| ARQA, ARQB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| Analogue 5, SDN | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| Mux 2* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 4kW | |
History of Channel 3 in the Belmont transmitter area
| Oct 1959-Jul 1974 | Anglia Television |
| Jul 1974-Feb 2004 | Yorkshire Television |
| Feb 2004-Dec 2014 | ITV plc |
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DaveTuesday 22 January 2013 7:53PM
Spalding Just manually tuned a new Humax HDR-FOX T2 after several recordings failed when auto tuned. Now unable to get HD channels (Belmont 28 / Waltham 58). What have I done wrong?!sue veillette Friday 15 February 2013 2:23PM
Bridlington we keep losing all our tv channels for many days at a time and all our tv says is no signal our aerial is on the roof outside is there a problem in the yo15 3nx area jb38Friday 15 February 2013 8:39PM
sue veillette: Your best policy would be to make a few enquiries with your neighbours to find out if they are also experiencing the same problems as yourself, because reception in the Bridlington area which comes from the Belmont transmitter (@ 51 miles) can be erratic at certain times in the year and so you have to determine whether or not your problem is confined to your installation or not, because if it is then your signal level is running at too low a level, however if the problem is also being experienced by others then unfortunately there isn't really that much that can be done.
Further advice dependant on outcome of enquiries made. jb38Friday 15 February 2013 9:33PM
sue veillette : Also meant to add, that if your aerial is facing diagonally towards the trees on the Southside of Kingsgate then that will certainly not help matters, as trees (even in winter months) can partially block reception.
Do you use a booster?GrahamMonday 18 February 2013 4:42PM
Sheringham We have 'light freeview' from the West Runton transmitter, which is good for local news etc. But we lose loads of channels like film 4, Dave and others. Our ariel faces West Runton. Is there any way I can have another ariel facing Belmont to pick up all the channels?Graham: If you can receive from Belmont, then you may have a separate aerial fed into a separate tuner. I assume here that you wish to still be able to watch BBC East/ITV Anglia when there are regional differences.
Combining the two feeds will be more tricky as one of Belmont's COMs (those that don't broadcast from West Runton) is on C30 and West Runton uses 23, 26 and 29. The other two Belmont COMs are 53 and 60, so you could combine using a proper (filtered) diplexer, or you could take your chance with a non-filtered diplexer in an effort to be able to watch C30 (COM4 - ITV3 etc).
If you have a separate Belmont aerial installed then you could have a separate downlead to your lounge and then combine it there. That way you can change it easily if it doesn't work (rather than having to climb on the roof). Graham: See:
Online TV Splitters, Amps & Diplexers sales
A warning about the diplexer route: Belmont could in the future broadcast in the 31 to 37 range (but not West Runton) and this might be HD services.
Some on here have suggested that the COMs may, in the perhaps distant future, move to the 20s.
Again, separate feeds to your lounge might allow you to change it if needs be (or at least have them in an accessible location). Graham: Another possibility, which I touched upon, is to use Belmont as your main transmitter and have a separate set-top box purely for when you want to watch WestRunton for regional programming. jb38Monday 18 February 2013 6:48PM
Graham: Should you be seriously considering carrying out the alterations to your aerial system as was suggested by Dave Lindsay I would just like to add a note of caution though "before" you make any purchases, insomuch that it would be prudent to first of all carry out a reception test from Belmont by swinging your present aerial around 180 degrees and turning it so that its mounted horizontally, because apart from Belmont's two commercial muxes ArqA (Pick TV) & ArqB (Film 4) your present aerial is perfectly OK for all other channels once realigned.
My reason for advising that you carry out this test being, that digital TV signals are much more prone to suffer from any slight changes in atmospheric conditions that may occur including the classic "day and night" variations when received over long distances, and Belmont at 63 miles away certainly comes into this category, and so if you realigned your present aerial and this resulted in you receiving a reasonably glitch free signal from Belmont then I would strongly advise that you use it like that for about a week or so to enable a proper assessment to be made as far as the continued reliability of the signal is concerned before making any alterations.
Although that said obviously excludes seasonal changes which can also affect reception.
SteveSaturday 2 March 2013 1:45PM
Horncastle We get our Freeview from Belmont and have actual line of sight to the transmitter (it's only about 10 miles away as the crow flies)and we have recently started getting drop outs on some TV channels. Further investigation shows that this is only occurring on channels from the COM6 (ArqB) Mux on channel 60 all he others are fine. Whilst I understand that there are projected issues with 4G mobile signals and TV signals from about C50 and above I can find no mention of anyone working on 4G in this area (in fact it's hard enough to even get a 3G signal round here). Channels on COM5 (C53, nearest frequency wise) and COM4 (lowest power 50KW as opposed to 100KW) are all fine as are the high powered MUXs which also rules out signal overload). Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?jb38Saturday 2 March 2013 4:11PM
Steve: Although its always best in situations like this to make an enquiry with a neighbour that you might be on good terms with for purposes of verifying if others are also being affected, because if they report similar to yourself then the problem is up to a point outwith your control and this saves you making pointless checks, but purely from the aspect of curiosity I would be interested to know the result if you went into the tuning menu / manual tune and entering mux Ch60 into the box but NOT followed by pressing search or scan, as by not doing that your TV or boxes tuner then acts like a form of signal meter devoid of threshold level restrictions.
Once done and the levels appear you should observe the "quality" over a minute or so for the purpose of noting if fluctuations of any great magnitude are seen to occur, if they do, leave that screen running but remove the aerial plug and replace it with a short piece of wire (about 5 feet or so) pushed into the middle cup of the aerial socket, or if you have a set top aerial kicking around just try using that, if you get a reasonable level of signal by using either note if this fluctuates in the same way as when using the proper aerial, giving an update on results.
Another other point being, that its difficult to obtain fault information where commercial channels are involved, because by them not being part of the TV licence there isn't the same obligation for them to be reported in the same way as are any problems that may have developed with the PSB channels. skeggyhornetWednesday 20 March 2013 6:13PM
6pm everynight three muxs suffer from TVI
i have a customer who has two tvs in there house and everynight at 6pm all the channels on muxs 22 25 28 and 30 break up for about 25 mins any channels on mux 53 and 60 play fine. this is happening in skegness lincolnshire and we are tuned to belmont.
what i have allready done i have moved the aerial to outside and i am using a log pierodic double screened cable and a tetra filter i have also run cable direct from the aerial straight to both sets and still no change.
this has been happening now for at least 4 months the property is a detatched bungalow with no other property near by, there is no mobile phone masts or radio ham operators near by 2 of the nearest houses are not suffering any freeview problems,
they do have central heating in the property that switchs on at 5pm everyday no work has been done on this system or the water.
if anyone could suggest any thing i would appreciate it jb38Thursday 21 March 2013 12:07AM
skeggyhornet: If a time factor of an exact nature is genuinely involved with this problem and its not just the case that the timing of the interference is purely coincidental, then as its already been verified that the problem seems to be confined to the property itself by the fact of the neighbours have not reported anything amiss, then one of the simplest tests for detecting interference from within a property in cases where something associated with the mains supply is suspected as being the cause is by using a small portable radio of the type that is capable of LW reception.
You simply tune the radio to anywhere close to BBC radio 4 LW (but not actually on it) then turn up the volume control until background noise is heard, you then place the radio in a position close to the electrical wiring used by central heating system, because if the source of the interference is associated with anything connected with the central heating system then the interference will be revealed by loud bursts of audio on the radio, the exact problem area being found by manually moving the radio around near to the boiler or electric water valves associated with, such as externally positioned diverter valves etc.
An FM radio tuned so as NOT to be on a station can also be used for this test, any interference showing up as intermittent bursts of noise over the normal background hiss of the radio, provided that its not the type with an auto-mute.
By the way, if nothing is detected then try placing the radio somewhere thats close to mains input supply to the property, because should there be any interference on the incoming power supply then it will show up on the radio. BELMONT transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:19 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 today, Radio 4 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 today. [BBC] BELMONT transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:19 today to 12:23 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 today to 12:21 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 today to 12:21 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 today to 12:21 today, Radio 4 FM [BBC] BELMONT transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:19 yesterday to 12:23 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 yesterday to 12:21 yesterday, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 yesterday to 12:21 yesterday, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 yesterda [BBC] BELMONT transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:19 on 03 Apr to 12:23 on 03 Apr. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 on 03 Apr to 12:21 on 03 Apr, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 on 03 Apr to 12:21 on 03 Apr, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 11:19 on 03 Ap [BBC] updates
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