Full Freeview on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter which serves 710,000 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 Belmont (Lincolnshire, 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Belmont 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 Belmont transmitter?
BBC Look North (Hull) 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Hull HU1 3RH, 47km north-northwest (346°)
to BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region - 4 masts.
ITV Calendar 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 106km west-northwest (299°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Belmont) region - 4 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Emley Moor region
How will the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | ||||
VHF | A K T | W T | W T | W T | W T | ||||
C7 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C13 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C23 | ArqA | ||||||||
C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C26 | ArqB | ||||||||
C27 | LDN | ||||||||
C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C30 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | _local | |||||
C33 | com7 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | ||||||||
C53tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | COM8tv_off | ||||||
C60tv_off | -ArqB |
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 3 Aug 11 and 17 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-5.2dB) 150kW | |
ARQA, ARQB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
Analogue 5, SDN | (-10dB) 50kW | |
com8 | (-10.9dB) 40.9kW | |
com7 | (-11.3dB) 37.1kW | |
Mux 2* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
LDN | (-20dB) 5kW | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 4kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Belmont transmitter area
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Thursday, 8 October 2020
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Chris.SE5:02 AM
Paul Barker:
Sorry, I had forgotten to mention that if you get your signals from Belmont, it is currently listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible weak signal", not that that would have any effect on reception of Notts TV!
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Saturday, 10 October 2020
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Chris.SE12:37 AM
Paul Barker:
Updated information - The Waltham transmitter has been on Planned Engineering with "Possible weak signal" which would likely affect your reception of the Local multiplex if your aerial is pointing at Waltham (roughly SSW of you).
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Wednesday, 6 January 2021
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mike harvey12:23 PM
We have "no signal" on our tv's since yesterday morning. We have tried clearing the tv's by following your instructions for freeview reset procedure, but it has made no difference. Any advice please.
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Chris.SE2:32 PM
mike harvey:
If you are receiving signals from the Belmont transmitter (I can't be certain as you haven't provided as full postcode), the transmitter is currently listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible weak signal".
If the signal you get isn't that strong, that can appear like No signal. When you retune in such circumstances, generally it just clears all correct tuning. The general advice is NOT to retune when you have no or pixellated signals, you should only do so when prompted by on-screen pop-ups (turn off any automatic retune/updates in your tuning settings - it's usually more trouble than it's worth.)
You will have to repeat retune when the signals are back to normal, you may have to try several times.
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Friday, 8 January 2021
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Glen Wood3:08 PM
Mansfield
Postcode NG20 0NN
We have lost the channels that are on com 7, C55 from the Belmont transmitter and it appears that this has been given over to 5g. Are the channels being reallocated to a different one or have we lost them forever?
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StevensOnln15:41 PM
Glen Wood: COM7 on UHF channel 55 is still broadcasting from Belmont, no closure date has yet been announced and the 700MHz spectrum auction hasn't taken place yet (the auction has already been delayed from last year and may potentially be delayed again due to the current lockdown). Do you get any signal strength and quality readings for C55? The Freeview checker predicts poor reception for COM7 from Belmont at your location, which is showing overlapping coverage from several other transmitters, so reception of COM7 may well be limited by interference at your location.
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Saturday, 9 January 2021
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Chris.SE8:35 AM
Glen Wood:
As per my post immediately before yours (bottom of p81) Belmont has been on Planned Engineering this week, so that may account for your loss of signal. IF you retuned when there was no signal it will most likely have cleared the correct tuning and you'll have to try again when signals are normal BUT also note that there MAY be a brief interval of Tropospheric Ducting which MIGHT produce additional interference to disrupt signals/reception.
If you have not retuned, DON'T. Signals should return to normal in due course.
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Monday, 11 January 2021
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Glen Wood6:00 AM
Thank you for your assistance Chris but I'm now thinking it might be the Philips TV that is having trouble with these channels, I have tried a smaller JVC that receives the channels but will persevere with the Philips. The other half wanted to watch the snooker on ForcesTV which is what highlighted this problem in the first place.
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Glen Wood6:06 AM
Chris, Freesport for the snooker not forces TV, my bad.
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Glen Wood11:33 AM
Hi,
I'm going to leave this for now, after further digging the Philips TV can't register a signal for Ch64 Freesports whereas the JVC can.
Thank you for trying to help.
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