Full Freeview on the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 58,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) mast?
MALVERN transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Nov 11:06 until 12 Nov 15:01. . 
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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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern 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 Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km northeast (36°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km northeast (35°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
| C53tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C57tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C68 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 200W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Friday, 11 November 2011
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G J Anstey2:42 PM
Worcester
WR2 4PB, looking at Malvern Tx.
Hi
Ref. your reply of 4th Nov suggesting that rain was getting into the aerial downlead.
Surely rain getting into an arial cable would affect all PSBs signals the same? But in this case ONLY the HD PSB went down, the other SD PSBs were working fine?
And why would the HD PSB signal return 10mins after the rain stopped - wouldn't the cable be shorted until it dried out (ie a long time interval)?
Hope you can explain further.
Regards
Glenn
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G's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
G J Anstey: The high data rate of the HD multiplex means that at the same "ERP" power level the service will stop working first if the overall signal level is effected by a cable short.
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Wednesday, 30 November 2011
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David A7:49 PM
Malvern
Getting very poor, intermittent reception suddenly on Wed 30 Nov 2011, 19:45 - is this related to the engineering works at the Sutton Coldfield mast?
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 8 December 2011
David A: As there is no engineering works, no. Please see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Friday, 26 October 2012
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Jon11:50 PM
I can't see Dave ja vu anywhere in the list above, I believe it should be on C59
I did expand the list of freeview channels available on each multiplex by clicking 'plus n others', then searched for dave
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Saturday, 22 December 2012
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David warren4:42 AM
Worcester
Had BT engineer out. WR5 1SP to set up. All ok except NO signal for free view so unable to sort TV says aerial fault. It is on roof. Tried good portable one to TV in bedroom - says no signal. What could be wrong. BT just said it is the aerial but why with portable one in bedroom in attic space still no signal?
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb388:22 AM
David warren: The aerial installations seen along the Newtown Road indicate that Freeview reception in your area is from the Malvern transmitter, but though judging by the fact that many of them are on extended poles suggest that the area is not one that is particularly good for reception and that could well be your problem.
As far as trying to obtain a signal on a portable aerial in the attic space is concerned I very much doubt if you would achieve any level of success, because if residing in a newer build property its possible that the building has been constructed using insulation containing a metallic element and that has a serious blocking effect on RF signals, especially low powered ones.
If the BT engineer has suggested that your roof aerial is the problem then this could well be the case, but though there is a test that you could try yourself on both the roof aerial and also your portable one, this being to try a manual tune test on the BBC and also ITV, "if" that is your TV allows manual tuning as some unfortunately don't.
What to do is press menu / installation / tuning / and see if manual is an option, if it is then enter Ch53 but do NOT press scan or search, because on most equipment as soon as a channel number is entered the signal strength of that channel will be indicated, make a note of what's seen then press scan or search.
The reason why I mentioned not to press scan is because as soon as you do that the signal threshold system comes into play whereby if the signal is under a certain level it will simply be by-passed and not stored, but whatever the result of the above test change the channel number to 57 (ITV1) and do the test again, giving an update on results.
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Monday, 8 April 2013
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G J ANSTEY2:50 PM
Worcester
Brian
From your sites articles, Im aware that as I live in Worcester (@ WR2 4PB) and receive signals from the Malvern TX, that Im likely to suffer 4G interference in the future. (6 masts within 1km.)
If I lose one or more MUX due to this problem will the free filter, once fitted, enable all MUX channels to be received?
Also, will the insertion loss of these filters be negligible or will they reduce the already weak signal strength.
Thanks for any info.
Regards
Glenn
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G's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
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Andy8:41 AM
No signal since around 11pm last night - is this due to the fog up there in the hills? We have two separate ariels so I know it's not a wiring problem
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