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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Sunday, 17 July 2011
matt: Your signal may be too strong. If you have a booster or amplifier, remove it from your system. If you don't, you may have to fit an attenuator.
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John Taylor: Very hard to say without a postcode, but see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Sunday, 7 August 2011
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M Wainwright9:45 AM
Worcester
Hi all, Postcode WR5 1QU, communal ariel facing malvern, built in freeview in samsung tv, all channels being recieved BUT having checked signal strength via the tv channels broadcast from transmitter I.D. 3064 are all fine running at 92% BUT channels with I.D. 3084 are only running at 21% so are breaking up. the ariel is set at vertical and at 249 degrees west. can anyone help please?
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M's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
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Aaron1:50 AM
Worcester
previous post explains why my freeview has cut out then, luckily freesat built into tv so not so bad
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Aaron's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 15 August 2011
M Wainwright: You should probably just hang on until 7th/14th September 2011 when switchover on the Malvern transmitter is complete: All six multiplexes will operate at 400W and in the same mode (well, except the HD one) and should provide the same signal quality to you for all services.
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Sunday, 21 August 2011
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m Wainwright10:38 AM
Briantist. Many thanks for your comments, after the community housing ariel engineer tried just about everything possiblle, he arrived at the same conclusion as you did, however there may be more problems after the signal is boosted to full power, mainly caused by a signal being picked up through the back of the ariel from the more powerful sutton transmitter. But it seems to be a case of wait and see. Thanks again.
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Thursday, 25 August 2011
m Wainwright: Thanks. Can you please let me know how you get on next month?
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Mike Dimmick2:20 PM
m Wainwright: If you have two different transmitter IDs showing up, it's likely that you have a case of Digital Region Overlap. A couple of threads on avforums.com suggest that transmitter ID 3064 is Sutton Coldfield while 3084 is The Wrekin, though the 'name' is set to West Midlands for both. Malvern might be using the same multiplex data as Sutton Coldfield, though.
In the screen that's showing the transmitter IDs, can you check that the UHF channels/frequencies it's tuned into match those that Malvern transmits on? To calculate the frequency for a channel number, subtract 21 from the channel number, multiply by 8000 kHz, and add 474000 kHz. If there is a + after the channel number, add 167 kHz and if a -, subtract 167 kHz.
If the frequencies indicate that other transmitters are being used, try clearing all channels and doing a manual retune on the frequencies used by Malvern. If that produces worse results than what you have now, or it won't tune in at all, the communal system engineer will need to figure out why.
If this is a channelized system - where each channel desired is filtered and amplified separately, all undesired channels being unamplified or even dropped - it will need to be retuned at switchover. Make sure that the engineer is using the *current* list of channel numbers (middle row above) rather than the after DSO list (bottom row): unusually, Malvern will use *none* of the current channels, either analogue or digital, after DSO. (The local service on C51 won't start until at least 2013.).
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Monday, 29 August 2011
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luke horwat8:49 PM
hi my 85 year old mother living in penhill swindon had a very unusual incident; she had a phonecall from someone who asked her what make of tv she had. she put the phone down as she thought it was a salesman. then the tv lost all its reception. what is going on!!! are these two incidents related? is it to do with the chabgeover? we thought the tv had been sorted for the changeover. any answers please.
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Monday, 5 September 2011
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Matt5:19 PM
Godalming
M.Wainwright: If it really is a problem, a stacked pair could be fitted. What type/brand aerial is it?
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Matt's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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