Full Freeview on the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmitter which serves 45,000 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 Storeton (Wirral, 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)
The Storeton (Wirral, 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 Storeton 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)
The Storeton (Wirral, 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 Storeton transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 51km east-northeast (74°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 51km east-northeast (74°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
| A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | W T | A K T | |||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C23 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
| C26 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C29 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | |||||
| C30 | LL | LL | |||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C53tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
| C57tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | --BBCB | --BBCB |
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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 2.8kW | |
| PSB1 wa≡, PSB2 wa≡, PSB3 wa≡ | (-1.5dB) 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 560W | |
| LL | (-16.7dB) 60W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 56W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Tuesday, 9 April 2013
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Dave H9:08 PM
Liverpool
I'm finding HD Freeview channels from Storeton are nearly always unavailable. Standard definition signal is perfect. Got a new booster two days ago and all was perfect. HD was 5x5 and standard def was 100% strength and 78% quality. Then half way through the Kings Speech started getting HD breakup and the following day none of the HD channels are even detectable and standard def quality has dropped to 61%. I really don't like Freeview.
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jb389:33 PM
Dave H: Purely for a test try removing the booster again, because if the booster is causing the signal to be too strong this will always affect HD before SD as well as causing the TV / boxes tuner to give false signal level indications.
Only mentioned as HD has been suffering from a weak signal recently, and if the power has been restored the booster (dependant on gain) could now be taking the signal level over the top thereby overloading the tuner.
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Michael9:34 PM
Dave H: Why do you need a booster when you're 4 miles from the transmitter? What happens if you bypass it?
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013
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Dave H9:28 PM
Liverpool
Hi
Thanks both for replying so soon.
I live in a conservation area and the town house rebuild I live in had the antenna put in the loft. Never had particularly reliable signal, especially in poor weather. My SD Humax is showing 61% strength and 100% quality. If I leave the booster out both drop below 20%-40%. My HD tuner in the TV itself just shrugs its shoulders. Not a sausage. But the other night it was all spot on and I changed nothing in the meantime. I can only assume we coincidentally had really excellent atmospheric conditions the evening I fitted the new booster. Hmm?
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Dave H10:36 PM
Liverpool
What a nightmare evening with this again. Just about managed to get SD BBC1 back but now there is no COM4 C23. Done several retunes and factory resets. Whatever they've been doing they messed something up.
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Sunday, 28 July 2013
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Corin3:01 AM
"Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Storeton transmitter?"
Should there not also be a photograph for BBC Wales Today, ITV News Wales, and BBC Cymru Newyddion? ;+)
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jb387:32 AM
Corin: Purely on the issue of the news services provided, it depends on your location with respect to that of the station, as the lower powered (560w) vertical transmissions offer BBC North West on Ch28 and ITV1 Granada on Ch25, whereas the higher powered (2KW) horizontally polarised signal has BBC1 Wales on Ch57 and ITV1 Wales on Ch53.
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Monday, 16 September 2013
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Maggie3:13 PM
Wallasey
Good afternoon, I wonder if you can help me. I live in the CH45 area (Liscard) and am struggling to set up my TV. I am using a Logik 19DVDB20. A OneForAll SV9143 indoor digital aerial and have been advised that Storeton is my best transmitter although the Freeview agent told me to use Winter Hill. I am picking up BBC, ITV and Channel 4 wales instead of Granada. I am trying to manually tune and really struggling. Please can anyone help? Thanking you in anticipation.
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jb388:31 PM
Maggie: With regards to the Freeview agent's advice, was he / she aware that your were using an indoor "same room" aerial? because with Winter Hill being located at 26 miles away its a bit of a tall order to expect satisfactory (or any) reception using an aerial located in the same room as the TV.
The Welsh programmes referred to are being received from the Moel-Y-Parc transmitter, but to test whether or not anything is being received from Winter Hill try the manual tune signal test procedure as follows.
Remove the aerial and then carry out a normal auto-tune as this will blank out the tuners memory, once completed reconnect the aerial then in the set up menu select "manual tune" and enter Winter Hills BBC mux on Ch50 but do NOT press search or scan, as on most equipment if anything is being received its signal strength and quality will be indicated on the bar, if though you see indications of around 50% or so for both strength and quality then press search or scan and storing the results.
Should that be a success then the next mux channel to enter is the ITV1 on Ch59, likewise storing the results and giving an update on same, as further advice is dependant on feedback received.
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Thursday, 19 September 2013
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Maggie6:46 PM
Wallasey
Maggie: Hi jb38. Thanks for your speedy response. I carried out the above and the signal quality is 30% and the signal strength 88%. What would you advise? Thanks again
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