Full Freeview on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) transmitter
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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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) mast?
BELMONT transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 22 Nov 13:11 until 22 Nov 13:29. . 
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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
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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Friday, 5 August 2011
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jb384:16 PM
Andy: Most likely not! as the masthead amplifier being unpowered will likely drag the signal right down to under the reception threshold of your receiving equipment.
Doing the type of thing you suggested sometimes can work if a person is within a few miles of a high powered transmitter such as Belmont, but Belmont is 57 miles away and as such can be discounted as far as the type of problem you are thinking about is concerned.
The trade predictor indicates you as having a number of reception possibilities, Sheffield shows as being promising from the 24th of this month and Chesterfield likewise from the 10th, its a case of what station your aerial is pointing at?
The only thing I will point out is that for the latter two transmitters mentioned your aerial should be vertically polarised, not horizontal, but I would not make any changes as yet with your amplifier, as if you are using any of the local transmitters their power output "might" not be high enough to cause a problem, however should there be any suspicion that it is, then a simple attenuator in line with your equipments aerial socket will cure the problem.
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Andy5:17 PM
Sheffield
Andy: Thanks for the reply jb38.
I am seriously considering swapping over to the Sheffield transmitter, but not until after after 27 September when it starts transmitting ArqB (will this mean a new aerial or just rotating it to vertical?). The reason for changing from Belmont would be to get my more local news, but we've managed without for the last 10 years! :-).
Do you think I will have problems remaining with Belmont after 17 August and beyond (due to the power increase) and ought to source an attenuator just in case? Cheers.
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jb385:47 PM
Andy: As you have indicated that your aerial is wideband then it would just simply be a case of turning it to be vertically polarised, although as you are as only three miles away from the transmitter you would probably find that you could receive it as it is, although technically its not correct!
As far as Belmont is concerned, I very much doubt that anyone would experience signal overloading problems from a transmitter 57 miles away, albeit that I know it does seem to give good signal strength in areas you might not expect it to.
I still don't think you have anything to worry about though!
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jb385:51 PM
Andy: Meant to add, that Belmont is already on high power on its main BBC A Mux on Ch22.
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Andy6:11 PM
Sheffield
Andy: Jb38 that is really helpful and reassuring - thank you for taking the time to help with my queries. (Had no problems with the BBC 1 swap over on 3 August, so that bodes well for the 17 August).
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Saturday, 6 August 2011
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Dean Morris10:25 PM
Hull
After resettig and rescanning my Samsub SDT-7000 Plus freeview settop box I am missing all channels in the BBCA group. All other channels appear to be there. The strange this is that my daughter has recanned her settop box (Goodmans) in her bedroom and she's getting the BBCA group fine. I have tried a manual scan on my SDT7000 on Ch22, setting the TxMode to 2K and 8K and the Guard Interval to 1/32 1/16 1/8 and 1/4, but it still doesn't recognise the group. Do I have to wait until the freeview signal is stronger from Wed 17 Aug? Any ideas? NB. Aerial is on roof attached to chimney.
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Dean Morris10:59 PM
I should add that on Ch22 (482 MHz), Level and Quality are both 0. But how can the Goodmans pick it up ok? I'm baffled. Both boxes are on a booster by the way.
Any help appreciated.
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Sunday, 7 August 2011
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jb388:10 AM
Dean Morris: The point is that although the zero indication on your Samsung's manual scan could be because of it having a problem in responding to Ch22's 8K operating mode, this irrespective of what it might state in the spec, but on the other hand it could also be caused by the signal being too strong for the tuners input, so try it with the booster being by-passed.
Although I will say that at your distance of 31 miles away from the transmitter I would be very surprised if it was an over strong signal, but it depends entirely on the box.
By the way no two devices respond the same, and its not uncommon for one TV/box to work where another wont.
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Dean Morris9:37 AM
jb38: thanks for taking the time to help. i've tried re-scanning with no booster but it now picks up no channels at all. Good idea though. It looks doomed doesn't it? I'd like to save the Samsung if possible. It's a nice piece of kit. Picture quality is great and has got 60Hz input. Any other ideas?
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p batley10:30 AM
Leeds
to solve all your freeview problems go out and bye a FREESAT BOX AND DISH you can get them very cheap from argos or b&q 200 channels easy to install i did you get all freeview channels and more no picture break up etc you can even watch all bbc regional programmes i bought a humax hd box for 90 pound and used my sky dish to me freeview as to many problems
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