Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter which serves 770,000 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 Waltham (Leicestershire, England) mast?
Waltham transmitter - Waltham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 Waltham 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 Waltham transmitter?
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 28km northwest (306°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 83km west-southwest (244°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Braunstone | Transposer | 5 km SW Leicester city centre | 170 homes |
How will the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 4 Mar 2020 | |||
| C/D E | E | E | W | W T | W T | W T | |||
| C26 | LNG | LNG | |||||||
| C29 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | BBCB | ||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C41 | _local | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | COM8tv_off | |||||
| C57tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 17 Aug 11 and 31 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 250kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 25kW | |
| com8 | (-12.7dB) 13.4kW | |
| com7 | (-13.9dB) 10.2kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-14dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-14.9dB) 8kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D*, LNG | (-17dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Waltham Freeview Waltham DAB Waltham AM/FM Waltham TV region BBC East Midlands Central (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Waltham transmitter area
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Saturday, 16 April 2011
Jonathan: You should still have them now. As I said try My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and if they still don't work, report it via the BBC tool, BBC - Reception problems - even though it is the 3+4 multiplex.
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Jonathan11:32 AM
Newark
Jonamat: We're also in Farnsfield. Zero signal on C31 from Waltham. Poor signal (no good for viewing purposes) on C48 from Belmont.
Re single frequency interference: We do not have local analogue interference. We presumably do not need a new aerial either, since we can receive the other out of group frequencies (C29, C33, C42, C45, and analogue C35) just fine.
On Freeview reception: C31 signal strength is low, but it's the same as C29 and there's no problem with that. And they're both better than C48 Belmont (which receives some signal, if not a usable one).
So what's going on?
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Steve C2:24 PM
Re My Previous Post above: Friday 15 April 2011 8:02PM
I have found a cure for my problem. I hope this might help others.
My Setup is Wide Band Aerial into a Video/Hard Drive Recorder then out to a distrubution amplifier that feed all the rooms in the house with the aerial signal.
The Video/Hard Drive Recorder has an RF output. I use this machine to record CCTV images and it also allows us to see the cameras on all the TV's in the house.
Now I remember from days gone by that Video Recorders in this area used Channel 31 via the RF lead to the TV to get a clean interferance free picture.
I turned this off and hay presto a retune has found the missing channels. Turn it back on and the TV picture has pixalation problems.
Why it did not effect my Panasonic TV's and it only effected some of my equipment I do not know?
This has cured my problems I have just retuned the modulator of the Video/Hard Drive Recorder to a free analoge channel.
So If your were having problem like me take the aerial coming into the building straight into the TV and try a Retune.
Good Luck
Steve C
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Roland2:27 PM
Kettering
Okay so like others here I lost the main ITV channels during the week. Got the notice to retune as BBC red button had moved. So after midday today retuned (after deleting all channel information etc.). On first retune got a list of 'unknown' channels with no information. On second retune got channesl with information but only main ITV channels were viewable, BBC channels pixellated etc.. Third retune whilst got a whole set of channels in the 80n space. The 801 BBC1 & 802 BBC 2 channels work fine. So it looks as if the current re-jig of channels and power levels is causing problems - as I'm probably picking up some channels from Sandy Heath (I'm within a mile of being equi-distant between the two, but Sandy Heath is masked by the houses/hill behind me.
Equipment: Humax PVR-9150T
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Roland3:12 PM
Kettering
I really dislike the form transmission information is being provide currently! Whilst it may look nice on the screen it doesn't easily print out or support cross checking with other transmitters.
What I want is the following information in tabular form for each transmitter, that can be easily printed on A4 (landscape or portrait): Mux. broadcast Channel and Frequency being used. For each mux. the stations in the mux. and their assigned number.
This makes it very easy (on the Humax PVR) to determine which channel/frequency my PVR has assigned to programme guide channel 1 BBC1 (for example) and hence permit me to look up the originating transmitter and determine if it is the one I'm expecting.
This shouldn't be too difficult as I have such a print-off from 2004 when I originally installed my freeview aerial etc.
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Dave Hunter4:19 PM
Derby
Had lovely reception from 20:00 last night until about 9 this morning now it reverted to the day-glo red effect and when I look at the snooker the white ball seems to have gone the same colour as the table.
Also seem to be getting some sort of ghosting as well.
Any ideas?
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Dave Hunter7:18 PM
Derby
Now it's back to good reception again. I am going to have this until Waltham changes over in August?
Who was the brainbox who decided to leave Waltham alone while changing two transmitters on either side?
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Dave Hunter7:53 PM
Derby
I give up its gone back to the red screen again. Surely this is not what I am to expect from Digital TV?
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Roland9:51 PM
Kettering
Once I got the channel details sorted the problem andhence the solution was obvious!
The problem was caused by substantially increasing the power output of the Sandy Heath transmitter (x8) at the same time as requiring users to retune on the neighbouring Waltham transmitter; which did not get an increase in power.
Hence doing an automatic retune which will typically scan from the lowest channel through to the highest will pick up channels on the Sandy Heath transmitter (yes my aerial did this even though it is ~90 degrees out of alignment for Sandy Heath!)
The solution was to manually scan each channel being used by Waltham, thereby bypassing/ignoring the channels used by Sandy Heath. Interestingly, if the transmitter planners had thought about things they could of delayed the (largely unnecessarily large) power increase of Sandy Heath by a couple of weeks and avoided the problems being encountered by users of Waltham and reported here.
For those living South East of Waltham a quick check to see if you are now getting the wrong signal is to look at the signal details of BBC1:
BBC1 (Mux 1/PSB1/BBCA) on Sandy Heath is on frequency C27 (522.0MHz) whereas on Waltham it is on C49 (698.0MHz).
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KMJ,Derby10:12 PM
Roland: C31 at Sandy Heath had to be switched off before it could be used at Waltham. When Waltham increases power at switchover you still need to do a manual tune for each mux as Waltham will use higher frequencies than Sandy Heath on five out of the six muxes.
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