Full Freeview on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 920,000 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.
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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)
Which Freeview channels does the Sandy Heath 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sandy Heath transmitter?
BBC Look East (West) 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Cambridge CB4 0WZ, 29km east-northeast (65°)
to BBC Cambridge region - 4 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
ITV Anglia News 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Norwich NR1 3JG, 119km east-northeast (60°)
to ITV Anglia (West) region - 5 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (East)
How will the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 12 Feb 2020 | ||||
VHF | A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | ||||
C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
C32 | com7 | ||||||||
C33 | SDN | ||||||||
C34 | com8 | ||||||||
C35 | _local | ||||||||
C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C43 | _local | ||||||||
C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C51tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7.4dB) 180kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-7.7dB) 170kW | |
com7 | (-13dB) 49.6kW | |
com8 | (-13.1dB) 49.1kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 20kW | |
Analogue 5 | (-20dB) 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sandy Heath transmitter area
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
Andrea: Judging by comments posted on this site, it's affecting a large portion of the east of the country from Yorkshire down to the south east. The lift conditions are causing signals from distant transmitters to carry further then normal. In the days of analogue you'd see lines appearing on the picture, and if it got really bad you'd be able to make out the picture of the interfering signal. With digital you get the "no signal" message. Whatever you do, don't reset as all this will achieve is loss of services completely.
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Friday, 13 December 2013
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Mark Lewis2:05 PM
Is there any Intention to Boost the signal strength of com 7 as I Live in NN3 and get a very weak signal on channel 32
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Mark Lewis: Unfortunately that is probably unlikely.
The new multiplex broadcasts exclusively on C31 through to C37. Increasing the power would result in more areas of overlap where the signal isn't usable because another transmitter on the same channel is causing too much interference.
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Mark Lewis: How is reception of C33 from Sutton Coldfield?
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Mark Lewis: If you are using manual tuning and there is an option for DVB-T or DVB-T2, then select the latter for this and other HD muxes.
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Saturday, 14 December 2013
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heather brown8:47 AM
Milton Keynes
no signal at all today......mk2?
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heather's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb383:02 PM
heather brown: Although having posted your query earlier on today, should you still be experiencing the problem then you should check out your installation / aerial system as the Sandy transmitter is operating as normal.
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Threeputts7:30 PM
Everything OK compared to last week, but HD channels now breaking up. Only just started to happen. Was OK prior to other HD channels coming on board. Is there any link?
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Tuesday, 17 December 2013
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