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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Sunday, 23 June 2013
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Steve Hatton6:54 PM
Good find. How do we get someone to check it? Lol
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Monday, 24 June 2013
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John Pilkington9:02 AM
I have added before-and-after extracts from my logs from the ProjectX demuxer to the thread on MythTV-users that I quoted on 20 June. They may help. Both recordings from Waltham, Channel 4.
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Friday, 28 June 2013
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Stuart12:11 PM
Guys,
Does anybody have a fix for this issue? I have 2 htpc's with different tv tuners in them and both exhibit the same fault. The has to be a way to fix this? Because my whole setup runs on mce and extenders. It would seem that either Microsoft or the broadcasters should be able to remedy the situation. I am sure that Microsoft will suggest that the issue lies with the broadcaster since the problem didn't exist until after the change over.
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Steve Hatton1:35 PM
Still having the same fault. I'm having to use my single freesat tuner to help cope. But no very ideal.
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RogerA2:12 PM
I am using WMC in Windows 7 with a Kworld KW-PC160-2T duel tuner card, I am in Alvaston, Derby
Previous to the retune on May 13 this year, which was required because Public Service Broadcasting on Mux 1 (BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 etc.) was moved from channel 61 (794Mhz) to channel 49 (698Mhz) I would occasionally lose those programmes on Mux 5 (754Mhz) (Pick TV, Dave, E4+1, etc.).
This above problem has persisted for about 18 Months.
Since the 'retune' I have lost the programmes on Mux 2 (737.833Mhz) (ITV 1, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV 2, etc. but the good news is Mux 5 has not exhibited problems since.
I have been pulling my hair out and then scratching my bald scalp trying to find out why? As previous posters have noted, these programmes can be displayed using VLC so why not WMC?
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Dominic Payer4:13 PM
Problem
Intermittent or no reception in Microsoft Windows Media Center on PSB2 (channels 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 28 and 33) from Waltham. All other channels from Waltham received successfully.
When arising
After the frequency change for PSB1 on 29th May 2013. There have been subsequent engineering works at Waltham which may be the cause of the issue.
Details
The Waltham transmitter is operated by Arqiva. Reception problems should be notified as specified at UK House - Arqiva .
I have been in contact with Digital UK, and understand that they have had contact with Arqiva.
1. Digital UK is not a technical support location.
2. I understand that Arqiva say they have changed only the frequency for PSB1 at Waltham, and would only be at fault if the problem receiving equipment carried the Freeview logo. It is difficult to understand how a frequency change on PSB1 could have changed the technical detail of the transmission on PSB2.
Microsoft offers no technical support for Windows Media Center, despite its being sold at retail with Windows XP, Vista and 7 and as an add-on Windows 8. See
Microsoft Support
. The Microsoft forums at Home - Microsoft Community are user to user forums: Microsoft provides the forums but they are not Microsoft technical support forums.
Digital UK say mine is the only formal notification they have received. More notifications might provoke action. It would be helpful, but may not be significant, to say which version of Windows you are using. Email or phone from the Contact us box on Digital UK - Home .
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John5:35 PM
Hi All,
Small change here - but first to summarize the position (here - can't speak for anywhere
else):
Problem is with Waltham mux PSB2:
(On or Off is the normal situation when using WMC - sowing picture or not. More4 I haven't
figured yet!)
ITV1 3 Off
Channel4 4 On
Channel5 5 Off
ITV2 6 Off
Channel4+1 13 On
More4 14 On/Off
E4 28 Off
ITV1+1 33 Off
This is mollified by having duplicate channels on different muxes as follows:
Ch5+1 44 On
ITV2+1 27 On
E4+1 29 On
So my problem is really limited to ITV1 - what idiot puts the duplicate channel on the same
mux?
Last weekend I happened to be on PC World's site and found they had a Hauppauge WinTV Aero
stick reduced from £59.99 to £19.99. I bought one - it arrived this morning.
I plugged it into my laptop (it was intended for a netbook but that machine has no CD drive)
plugged in a lead from the same splitter/amplifier as the other machines, loaded the Hauppauge
drivers, set up WMC and went for lunch while broadcasts were scanned.
As you might guess the first channel I looked at was ITV1. It works! It is by the side of me
as I write and it is still working!
I checked my main machine. ITV still black screen. I switched Hauppauge's Diversity mode on
(this has the effect of combining the two tuners to bring in a weak signal). After several
reboots and rescanning WMC I found no change. I applied the drivers for the stick received
this morning to the main machine's tuners. No change, still black screen.
But then I found that if I switched from BBC2 to ITV1 quickly and a number of times
(frustration building up :-)) I pulled in ITV1.
This is ridiculous! I do not believe it, so I have just left this box and done it again. Kick
up WMC select ITV1 - black screen. Select BBC2 let it steady then select ITV1 - this time ITV1
came in first try..
Suggestions welcome...
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John5:37 PM
Sorry about the formatting - tried three times to send, fortunately had copied into NotePad. Hope it makes sense..
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John Pilkington8:15 PM
As further confirmation of what I've said earlier, I've just used the VLC 'Codec info' tool to examine a recording of 'Ennerdale', ITV1 from Waltham, made a few minutes ago. I can't copy-and-paste it, but that shows 4 video streams too. Only the first stream has values for Resolution, Frame rate and Decoded format.
Video IDs are 514, 2051, 2251, 2252
The Video 'Track selector' shows 4 tracks, all of which play identically.
This seems to be specific to the PSB2 mux from Waltham, and it has affected all my recordings since the PSB1 frequency shift. It may not be an intended change, and I don't know if it really is responsible for the WMC problems, but it's there.
VLC media player 2.0.7 Twoflower, Fedora 17
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John9:42 PM
Hi John P,
I recorded Britain's Secret Homes a few minutes ago ITV1 from Win7 Media Centre.
VLC codec info reports 7 streams!
Streams 0, 1 and 6 are the same:
Video; Mpeg 1/2 Video (mpgv)
Stream 2:
Subtitle; DVB Subtitles (dvbs)
Stream3:
Audio; MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3 (mpga)
English; Stereo; sr 48000; br 192
Stream 4:
Video; Mpeg 1/2 Video (mpgv)
704x576; fr 25; Planar 4:2:0 YUV
Stream 5:
As stream 3 but mono
No video ID is given. It may be interesting to see which four you saw.
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