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 06/05/2024 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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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
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phillip wigley9:32 AM
I Have Been Retuning My Box Since 8 oclock August 17th and have no BBC 1 or 2 no BBC News. I'm on Waltham tx Aerial - digital. I Still get bbc 1 and 2 on terrestial. I think the engineers must be having further problems with the digital switchover.
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phillip wigley9:38 AM
I get most of the other channels ok by the way.I,m still doing full retune's every 5 minutes.Am I doing something wrong or is the fault your end? fault no bbc 1, 2 or 80 news
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Judith9:40 AM
Melton Mowbray
I retuned my TVs and Recorder this morning (17th Aug). I now get Look North on the Sony TV, East Midlands on the Recorder connected to the Sony TV and East Midlands on the Panasonic TV. All connected to the same aerial. The ariel is located on the roof of my neighbours property. (a high Water Tower). I live very close to the Waltham transmitter,
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phillip wigley: You *MUST* perform a "first time installation", or do this 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 on your equipment.
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Judith10:14 AM
Melton Mowbray
I've now manually retuned the Sony TV to the East Midlands. However, when I auto retune it goes to Look North. How can I stop this happening every time I need to retune? The recorder and the Panasonic Tv have no problem in tuning to East Midlands?
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johnny10:16 AM
Ripley
still got no hd channels on free view any one else got same problem ? i am in ripley derys on the east Midlands transmitter
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Mike Dimmick10:20 AM
johnny: Switchover is in two stages. This first stage only puts the standard-definition BBC channels in their final configuration. All the other changes happen in two weeks - including the addition of the HD channels.
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Mike Dimmick10:21 AM
Judith: See Digital Region Overlap for ideas on this.
If you have a booster, try removing it.
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Mike Dimmick10:32 AM
phillip wigley: Check that your box is not on the lists of equipment known to have problems at switchover - http://www.digitaluk.co.u…ment and http://www.digitaluk.co.u…tnit . If it's of 2002/3/4 vintage or older, check the manual to ensure that it supports 8K mode as well as 2K. Some older equipment struggles with a mix of 8K and 2K modes as you now have at Waltham - this will remain a problem until the mode change in October.
Another possibility is that the box is detecting enough signal from Belmont to store the channels, but not enough to actually work reliably. See Digital Region Overlap for thoughts on this.
Finally, you may now have too much signal. This causes the signals to be distorted by any amplification, including the automatic gain control built into the TV or box. If you have an amplifier or booster, disconnect it or turn it down. If you don't, or if that doesn't help, you may need to add an attenuator. Both of these will help reduce the level from Belmont as well, making it less likely to be picked up.
The signal level shown on the box's strength meter may still be well under 100% and yet still have too much signal. This can happen for two reasons: either it is just poorly calibrated (many are) or it doesn't properly report the level if it can't decode the signal.
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Judith10:40 AM
Melton Mowbray
Thank you Mike. I think I will have to live with the problem. At the age of 71 all this is far too complicated for me. It's just that I like my local news to be local!
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