Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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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 29/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

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Which Freeview channels does the Waltham transmitter broadcast?

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C32 (562.0MHz)	442m	DTG-	50,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) East Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C34 (578.0MHz)	442m	DTG-	50,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west),
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C35 (586.0MHz)	442m	DTG-	50,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C29 (538.0MHz)	442m	DTG-8	25,000W
	20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C37 (602.0MHz)	449m	DTG-8	25,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C31 (554.0MHz)	449m	DTG-8	25,000W
	12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LNG	H -10dB	C41 (634.0MHz)	442m	DTG-12	5,000W
	from 27th May 2014: 7 Notts TV,

DTG-8 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		C5_waves	C5_waves				BBCB
C37						com8	com8
C41							_local
C49_{tv_off}					BBCA	BBCA
C54_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
C55_{tv_off}							com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}				ArqA	ArqA	ArqA	COM8_{tv_off}
C57_{tv_off}				ArqB	ArqB	ArqB
C58_{tv_off}	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
C61	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA
C64	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves

_{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

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004	Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Waltham was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Mike Dimmick

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3:56 PM

Mrs Thomson: Yes, that's expected.

BBC Two is now off, permanently.

The high- BBC digital service has started up, but it was allocated ITV1's analogue , so ITV1 had to move to BBC Two's old location.

Therefore you will find ITV1 analogue on button 2 for the next two weeks.

On the 31st, the remaining analogue will be shut down, permanently. The high-power digital multiplexes will replace some of them - all will move to a different frequency except for SDN, which moved in advance of to get out of the way of transmissions from another site.

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Judith
4:07 PM
Melton Mowbray

Dominic
Thanks for the suggestion regarding the postcode. I've looked in my instruction book but can only find details concerning language and country choices. Did you input a postcode to your Sony TV?

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Dominic Payer
4:31 PM
Nottingham

Judith

I input a postcode to my Sony TV. It is only 2 years old.

If your TV is older - from the time when any extra were thought a bonus - you may only have the option of a full and then have to edit the channels found.

From Melton Mowbray your will be pointing towards both and .

After the 31st August you could try fitting attenuators to your aerial to reduce the from Belmont to below the level your TV can detect. Until Waltham goes up to its post- power level on 31st August you would probably find there is little practical difference between the signal levels from Belmont and Waltham.

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Judith
4:42 PM
Melton Mowbray

Dominic

Thanks for the advice. My Sony Bravia TV is about 4 years old. Unfortunately my TV is on top of a converted Water Tower belonging to my neighbour.

I think I will have to put up with the inconvenience of manually retuning.

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phillip wigley
5:41 PM
Southwell

hi all has anyone else had to swing their to make it pick up 1, 2, 80, 301 bbc ? Only I'd like to know if it might cure my problem before I pay someone to go on my .I have a large aerial and its already been pin pointed at twice in the past. Is the problem now that the new is too strong? and swinging it off attenuates it a bit?I get channels 3,4,5,6,bla bla 81parliament,82 sky news etc all perfect.If I swing the arial will Ilose the other channels, Because even 1 degree to the right equates to several miles from waltham what's going on,or not in my case. regards Phill ps just scaned again no bbc's

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6:10 PM

phillip wigley: People often find that their systems are overloaded by the new high transmissions. If you have an or booster in your system, you will have to remove it. If you don't, you may have to fit an attenuator to lower the level.

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Mrs Mary Thomson
6:12 PM

To: Mike Dimmick

Thank you for the information - that explains it. Thank goodness I found this web site and thank you once again. Roll on the 31st August and then maybe all will be satisfactory!

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Mr Singh
6:21 PM

Hi

I'm from and still have BBC and 4 an 5 but no BBC.

I have tried multiple retunes without any luck.

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phillip wigley
6:21 PM
Southwell

Thanks , I thought That might be It. Do you happen to know how big the attenuator needs to be? I hav'nt got any at the moment and Maplins is the only place still open if they have any, and they are 10 miles away.Can I put a resister in the wire only. If so what value do you surgest 1k, 10k,or is it experimaent time? I was An Arial rigger 20 years ago so I do Have some experience, and in electronics, but as you know things move on. kind regards Phill

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Mr Singh
6:27 PM

Just checked again and ITV is now on what was BBC2!

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