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 29/04/2024 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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Wednesday, 31 August 2011
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quisquose7:03 PM
Our aerial points at Belmont here in Sheffield, and just noticed that we are picking up all the channels from Waltham as well.
Quite impressive.
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obsidian eclipse: It's not a "rumour", it's listed above: "Muliplex A (SDN) will move from C26 to C29 (at 8kW) in advance of switchover during March 2011, and will adopt its final power level on 12th October 2011."
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W.M. Wild: The power for Multiplex A has not changed, but it will increase on 12th October 2011.
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kB Aerials Sheffield
7:40 PM
7:40 PM
quisquose
The signal from waltham has changed today and has got a lot stronger
In sheffield (im an Aerial installer in sheffield based in Beighton)
the angle of reception from the two transmitters is very close so it is wholly possible that you can now receive both transmitters quite easily
an interesting fact of this is that (id need to know exactly where you live ) is that you could possibly now have an aerial installed pointing at the sheffield transmitter and get the correct local Look South news (ie SHeffield based news) and totally forget about Belmont (east coast news) and Waltham (central News) also you wouldn't be susceptible to the problem that occurs occasionally where the signal is wiped out on sunny days when there is no wind - an aerial pointing towards Belmont in sheffield points across the continent and occasionally on certain days the signal from the continent travels through to us and wipes Belmont out
As sheffield is a Local transmitter that problem would be a thing of the past so there are several good reasons for ditching Belmont and Waltham if you live in and around sheffield and using the local transmitters
Keith KB Aerial Beighton 07946481125
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quisquose7:59 PM
Thanks Keith,
I live in an area of S11 where aerial installers would arrive and just say "no chance mate". Something to do with Brincliffe Edge apparently.
We swung our aerial round to Belmont about 3 years ago, and anticipated swinging it back to Crosspool after switchover.
But today we are embarrassed by the riches of picking up the channels from Belmont, Waltham AND Sheffield. Time will tell if we need to point it at Crosspool later, but at the moment feeling quite chuffed after many years in that white pixel area on the map surrounded by yellow.
:)
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Henry Martin9:19 PM
My Hitachi PVR freeview receiver is not seeing ch4 and other channels on C54. When I manually scan on c54 it does not get a signal at all and yet the same aerial lead passes through this freeview pvr unit and onto the television which is seeing ch4 etc. Could this be something to do with the actual frequency ch4 etc are transmitted on - I notice it is registered at C54- and I have no means on the hitachi unit to see what frequency '54' is searching under.
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kB Aerials Sheffield
10:03 PM
10:03 PM
quisquose
OMG Brincliffe edge what a total nightmare trees blocking Sheffield too low down for belmont and waltham no chance of Emley moor - possible Totley Rise with 4 analogue channels
Trees also blocking satellite reception
Told a few people there my self if they want tv to put a FOR SALE sign outside !
Keith KB Aerials
Would be interested to know what your getting now!
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kB Aerials Sheffield
10:10 PM
10:10 PM
Henry Marsh
peculiar - I would have suspected that the tv has a more sensitive tuner than the hitachi PVr - but now the signals have been lifted considerably then it might be due to too much signal strength its one of these strange situation !
Its soo difficult to answer without putting an analyser on the aerial to see the signal strengths
Before switch over did you receive a decent digital reception ?
if not - how would you have rated your analogue picture was it grainy or pin sharp - if it was grainy then its possible that your aerial needs attention
Keith KB aerial SHeffield 07946481125
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Thursday, 1 September 2011
WALTHAM transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:52 yesterday to 05:52 yesterday [BBC]
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