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 15/04/2024 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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Monday, 17 December 2012
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jb384:53 PM
Chattes: Thanks for the updated info, and with the content of indicating that all is perfectly OK as far as the feeds from the distribution amplifier is concerned, but though which now unfortunately points to the problem being with the 8500.
The fact of you stating that the 8500 gives weak or no signal indication can suggest that the tuner is actively trying to receive a signal, and so to verify (partially anyway) if the tuners aerial input socket link is OK (or not) I would like you to try a test by leaving the aerial connected into the 8500's aerial input socket but connect a coax jumper cable from its "ANT OUT" socket on the rear (next to input) into the TV's aerial input socket to make sure that the TV still works on Freeview.
In other words the TV will be receiving its signal from the aerial connection used on the 8500's tuner link, as should by any chance a bad solder connection exist on the internally located rear of this socket it will show up on the TV's picture.
However, should that prove as being OK then without changing anything that was altered for the test go over your 8500's original configuration settings that you made in the "settings" menu (page 26 of your manual) where you selected "channel" and then "channel source" to make sure that the correct aerial input has been selected for the tuner, then follow this by carrying out another auto tune and giving an update on the results, because if still nothing is received I would like you to to try a manual tune on the 8500 but on the lower powered mux Ch29 / 538.000Mhz.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2012
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Chattes11:49 AM
JB38
Hi, have completed coax jumper test and TV still receives Freeview and picture quality is excellent.
Checked channel source and correct aerial input has been selected, carried out another auto-tune but this failed to locate any channels.
Have tried manual tuning but this too, has failed, returning a message that no channels were stored.
Looks like the tuner is cream-crackered!!
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Thursday, 3 January 2013
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anthony6:00 PM
Just after christmas i lost channels 1-10 and cannot get them back despite reseting my equipment, nothing else has changed on my side. Has something changed in the le3 area?
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Wednesday, 16 January 2013
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Adrian Bird7:37 PM
BSB 3 and COM 5 keep going off is this due to the Weather?
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
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Marie Martin8:18 PM
Leicester
Hi guys I have lost Film 4 on channel 57 , am on waltham transmitter. Anyone had the same problem?
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Marie's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby8:40 PM
Marie Martin: Film4 is loud and clear in Derby. It might be worth checking that you still are tuned to C57 rather than a possible C39 from Sutton Coldfield if your receiver has been re-tuned recently. Otherwise check for single frequency interference from the RF modulator of a Sky box or VCR. Also try repositioning aerial and HDMI leads relative to the receiver in case there is any interaction with the tuner.
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Friday, 1 February 2013
Something is defiantly going on at Waltham, over the past week or so a client of mine has had problems with some channels constantly breaking up while I have not not noticed anything, then yesterday they were all working perfectly for him, there have been lots of reports lately describing the same thing. What's going on???
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Saturday, 2 February 2013
Ian. You have probably answered your own question. If 'your client' has had reception problems but you haven't, it seems quite likely that there is a problem either with his equipment or local interference.
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jb389:32 PM
Ian: Another point being, that if your client happens to reside anywhere in the LE10 area then reception from Waltham is only predicted as being poor anyway due to en-route signal path obstructions, and although many people contrary to the predictors indications might well manage to achieve reasonable reception but what they do manage to receive is not by any means guaranteed as lasting, as in many cases the level that the signals are being received at is not at what could be considered as being a robust level by being not that terribly much above the reception cut off level of their equipment, this meaning that any relatively "minor" variations in transmitter output that would not even be noticed by most would however have more serious consequences to equipment whose reception was near to the aforementioned level.
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