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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter._______
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, 11 August 2013
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KMJ,Derby5:11 PM
MikeP: I think most cases of "wrong region" being transmitted refer to occasions when the back-up service via satellite is in use. There is only one back-up service which serves all regions.
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Monday, 12 August 2013
MikeP
5:03 PM
5:03 PM
KMJ, Derby
Does the satellite based back up service apply to terrestrial Freeview services? If so, I presume it is used when the normal terrestrial links are themselves undergoing maintenance?
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Monday, 23 September 2013
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J.A.WESTON7:02 PM
Grantham
BBC1 and ITV1 from Waltham disappeared yesterday (22.9.13). ITV1 has reappeared, but breaks up. BBC1 has still not reappeared, despite 2 retunes.
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Tuesday, 24 September 2013
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Ian from notts8:04 AM
Nottingham
J.A.WESTON- If you have lost BBC1 then BBC2, 3, 4 and NEWS should be missing? Do you have a BBC1 on CH801 as this sometimes happens when 2 transmitters are picked up on the TV's auto search
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nick6:23 PM
Notts / Waltham transmitterI have lost all channels today - 72% signal strength.
Any known problems.
Had work on aerial last week but been fine over weekend and yesterday.
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Neil Killip8:08 PM
Market Harborough
Over the past few weeks quality on ch 20 drama has deteriorated and today ITV 3 and Drama has disappeared. From Waltham that is. Ch 29
Any clues please?
I have retuned TV, PVR, and STB to no avail
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jb388:38 PM
Neil Killip: Just checked C29 in the Stamford area and its being at received at full strength with zero bit error rate problems, this suggesting that your difficulty in receiving this channel is being caused by some form of localised interference, have you as yet checked with a neighbour or someone else nearby to find out if the problem is widespread or alternatively specific to your installation? although it could also be associated with the current wave of high pressure that is responsible for distant stations being received, and which if they are operating on the same mux channel as the local transmitter will corrupt its data hence killing reception.
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Friday, 27 September 2013
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Neil Killip9:07 PM
Market Harborough
Thanks jb38. There are 2 possibilities. One is your helpful suggestion re high pressure. Ch 29 is out of group as far as we are concerned and high pRessure is a is a possibility. The other is the lelandii trees in next doors garden which lie between us and Waltham although Com4 is the only mux affected, so I suspect you are right as it is only over the past weeks of summer weather that the deterioration has taken place leading to in effect a shutdown. I was wondering if the footprint of mux com 4 has been changed as often happens without telling the public. Your site in Stanford is about 15 miles away but in different direction relative to to Waltham.
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Sunday, 29 September 2013
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Laura Harrison11:31 AM
Huntingdon
I do not believe the current problems are down to high pressure!! We have had plenty of that over the past years. Apparently there are "no reported problems" at the Sandy Heath transmitter... So just how do we report these problems?
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Tuesday, 1 October 2013
MikeP
9:50 AM
9:50 AM
Laura
It is a well known phenomenon that during certain weather conditions, as we have had for the last few weeks, that RF transmissions travel greater distances than normal due to temperature inversions, sporadic-e, etc. In analogue TV days, it showed up as flickering interference on screen and odd noises. With digital, the interfering signals conflict with the wanted signal and prevent decoding - hence the No Signal message. Digital TV is LESS tolerant of such problems than analogue.
Saying you don't believe it doesn't change the fact that it is true and very well documented.
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