Full Freeview on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 920,000 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 Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sandy Heath 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sandy Heath transmitter?
BBC Look East (West) 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Cambridge CB4 0WZ, 29km east-northeast (65°)
to BBC Cambridge region - 4 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
ITV Anglia News 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Norwich NR1 3JG, 119km east-northeast (60°)
to ITV Anglia (West) region - 5 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (East)
How will the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 12 Feb 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | ||||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | _local | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C43 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7.4dB) 180kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-7.7dB) 170kW | |
| com7 | (-13dB) 49.6kW | |
| com8 | (-13.1dB) 49.1kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 20kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-20dB) 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sandy Heath transmitter area
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011
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Donna10:35 PM
Bedford
I live in Bedford and for the last two weeks we keep losing all signal for ITV channels, Channel 4, Five, Fiver, Five US....well basically all channels apart from BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 and Yesterday. Up until now we have had pretty much perfect coveragae. Have tried all the things listed in the various links above and stiil no change.
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Donna's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Donna: Please see the Two frequency interference
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John: No, there are no transmission issues. I suggest you have a look at Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Leanne8:37 PM
Northampton
Also in Northampton, and have experiecned similar to comments above. Our problem is though that when it goes it really goes, since xmas we have been lucky to have one day of TV. Aeriel recently installed, and usually works perfectly. This can't be an equipment problem, somebody must own this issue? Just want some help!
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Leanne's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 14 January 2011
Leanne: There are no transmitter problems. I would suggest you get back whoever provided your aerial installation and ask them to make it work.
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aaron: No problems with this transmitter are reported. Bit hard to say without your postcode.
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Peter5:17 PM
I am sorry Brian, but these reports would indicate a widespread problem, the fact is that people from all over the region are suffering the same problems which in many cases commenced at the same time, how can that be attributed to anything but a transmitter fault?
Why are some channels okay, and others not, surely this would rule out local equipment problems?
I have looked at the links you posted but that still did not address the issue.
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Leanne5:21 PM
Brian, could you explain why I have a perfectly clear picture now but have not over the past few weeks including this morning, last night etc? The aeriel has not been touched. Here it will just say no signal regardless of channel.
Completely echo what Peter has said, can't be all our aeriels surely?
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Frustratred Ketterin9:19 PM
Since approximately the same date, all of our aerials have broken that have been pointed towards Sandy Heath. Is everyone out of step except Sandy Heath?
If the transmitter is fine and all out kit is fine, then the system is wrong!?
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Peter10:23 PM
I have a Topfield PVR in the bedroom, a Pansonic PVR and new LG TV in the living room and a Hauppage freeview card in the PC, they are all suffering channel loss/quality issues.
They run off a Televes high gain antenna on a big pole with a SLX 4 amp in the loft.
They all used to work fine.
By putting a netbook with a USB tuner right at the antenna, the signal strength I am getting is down on past performance. My stubby aerial with the USB tuner now gets nothing at all.
Ireally do not think the problem is at my end.
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