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 04/11/2024 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, 30 March 2011
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Mike Dimmick8:26 AM
Reading
On days when they're moving channels, services are likely to be off-air from midnight to as late as 6am. They've only actually said this for the official DSO days in August, but Waltham has to move out of the way of The Wrekin (switching next week) and can't until the channels are freed at Nottingham (switching this week and in two weeks).
Everyone will need to retune after this morning's changes to get the Multiplex A services (e.g. ITV3). In two weeks, Multiplex 2 (ITV1, ITV2, Channel 4, E4, More4, Channel 5) is moving to a different frequency and you will need to retune again.
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Bob11:56 AM
Hi, after having the "You need to re tune after 30th March" message for the past few weeks on all my TVs & PVRs - this moring tried all tVs & recorders & all channels still there from Waltham without re-tune. Looked on the net for info, but nothing. Can anyone explain please ? ? Thanks (Roof aerial, Sleaford in Lincs)
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ian2:36 PM
Ilkeston
I don't have Mux A at all, yet my box will find the TopUp TV service information, which correct me if i am wrong here.. is carried on the same Mux as it's Anytime channels.. Mux A!
No Quest, ITV3, ESPN, Gold and so on for me again :-(
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timonthenet3:27 PM
Hello again.
Thank you to all those who have posted a response to my original request. The services came back bit by bit in the early hours, just before 6:00am. The channel 26, which was occupied by MuxA, are no longer in their original position, and as others have posted, they now occupy a different frequency (channel 29, 538.0 MHz). There doesn't appear to be any changes within the other Mux's, but a complete re-tune would probably be worth while.
I only wish Waltham could switch now along with Nottingham! Even though I live in Nottm., we point towards Waltham, Nottingham being too difficult to receive. So unlike most of the city, we have got to wait 'till August before HD services appear - Most annoying!!!
Regards,
Tim.
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Pieh03:34 PM
Leicester
Poor Maplin, Returned a DVB-T usb stick yesterday cause i wanted the PCI version, got it working last night, then i start getting "No Lock" on my mythtv setup.
Spent a few hours trying to get it working again and it wouldnt tune anything.
Imagine my surprise when i get the usb version back and it does the same thing :P.
Oh well, at least its back up again.
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Mike Dimmick3:41 PM
Reading
Bob: start watching a Multiplex A channel, e.g. ITV3, and go to the box or TV's System Status/Signal Strength screen. See what channel number it says. If it shows 26 they've forgotten to switch something off. If it shows 29 your box automatically retunes itself. If it shows something else, you're picking up Multiplex A from a different transmitter.
It's just possible that you were getting the 30 March popups from Sandy Heath, not from Waltham. I don't think they were running popups from Waltham for this early retune.
If you provide a full postcode I might have a better idea what's going on.
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blackfish3:44 PM
timonthenet,
The Nottingham transmitter (at Kimberley) is a repeater from Waltham afaik, therefore Nottingham can't get anything different from Waltham.
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Mike Dimmick3:44 PM
Reading
ian: I believe the TopUp TV Anytime service information is broadcast periodically overnight. Your box is probably showing you information that it saved from before the retune.
A full retune (factory reset, first-time installation) should bring Mux A back. See www.tvretune.co.uk if you don't have your manual available.
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Mike Dimmick4:02 PM
Reading
blackfish: For analogue it's a relay of Waltham, at least for three channels for another two weeks, but the low power digital signals wouldn't reach, so it was fed independently via satellite. I believe all pre-switchover digital transmitters were.
Nottingham is its own transmitter group (a group of one) for switchover.
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Mike Dimmick4:04 PM
Reading
Four channels - I forgot that Nottingham carries Channel 5 analogue.
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