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 |
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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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Thursday, 31 March 2011
Sunday, 3 April 2011
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timonthenet10:20 AM
Hi.
Performed re-tune to move C26 to C29 (MuxA) as planned on 30th March. All ok, but when searched for D3&4 on C31, no channels found.
Subsiquent re-tunes have not identified any channels on C31. Is this due to come on line on 13th April with the next re-tune, or is there just a delay in D3&4 appearing from Waltham (Above notes say D3&4 would appear towards the end of March this year, ie with the last re-tune).
Thank you. Regards,
Tim.
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Mike Dimmick9:12 PM
Reading
timonthenet: This is the 'phony war', not the real switchover yet.
At Waltham, the only change *so far* has been the move of Mux A from C26 to C29. Mux 2 remains on C23 for the next 10 days.
On the 13th, Mux 2 moves from C23 to C31. This is still low power and not the 'proper' switchover.
The 'proper' switchover starts on the 17th of August, when BBC Two analogue switches off, and Mux 1 moves to C61. ITV1 analogue will temporarily move to C64, meaning if you select channel 3 on an analogue TV you will get nothing, and if you select channel 2 you get ITV1.
Two weeks later, on 31 August, the remaining analogue channels turn off. Mux 2 moves to C54 (as D3&4). Mux B is turned off. Mux C moves to C56 and changes mode (as ArqA). Mux D moves to C57 and changes mode (as ArqB). HD services start on C58.
In October, Mux A changes mode (to become SDN), which will probably require a retune, although it will stay on the same channel.
I realise these early retunes are confusing, but they're happening to ensure that you don't lose services when The Wrekin goes high power - BBC on Wednesday, the other channels two weeks later on the 20th.
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Mike Dimmick9:16 PM
Reading
Oh, and unless they sort out the frequency allocation before August, the BBC multiplex will have to move again some time in 2012 to free up C61 for 4G mobile phones.
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ian9:23 PM
Ilkeston
Am i jinxed when it comes to Mux A! Its reading no signal from Waltham and from Nottingham aswell on UHF29 and UHF53! i was enjoying the delights of a football match on ESPN! Be so glad when they ramp the power up and this becomes almost a thing of the flaming past!
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Monday, 4 April 2011
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John11:18 AM
Nottingham
I successfully returned my Phillips set top box on 30th March however, every day I get a message "an update has been received for this channel", when I press ok BBC channels disappear and I have to retune again. I have a loft aerial pointed at Waltham and the signal is strong enough to run two TV's using an amplifier. Can anyone help please?
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Tuesday, 5 April 2011
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blackfish7:10 PM
Briantist, thank you for clarifying Waltham vs. Nottingham signal source. When Nottingham switches on 13-April, does the power ramp up on that day? Just wondering whether to try receiving DTV from there instead of Waltham. Nottingham's analogue signal is too weak for me hence I pointed aerial to Waltham (strong analogue and reasonable DTV).
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Mike Dimmick11:40 PM
Reading
blackfish: The BBC A multiplex at Nottingham is already at full power. D3&4 and HD services will start up at full power next Wednesday. The commercial multiplexes stay on low power until 28 September.
If you couldn't get Nottingham's analogue signals with reasonable quality, digital is likely to be erratic. I'd stick with Waltham.
A full postcode would allow us to give more information.
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
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East1:12 PM
Grantham
@ John, I too have a Philips set top box with the same problem. BBC channels begin dissapearing one by one over a short period of time after retuning from factory settings. All other channels work fine.
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obsidian_eclipse4:47 PM
Hmm. Just had a pop up message come on my tv about a retune on bbc news channel scheduled for today otherwise I will loose some of my services. This ones new to me.
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