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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Saturday, 16 April 2011
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Dave Hunter7:18 PM
Derby
Now it's back to good reception again. I am going to have this until Waltham changes over in August?
Who was the brainbox who decided to leave Waltham alone while changing two transmitters on either side?
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Dave Hunter7:53 PM
Derby
I give up its gone back to the red screen again. Surely this is not what I am to expect from Digital TV?
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Roland9:51 PM
Kettering
Once I got the channel details sorted the problem andhence the solution was obvious!
The problem was caused by substantially increasing the power output of the Sandy Heath transmitter (x8) at the same time as requiring users to retune on the neighbouring Waltham transmitter; which did not get an increase in power.
Hence doing an automatic retune which will typically scan from the lowest channel through to the highest will pick up channels on the Sandy Heath transmitter (yes my aerial did this even though it is ~90 degrees out of alignment for Sandy Heath!)
The solution was to manually scan each channel being used by Waltham, thereby bypassing/ignoring the channels used by Sandy Heath. Interestingly, if the transmitter planners had thought about things they could of delayed the (largely unnecessarily large) power increase of Sandy Heath by a couple of weeks and avoided the problems being encountered by users of Waltham and reported here.
For those living South East of Waltham a quick check to see if you are now getting the wrong signal is to look at the signal details of BBC1:
BBC1 (Mux 1/PSB1/BBCA) on Sandy Heath is on frequency C27 (522.0MHz) whereas on Waltham it is on C49 (698.0MHz).
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KMJ,Derby10:12 PM
Roland: C31 at Sandy Heath had to be switched off before it could be used at Waltham. When Waltham increases power at switchover you still need to do a manual tune for each mux as Waltham will use higher frequencies than Sandy Heath on five out of the six muxes.
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obsidian_eclipse11:29 PM
Ok.. this C31 issue is just stupid. I've tried everything, disconnecting other equipment, changing cables and attenuators... Still nothing on C31. If something is causing interference then its not coming from this house and the neighbours are out so there must be a wood pigeon with a cell phone on the chimney. I suppose this means no ITV, C4 or C5 until August.
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Sunday, 17 April 2011
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Dave Hunter7:21 AM
Derby
Daylight and its gone back to red screen. could it be that the signal strength is weakening at night from Nottingham and that Waltham then gets a look in?
Why doesn't any one at the Digital or the Beeb seem bothered?
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Jim9:13 AM
Nottingham
I live in NG2 have wideband aeriel on roof pointed at Waltham. I have 3 freeview tuners, BT vision, GoodmansGDB11XI, and finlux tv. Prior to 13 April i had no probs on MUX2 but mux 3 was variable. Post 13 re scan quality on Mux 2 and 3 went awful on all but the Finlux which was fine. Mux 2 came back today on BT Vision box but Mux 3 was still bad. I turned off RF output on the BT Vision and MUX 3 now looks good (Low strenght but 100% quality). I am having no joy at all with the Goodmans STB still cant get MUX 2. The only difference I can think is quality of hardware, the Goodmans was less that £20. Is this likely to be a factor
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obsidian_eclipse9:31 AM
Still nothing this morning either for me on c31.
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Dave Hunter10:39 AM
Derby
Just phone Beeb, Digital and they each blame each other and now they are saying that we must have local interference as its only happening in daylight hours. Nobody will do anything. Any Ideas? BTW they suggested OFCOM but what can they do?
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Martyn12:06 PM
I echo Dave Hunter's comments. I've had problems from Wednesday 13th. Contacted Humax, digital.co.uk, ITV and none of the suggested solutions work, including disconnecting nearby equipment such as PVR's and video recorders. Lost completely everything from channels 29 and 31. Why cannot someone put their hand up and explain what's wrong, what they're doing to fix it, and when it will be fixed?
Frustrated from Loughborough (52.7708,-1.2043)
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