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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Monday, 18 April 2011
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Jonathan8:49 AM
Newark
@ KMJ: yes, quality is as Jonamat says: 0-10%, and mostly 0%.
Yet C29 (which supposedly has the same signal strength according to the Freeview reception tables) and is also out of group (according to the transmission frequencies at the top) has a quality of 100%.
And C48 (the equivalent frequency for Belmont) fluctuates between 0-100%, mostly somewhere in the middle, which makes it useless for viewing purposes, but it does get here sort of.
So this is a widespread problem with C31 specifically and has nothing to do with local analogue interference (we don't have any) or the lack of wideband aerials (otherwise we wouldn't get C29 either).
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Ben Johnson10:11 AM
I have now tested the TV direct to the aerial and exactly the same problem occurs.
Back to the Aerial itself...i must have had a wideband aerial before 30/3/11 and 13/4/11 retunes because I was getting all the channels. Is that right?
So if it is not the aerial then what on earth is it?!?
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Jim10:49 AM
Nottingham
Having swapped my Finlux TV which works fine in kitchen to the aerial point with the goodmans on, the channels break up on MUX2. I conclude that the signal to this room is weaker due to wiring issues. Its further from the aerial and there are additional sockets on route contributing additional signal loss
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obsidian_eclipse11:55 AM
Whilst its nice to be enjoying mux 2 again I dont know what happened or why, or even why others still have difficulty when my problems seems to have cleared up. The signal does appear weaker than the other mux's though, only about 50% strength, the signal on c30 comes in as yorkshire so I assume its belmont and that is 52% strength now! Perhaps there is an invertion affect as I cant understand why that would be stronger than waltham.
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sheilan12:40 PM
Mansfield
I am on the edge of the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve and I seem to be having the same problems. The signal strength is very weak and lost more tha half the channels. Yes it seems to be single frequency interference but it seems to be widespread with any neighbours who are on the Waltham transmitter throughout the village.
Looking at the maps of the 3 transmitters which could serve us in north Nottinghamshire, we seem to be out of reach of the full signal strength.
It appears that surrounding vollages are having the same problem so where on earth do we go from here?
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sheilan: I would suggest that you point your aerial at the Belmont transmitter.
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011
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sheilan3:16 AM
Mansfield
This is so frustrating. We have only just paid to have our new ariel pointed to Waltham because Belmont does not give any news or local topical programmes related to the area in which I live. (Nottinghamshire not Yorkshire)
The East Midlands signal was super prior to this switchover. Now the signal strength fluctuates but seems to have short maximum bursts of around 35%
As a pensioner I find the enforced expence worrying, especially as the switchover is not complete yet. Will we have to go through all this again in August?
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sheilan: Waltham has not had a switchover yet. All that has happened is a pre-switchover change to the analogue services.
At switchover the Freeview power of Multiplex 2 (D3+4) increases from 8kW to 50kW, over six times stronger, so you certainly won't have problems then.
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Chris James7:14 AM
Leicester
We live in Leicester, LE1 2HX with a roof ariel pointed to Waltham. For most of the past three years BBC4 has been intermittent but for the past couple of weeks channel 4 has degraded with intermittent picture blocking and jerky sound to an unwatchable degree. I hae re-tuned to no avail.
Occasionally both channels are fine but I haven't tested if the pattern of signal degradation is simultaneous. Is this likely to continue until August - and after that?
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Chris James: Did you retune last week when Multiplex 2 moved to C31? Try this My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice please.
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