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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Waltham (Leicestershire, 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
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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Tuesday, 19 April 2011
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Cass8:24 AM
Newark
HI, can someone tell me what is going on? I returned the tv and bt vision box last wednesday as supposed to, and since then have had no itv1, ch4 or ch5. depoite returning every day. I am no expert but am getting fed up not getting thse channels as it wont record my progs n vision box cos no channels thereWe in Newark area and tuned in to Waltham Thanks
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Jonathan8:34 AM
@ Jonamat: anything from the ITV technical manager?
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Cass: As above, see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice to see if you can fix it, otherwise you are going to have to wait until Wednesday 31st August 2011.
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Bren 11:09 AM
Hi
Experiencing the same issues at LE5 Leicester and have finally got to the bottom of it .... the engineers at Waltham have 'parked' a frequency that certain digital aerials need to achieve a good reception. If you have a wideband (W) digital aerial fitted you should be fine. They have 'parked' the frequency to prevent 'overlap' until the switchover date in August otherwise more households running analogue and digital signals would be effected. In other words there is nothing we can do until August!!! Unless you want to purchase other equipment e.g. new (W) digital aerial or free sat. Absolute joke!!!!
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Martyn11:24 AM
Just rang digital.co.uk for any help they could give. Explained I've retuned 9x to date, disconnected other close equipment, remove aerial input, but still no joy. Get poor signal strength and weak/no signal qulaity on channels 29 and 31 since 14th April. They suggested I swap with another person's Freeview box to try and isolate the problem. Main point is though, they didn't appear to know that there are dozens of people who have been affected. I suggest you all ring 08456 505050 to let them know that you are having problems, and see if that kick starts anything. (52.7708,-1.2043)
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Nick Miles1:01 PM
Leicester area, Woodgate.
No ITV1,2,ch4,ch5 etc.
Who are the main people to complain to as the media appear to not want to report on this newsworthy problem?
Should we all stop paying for our full TV licence?
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Ben Johnson4:56 PM
Cass/Martyn/Nick Miles: I too am having problems. With no or poor signal from Ch29 and Ch31. I have Aerial guy coming tomorrow to check my aerial...but I am as sure as I can be that I have a Wideband medium gain aerial...
I am going to go into the loft with a small television to plug directly into the Aerial to see if that helps...
Wisj me luck!
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Bren: C23, the original location, was also "out of group" and required .. a wideband aerial.
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011
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Jonamat1:44 PM
Newark
Jonathan, ITV Technical manager helpful as best he can be but loads responsibility for all of this onto Digital UK. His remedy is to turn the aerial to Belmont which he claims is where it should be anyway. This rubbish as I am on the fridge of strong Belmont signal and not interested in "Look North" either as it is irrelavant, it is also further away than Waltham which has been a strong signal on all channels until this latest fiasco commenced.
I think Bren has struck gold with a credible answer to all this, so I will give up and watch what I can on analogue until August and hope that channel 54 will be OK then.
Tried a manual retune today on channel 31, it loaded some channels, but when individually checked they turn out to be Channel 24, poor signal and unusable quality. Could this be Sandy Heath (100 miles away from Farnsfield) !!
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Jonamat1:53 PM
Newark
PS. To my last post.
If this is the case, why didn't somebody tell us instead of scores of people trying achieve the impossible and receive C31.
Perhaps Bren you should post your message on the other part of this forum, I am should many people would like to read it.
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