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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Thursday, 1 September 2011
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Paul Mann7:23 PM
Coalville
Chris Onion: Got the same problem Chris. I live in LE67 8HN and have majority of channels except sky sports 1 & 2. I have also rang BT Vision who insist that it is the fault of the Waltham Transmitter.
Do we assume that they are still working on the output transmission of that carrier frequency and it will get sorted soon.Hope so I was going to watch the England game tomorrow night. Keep me in the loop if you get a breakthrough!
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kB Aerials Sheffield
8:25 PM
8:25 PM
Paul have you read my post about too much signal ?
copy and paste it for you
Sounds like you may have now got to much signal hitting your equipment
Have you got an amplifier connected on the system - possibly you don't need it now - but before you go ripping it out is it a set back one or one that distributes to several sets
If its a set back one (do not remove a box that states POWER SUPPLY that may (or may not) sit behind your tv as you will lose everything) then try bypassing it and connecting the aerial direct to your tv
if its an amplifier in the loft or outdoors then thats going to be tougher to do
if you cant get to your amp try using whats called an ATTENUATOR these reduce the signal strength - ideally placing one before your amplifier is the best route but if you cant then plug it direct into the back of the tv theyre about £6 from maplin electronics - try a 12db attenuator - possibly an 18db? (buy both ask if you can return the unused one)
If you have no amplifier - still try the attenuator as the signal has increased phenomenally place the attenuator on the first piece of equipment it connects too ie if you have a pvr the aerial usually goes in there and is looped round to your tv
Keith KB Aerials
Sheffield 07946481125
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snapdragon9:57 PM
Thanks for your comments, kB Aerials. I have 2 TVs fed from an unamplified splitter. I have tried a back of set booster and get marginally better service, but still not as good as before DSO.I have the feeling that I am losing signal at the splitter, so will replace/ resolder the coax plugs as necessary. I will also relocate the booster in the loft (ie. to where the aerial lead comes into the house). Thanks again.
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Jim J (NG14 6**)10:02 PM
Nottingham
Does anyone know how many English HD versions of ITV1 there are? Possibly two ?
I'm asking this just out of curiosity because Belmont transmits Granada HD and Waltham is transmitting
London HD.
The Freeview transmission details at the top of this page show Waltham to be carrying Central West HD (which probably doesn't exist!).
Thanks everyone.
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kB Aerials Sheffield
11:19 PM
11:19 PM
Snap dragon
A decent aerial and a decent 2 way splitter is more than likely all is needed - id be surprised if any amplification is needed unless your utterly surrounded by a forest in a deep depression - amplifiers are a thing of the past - apart from larger distribution systems but aerial to 2 points is really really unlikely to need any amplification with the strength of the currant switch over
just looked at google streetview of your road - there are no excessive sized aerials installed which leads me to think your in an reasonable reception area before switchover - now signal is more than likely booming in - although I don't know the area at all so I could be wrong - if the aerials were on 20" masts then id be more concerned
Keith KB aerials 07946481125 sheffield
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kB Aerials Sheffield
11:20 PM
11:20 PM
snap dragon
that should have been 20' aerial masts not 20" ---- ooops !
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Paul @ DE1 1PY here - Apparently the problem is because they have transferred the Sky Sports signal (and loads of radio stations) to something called ArqB even though they know half the region can't get a good quality signal on this - hardly the act of intelligent people!!! Why not stick gems TV and QVC and rubbish channels on this?
UK Digital seem to think my aerial is Sutton Coldfield (aerials in my area point in two directions. Mine is towards the A38 whilst some of the other are 90 degrees eastwards which muct be Waltham).
Anyway UK Digital reckon the Waltham digital signal is stronger than the Sutton Coldfield analogue signal and that is why I am getting Waltham. Apparently when Sutton Coldfield switches this should be sorted.
They are basically saying it doesn;t matter which direction you point your aerial in it just picks up the strongest signal if you can pick up more than one transmitter.
Apparently there is a Derby relay for Waltham which gets in the way of the Sutton Coldfield signal - is this like the Bolehill issue? In which case why put them on a frequency that people can't get?
Naffed off as I am now paying BT for something I don;t get.
BT blame the transmitters, UK digital blame the transmitters but you can't speak to anyone who is controlling this and get it sorted out.
Seriously nothing wrong before the switch so why did they bother - to rip the public off again as usual!
Is this true? Or is it more BS.
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Ivan Dilks11:36 PM
Hi I have a Hitatchi 46xf355d and have been patiently waiting for HD on Waltham. My set says there is nothing on channel 58. my set or Waltham at fault?
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Friday, 2 September 2011
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jb387:18 AM
Ivan Dilks According to the specifications I have seen that model does not have a DVB-T2 tuner and as such is only an HD ready set, in other words can display HD via an external HD box.
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kB Aerials Sheffield
7:32 AM
7:32 AM
Chris onion
try attenuating the signal while the bt box tunes in an attenuator can be purchased from any aerial installers shop or Maplin electronics
Problem with doing this though is that you could attenuate sutton coldfield too much that it wont pick the correct transmitter up and its a fruitless experience
I can understand your frustration as you can't (in my experience of bt vision) manually tune the boxes you have to let it do a full channel scan - SO BLOODY FRUSTRATING - i had a similar problem where a customers was picking up Billsdale as well as emley moor and it refused to rule out billsdale as a weaker transmitter - the aerial in this situation was pointing at emley moor but Billsdale was on virtually the same angle - at least by sounds of it you have 90 degrees of separation
I tried attenuating the signal there but by the time I had put a big enough attenuator to rule out Billlsdale it destroyed emley moors signal too - so unfortunately that process failed
I solved this customers problem by taking the box home tuning it in on my aerial then taking it back
do you have a friend or relative that receives sutton coldfield with no interference from Waltham
nip over - tune it in then bring it back home
this may solve your problem - its a long shot but sounds like your willing to try anything
Keith
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