Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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, 20 September 2011
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Mr John Royce8:30 AM
Wigston
Please could you tell me (after final switchover has occured)when all the multiplexes will be transmitted at full power
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Bob12:22 PM
Post code LE10 receiving from Waltham mast, high gain aerial with splitter/booster 2 TVs , pioneer plasma showing high quality and high signal strength, since change over and a number of retunes we are getting more pixilation on screen,
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Mike Dimmick2:34 PM
Mr John Royce: You could be using Waltham or Sutton Coldfield. If Sutton Coldfield, tomorrow after 6am. Waltham still has one multiplex running at lower power, until 6am on 12 October.
Note that Waltham SDN - the one on lower power - is also outside the analogue aerial group, and a grouped aerial - one designed to cover only that group - will have little gain down at C29.
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Brian.
The channel number is missing from MUX A on the Waltham page.
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
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graham poole11:01 AM
post code LN68PP had new aerial fitted pointng to waltham and picked up the channel fine on my Humax pvr,recently have lost central station and picking up yorkshire(pesumably from the back of my other aerial thats set to belmont) - the picture has vertical lines on it,the picture from belmont is excellent on my second tv.Have retuned the pvr but still have the same problem
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Monday, 26 September 2011
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Richard1:51 PM
Leicester
Hi Briantist,
Have had lots of problems since switchover receiving all BBC on c61 and can't pick up antying at all on C56 or C58. Also, lost Sky news at the end of July.
Have tried all retuning options a number of times.
postcode: LE1 4QF
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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brian4:40 PM
Nottingham
I live in NG2 and get my signal from the Waltham transmitter. Since switchover I have struggled to get quality non-HD BBC channels on either my set top box ( an old Inverto ) or my new Panasonic HD TV. Looking at signal strength on both bits of hardware I see very variable signal quality for everything on CH61 but consistent good quality for all other channels. I have an old non high gain aerial and live on the edge of the transmission area.
AM at a loss after reading all hints on the site to work out what the issue might be . ANy suggestion greatfully received.
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ian from notts9:21 PM
richard
58 is hd from waltham and you need a freeview hd tuner for that.
61 is correct'
56 may be caused by a video or skybox with an rf modulator set to a close signal, this could also be the problem with 58 if you think you should recieve it ?
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