Full Freeview on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 920,000 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 Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) mast?
Sandy Heath transmitter - Sandy Heath 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sandy Heath 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sandy Heath transmitter?
BBC Look East (West) 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Cambridge CB4 0WZ, 29km east-northeast (65°)
to BBC Cambridge region - 4 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
ITV Anglia News 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Norwich NR1 3JG, 119km east-northeast (60°)
to ITV Anglia (West) region - 5 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (East)
How will the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 12 Feb 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | ||||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | _local | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C43 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7.4dB) 180kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-7.7dB) 170kW | |
| com7 | (-13dB) 49.6kW | |
| com8 | (-13.1dB) 49.1kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 20kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-20dB) 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sandy Heath transmitter area
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Thursday, 3 November 2011
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Pete3:39 PM
Briantist,
Thanks for further advice, however this did not change anything. I have now managed to have a look at the signal strength and quality on channell 67 it comes up poor and weak respectively. All the other channels from Sandy Heath transmitting a bouquet of services all register very good and strong respectively. Any further ideas please?
Pete
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Pete: To be honest, you might just have to wait three weeks until 23 November 2011 when the multiplex moves to C52.
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Pete7:20 PM
Briantist,
OK. Thanks for the response and advice. I will see what happens on or shortly after November 23rd.
Thanks again.
Pete
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Thursday, 10 November 2011
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kaz edwards4:20 PM
Luton
just had new ariel installed, pointing towards crystal palace, live in lu2 0pu postcode, picture has been breaking up, lose picture, and it says no signal, do you think we should be with sandy heath instead? would they have to move ariel around or can we retune. HELP
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kaz's: ...
kaz edwards: Yes, you need to use Sandy Heath, yes you need to point the aerial at the transmitter to get services from it.
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Steve P8:52 PM
Clive windy pure guesswork, but there might be equipment under test using C52 but not sending a readable signal.
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Mike Dimmick10:01 PM
Clive Windy: Transmissions can travel a very long way, sometimes - under particular weather conditions - far further than planned. You can still get enough signal to detect even if it's not usable. I suspect the transmission on C52 is Emley Moor near Huddersfield.
Your mother's box must be one of those that simply stores the first version found rather than the best quality or strongest. See Digital Region Overlap for ideas on how to handle this.
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Sunday, 13 November 2011
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jason8:14 PM
i am having trouble tunning into itv 3 and all that go with this. sometimes it will work and other times nothing. i have also lost my hd channels. any ideas. postcode is pe28, warboys.
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jason: That multiplex that carries ITV3 among others is on lower power than the rest. On 23rd November its power will be increased to its final level so try retuning on or after then.
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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