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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, 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
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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Monday, 21 May 2012
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jb389:16 PM
Matt: If you do find it necessary to use manual tuning procedure then everything stored should first of all be deleted by carrying out a "factory reset" on your TV or box, this sometimes called "default setting", but if you see "first time tune" or whatever you can use that instead provided it offers a manual scan option, as some devices don't.
Any problem in carrying this out come back with the model number of whatever you are using.
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DErek9:48 PM
Luton
Stephen / Dave: My Postcode is LU1 4AL This is about the highest point due south of Luton. I have just remembered that one of the reasons for pointing at London was that there was a broadcast repeater so close and so strong that on analogue it caused ghosting when pointing at Sandy Heath. At least that's how I remeber it.
I'm using a Humax PVR9200T that also now sometimes fails to start programed recordings even though I have done multiple re-tunes. Everytime I do a retune it wipes out all the planned rcordings.
As far as the arial is concerned this TV is in my Study upstairs and has its own loft arial which is a single reflector. I can't remember how many elements it has but its a reasonable size.
I will see what manual tuning I can do when its finished recording.
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DErek's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
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Stephen P1:21 AM
. UK digital TV reception predictor
You seem to have a choice of fairly strong signals - which may be your problem! NB link above is conservative about what aerial you need.
If you have other aerials try the kit elsewhere.
May well be worth paying a LOCAL aerial man for his local knowledge of your many options
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012
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Matt4:14 PM
Tried everything you said jb38, but i only have 16 stations now (not all 16 are even stable) i checked and my stations i have are coming from Sandy Heath. I went from having all stations perfectly to having just 16 semi stable ones after the May 8th switchover.
Im 2 miles away from Downham Market.
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Stephen P5:38 PM
+ UK digital TV reception predictor
Matt you seem to have a lot of options - need a full postcode for better data.
You should be able to work out what you are getting from the channels numbers and the muxes they are on.
What sort of aerials
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Lisa7:28 PM
Hi again jb38
I've been reading the new posts on this forum regularly and have been thinking about my own situation too, and I agree entirely with Ian's post on Friday 18 May 2012 4:06PM and would like to see Sandy Heath revert back to the settings it had before the upgrade on 9th May - not that this will happen (!), but I just wondered is there anyone 'official' who is responsible for the upgrades and who we can contact directly to raise our concerns about the loss of numerous FREEVIEW channels?
Perhaps if enough people who have been having problems since 9th May and have posted on this forum complain to the appropriate parties concerned, they may do something about it.
any information you are able to give would be very greatly appreciated.
many thanks as always
kindest regards
Lisa :-).
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Matt7:42 PM
Downham Market
Hi Stephen P. Im picking up stations on (27 - 24 - 21)
My postcode is
I have no idea what my ariel is, but what i do know is that my ariel works fine because i was picking up all the stations no problem before the May 8th switchover, so this is nothing to do with my set up this end! lol
Im not bein told i have to spend even more money, this whole digital switchover has been an exspensive balls up that we were forced to pay for.
It seems others are losing lots of stations after May the 8th too huh?
So my options are?
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Matt's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb388:39 PM
Matt: These channels mentioned are from Sandy, but though Tacolneston is predicted as giving superior reception on that code and so its a case of where your aerial is actually facing towards, as for Tacolneston it should be pointing at just about due East as its located at 93 degrees @ 32 miles, whereas Sandy is at 220 degrees @ 40 miles.
Tacolneston uses channels 55 - 59 - 62 - 42 - 45 - 50, so if your aerial is facing East then delete what you have stored and manually tune in each of these muxes, as an auto-tune will usually always store anything lower than these albeit some are intertwined with Sandy's channels.
Another point you should always remember is, that if a person finds that after having carried out a retuning exercise that they now get less of a channel count than they previously had, then dependant on equipment used it can sometimes only mean that duplicates of a channel no longer exist rather than an actual channel as such having been lost, albeit fully admitting that it might actually be the case of a channel or two missing.
What make / model of TV or box are you using?
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Kelda10:39 PM
Bedford
Hi, I wonder if anybody can help.
Recently we have lost signal all channels on COM4. They either display pixalated or with the message "no or bad signal". This seems to have coincided with the updates earlier in May (have missed 3 weeks of Justified!). We only noticed when we came to watched recorded programmes from these channels. This continues to be a problem following a retune. We had this problem previously, but it was fixed after our switchover last year.
Our postcode is MK41 7HN, and get our signal from Sandy Heath.
Is there anything I can do to get these channels back?
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Kelda's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Stephen P11:37 PM
Matt if you look at the transmission frequencies above it lookls likely that your aerial is designed to get the low numbers previously in use but NOT the high ones. So when SDN moved recently from 31 to 51 you lost it.
Sounds like new aerial
Kelda COM4=SND - so same answer.
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