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, 28 August 2012
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md4:47 PM
Leicester
Location LE5 1UG (Waltham Transmitter). Since 2 weeks ago, signal for some Freeview channels very weak so blocky or no picture. This happens to BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, BBC NEWS. Freeview HD no problem. Get a superb picture on ALL HD channels.
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Monday, 24 September 2012
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Dominic6:49 PM
Grantham
NG33 4LT myself and at least one neighbour are having a lot of interferencc a friend suggested I buy a booster it has had no effect.
Strangely on Sunday at 1700 it cleared for a couple of hours but today is hopeless have you any ideas
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David Hallam7:22 PM
Grantham
NG31 7AR having unwatchable tv for two weeks due to the low signal maintance, do we have a time when the works will be completed?
Just getting terrable brekup, Aerial is in lost but have masterhead amp and was working fine before the 10th of sept.
cheers
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Sunday, 30 September 2012
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Chris Oyitch1:12 PM
Gainsborough
Can not scan for channel 29 (manual tune) says there's a strong signal but will not pick multiplexed channels on that one channel scan. Fitted booster and retried, still same. All other multiplexed channels average same and they work fine. Both on LG tv's. Was working ok. Is this due to engineering works? I can get emley moor SDN mux but that's unwatchable. Both tv's are striaght to own aerials (no recorders inbetween).
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KMJ,Derby4:29 PM
Chris Oyitch: If you were able to receive and store the SDN channels on C29 prior to 26th September 2012, the problem is that following DSO2 at Bilsdale the PSB2 mux from there also uses C29. It is likely that you are receiving a signal from Bilsdale which is strong enough to block reception of the required Waltham mux. The solution really is either to position the Waltham aerial (if possible) where it is screaned from Bilsdale. Alternatively an aerial pointed at Emley Moor is predicted to be able to give good reception of this mux, subject of course to there being no local obstructions in the signal path.
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Friday, 5 October 2012
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Symon11:56 AM
Derby
DE1 3AY: The never ending BBC saga...
Is anyone else in the Derby area having bad pixellation problems with the BBC channels on C61 at the moment? Since they started doing some work on the Waltham transmitter a couple of weeks ago it has gone from slight pixellation to being now unwatchable.
C57 (which has never been very good unless it is raining cats and dogs) is also now completely unwatchable.
I get absolutely perfect reception on all the other channels except for these two. The BBCA and ARQB MUX's have a much lower signal strength than any of the other MUX's.
Aerial is on roof with a booster etc...
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Michael12:03 PM
Symon: Get rid of the booster and see what happens.
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Monday, 29 October 2012
How weak is weak? I've lost all digital transmission and usually I have a great signal.
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Ignore me: we'd moved furniture and knocked out the cable (lol!).
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
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KR9:54 AM
I have been using waltham without issue for several years, with regular retunes of course.
I moved our TV from downstairs to upstairs and all was fine. However, after a retune it isn't getting all channels.
On my TV downstairs, that is getting all channels, but is also now getting multiple channels from another transmitter, which I've not had before.
Is this transmitter still running on low power, or is it running as it should be? I'm wondering whether to repoint Nottingham transmitter instead, even though all neighbours and myself have used waltham.
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