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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 Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Waltham transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C32 (562.0MHz)442mDTG-50,000W
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1 BBC One (SD) East Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C34 (578.0MHz)442mDTG-50,000W
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3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C35 (586.0MHz)442mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C29 (538.0MHz)442mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C37 (602.0MHz)449mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C31 (554.0MHz)449mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LNG
 H -10dB
C41 (634.0MHz)442mDTG-125,000W
Channel icons
from 27th May 2014: 7 Notts TV,

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 28km northwest (306°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
regional news image
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?

BraunstoneTransposer5 km SW Leicester city centre170 homes

How will the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-132013-182013-174 Mar 2020
C/D EEEWW TW TW T
C26LNGLNG
C29SDNSDNSDNSDN
C31com7com7
C32BBCA
C34D3+4
C35C5wavesC5wavesBBCB
C37com8com8
C41_local
C49tv_off BBCABBCA
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4D3+4D3+4
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offArqAArqAArqACOM8tv_off
C57tv_offArqBArqBArqB
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Waltham transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Waltham was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Saturday, 8 December 2012
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CLIVE JOHNSON
10:55 AM
Leicester

I'm very impressed with all the effort Briantist must put in to supply all this information(which has been helpful more than once)and I should like to express my appreciation.

Looking forward to retuning next May!

I have to tune manually to Waltham transmitter otherwise I get problems with Syutton Coldfield competing.

Clive










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Calgacas
12:50 PM

Briantist - my problems are local to the extent that all the local antenna installers know there's an issue with Waltham for NW Leicester/Leics and has been since the last week of October. I know this as I asked them ;-)

The BBC also know about the problem - they've had enough complaints from people in this area. They were in fact the people who said "point the aerial at Sutton Coldfield" as Waltham has ongoing work.

I had zero problems until the engineering works. ZERO. The last 7 weeks have been appalling.

16 minutes? Heh pull the other one, power meter connected directly to aerial tells a different story entirely.

Anyway keep up the good work, this is a useful site for people with problems.

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Sunday, 9 December 2012
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

11:57 AM

Calgacas: Generally speaking the "Possible weak signal" description in engineering information means that there will be people working on the mast at some point.

It is necessary to turn the power levels down because of "air work". However, this is a very strange time of year for such work to be done.

Such work can only be undertaken during daylight and favourable weather conditions. For this reason the power levels are reduced only for the time it takes such work to be done.

At all other times the signal levels are at their contractual level.

It is very likely that your difficulties have a different source and unconnected to the engineering work. Given that the changes to the transmitter are generally speaking programmable it not likely that works that would reduce the signal for you on a long-term basis are being done.

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Briantist
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12:00 PM

CLIVE JOHNSON: Thank you. It is always appreciated to hear such kind words.

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Sam
8:57 PM

Hi jb38, Thanks for your comments and suggestions. We have purchased the Konig booster and fitted it and all TV's are now working after a lot of fine tuning, which the other booster didn't allow. Thanks for the link, it was a really good price and they were very helpful. We are experiencing a little interferance occaisionally still, but have not lost the pictures completely, so I presume it's because of the ongoing work at Waltham, but once again Thank you so much for your help, it has certainly saved us the expense of a aerial engineer. Regards Sam

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jb38
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11:24 PM

Sam: Many thanks for your update on the situation as I always appreciate being informed regarding the outcome of anything suggested, likewise I am pleased to learn that you have achieved a reasonable level of success using the Konig booster, and especially so when taking into account the fact that the engineering work being carried out at the Waltham transmitting station remains with a status of on-going, and something which is unfortunately responsible for the problems experienced by quite a number of disgruntled viewers within the stations service area.

Pleased to have been of assistance and thank you again for the update.

Kind Regards / JB

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Monday, 10 December 2012
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Chattes
4:35 PM

Well, I live 12 miles away from the Waltham mast, we can see it on the skyline, whilst TVs are OK (fingers crossed!) the HDD Blu-Ray player has lost all channels due to 'Weak or No signal' and no amount of retuning will bring them back. Am loath to take player in for repair (only 10 months old) as I'm sure they will tell me there's no problem. Reading everyone elses posts has given me some small comfort, so thanks for that, a very useful site and I'll be passing it onto my friends and neighbours suffering similar problems.

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jb38
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8:50 PM

Chattes: Although Freeview reception from Waltham has been, and still is, a bit iffy at times over the past few weeks what you have reported could suggest that some other factor is coming into the equation, this making me wonder what method you are using to feed the signal from the aerial into your Blue-Ray player as well as your TV's? as a low boost powered splitter should really be used.

Maybe you could give an update as far this is concerned.



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Tuesday, 11 December 2012
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Giles Williams
11:40 AM
Bourne

I am reading these posts with interest. My neighbours and I have all lost signal from Waltham over the last few weeks and it is frankly beyond a joke. I live in PE10.

There are so many people complaining about it that it can't be localised issues. Come on tranmitter people. Sort it out.

Any ideas when the engineering work is going to be complete?

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Giles Williams
11:45 AM
Bourne

Incidentally, I used the BBC's online complaints form and received an e-mail back telling that Waltham was working normally. Beggars belief really.

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