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.
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 
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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
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, 11 December 2012
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TykeEL9:24 PM
Leicester
Hi
I have little (no clue regarding aerials or signals but live in the LE7 area and for the past 7 days have experienced problems with reception. Going on my TV's diagnositcs it is receiving from East Yorks!!!! - but then other channels are receiving from East Mids. Our aerial has not been moved - I have also tried the re-tuning without the aerial and then manually tuning the appropriate channels but to little or no avail - Help.
But please can you explain in straight forward terms - or is it as I fear - something wrong with Waltham Transmitter????
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jb3811:06 PM
TykeEL: On going engineering work has been taking place at the Waltham transmitting station for quite some time now and with random periods of weak signals being experienced by many, and so I would suggest that you once again blank out the channels already stored in the tuners memory then once completed proceed to manually tune in each of Waltham's muxes one at a time, and if all are successfully stored then do not under any circumstances be tempted to try another retune at any time as absolutely nothing is gained by doing this, because any channel that results in a blank screen is not actually lost but just sitting under the reception threshold of your TV or boxes tuner, a signal check whilst on the blank screen proving this point.
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Wednesday, 12 December 2012
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ian from notts6:29 AM
Nottingham
TykeEL
ive had a few people ring me with this and to get round the problem on some tv's ive had to go thro the menu to find "over the air updates" or "new signal message" and turn this OFF as it seems to rescan in standby mode and the tv returns to wrong channels stored.
this means any proper updates will not be auto updated and a manuel tune every time there is a change !
this seems to be a problem for people on waltham in an area where belmont is strong ?
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
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Chattes7:26 AM
Nottingham
jb38 - thanks for your comment; I'm a complete layman at this so apologies for any incorrect names/terms used! The roof aerial connects into an SLx4B 4way aerial amplifier integrated bypass device. 4 co-axial cables feed the signal to various areas of the property, not all of which have TVs connected. If those co-axial cables were to be disconnected, would this help to boost the signal to the 'faulty' TV/Blu-Ray ? Thanks for your time in helping me sort this out, much appreciated.
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Charlie7:42 PM
I live in pe 9 on the edge of Stamford and have a clear view of Waltham with no obstructions in between.We get max signal strength and quality from Waltham and Belmont . Have a Panasonic tv and Panasonic dvd/hdd recorder. Over the last few days we are unable to view/record via the dvd' s epg except on hd channels. The tv is fine ! Very frustrating but I think it's reception issue rather than equipment. Any observations/ suggestions gratefully received ! Thank you.
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jb389:07 PM
Charlie: Without having knowledge of the model involved the standard procedure for dealing with problems such as yours is to carry out a complete reset (or default setting) on the recorder, this then followed by carrying out a manual tune on each of Walthams muxes, "manual" being used to avoid storing Belmont's lower channel numbers during an auto tune, "unless" that is the model you have has a "region selection" choice box pop up after an auto tune.
The reason I suggest this procedure is because I reside not that terribly far away from your location (suspected one anyway) and have one of my PVR's (Humax 9300) permanently tuned to Waltham for purposes of making daily recordings from both BBC and ITV channels, and on checking today's recordings a few minutes ago I cant say that I found anything abnormal in operation.
Just a small additional point, although its not likely to apply in your case anyway, but if you do use any type of booster system on your aerial system then for test purposes it should be by-passed.
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Charlie10:36 PM
Thanks for your response jb 38. I have done a default setting reset and have a region setting option which I set accordingly. No difference ! Frustrating thing is that I can set view/ record on hd channels but on all the others the epg disappears as soon as I try to set something.
Interestingly, on routine channel updates the tv invariably default tunes to Waltham but the dvd recorder to Belmont.
It's a Panasonic xw 380 by the way and I don't have any boosters. Dvd has worked fine for 18 months since new and the tv about 5 years.
I have no problems whatsoever using the tv's epg.
Must just add that the roof aerial is 20 plus years old but we get excellent signal strength/quality readings. Thank you !
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jb3811:54 PM
Charlie: Well, judging by what you have mentioned plus my own findings when using a PVR on the same station could point to a problem having developed in your recorder, and although I appreciate that this might be a bit of an inconvenience to try, but once again scrub everything stored in the recorders tuner memory and then carry out another auto-tune, however this time when the region choice box comes on after the auto-scan choose Yorks and Lincs (Belmont) as your area.
Once all is completed try pre-setting a recording on Belmonts EPG and see what happens, although if the problem shows up again then I am afraid that the Panasonic recorder is defective.
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Friday, 14 December 2012
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jb3812:29 AM
Chattes: Sorry for the delay in replying, but I just noticed your reply to my query whilst running down the list.
But with regards to your Blue-Ray player, could you please give an update on the model being referred to? but apart from that what I would like to know is what your signal level is indicated as being when checked on a TV fed from the SLX booster / splitter, then whilst the TV is still sitting on the signal check screen swap over the aerial feeds used by the Blue-Ray player and the TV, e.g: Blue-ray over to TV and the TV's aerial feed over to the Blue-Ray device, as this eliminates any possibility of one of the SLX's outputs being defective.
By the way, leaving any of the outputs on the booster unconnected does not really make that much of a difference to the signal level, albeit that its written in various technical articles that any output not used should always be loaded up using a series of 75 ohm dummy loads, but once again the difference in real life terms is only fractional and as such can be disregarded.
Another test to try is by using an old set top aerial coupled into the Blue-ray device, this test for purposes of getting an idea of the signal strength you are genuinely receiving (exc TV's indication) as the problem with digital reception is that the symptoms experienced for an excessively high level of signal is "exactly" the same as for a weak one.
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jb383:35 PM
Charlie: I had also meant to add to the latter part of my reply "unless the device requires a firmware update", as according to info seen it should be version 1.45 from an over air download made on 19.04.2011, this download for purposes of stabilising the EPG.
Although your user manual gives info on firmware updates on page 87 the link below gives a bit more detailed info.
DMR-XW380EB Firmware Download (UK) | DVD/PVR | Digital AV | Consumer Products | Support | Panasonic Global
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