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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Thursday, 28 February 2013
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Adrian Bird10:16 PM
jb 38; the same problem occured on 16th Feb,
was any work taking place on that date.
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Friday, 1 March 2013
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jb383:36 PM
Adrian Bird: Unfortunately I am unable to make any retrospective checks as far as engineering information is concerned as its updated on a weekly basis, however as a person who also uses the Waltham transmitter (located West side of Stamford) I can say that reception from there has been problematic at times since about mid January, the channel that has recently been causing most problems being mux Ch56, however on checking about 10 minutes ago I see that its Ch57's turn today as far as it indicating erratic quality, mux Ch56 indicating stable.
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Sunday, 10 March 2013
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Mr P Watmough1:25 PM
I have discovered that Waltham (better known as the "heap" of the week, even the mast fell down some years ago). It is regularly on low power but it is never reported WHY ?
It would help everbody if they made it public
that Waltham again had problems. I dred 4G coming. Freeview has no chance of providing a stable service.The picture quality is very poor, often on reduced bandwidth Yes I do know when it is on low power I have very high spec, spectrum analyzers fully calibrated and up to date.
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When 4G goes live in the 800 band I have decided that if there are any problems my aerial is coming down. I will rely totally on Sky and Freesat from Sky. Terrestrial TV has been penny pinched and squeezed to death in my opinion. Murdock and Branson must be laughing all the way to the bank.
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jb3811:48 PM
Ian: Well although I cant disagree with anyone using Freesat (not necessarily Sky's version) for purposes of obtaining reliable reception for 99.9% of the time, you have to also appreciate that you are only predicted to have a variable to poor level of reception from the Waltham transmitter because of your location, Sutton Coldfield giving a 100% rating for PSB channels and not far off 100% for the commercial multiplexes.
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Monday, 11 March 2013
At the moment My signal is 100% on all channels and has been for years. There isn't much point in tuning in to Sutton coalfield as that has coverage for the west Midlands and I live in the east Midlands.
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jb389:09 PM
Ian: Well, there are always pockets of good reception within any area that's generally considered as bad, albeit with yourself being fortunate enough to be in one of choice areas contrary to what's indicated, as the terrain indicator shows a couple of natural obstructions to the signal path from the Waltham transmitter starting from roughly just under four miles away from your location, this being the most likely reason why a number of different tests codes made around the Hinckley area when fed into DUK's predictor indicates reception from Waltham as being from variable to poor, and in one case no reception of the commercial muxes being possible.
This being the case, although I do appreciate that you prefer to view the East Midlands news services rather than the West the fact remains that "transmission wise" you are in Sutton Coldfield's coverage area, Sutton Coldfield being @ 18.6 miles whereas Waltham is 31 miles.
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013
The majority of aerials in East Hinckley point to Waltham, in West Hinckley its about 50/50. The predictor on this site shows Hinckley as strong reception from Waltham. I have had many an argument with the so called professionals trying to tell me that I cant get Waltham, 1 even told me I wasn't receiving Waltham even though I was. As I said there is no point in anyone watching TV from the wrong transmitter even if it is the nearest if they want a news program that covers there area. Another reason satellite is a better option, you can choose any region you want.
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jb3811:47 PM
Ian: Sorry, but I beg to differ regarding good reception being indicated as that's not what I see on the map which I assume that you are referring to, because if the post code you have entered is actually where you are located (Langdale Road ?) and not one from somewhere nearby, then even when using the map on this site you are sitting right on the doorstep of a dead spot (to the East) for reception as far as Waltham is concerned, albeit though not where Sutton Coldfield is involved as you have to remember that the map opens showing the coverage of the latter mentioned station likewise all of the aerials seen in your road are facing in the direction of SC, you having to click on Walthams icon to view its predicted coverage area.
I do appreciate that the images used to view the aforementioned aerials are not bang up to date, and with the possibility existing that some of the aerials seen might well have been swung around to Waltham since they had first appeared, but as far as anyone in the past having maybe tried to maintain that you weren't receiving from Waltham I am most certainly not doing, because judging by what you have said you obviously are, but in my opinion only because that you are lucky enough to be in a relatively good spot for reception from that station.
You should have a check using DUK's predictor on the right hand side of your posting, as although any predictions that are given can only be that (predictions) and as such errors will always exist, but even when allowing for these possible errors the predictions made on DUKs site cannot be totally disregarded by them being so universally negative as far as reception from Waltham is concerned.
Of course you do not really have to use the post code map, because if you blow up the picture at the top of this page you can see the dead spot that I am referring to albeit without your exact location being indicated.
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Never blown the map up before, very interesting because some of the streets in the dead spot have aerials pointing at Waltham.
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