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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Sunday, 16 June 2013
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jb385:19 PM
Dominic Payer (CC40): With regards to that said being quite true, but as far as I understand it CC40 was experiencing the problem immediately after having manually tuned in Walthams PSB2 frequency and so waiting time wasnt really involved.
CC40: But though "if" you can receive Belmont at a reasonable strength then try scanning COM4 / Ch30 545.8Mhz or COM6 / Ch60 785.8Mhz as both of these channels have negative offsets on their frequencies.
Best deleting everything already stored before carrying out these tests.
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Monday, 17 June 2013
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DarrenG6:16 PM
Loughborough
FAO CC40.
I have exactly the same problem. It started for me at the same time as PSB1 moved at the end of May.
I have restored my Media Center to a previous disc image and the problem is still there. This leads me to believe that the problem is not with the PC.
One thing that I have noticed (see if you haev this) is that I have a strange VIDEO option on my info menu (i on the remote). This gives me the option to select one of 4 'videos', whatever that means.
I am at a loss with this.
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DarrenG's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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DarrenG6:27 PM
Loughborough
Oh, and I have 2 Blackgold BGT3620 DVB-T2 tuners, which have worked faultlessly until now.
Given that you, and others, have the same problem as I do; I now have to answer the question 'Why does the TV work and the PC not?'.
To that I have no real idea. As far as I now PSB2 hasn't changed and I cannto see why the PSB1 move should have triggered this, if indeed it did.
Having said that I might have to might just have to wait and see what happens.
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DarrenG6:28 PM
Loughborough
...and I am a terrible typist ;-)
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013
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Dominic Payer6:22 AM
CC40: The PCTV 290e is a single tuner device. It offers both an SD and an HD tuner to WMC. Only the HD tuner should be enabled and configured in WMC.
DarrenG: Are only the DVB-T tuners selected and configured for your BG3620 cards?
I have 2 BG3620s in Keyworth and have no problems. My WMC is with Windows 8, but would not expect any difference with Windows 7.
There is a new beta driver for the 3620, issued 13 June 2013, on the Blackgold site.
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Harry C9:51 AM
Loughborough
Hi since this work started some weeks ago there has been an ever increasing problem with the Vodafone signal in the Sileby area (IE) LE12 7EF I'm wondering if this is a coincidence ?
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Harry's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Harry C: Yes it's a coincidence!
The Waltham transmitter is 13 miles away which is much further than mobile phone signals work across.
According to 'Sitefinder' Mobile Phone Base Station Database there is a Vodafone base station on Manor Drive where there is a mobile phone tower shown on Streetview. Sitefinder may not be up-to-date.
Has a building gone up between that base station and the area you have difficulty getting a signal in?
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Harry C: At the same location, Sitefinder indicates there is an O2 3G base station. The O2 coverage checker indicates base stations and this one is shown, which may be an indication that it is still there.
The base station is at the front of Soar Valley Timber.
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DarrenG12:12 PM
Loughborough
DominicP: If I understand your question, then yes. The cable tuners are not configured, just the DVB-T2 tuners. I tried disabling the tuners individually to see if one of them had a fault but they both worked fine on all the other multiplexes. Yes, I saw the new drivers and tried them - no effect unfortunately.
I find it odd that some people with different PC configurations have the same problem that I have but you are fine with the same tuners as me. Maybe there is a clue buried there somewhere...
It is very puzzling. If I did not get PSB2 at all (TV has 100% signal now) then I would have another thing to look into.
In my head I have kind of ruled out problems with reception as my TV is fine and so is your Media Center!
So, PC not changed.
Win7 MCE tunes all multiplexes.
Then PSB2 works intermittently.
Um....
My Media Center is a really quite 'vanilla' build. I only added iplayer and PowerDVD to play blurays.I have done a few minor tweaks but can't really see these being an issue but need to check. I don't really want to rebuild the PC but will probably now go for a 100% standard install, load the necessary drivers and try MCE/different PVR software.
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Harry C1:12 PM
Thank you for your help. I have tried to contact Vodafone but trying to get info out of them is like pulling hens teeth
Harry C:
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