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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Saturday, 20 July 2013
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brian7:09 PM
Hi
I'm a newcomer but I'm using Waltham and may have some useful information.
I got up this morning and went to check a recording on my Sony RDR-HXD870 and found that Freeview had stopped working. After a lot of "messing about", and a number of machine resets,using Stop and Power Off, and then retuning manually , I found that ch 56 is the culprit. I don't know what it is doing but as soon as I try to tune it in, either in isolation or with other channels, it trashes Freeview. It appears to be putting a different format EPG on-screen.
I've retuned the machine but have left ch 56 off and it appears to be doing fine(at the moment!). A cheap STB I have is working fine!
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Jo7:31 PM
Gillingham
brian: I have the same model recorder as you, but I can't even turned my machine on! although I know there is power as the screen is displaying UPDATE and I can hear the fan going. Has anyone had success with contacting Sony? because they have not replied to my email!!
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jb387:55 PM
brian: Very interesting! as that mux channel corresponds to COM5/ArqA, this making me curious as to the outcome if any other owners of these models (Dave Lindsay?) cared to delete everything stored followed by carrying out a manual tune on their particular stations COM5/ArqA mux as, I cant really see the significance of this commercial channel as software updating etc via a download uses the PSB1/BBCA mux.
That said, if everyone who had complained of experiencing this problem had indicated their location this would automatically have satisfied my curiosity "if" they were known to reside in an area where they were only served by a relay station, relays not transmitting COM channels.
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jb388:08 PM
Jo: This is the advice given by Dave Lindsay to another user of these devices earlier on this evening.
>>> Press and hold the Power/Standby button on the machine for about 5 seconds to get it out of the Update state (there is no need to power it off at the mains) <<<
By the way you will not receive any communications from Sony until Monday (at the earliest), as just like most other companies their office is closed at weekends.
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brian8:08 PM
Jo
Mine was like this.
I left mine all morning thinking the the Up Grade would finish but it didn't.
There is no guarantee the following will work, but it did for me.
Important - Don't use the remote for the following.
1 - Try pressing and holding down the Power button on the machine. You may have to do this more than once.
2 - Turn the power on
3 - Hold down the stop button anmd then press and hold the Power button (This resets the machine)
4 - Turn the Power on.
Use Hand Control from now on.
At this point you will have no Digital channel indication when you step through with the Input button.
Go to the set up menu and Initial Set Up.
Set Date and Time.
Set EPG to Digital
Set Software Updates to Manual.
Go to Digital Tuner
Go to Signal Check
Select ch 29 Waltham Channel and Select Add New Channels when the signal is present.
Repeat for the other Waltham Channels but leave out ch 56 for the moment.
NOTE
I've just been to check my set up and ch 56 now loads correctly!
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jb38: Mine was recording Film4 (COM6) when it went off. It continued recording a blank screen.
Prior to going blank the picture went upwards once or twice, just as in the days of analogue without a vertical hold - for that reason I first suspected that the tuner had gone.
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jb388:34 PM
brian: I have a sneaking suspicion that a few others who have also experienced this problem might well be trying out your procedure for themselves albeit with the qualification of nothing being guaranteed, but though so long as they remember NOT to use the channels numbers you have mentioned (Ch29 / Ch56) but the COM4/ SDN then COM5/ArqA channel numbers used by the station they receive from.
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jb388:57 PM
Dave Lindsay: Yes, and can fully understand the reason for you having suspected that your tuner had packed in, because if it had the symptoms would have been exactly the same.
I have to say though, that when I first seen these problems being mentioned this morning I wondered what your own findings would be, as I had only noticed late yesterday evening that you had previously made a posting commenting on a suspected EPG problem you were experiencing, and had typed out a short reply (not in the reply box as I copy and paste into it) along the lines that I felt the problem was more likely to be caused by a software glitch within the actual box rather than the data sent out by the transmitters involved.
However after having seen the sheer numbers of people complaining I decided to scrub what I had previously typed out as it wouldn't really have added to that already known.
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jb38: My Sony is recording at present so I might have a go tomorrow and see if tuning in the PSB channels only makes a difference.
If you are referring to the issue I had with timer recordings set for LCN001 (BBC One) where the EPG Link was on and where, seemingly, at random intervals it decided to record from one of the BBC Ones in my 800s instead then I don't think this has anything to do with the current widespread issue:
Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) Full Freeview transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
We also have a Pioneer DVR-440HX and the colour scheme of its EPG has also changed, along with the now and next box and the information box which gives the blurb for the current or next programme.
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The issue only appears when COM5 is tuned.
I tried running Easy Setup (having set the country back to UK), doing the unplug aerial trick so as to store only PSB2 on C44 (Emley Moor). The EPG worked fine and the broadcast pictures were available (no black screen). I then added PSB1, COM4, COM6 and then COM5 at which point it gave up. Prior to adding COM5 the EPG was available, complete with programme titles. Having added it the EPG has no programme titles.
So I tried again, this time picking up PSB2 only during the scan. I then added COM5 manually and it the fault showed.
Interestingly there is something with the picture when it goes wrong when that picture is black. What happens seems a bit random but the effect is something appearing momentarily (split second) on the screen such as a coloured line at the top of the screen or some other momentarily blip, blob or pixel of colour/white.
I've just done it again, storing PSB2 and then adding COM5. Having exited the menu (having added COM5) ITV displayed momentarily with the picture stopping and jumping back and forward a frame about three times, this reminding me of the pause function on VHS. The screen then went blank although the EPG screen is accessible, it having no programmes even though it did when only PSB2 was stored.
I repeat that when it failed yesterday evening it was recording from COM6 and so couldn't possibly have been tuned to COM5. Why then does it appear that the fault lies with COM5?
The only possibility I can think of is that this has something to do with the fact that the same EPG data is broadcast on all muxes and that something which relates to a service on COM5 is corrupted or otherwise doesn't agree with these models.
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