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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Sunday, 21 July 2013
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jb3810:27 AM
Dave Lindsay: These tests that you have carried out somewhat backs up Brian's (located within the Waltham area's) findings insomuch that something associated with COM5 (no matter where its received from) is triggering the problem in the Sony, this being why that the Sony apparently works OK when its been set up on France, simply because no EPG containing the suspect COM5 data has been stored.
This in theory meaning that if the Sony box is set up as normal in UK followed by manually tuning in each of the muxes one at a time "with the exception of COM5" this will result in EPG listings been seen as normal minus everything associated with COM5.
In other words if the BBC mux is stored first the EPG will only indicate LCN numbers relating to all BBC programmes carried by BBCA and nothing above this (meaning numbers), the additional LCN numbers being added to as they are being picked up from each of the muxes subsequently scanned, which of course is the way that LCN numbers are stored in the first place, because if you scrub everything stored and then tune in the SDN mux the EPG listings will start from LCN 010 and with no numbers below this being seen.
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Ian 11:46 AM
Thanks for your post this has really helped me I went to record a programme last night on my Sony HXD-890 and found no channel numbers, I had purchased a 5 year warranty and was going to invoke it but I have followed your procedure and mine is working fine now, I hope Sony send out a patch/fix for this as I suspect many others in the Waltham area are in the same situation.
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jb38: QUOTE: "This in theory meaning that if the Sony box is set up as normal in UK followed by manually tuning in each of the muxes one at a time "with the exception of COM5" this will result in EPG listings been seen as normal minus everything associated with COM5."
Until the next Update, that is, because there is apparently no way of preventing this device from adding any new multiplex it finds.
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It's all working again!
The EPG colours have returned to how they were on the Sony, although those on the Pioneer DVR-440HX are still the "new" cyan (although it hasn't been given a retune which I don't know whether makes any difference).
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peter1:30 PM
Hi. Old Sony recorder locked in update. Could not do anything. Read a post and held start button down till hard drive booted and now back to normal. Thanks to whoever. Norfolk.
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brian1:41 PM
As I said Waltham ch56 (com5)loaded ok last night so I left it tuned in.
This morning the machine had locked up again.
After I did a reset I found a recording I'd done at 10 pm was ok so the problem occurred after that. I did a manual retune again and all of the Waltham channels except 56 tuned ok and had the usual EPG but as soon as I tuned to ch56 the system crashed and had a different, empty, EPG.
A couple of hours ago I did another retune leaving out ch56 and so far it is still working!
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brian: I think you can safely add it back now as I did the same. EPG working again with all channels (set to UK).
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brian2:22 PM
Dave: This is what I thought last night!
I'll leave com5 off for the moment as there are programmes I want to record on the other channels and I don't want to risk loosing them. Will you post tomorrow if your set up is still working ok?
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brian: Yes.
But mine always failed as soon as I added COM5 (by selecting the UHF channel on the signal strength screen).
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jb382:57 PM
Dave Lindsay: Re your 11.46am posting, yes! that's one of the pitfalls, although I suspect that the reason why no option is seen to disable channel updating (albeit it does for software) is possibly because that its tied in with keeping the programme guide information bang up to date in the same way as happens with all Vestel based PVR's, and why you are able to select a programme for recording well in advance of the present time and its there in the guide, unlike in the case of Humax PVR's of the 9200 / 9300 variety where if continually left in standby one is liable to be confronted with blank spaces until the guide catches up.
Pleasing to see that all would appear to be working OK again, and which I suspect is more likely to be connected with alterations having been made (or reversed) to COM 5's EPG data rather than anything connected with Sony.
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