Full Freeview on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 920,000 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 Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) mast?
Sandy Heath transmitter - Sandy Heath 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sandy Heath 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sandy Heath transmitter?
BBC Look East (West) 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Cambridge CB4 0WZ, 29km east-northeast (65°)
to BBC Cambridge region - 4 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
ITV Anglia News 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Norwich NR1 3JG, 119km east-northeast (60°)
to ITV Anglia (West) region - 5 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (East)
How will the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 12 Feb 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | ||||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | _local | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C43 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7.4dB) 180kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-7.7dB) 170kW | |
| com7 | (-13dB) 49.6kW | |
| com8 | (-13.1dB) 49.1kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 20kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-20dB) 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sandy Heath transmitter area
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Saturday, 28 September 2013
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Brett Slack12:31 PM
We have had problems for the past two days. Crackly picture, intermittence channels, interference, no picture on a lot of channels. Totally unacceptable. These are probs with a freeview box.
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Brett Slack12:32 PM
I am in corby northants and having problems
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Hellen12:42 PM
Corby
I'm not sure if it's correct but according to the tvandradiohelp website it could be due to a high pressure weather system and nothing can be done till it passes.
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Hellen's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Wendy1:37 PM
Live in Milton Keynes and have lost all channels
And they have still not back today cannot find any info anywhere to say what's happening.
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Judith Ralph1:47 PM
Have just got through to BBC whose automated reply says it is due to high pressure which is letting foreign signals travel further than normal thus interfering with ours... Have left feedback saying a report on radio news would be helpful. This sounds like a fudge to me, or am I just over suspicious??!
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Andy2:13 PM
Wisbech
Thanks for your update Judith Ralph. Signal here in Wisbech awful yesterday and today (and intermittently through the week). Scan an hour ago found only 31 channels, and those prone to massive drop-outs.
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Andy's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Neil3:02 PM
In corby and have had a loss of signal now and then for the past 2 weeks. No signal today (28/09) at 1pm when I switched on but everything is on again. The signal loss seems to happen at random times and usually only affecting the BBC multiplex.
Can't believe the BBC is saying it's down to atmospherics as freeview was supposed to stop that happening.
And freeview say it's nothing to do with a 4g signal or transmitter
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Stephen Penny5:01 PM
Wendy: I will echo those comments about the signal in Wisbech last night. Massive and long lasting loss of signal on several stations.
And spread irregularly across the multiplexes, all of Channel 24, some stations on channel 51 and 52, channel 48 apparently unaffected. And the govt blurb on this was how wonderful it would all be and no co-channel interference!
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mark7:46 PM
Downham Market
pe38 absolutely disgusted with freeview it has always been poor ,now we get hardly any signal ,its usually worse at night but recently its as poor during the day,we have done everything we can do
what a farse, why should we have to pay for a tv licence when we can't view it who can you contact to sort this problem out?
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mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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mark7:51 PM
Downham Market
p.s . I also meant to say BRING BACK ANALOGUE
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mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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