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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Saturday, 26 October 2013
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Ben Whittle7:58 PM
Nottingham
Hi
I'm not able to get any signal for BBC B from the Waltham transmitter. I believe this should be on channel 58 but my set is finding nothing on it at the frequency 770mhz and bandwidth 8mhz. I am able to receive good signals from channels 29, 49, 54, 56 and 57 but nothing from 58. I understand BBC B is a HD broadcast that requires a DVB-T2 tuner and I believe I do have this. Please can you advise what the problem may be?
My setup is;
Location: NG10 3TE
Transmitter: Waltham
Tuner: Samsung 46F6300 TV
Aerial: Wide band loft installation
Thanks for any advice you can give.
Ben
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MikeB9:27 PM
Ben Whittle: Any F Samsung (2013) has a Freeview HD tuner. Waltham is certainly fine, since thats what I'm using (albeit in SD). Could be your aerial isn't picking up the higher frequency? Perhaps one of the reception/aerial gurus can help.
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Ben Whittle11:48 PM
Cheers mikeb. I too can get the SD programmes from Waltham. What I find strange is that I get zero HD (channel 58) reception, not even a poor a poor quality signal. Is this an aerial issue or am I making some other mistake?
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Sunday, 27 October 2013
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Andrew Clinton1:20 PM
Are there problems at Waltham Transmitter? It says "Service is not running" on Mux - COM5 (ArqA) and COM6 (ArqB).
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Sunday, 10 November 2013
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DaveW9:44 PM
Nottingham
I'm in the NG13 area. Echoing some of the earlier comments my HD reception broke up one evening late September and has been unavailable since. Re-tuned several times, keep getting Yorks & Lincs as BBC1/ITV. Re-positioned aerial, boosted signal as recommended, signal strength genrally OK. Can get E Midlands/Central on channels 800/801, but daly seems to change between 800/801 and 804/805. What's going on?? Has pwer on Waktham been reduced? Is it new 4G transmissions? Interstingly, older equipment not built for HD and not r-tuned seems to cope better than newer HD model TV. Is it going to get better in Jan 2014 as indicated by charts?
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DaveW: If your TV is giving you East Yorks & Lincs then it is tuned to Belmont and this needs correcting.
If your TV was tuned to Waltham prior to the retune then all you suceeded in doing was "untuning" the TV, which is shooting yourself in the foot.
There may be a regional or network selection, whereby you can choose East Yorks & Lincs or Central/E Midlands, this in actual fact choosing which transmitter to use.
Failing that, manual tuning or unplugging the aerial for the first 30% of the scan should do it. If you unplug the aerial for the first 30%, you will need to manually add COM4 (ITV3 etc) from Waltham which is on UHF channel 29.
If there is going to be one channel from Waltham that is affected by 4G signals broadcasting at 800MHz then it will by the HD one because it is on the highest channel of all of Waltham's.
If, having reverted the TV back to Waltham, you are still without HD services then try manually tuning to UHF channel 58, selecting DVB-T2 mode if there is such an option (the two modes being DVB-T and DVB-T2). If you have no joy and you have a signal amplifier (booster) in circuit then bypass it and try scanning C58.
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Thursday, 14 November 2013
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I J Williams7:39 PM
I have a Grundig model GU22WDVD3 this was first tuned into Suttoncoalfield I want now to reset it to Waltham I have tried auto and manual but every time it goes back to Sutton coal field yet my aerial is set for Waltham all other sets are ok
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Wednesday, 20 November 2013
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Ian Jones9:12 AM
Lincoln
Hello , I lve at LN5 9GF. The signal broke up first on Sunday at breakfast, then returned until the evening when it broke up again. Monday was perfect no problems. Tuesday and today so far , breaking up all day unable to watch anything.
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MikeP
9:39 PM
9:39 PM
Ian:
Are you receiving your signals from Belmont or Waltham? Both transmitters are having engineering works carried out and that may affect reception.
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Thursday, 21 November 2013
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Ian Jones9:26 AM
Lincoln
Hello MikeP,
My ariel points towards Waltham. Yesterday we had no reception 8am to 11am then perfect until 5.30pm then totally broken up all evening. I presume because it is working intermittently there is nothing wrong with my equipment, but woud reason your engineering works is the problem? When can we expect normal reception?
rgds Ian
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