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, 29 December 2013
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Mike Davison9:37 PM
Wetherby
Mike P: really you should get your facts straight. I had a Hitachi IDTV in 2001 receiving the low power DIGITAL signals from Emley Moor before they were doubled in power and some were reduced to 16QAM from 64QAM to make the signal more robust. This IDTV did NOT have an internet connection. I don't think many did in 2001. The digital reception on that set was vastly superior to the analogue reception at my location by the way.
Briantist: thanks for the clarification on Sky's involvement with DTT.
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Monday, 30 December 2013
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SeeMoreDigital11:08 PM
Changing the subject...
Although the 'MHEG' logo appears within my LG TV's GUI, I am unable to select the red button services on BBC 1 HD and BBC 2 HD?
Cheers
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Tuesday, 31 December 2013
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Mike Davison12:40 AM
Wetherby
SeeMoreDigital: It appears that Red Button services do not exist on the HD channels on Freeview(not sure about Freesat). If there isn't room for that service, surely ordinary 'World Sytem' teletext would fit. All the German HD channels on Astra 19.2 have standard teletext. What's wrong with the old adage 'If it's not broken, don't fix it.' At least there would be some information service. We seem to be going backwards sometimes.
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SeeMoreDigital10:28 AM
Thanks Mike,
When I checked BBC 3 HD/CBBC HD, there was no MHEG icon displayed (within my TV's GUI), which is more logical if the red button services don't exist on the HD channels.
I was in London over Christmas and didn't think to check if they were active via Crystal Palace.
I checked Freesat this morning and can confirm that the red button services are active on all the BBC HD channels except the kids ones.
I also checked Virgin Media HD yesterday and can confirm that the red button services are active on all the BBC HD channels including the kids ones. But of-course their platform integrates these services differently.
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Mike Davison11:50 AM
Wetherby
SeeMoreDigital: Everyone thinks that old style teletext has gone but it hasn't. The subtitles can be brought up on my non-freesat Pace HD satellite box by selecting 'text' and the normal 100 page header comes up, then keying '888' and lo and behold subtitles appear on all BBC channels. Bloomberg is another satellite channel that brings up a '100' header line but I can't find any subtitles or further pages. Just in case you think it's a property of the Pace box, it's not, if there's no teletext, it tells me.
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SeeMoreDigital1:38 PM
You're right...
I've just checked on my LG TV and the old 'teletext' style subtitles are still available via DVB-S, along with the standard DVB subtitle system.
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Tuesday, 14 January 2014
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Brian10:48 AM
Over the recent months I've had problems with the programme series link missing in the EPG from BBC1 Waltham (East Mids) transmitter. I can also receive the Sutton transmitter(West Mids) and the link is present there.Sometimes the Waltham link is present when I set the recording but is missing later and sometimes it changes part way through a series.
I can't use the Sutton one to record from as the signal isn't reliable.
I contacted the BBC for advice but they weren't interested.
Has anyone else come across this and does anyone know of a solution the problem?
I use a Sony RDR-HXD870 HD/DVD recorder and don't have any other tuner/recorder to try and see if they respond they same.
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Thursday, 16 January 2014
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ian from notts11:23 AM
Brian, Can you manuel tune your TV? it may be that Sutton is overidding Waltham thus the series link is settling with the wrong transmitter ? if you autotune without the aerial connected (to wipe all stations from memory) then manual tune the Waltham transmitter frequency's one at a time
29, 49, 54, 56, 57, hd 58
This should solve the problem
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Friday, 17 January 2014
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Brian4:54 PM
Ian
Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately this doesn't cure the problem - the series link is missing when I only have Waltham tuned in. I've tried retuning again just to make sure but the problem is still there. I checked a program for next week - Father Brown - which shows a link in Sutton's EPG but not one in Waltham's EPG, even after I retuned and removed Sutton from the guide.
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MikeB8:51 PM
Brian: I've only just spotted your question, but I've got a 895, and I get a problem a bit like that - sometimes you can series link, and sometimes you can't. It tends to be on BBC1 & 2 only, and comes and goes.
I honestly have no answer, but at least I'm not the only one!
My biggest problem is not recording on BBC1 becuase it keeps picking up the 800's channels instead, and then not recording. I thought an attenuator would solve it, but it didn't. My wife is not happy when her programmes dont record, so Thank goodness for the X-Box, which has Iplayer.
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