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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Friday, 17 October 2014
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Mike Davison7:52 PM
Briantist: However googling has given this link :-
BBC - BBC Connected Red Button devices - Inside the BBC
Which is not a lot of help for me as I have a Toshiba TV. (LS226RN)
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014
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Mike Seach3:46 PM
Leicester
Is there a problem with The leicester transmitter, our TV has lost the signal....tried all the usual switch on/off reconnect the aerial etc.
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Seach3:49 PM
Leicester
Is there a problem with the signal for the Leicester transmitter?
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
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Scott Anthony Andrews12:14 PM
Sleaford
I believe the postcode for this transmitter to be incorrect; I did a lookup for LE14 4AF and it's listed there:
Id: "NP|osgb5000000001340549",
TOID: "osgb5000000001340549",
Company: "",
Address: "Mast 532M From Covert Farm Garthorpe Lane. 55M From Unnamed Road",
Street: "Unnamed Road",
Place: "Waltham",
Latitude: "52.8014",
Longitude: "-0.8008",
Easting: "480943.1",
Northing: "323326.9",
OSBaseFunction: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS",
Type: "NonPostal"
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Scott's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 9 November 2014
Most of Hinckley in S.W.Leicestershire has never been able to pick up a useable signal from Waltham(either analogue or digital) infact digital is far worse than the old analogue yet both BBC and ITV claim otherwise and refuse to help. If there are specific news items in Hinckley the teams come out from Nottingham do the interviews and camera shots - yet we can't watch the result .
Don't respond we get it on Virgin Cable (fed from Leicester) or Sky Satellite - the map is for terrestrial coverage from the actual Waltham mast - Freeview
I have asked BBC, ITV, Ofcom and the local Borough Council several times why we cant get a local relay but they both answer that as we have since the 1950's got our terrestrial TV from a strong signal from Sutton Coldfield (earlier ITV-ATV from Lichfield) then we are properly served as Midlands , pity about the so-called 'East Midlands'. So may I suggest you at UK FREE TV go back to the compilers of the east midlands/Waltham transmitter coverage map and ask them to perhaps do a survey based not on fiction but real fact!
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Wednesday, 24 December 2014
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Dylan 12:19 PM
Hello I get all channels 90% . apart from CH 57 . yesterday MUX . that's only 10 % and blocks come up why is this its always been this way all other channels are perfect . so why not MUX ch57.
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Sunday, 28 December 2014
This coverage map is very miss-leading as it shows areas of Leicestershire and even Warwickshire where the signal is no use at all , Hinckley , Nuneaton and many areas around rely upon Sutton Coldfield . I have phoned both BBC and ITV but they seem confused and the so called 'East Midlands' and West Midlands political sub regions only confuses matters so often Hinckley (in S.Leics) news items are not actually seen in Hinckley because of the damnable situation whereby East Midlands is based not in Birmingham (capital city of the Midlands for at least two centuries, but Nottingham . A Whitehall cock-up we never asked for.
So the situation is Freeview has to be from Sutton' (which we have been served reliably from since the old days of VHF B/W since the 1950's) and Sky boxes are set to Nottingham , Virgin cable comes to Hinckley from Leicester so it is East Midlands which means news of our neighbour over the Watling St (A5) doesn't get shown . Might I again ask for one Midlands and if neaded perhaps a longer regional news to cover ALL our region and please stop publishing a map thats obviously wrong.
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MikeP
8:43 PM
8:43 PM
Rog
Birmingham has been well recognised as the main city (only countries have capital cities) of the WEST midlands for many, many years. Nottingham has been regarded by a great many as the main city for the East Midlands. Almost all who live within the geographical area commonly recognised as East Midlands (mainly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, parts of Lincolnshire, parts of Northamptonshire and parts of south east Staffordshire) would not consider Birmingham as having any cultural of even ethnic relationship with them. I lived in Nottinghamshire (Vale of Belvoir) for many years and certainly did not want West Midlands nes stories replacing those relating to the East Midlands. Neither did many of my customers in the East Midlands coal fields want anything to do with weat midlands notions.
The problem you are describing has nothing to do with politics, more to the terrain that affects signal reception, and always did in analogue days so it is nothing new at all.
I, for one, would not like to see only a 'Midlands' region at all, we need to keep the separation of services. What would someone in Stamford, Lincolnshire want with 'local news' from Telford? Most do not want that degree of blanket coverage, that's why the providers separated out the East and West services many, many years ago.
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Sunday, 4 January 2015
Mike P I suggest you appreciate my point better and living in Nottingham (where my late father was born) hardly helps you understand when the BBC reporters, mic and camera comes out from the fabled 'east' Midlands , does the interviews for their 'East Midlands Today' and tells folks who view Sutton Coldfield the item will be on either later or tomorrow but because of the 'divide' suiting those in Nottingham with a clear coverage from Waltham (Freeview, Sky, Virgin) and no border problems leaves Hinckley and S.Leics OUT . What would make sense is an overlap such as we here had in the VHF TV days and UHF (analogue) days when even Anglia TV was receivable not from Mendlesham but Sandy Heath in the case of UHF . The curse of digital is whilst more stations (too many 'sellervision' regrettably) because of technical limits divisions now exist which did not and this WAS based on political maps drawn in Whitehall. In the 50's 60' right to the 70's we Midlanders and our one region was from Wales to Nottinghamshire (we had no coast-line) that's the 'politics' I mean geographical politics, where Lincolnshire folk were East Coast . The anger that was expressed when Belmont transmitter went from sending Anglia TV/ BBC East(Norwich) to Yorkshire ITV/ BBC Leeds is still talked of in places such as Skegness decades later so the flippant comment of not wanting East Midlands replaced by West Midlands rather ignores my point - I think at least there should be an adherence to the coverage map (increase Waltham power (do BBC/ITV actually carry out field strength tests - obviously not fully) or a longer , more inclusive Midlands Today (as the Birmingham programme is titled from the capital city of the Midlands). If you recall MikeP the regional assemblies which were meant to give some solidity to the sub-regions like east Midlands and west Midlands were never lawfully and properly established or elected and the Prime Minister abolished them in 2012. When I was born (Nuneaton 1947) Midlanders, like Londoners, belonged to their region as did such as the BBC Midland Home Service (from Birmingham originally 5IT on 426 Metres MW 626 kHz, a small office and studio for essential news in Nottingham area 5NG on 326 Metres MW was ironically controlled from Manchester ! ) Of cause the regional BBC Home Service stations (radio) were ended in 1967 - the BBC didn't bother to ask licence payers of cause in the same way digital TV was brought in complete with required regular re-tuning of the receivers! Of cause the east/west Midlands joke where whole areas get the 'wrong' service has been repeated in Northern England, South West, North and South Wales and Scotland and to one incomer quite happy with the forced division of regional programmes there are two angry established TV viewers. The SES/Astra satellites at 28.2 E are the only real answer and offer all the BBC1 regions (labelled on EPG) and ITV regions (unlabeled !) but of cause a Sky box and dish is required and a specific no-sub contract with Sky or good friend 'in the trade'. But if they (BBC/ITA) could sort out coverage to give inclusion not exclusion in the late 1950's and 1960's why not now? So viewers paying out the obligatory £145 odd TV licence (combined radio colour TV in 1969 - £11) could have a choice - watch their own local news and not have a second-rate digital terrestrial system.
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MikeB7:25 PM
Rog Parsons: Since I use Waltham, yet live in North Cambridgeshire (not far from Stamford..), I get East Midlands, rather than Anglia. However, I cannot imagine why, as MikeP put it, someone in Stamford would want news from Telford - by no stretch is it even close to 'local'. In TV terms, local is a somewhat strange term, because the regions are largely based, as MikeP pointed out, on the terrain and of course on the position of transmitters.
There are always people who are going to be annoyed that they cannot their 'local' news, but life is the art of the possible, and as you point out, Freesat can supply any 'local' news service anyway, so there are alternatives.
BTW - Although the combined colour TV & radio licence might have been £11 in 1969, as Brianist recently pointed out, its cost in real terms was the modern day equivalent of over £157 at 2013 prices Television licensing in the United Kingdom (historical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So we pay less in real terms for more channels, with more content...
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