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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, 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
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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Wednesday, 4 November 2015
M
MikeP12:49 PM
Trowbridge
It has been suggested that the recent warm days have given rise to atmospheric conditions that can disrupt TV reception. As there are many similar reports from around the southern part of the UK, that would seem to be quite likely. Do NOT retune your TV set under such situation.
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Monday, 9 November 2015
P
Paul12:24 PM
Matt: Same problem here since the end of October. +1 channels started to go now dave has all but gone. E4 is good but E4+1 is nearly gone. I had no problems whatsoever before October 31st
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Saturday, 14 November 2015
C
Coach7:54 PM
Can anyone help please. I'm losing reception on HD channels. This started last week and there was a couple of comments about high pressure. There is still high pressure but surprised there are few comments about reception. As such wondering if its my equipment. There are some confusing statements about Sandy Heath transmitter. This web site suggests possible weak signal, but this is not mirrored on the BBC or Freeview web site! I live near Cambridge.
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Coach8:22 PM
Transmitter engineering: Looks like it's only on Mux BSP3. BBC4 HD fine.
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Sunday, 15 November 2015
M
MikeP3:35 PM
Trowbridge
Coach:
Many people in the southern part of the UK had reported reception problems and most now have normal reception as the weather pattern resulting in the temperature inversion is moving away from the UK.
The phenomen are entirely natural and there is nothing anyone can do to prevent the effects disrupting reception of TV signals and others. Now that the strong storm is affecting parts of the UK, appearing to be mainly up the western side (hence storm/flood warnings in Cumbria and Lancashire) the high pressure effect should now be diminishing.
Did you try a retune during the high pressure period? If so you will need to do a retune to recover the services lost by that retune. Note though that there was reported engineering on Wednesday but I have no knowledge of when/if that is completed.
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Coach10:44 PM
Thanks MikeP,
Still got issue's with HD Bbc 1,2. HD BBC4 very good signal. SD channels good as well. Haven't retuned however I notice UK still under high pressure looking at todays chart. II'll wait and see what happens next week.
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Friday, 20 November 2015
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Luis10:24 AM
Wisbech
Hi, for the last 2 weeks I have my freeview completely disrupted, even now. It's all weak signal to no signal at all and when there is signal it's all pixelated with intermittent sound. I have no one to check if they are having same problems. I live in Wisbech PE13 2JA. I need to know if this is the transmitter. Any help would be appreciated.
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Monday, 23 November 2015
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coach8:58 PM
Luis: I'm also having problems. Been over two weeks. Mainly BBC1HD, BBC2HD, ITV HD & Channel 4HD. Not far from you in Newmarket. Freeview via Sandy Heath.
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Tuesday, 24 November 2015
C
Coach7:11 PM
Can someone assist please? I've had trouble with the breakup of picture on some HD channels for several weeks. Signal jumping around from 60 to 70% with signal quality at 100%. Other HD channels where the picture does not break up is around 90 to 95% with signal quality at 100%. This Web site has reported that Sandy Heath "maybe" at reduced strength. What does that mean because neither the BBC or Freeview state this. Thanks
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