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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Sunday, 13 August 2017
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Richard6:41 PM
Hello Help please, I live in the Murrow Cambs PE134HU, at present no Freeview just Sky. If I do get a Freeview aerial can I get signal from Sandy Heath? I want to listen to digital radio station BBC Three Counties based in Bedford.
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StevensOnln17:31 PM
Richard: You should get a good signal from Sandy Heath at your location (according to the Digital UK postcode checker) although as you are 60km from the transmitter it would be recommended to have a rooftop aerial fitted which will give much better results than you are likely to get with an indoor aerial. Although if all your want it for is to listed to BBC Three Counties radio you could easily do that online (use something like a Google Chromecast Audio device if you want to listen via a hifi setup).
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Friday, 22 September 2017
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Coach10:44 PM
Lost BBC1,2, ITV.. CH4 . CH5 HE out of Sandy Heath
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Tuesday, 26 September 2017
MikeP
4:53 PM
4:53 PM
Coach:
Please check all your aerial connections, unplugging the coaxial plugs and then re-inserting them. It is likely that corrosion of the contacts has caused your problem. There is no known transmitter fault else thwere would thousands of similar compaints.
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Saturday, 30 September 2017
We get pixelation most days, blocking and sometimes loss of signal. We have re-tuned several times/ Our serial is in the loft space. Our tv is only 4 months old so freeview is built in.
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lesley's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 1 October 2017
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MikeB5:37 PM
lesley w: Check your system - the TV is telling you its not getting a signal, so logically, you need to trace the problem back from the TV.
But check signal strength as well - your actually closer to Waltham than Sandy heath - not impossible your accidently tuned to that transmitter instead, and your signal might be too high, not too low.
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Friday, 20 October 2017
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StevensOnln111:29 AM
Mr Redington: Firstly, language such as that used in your post is completely inappropriate for this website, which is independent of any broadcaster or transmitter company. Without knowing where you are (please provide a full postcode) we don't know which transmitters serve your location or what your signal strength should be.
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Richard J Cooper12:21 PM
StevensOnln1: Why doesn't Briantist filter out comments like Mr Redington's, which clearly breach his rules for posting on this site?
Richard J Cooper, Norwich.
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Thursday, 26 October 2017
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David10:42 AM
I'd been having intermittent audio drop-outs for some time, particularly on HD channels. Then I got a fancy new Freeview HD tuner device that provides TV channels over my home LAN! Joy! Until I realised that it was *much* more sensitive to the interference that had previously just caused audio dropouts.
On the new box, I get *severe* image interference intermittently. It's *much* worse between around 7pm and 9pm each evening.
After reading up on what could be causing this, I've a strong suspicion that it's a local Business Radio transmitter - see this article http://www.erodocdb.dk/do….pdf for details on how it can interfere with Freeview Ch 21 when you're on the edge of the Freeview transmitter area (as I am).
Anyone know where I can find a register of local Business Radio licensees?
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Saturday, 28 October 2017
J
J Knights8:52 AM
Another Saturday morning with Sandy Heath's transmission cutting out.
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