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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Wednesday, 9 October 2019
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SeeMoreDigital8:42 AM
So, in order to avoid confusion will the above list be corrected or not?
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Chris.SE10:12 AM
SeeMoreDigital:
If you re-read that MikeP's post prior to your 7th Oct. quote "This independent website is maintained occasionally by the owner, Briantist. "
So your guess is as good as anyone else's! And for the record, this isn't the only page with errors or changes that haven't yet happened.
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MikeP
10:14 AM
10:14 AM
SeeMoreDigital:
The owner of this website, Briantist, is the only person who can update the information. While there are so many changes being made at the over 1100 TV transmitters and the large number of DAB transmitters it is virtually impossible for one person to keep up with the updates.
We regular contributors have been saying for quite some time that people should use the information given on the Digital UK websites, managed by the operators of the transmitters, instead of that given here.
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Tuesday, 3 March 2020
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Chris.SE10:54 PM
All:
A reminder that there is a major retune event for the Waltham Transmitter on the 4th March. The transmitter will likely go off-air shortly after midnight and the multiplexes PSBs1-3, COMs 6 & 7, and a Local mux move to new UHF channels. The transmitter may be off-air for several hours, but they are usually back by 6.00am.
The new channels are as follows, in the order PSBs1-3; COMs 4-8; Local -
C32, C34, C35; C29, C37, C31; C55, C56; C41. COM7 power changes to 11.8kW, and Local power changes to 2kW.
People will need to retune and a Group T/Wideband aerial may be needed for satisfactory reception of all multiplexes from Waltham.
Anyone having problems receiving the PSB & COMs4-6 multiplexes may need a new aerial. Providing they don't have Cable or Satellite, they can get help for a free replacement aerial from Freeview by ringing 0808-100-0288 (a free call, but there might be long wait times on the phone!).
There are also a number of the Waltham relays also changing to new UHF channels.
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Sunday, 29 March 2020
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Brian Astell6:30 PM
I can't get channel 50 Sony movies classic. I live at Grantham reasonably close to the transmitter,so what is the problem? Will it become available in time?
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Chris.SE11:19 PM
Brian Astell:
Sony decided that channel is broadcast on the Local multiplex and a local multiplex is broadcast from Waltham. You should have a local station at LCN7 in your EPG, Notts TV? but without a full postcode to check the predicted reception at your location we can't say.
If you are getting the Local station you should get LCN50 along with a few other programmes. See Channel listings | Freeview
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Monday, 11 May 2020
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devo3:25 PM
Hi , Seemed to have all channels from the frequency 29 all disappear today. Tried a full rescan, then a manual channel rescan and when I look at the antenna information in my freeview box, it show 2% signal quality whilst other frequencies are still showing 98
So currently channel like quest, 5star etc are not being recieved in Nottingham from the waltham transmitter.
Thanks
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Chris.SE7:08 PM
devo:
We really need a full postcode to look at predicted reception at your location. I can't find any faults currently listed for Waltham, but in current circumstances it may take some time for such things to get updated.
Hopefully by now you will find the signals restored satisfactorily.
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devo10:34 PM
Nottingham
Chris.SE:
Hi Chris thanks for getting back to us NG7 4AU, I have found out there is work going on at many transmitters (even though Waltham isn't listed directly) between the 11 and the 15th so they might be many changes going on and off, presumably for 5G and general maintenance.
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devo's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE11:57 PM
devo:
You are quite correct that there is a lot of work going on at many main transmitters (and some relays) at present. At Waltham it won't have anything to do with 5G, the 700MHz clearance program for that was completed on the 4th March. This will be general maintenance as it will be for most transmitters.
Under normal circumstances you are predicted to get good reception of the SDN multiplex, in fact all multiplexes except COMs 7&8 which could be variable. You wouldn't do any better from the Nottingham relay except it doesn't have COMs 7&8, you should get excellent reception from Sutton Coldfield but that is West Midlands whereas Waltham is East Midlands so it depends which region you want.
As you mentioned, Waltham isn't on the list for this week, but I've been finding a number of cases recently where there's been reports similar to yours for other transmitters not on the current week's list, but where I recall the transmitter was on the previous week's list. I'm not at all convinced that the list is always accurate. I think I'll keep a copy of the previous week in future just for reference :o
Depending on what exactly they are doing at the transmitter (they never say) you may find things going off & on, or "weak signal" is the other possibility.
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