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.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.
DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 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 (66°)
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?
| years | 1965~85 | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 17th Jul 2018 | |
| aerial group | VHF | A K | K | W | W | W | W | W | |
| C6 | ITV | ||||||||
| C21 | C4 | C4 | C4 | +BBCB | +BBCB | +BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C24 | ITV | ITV | ITV | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
| C27 | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| 600 | C31 | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | |||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C39 | C5 | C5 | |||||||
| C40 | +C | ||||||||
| C42 | -1 | ||||||||
| C43 | +A | _local | _local | _local | _local | ||||
| C45 | -2 | ||||||||
| C46 | +D | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | |||||
| 700 | C51 | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C52 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C55 | com7 | ||||||||
| C56 | com8 | ||||||||
| 800 | C67 | B |
orange background for multiplexes names more
green background for transmission frequencies
lilac background for power levels in watts
800MHz band: 4G mobile started in 2013
700MHz band: 4G from 30 June 2020more
600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 30th March and 13th April 2011.
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 |
Local transmitter maps
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Thursday, 14 February 2019
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Peter Reynolds 9:01 AM Peterborough
Have no signal from Sandy heath.....can get Sky news,and various other channels
but no BBC ,Itv or Channel4 or 5.
We are on freeview.
Have tried turning off booster...no difference.
All connections have been checked and ok.
We have experienced this problem before and then it clears.
Is this an atmospheric issue ?
There is a mobile phone mast near us in the village... could that cause interference?
Postcode is PE3 9NH.
THANKS
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BBC1 and 4 unwatchable in Haddenham and Witchford. Have to stream them.
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I have done endless manual resets and still have terrible reliability issues on Frequency 27, in other words all the BBC channels. There is nothing wrong with my aerial, nor with my television a Panasonic Viera. I live at SG8 8SP and can actually see the transmitter from my house. Why am I paying a licensing fee if I'm getting such poor reception and how can I improve it?
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StevensOnln110:19 AM
Dr C A Fox: If you can see the transmitter then there's a good chance that your TV is being overloaded with too much signal (try fitting an attenuator to reduce the signal strength). What signal strength and quality readings on other channels such as ITV?
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