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 29/05/2023 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 (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?
| 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 |
Local transmitter maps
Sandy Heath Freeview Sandy Heath DAB Sandy Heath TV region BBC Cambridge Anglia (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sandy Heath transmitter area
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Monday, 24 September 2012
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MikeG2:53 PM
Hi Ian,
According to the map you should be beaming SSW to Oxford and receiving your signals on Channels 53, 60, 57 (HD if required), 62, 59, 55. No reports of problems with this transmitter.
There's a chance that when you Auto retuned you picked up a different transmitter which may account for your weak signal on some channels.
Do a 'factory reset' on the unit and a Manual Retune to just those channels and all should be well. You may need to refer to your User Guide to do that.
Hope that helps,
Mike, retired Radio & Electronics Eng.
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Ian Peel5:58 PM
Buckingham
Hi MikeG (in the hope you are picking up)...
Many thanks for your reply. However, all the aerials on my estate in Buckingham point to Sandy Heath, more or less the opposite direction. I think Oxford is 3 or 4 miles nearer but, because of land mass and buildings, we've all found Sandy Heath to be the stronger signal. In my case, an engineer measured the signal strength on a couple of occasions. Any other thoughts? Again, many thanks.
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MikeG10:19 PM
Hi Ian, if you are on Sandy Heath you need to do a Manual Tune on channels 27, 24, 21 (HD if needed), 51, 52, 48.
I'm on Sandy too and there have been no problems that I've noticed, so chances are you've grabbed a few extra wrong channels instead; maybe from Oxford off the back of your aerial; not unusual. Hope that sorts it out.
Mike
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012
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phil8:13 AM
Kettering
MikeG:I have noticed today 25th september real problems on all arials with the yesterdaychannel is there a reason for this.Phil Kettering.
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MikeG8:48 AM
Getting Ch19 'Yesterday' OK here Phil, can't think of any reason as they are all high power now, unless they're doing maintenance on that mux?
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Steve1:23 PM
Cambridge
Retuned several times yesterday (24th) but my BBC stations are going to 800s and sometimes the ITV/C4 ones are going there too but sometimes to the correct place. Tried a manual retune but that still plonks them in the wrong order... 19LG3000 DTV. I get all the stations just not in the correct place. I never had this problem with retuing before... Any ideas? Oh I tried a full factory reset which also didn't make any difference. Am in CB25.
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Mick S2:59 PM
For MikeG: from Mick S.
Thank you for your advice .. it worked!
TA!
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MikeG3:18 PM
Steve, can't imagine what's happening. If you do a factory reset and then a Manual tune on those channels from Sandy Heath it should clear out all the old channels and put the correct ones in the correct order.
What TV or PVR are you trying to tune?
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Steve5:33 PM
Cambridge
Hi MikeG
It's an LG model number 19LG3000 which is a 19 inch digital flat screen TV. Previously everything has been fine at the periodic retunes required but not this time!
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Sean Fitzgerald7:37 PM
I have connected a magic eye to a second television to get sky digital from my hd box to that tele.its all connected but the picture is very poor.i believe I have to change the rf output channel but I don't know which channel is best to use in this area.any idea? Mk62py
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