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 22/04/2024 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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Friday, 27 September 2013
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Andy 11:36 PM
Same here, vitually all of the decent channels have become unwatchable, it has to be a transmitter issue.
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John11:37 PM
Chatteris
JohnMcG.
I dare say we will get an answer in due course, no need for you to go up there :-)
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Andy 11:39 PM
You're not the only one, I just reterminated my sat gold coaxial cables :-( no improvement.
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jb3811:53 PM
Steve: I am located in a position (West side of Stamford) and where I can normally receive transmissions from either Sandy , Waltham or the PSB muxes from Belmont, however on having just carried out a signal check on all three transmitters I was amazed to see that virtually nothing was being received from Sandy nor Belmont as well as two of the commercials (ArqA / ArqB) from Waltham, this strongly suggesting that atmospheric conditions interference of an extremely high level is in force this evening.
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Saturday, 28 September 2013
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Penny12:45 AM
No signal/scrambled picture in Ely all evening. So much for digital being better than analogue!
Have to agree it looks like an attempt to drum up business for Sky
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Buggers1:09 AM
In Hilgay near Downmham market (postcode PE38) stations have been pixelating all week, then tonight ALL stations are completely down for hours at a time. It's now 1am and they have been down since 8pm.
It has to be a transmitter problem as we had our Ariel fitted by a pro late last year, it's brand new and been working fine until this week. We haven't had any strong winds are anything.
That at800 isn't testing 4G signals near us either, or at least if they are we don't know about it and haven't been updated or informed.
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John7:40 AM
Chatteris
Saturday 7.30am. All is back to normal it appears from Sandy Heath.
Will we get an explaination as to what the cause was?
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Conan Fryer8:31 AM
No Signal to Poor Signal in Ely
Very poor this is taking so long to sort out.
Seems to smell of not wanting to sort out to lead 'customers' away.
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Steve9:20 AM
Have reported this at Radio & Television Investigation Service - Diagnostic form
suggest more of us complain
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mike watkins9:44 AM
Northampton
Steve:
problems of reception all this week
any idea of watching selected programmes out of question
Why was 4g even allowed?
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