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._______
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, 26 September 2014
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MikeB10:44 PM
jb38: In theory it should be fine, but I know my Goodmans box always picks up Belmont before Waltham, and thanks to its lack of manual tuning, I always end up having to play the game of doing part of the scan with the aerial out.
I can really recommend Goodmans for so many reasons...!
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Saturday, 27 September 2014
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jb3812:30 AM
MikeB: Quite so, as boxes (or TV's) without a manual tuning facility are quite unacceptable for use in the UK due to the sheer number of multiplex channels being used, many of picked up in adjoining areas to that served by the station that supposedly covers the area and causing no end of problems, as the aerial out until a certain percentage of the scan has taken place procedures are totally hit and miss on most devices, as many of do not have operational progress indications.
I would never recommend Goodmans to anyone, as the reliability of the device is entirely dependant on the chassis that happens to have been used in a particular model, this sometimes difficult to determine without removing the top cover and inspecting the PCB, as even the Vestel range fitted in Hitachi PVR's use three different variations of the same chassis.
As far as Belmont is concerned, yes! it does belt into certain areas, and indeed although being approximately 14 degrees out from being a reverse pick up on an aerial facing towards Sandy, it is indeed capable of being received if the signal is at a high enough level due to factors such as reflections etc.
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Monday, 6 October 2014
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Robert Thomson5:44 PM
Bedford
MK40 3PX
We are no longer receiving a signal to our rooftop aerial and have no signal.
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Robert's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 10 October 2014
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Hayley4:49 PM
I cant manually search for CH51 frequency 714000 on my Humax box it comes up with no results.
Please could you let me know why?
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Wednesday, 29 October 2014
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John Kirby10:20 AM
Chatteris
On the AVForums there seems to be a cross section of the UK complaining about the audio on HD channels which seems to have started in the few weeks. What they are receiving is every so often they get an odd pop on the sound. Any ideas why this is happening please. I have just heard it this morning myself on Sandy Heath.
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 7 November 2014
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Richard Wood3:04 PM
My elderly neighbour's large, modern, Samsung TV has a weird fault on Freeview: anything moving on the screen (person, car, etc) outlines in RGB 'sparkles' (like a Photoshop effect). The TV's inbuilt test picture displays perfectly, the signal strength shows as 100%. Any ideas?
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MikeB3:18 PM
Richard Wood: Its a bit of a nightmare to diagnose, but the first thing to ask is - does it happen when they are playing a video, dvd or anything else? You said the test worked fine, although really the signal strength should be nearer 80% (quality 100%). If its only Freeview, then thats points to the tuner, cable, etc. If its on everything, then that points to a system fault or something more general.
Is it a 3D TV? A couple of years ago two old ladies said that their 6 series Samsung looked odd. After a while we figured out they had pressed the 3D button by accident, and could figure out how to undo it. Since you can make 2D into 3D, the screen looked a bit odd. It should say on the screen if its done that, but...
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Saturday, 8 November 2014
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Richard Wood2:24 PM
Mike B: Thanks for that.
I think that my neighbour has a DVD player, so I'll take a DVD round and test with that sometime, not just now though...
I just saw her a few minutes ago and she said that the fault has gone, but she also said that it goes and comes back. I don't want her to think that a test which I've done has brought the fault back!
I think that her RF co-ax feeds into a splitter-booster. Could the signal be 'over-boosted'? Is that possible?
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Wednesday, 12 November 2014
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Duncan12:42 PM
Hello I'm getting no signal on the BBC channels . no HD signal and very poor on ch52 . I have a huge roof antenna that I got from maplin it used to work better but I've always had the odd blocks appear every few minutes .my post code is . sg198ee . my mum is getting problems to downstairs . she has a different antenna .
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Duncan12:46 PM
Hello I'm getting no signal on the BBC channels . no HD signal and very poor on ch52 . I have a huge roof antenna that I got from maplin it used to work better but I've always had the odd blocks appear every few minutes .my post code is . mk464ef . my mum is getting problems to downstairs . she has a different antenna .
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