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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Saturday, 20 June 2015
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Eddie Murphy 11:05 PM
You should boost the channel signal up at the transmitter I can't understand why you dont
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Monday, 22 June 2015
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Dave Lindsay
7:09 PM
7:09 PM
Daniel : I don't believe anything is planned, having looked at the relevant part of Ofcom's site:
Local TV Licensing | Ofcom
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Friday, 26 June 2015
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Wendy9:59 PM
Tv picture breaking up and receiving channels from over 80 miles away is high pressure to blame or not this time .
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MikeB11:26 PM
Wendy: We have no idea of your location, so we cant say what the problem might be.
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Saturday, 27 June 2015
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Daniel5:22 PM
Will there be 4 g interference in my area . I'm on 4g now and get good signal but I'm worried in the near future. In nn4 area .
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jb387:44 PM
Daniel: If you are meaning that you use a 4G phone and the TV is not affected by it, then nothing is likely to change, that is unless another phone company decides to install a 4G base station in the area, as then you "might" be if its installed near to where you reside, the chances of experiencing interference being greater if its located near to the signal path between your aerial and the station you receive Freeview from.
However, if you have any worries on this, the best people to contact is a company called AT800 set up by the phone providers for the purpose of answering queries of this sort, as they have all the info on sites proposed for use by 4G, anyone who they consider as being at risk supplied with a 4G filter free of charge, said filter being installed into the TV or boxes aerial socket, the lead from the aerial going into the filter.
Contact us | Advice or general enquiries | at800
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Sunday, 28 June 2015
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Edward 3:41 PM
I'm confused on what setting to put my tv picture on its led and I cant seem to get it right .
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MikeB5:25 PM
Edward : We are going to need a bit more information than you've given in order to help you. Firstly, the make and model - each TV is slightly different, so we need to know what you have. A postcode would be handy if you want to know what channels you should get for tuning it the TV.
Next - what exactly is the problem? Settings can mean a lot of different things. Is it setting up/tuning the TV, or is it the settings on the panel itself - the brightness, contrast or the mode (dynamic, cinema, etc)?
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