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 27/11/2023 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 (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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Monday, 29 February 2016
Transmitter engineering
10:32 AM
10:32 AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Monday, 7 March 2016
G
Giles7:17 PM
No c32 picked up in Peterborough, anyone else with this problem
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Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
1:32 PM
1:32 PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:19 today to 12:26 today. [BBC] Possible weak signal [DUK]
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T
tony7:35 PM
Bad pixelization of signal on all major channels NN8. Wellingborough.
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MikeP
10:03 PM
Trowbridge
10:03 PM
Trowbridge
Tony:
It could well be because of the transmitter work being carried out at present. During that, it is not uncommon for the signal to be weaker than usual, causing some pixilation.
Do *not* try a retune at present as you would likely lose channels.
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MikeP's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:19 yesterday to 12:26 yesterday. [BBC] Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Thursday, 10 March 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:19 on 08 Mar to 12:26 on 08 Mar. [BBC] Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Tuesday, 22 March 2016
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David tye6:24 PM
Hi, I have retuned my TV as suggested when I turned it on and I now only have 23 TV programmes and 13 Radio programmes. Please can you advise why this has happened as yesterday I seemed to have the full compliment
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Thursday, 24 March 2016
S
seb9:19 AM
Hello I'm new to this . I've recently moved to a new house in nn49qb .
My freeview reception is awful here where's in Bedford where I was I could get 100% on all channels here in Northampton only 55% and on most of the channels I only only get 25% . This is not a problem with my aerial as I've checked with 5 neighbours and there tv signal is the same . We all also are missing a few hd channels and most of the channels we have break up .
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