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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Wednesday, 26 September 2018
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StevensOnln110:29 AM
Geoff S: Can you try that TV with it connected to the loft aerial (take it to another room if needed)? Has anything been moved around in that room? Indoor aerials can often have problems with signal reflections from people and objects. You may find that repositioning the indoor aerial will improve signal. Do not attempt to retune if all channels are working when connected to the loft aerial.
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C Chinnock2:59 PM
I believe you are out of date witn your tacleneston bbc1 channel info.
you show channel 55 but it is now (25 9 2018) on channel 40.
Regards
Cllifford Chinnock
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MikeP
8:33 PM
8:33 PM
C Chinnock:
That is well known. It is due to the owner being unavailable at present. Only he can make the needed changes.
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Friday, 12 October 2018
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Nick9:41 PM
Hi folks,
Could someone clear a confusing issue I have, on this page the 700Mhz clearence was supposed to happen 30 June this year, I did however see on a lot of channels had the retune message if I remember around 30 July. This happened whatever it was and Retuned BUT I notice after retuning everything on all our boxes and tv's. SDN Com 4 is still on channel 51 instead of the new channel 33 as noted here. I'm getting a lot of noise on this mux and was hoping the move down would help.
Has the clearence been put back for Sandy ? I'm confuddled
Regards.
Nick
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StevensOnln111:04 PM
Nick: According to Digital UK there is a further retune event due at Sandy Heath in early 2020 when COM4 will move from UHF channel 51 to 33. All other frequency changes at Sandy Heath have already been completed.
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Saturday, 13 October 2018
MikeP
11:05 AM
11:05 AM
Nick:
Further to that said by StevensOnln1, the channel usage information on this website is sadly well out-of-date as the owner has not updated it in months. Rely instead of the information on channel usage given by the Digital UK Coverage Checker at http://www.digitaluk.co.u…ker. That is kept up-to-date by the operators.
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Friday, 19 October 2018
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Coach6:21 PM
Hi.
I've lost some channels Inc BBC4 HD. Is there an issue at Sandy Heath or atmospheric issues?
Thanks.
Location 10 mile NE of Cambridge CB25
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Saturday, 20 October 2018
MikeP
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coach:
There are no known issues with the Sandy Heath transmitter. We really need a full post code so that we can examine the reception conditions at your location. However, you can start by checking that your aerial system is in good order, check all the cables are undamaged and unplug all coaxial plugs/sockets and then refit them (that is to remove any corrosion/oxidation from the contact surfaces, which is well know to be a potential cause of loss of one multiplex).
I am presuming that you have a wideband aerial fitted.
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Coach6:04 PM
Cambridge
Thanks. CB25 0PA now lost BBC News HD! I did read Sandy Heath may have reduced power this week due to maintenance.
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J Knights7:11 PM
Wisbech
No signal from Sandy since late afternoon. PE13 5LB
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