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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Saturday, 8 January 2011
SANDY HEATH transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 08:22 today to 09:12 today [BBC]
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Sunday, 9 January 2011
SANDY HEATH transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 08:22 yesterday to 09:12 yesterday [BBC]
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SANDY HEATH transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 08:22 yesterday to 09:12 yesterday [BBC]
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Monday, 10 January 2011
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Ant9:45 AM
I live in Ware and have to use Sandy Heath for Freeview as on side of a hill so cant get Crystal Palace. Have now lost all signal, all channels. Have checked all connections except on the roof at the aerial. Is this to do with engineering? Will I get the use of my TV back?
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Ant: There's no transmission problems or engineering work - I would look at Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Ant10:20 AM
Briantist. Thanks for the speedy response. I checked out the link - I appear to have lost all signal, both analogue and digital to both TVs/boxes. Having checked all the internal connections to both digiboxes and TVs I assume that only leaves the roof aerial connection as the likely problem. Oh dear.
Ant
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Richard Graham10:39 PM
We live in Cambridge, for past 4 years no problem with freeview, over last 5-6 weeks we often lose many channels. Since 19.00 today we are unable to get any reception on ITV1, ITV2, Channel 4, FIVE or More 4. Must be a transmitter problem, as all other channels are still OK. When is this going to be sorted?
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Richard Graham: There is no transmitter problem - please see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Nik3:55 PM
our guide plus has lost all programs, is this due to weak or no signal via ITV1 from wench it is downloaded,
can anyone help?
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